6 Pack Abdominals

  

Holding down two jobs, meetings to get too, kids to pick up from school and so on there are so many distractions, pressures and time constraints that if we are not careful can only lead to one thing… not sufficient time to organise your meals. As far as getting correct nutrition for your diet goes this is one of the biggest crimes possible. The main reason is that it can lead to eating junk fast food.

Fast food is exactly what you don’t want to eat to build muscle up. Too much fat and very little nutrient value combined with little in the way of decent energy providing nutrition. So, how with all of these time constraints and pressures and if we cannot avoid going to fast food restaurants can we actually eat properly for correct muscle building nutrition?

Here are a few golden rules for eating at fast food restaurants in order to build muscle up:

Avoid the apparently good value for money drink and fries. A simple portion of medium sized fries will stuff your body full of around 200 calories including around 400 calories with around 20 grams of fat and the drink will provide you with around 200 calories with heaps of sugary content!

Always select the grilled option. You can save about 80 calories that come mostly from fat by consuming a McDonald’s grilled chicken sandwich rather than a premium crispy chicken. A simple selection choice but often not stuck to.

Ensure that you don’t have a dessert unless you really have to. Go for the kiddies size if you really have to have one of the many sugary snacks available.

Make sure you limit you use of the sauces. A good deal of these are extremely high in fat content with not much muscle building nutrition. You know the things I am talking about, those tiny packets of different sauces such as tartar sauce and mayonnaise. Do yourself a favour and give them a miss.

If a fast food joint really is the only option then what can I eat?

If you want to build muscle food that you could eat at McDonalds would be:

For the main meal a Premium Grilled Chicken Sandwich would provide 420 calories, 10 grams of fat, 51g carbs and 32g protein. A Honey Mustard grilled Snack Wrap would gibe your body 260 calories, 9g fat, 27g carbs and 18g of protein. The Asian Salad Grilled Chicken would give you 390 calories, 12.5g fat, 38g carbs, 33g protein with the low fat Sesame Ginger Dressing. Probably the premium option would be the Caesar Salad Grilled Chicken that, yields 220 calories, 6g fat, 12g carbs and 30g of protein.

If you are on of those lucky people living in Australia then your choices may well be:
A Lean Beef Burger: 250 calories, 8g fat, 25g carbs, 18g protein or a Herb Fusion Chicken Salad: 100 calories, 2g fat, 3g carbs 20g protein.

A fairly good muscle building nutrition would be 300 calories, 12 grams of fat, 30g carbs and 18 grams of protein. Possibly a Sausage Burrito including 300 calories, 16g fat, 26g carbs, 12grams of protein or If you are looking for just a snack then how about the Fruit ‘n Yogurt Parfait which beaks down into 160 calories, 2g fat, 31g carbs, 4g protein.

I hope you can see how you can get a fairly decent muscle building snack even at a fast food restaurant. Of course it would be better to allocate some time for planning decent meals throughout the week but if you can’t do this then the above selections should be a good guide and on some level help you burn the fat feed the muscle.

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