Getting Ripped And Eating Healthy Foods

Foods For Getting Ripped
Getting ripped is more than just working out and weight training. Eating healthy foods and eliminating extra calories.

Q: Is there a ce rtain combination of foods I can eat which will give me a really ripped look? My muscular definition is okay, but I look rather soft and pudgy, instead of hard.

A: Yes, there are certain types of food that will help you get that “ripped” look. Before we go into those, let’s take a look at which foods you should not be eating.

First off, avoid alcoholic beverages, particularly the sweet ones. Alcohol is absorbed into your system very rapidly, which facilitates its conversion into bodyfat unless the calories are burned off immediately. Liquid is absorbed faster than any other type of food, and the sugar added to make a drink sweet only compounds the problem. If it takes you 15 minutes to drink an average mixed drink which is sweet, that’s like getting 350-400 calories into the bloodstream within minutes, and it must be worked off in about half an hour or your body begins processing the extra calories as bodyfat!

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Second, limit junk foods of all types. You may want to set aside one day a week when you can “junk out” a bit, but the other six days, no dice. The reason for this is simple: junk foods are highly concentrated sources of calories that supply little or nothing in the way of nutritional value. Plus these foods are easy to eat, since there is almost no fiber content. And they’re loaded with sugar, salt and artificial flavors, which play havoc with your ability to tell when you’ve had enough. When you’re on a diet of natural foods, you can safely trust your appetite to be your guide. But since sugar, salt and artificial flavors are habit forming, they disrupt the sensitive feedback mechanism that your body uses for self-regulation. Thus, your appetite control becomes unreliable. If you eat junk food until you feel full, you will always eat more than you should.

Finally, restrict the amount of fat in your diet. This means a reduction or elimination of beef, pork, lamb, whole-milk products, eggs, butter (or margarine) and oils.

Now that you know what not to eat, let’s concentrate on what you should eat. Complex carbohydrates and low-fat protein foods must form the mainstay of your diet. This includes all whole grains, vegetables and fruit. Lowfat protein foods should be substituted for the high-fat protein sources such as whey protein. Thus, your protein menu should include seafood, poultry, skim or lowfat milk products, and tofu. The protein should be eaten at regular intervals throughout the day, rather than all at one meal, and always with some form of carbohydrate and fat. You should not stuff yourself at any one time. In fact, you should leave each meal a little bit hungry. Eat nothing or very little after dinner.

Sound strict? It is, but if it’s the ripped look you want, these are the principles you’re going to have to follow.

Oh, yes, be sure you’re taking in about 500 fewer calories each day than you’re expending. Getting ripped is only one of the many benefits of eating healthy foods.

Author: Rex Grogan
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