What should I do with Vegetarian Diet and Weight Lifting?
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This site has info on both. A vegetarian bodybuilder convinced the governor of CA that you can get everything a bodybuilder needs without meat.\n\nProtein needs 8 essential amino acids. Most fruits and vegetables contain all 8 of them. In fact fruit has everything except in small quatities because it contains so much water. But that water is good for you and non-fattening.\n\nThis site has quotes from governor of CA from his 700 page book, Encyclopedia of Bodybuilding. Maybe it will help you become governor of your state.\n\nhttp://www.phifoundation.org
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Squats. And eat healthy.
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There's a lot you can do. Obviously diet and exercise are important. Weight lifting has been shown to increase bone density, cardio and yoga are good for the body and soul. Having interests that keep the mind sharp - never stop learning. Then there are the intangibles that are probably the most important - family, friends, laughter, joy, good wine, good food, good conversation, living well, enjoying our brief time here to the fullest.
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Yes.  If you know how to cook, you can eat very well for cheap.  Great vegetarian cookbooks are easy to find now, especially Chinese and Indian cooking.  And with a blender or juicer you can make some really incredible things that you could never buy in a store or restaurant.\n\nYou don't need "protein supplements", that's a scam, peanut butter and tofu and rice with beans have lots of protein.  If you eat eggs that's a whole protein too.  The human body can make all the protein it needs, and there are bodybuilders who are vegans, so, obviously, you don't need animal proteins even if you want to be muscle-bound.  The theory that your blood type matters is basically made up - it might affect your digestion but it doesn't affect much else.  You can find food combinations that work for you.\n\nAs for eating out, well, salads and tofu and soy are now everywhere, even at McDonald's you can find some things to eat.  Some chains have baked potatoes, all-you-can-eat salad bars, whatever.  You'll survive a road trip.  But bring lots of dried fruit and make your own grilled-vegetable sandwiches and falafel if you're going on long road trips.\n\nThe main thing is to learn to cook, and to use spices.  It is also possible to adapt many recipes.  A good cookbook like "The Calamari Cookbook" from the India Joze restaurant in Santa Clara CA, lists all the five types of tastes (rich, tart, sweet, salty, hot) and spices that fit under each.  In the actual restaurant they make their recipes with any of (squid, white chicken breast, red snapper fish, or tofu).  So you can substitute tofu for any of those ingredients!\n\nThe main reason to be vegetarian is that in the long run it is much much cheaper because it does less damage to the environment, and people will eventually have to pay much much more for meat for the water, pollution (manure), and extra land it takes to raise meat, and the labour to inspect it.  Mad Cow, Avian Flu, you name it, the most dangerous diseases often spread through meat animals.  Why should you vegetarians pay for that?  Eventually you'll force the meat eaters to pay for the harm they do, and they meat will cost $$$$.  So it's better for you to adapt now and join the future.  You can still eat meat raised or hunted or fished by someone you know, or that you raised/hunted/fished yourself, if this is your concern.  No shame in being an actual animal...\n\nMany people will tell you that meat and even eggs and honey are cruel.  That's something you have to make up your own mind about.  But the health risks are lower for vegetarians.  Reduced calorie diets definitely contribute to longer life.
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don't do that. better be a vegetarian and exercise 15 minutes daily
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The best way to put on that kind of weight is to work out and eat like you've been. But........if you don't want to lift weights and are an active person by playing sports, here's what you should eat:\nMornings, yogurt, bananas, whole milk and oatmeal.\nlunch, steak or chicken breasts (at least three), more bananas and ice cream.\ndinner, fish or pasta, potatoes and fruit.\nThese meals should definetely help you put on weight. Also, don't eat 5 times a day like you've been. Eat only three times a day.\nGood luck.
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Lift weights and eat a little more than you are now. Eat healthy, trying to make the extra calories come from protein.
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My muscles are too big to do a figure fitness contest, but I do the natural body building contest. For me, I have an off season (usually the winter) in which I eat, rest, and lift massive amounts of weights. I lift heavier weights than ever, but my muscles are under a nice layer of fat (making me look excessive big and fat) and I can't see them right now. I then go into an on season or competition season in which I will start to do cardio, watch my diet and start to eat only protein sources and complex carbs (brown rice for energy during my workouts, and loads of vegetables to keep me feeling full. No fruit as that can retain water), and weight lifting becomes a marathon in which high sets of high reps dominate. The fat then begins to go away and definition sets in. I will lose 25 pounds of fat and unfortunately muscle (2 pounds a week for  approximately 16 weeks/4months). The stomache is tricky for me. I gain muscle there way too fast, and even though the guy bodybuilders look great with massive tree trunk waists, that doesn't cut it for the ladies. I won't do abdominals till I am three months before the contest, and I will do only body weight with high reps in just a couple of sets. This way I won't build muscle (although you do with all the other lifting of other muscle body parts for stability reasons-your core has to be strong to do a leg press or squat) but I can get the six pack (cardio and diet are the big contributors). Diet needs to be extra clean, not fairly clean, to get the fat off the stomache. Like I said I don't eat fruit, just raw vegetables and brown rice for my carbs - no bread, bagels, potatoes, white rice, and no processed foods. I will eat oatmeal, plain (yuck), after my 1 hour run (cardio) in the morning other than the brown rice. I have also tried the supplement carnitine to transport the brown fat out from between the muscles to get the cut/ripped look. Hope this helps! and good luck (took me three years to finally win an overall).\n\nP.S. I read another of your answers and you said you were vegetarian till you started bodybuilding. I am a natural bodybuilder and I am vegan. Protein powders and food centered on protein are available to you. Don't be scared that you need to eat animal flesh to get big, and especially if you are just a fitness figure contestant. You can have your dreams and your beliefs too!
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Nuts and seeds are a good source of protein. Be sure to eat a good variety of veggies
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A well balanced diet of protein and carbs along with exercise is the best way to get healthy. Eat protein at every meal (5-6) a day and combine weight training and cardio. Good luck.
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I would eat a small snack before going.  Make it something with carbos in it - I have either small bowl of cherios or shake - (1/2 1/2 mixture of a little slimfast - has the carbs - and some protein shake) about 20 minutes prior.  This will give your body the imediate energy it will need.    Later after you return eat some protein -  either lean meat - soy or a whey protein shake can be good.  (I always like the protein shake with ice to make like thick ice cream treat - it's good for you but you feel like you are cheating ;)  \n\nThen it is important to weight lift.  just jogging isn't the answer - gaining muscle will help you to burn more calories - hense more fat will be burned. \n\nlater eat some protein - This protein aids in helping your muscles to repair themselves after working out.\n\nJust don't make those 1500 calories you are eating - fast food and fatty crud.  That will totally defeat the purpose.  Eat lots of Protein from lean meat and soy and lots of green veggies.  You should eat about every 3 hours.  Smaller amounts but more frequently.  This keeps your body burning the food and it doesn't think it needs to save it as stored fat.    I would eat about 1100 to 2000 calories per day.  The higher calorie days were days that I wasn't as strict about the kinds of junk I ate (like on weekends).  But You can get full on veggies and good things and keep your calories around the 1500 mark pretty easy.  You won't be starving as long as you fill up on really healthy stuff like veggies and lean meat like turkey or chicken breast.   \n\nI lost over 50 pounds following these basic rules I have told you about above  :)  Good luck!!
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All you need is a multivitimin and maybe some whey protein for weight lifting. Forget all the suppliments. All you need to do is eat plenty of protein and lift some weights.
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For optimal gains, yes. Your body needs protein to facilitate recovery and rebuilding of the tissues you've borken down during lifting. \n\nAnd to shuttle those proteins to your muscles most effectively, take your protein with a carbohydrate of some sort. Fast digesting (simpler carbs) are okay here, though that's far from essential. \n\nToast and cottage cheese, chicken and rice, a turkey sandwich - whatever you want. But protein and carbs as soon as you can after working out. And if you can, a second time before bed So you have two boosts of quality calories post-workout, pre-bed.
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eat more protein and work on strength training to gain muscle mass.
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For thighs, do squats and straight leg deadlifts. Give it a couple of months. At that time I promise you will not have chicken legs if you go heavy.
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Eat a raw & whole foods diet and take a b vitamin supplement. Cut out all the fat you can. Try to stay away from meat and cut all red meats from your diet all together.  \n\nand exercise at least 2 or 3 hours a day. You may also want to weight train for endurence ( lots of reps per set and low weight ). \n\nBy the way unless your like 4'1'', 130lbs is not that bad so don't panic.
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Congrats on becoming vegetarian. You are on your way to a healthier lifestyle.\n\nThe average person needs approximately 60 grams of protein per day.  If you are an athlete or someone who is extremely active, you could need more (up to 1 gram per pound).  \n\nThere are some excellent, vegetarian sources of protein. If you go to your health food store, you'll find a plethora of soy-based protein foods that taste good.  Soy milk, dairy products, eggs, tofu, beans, veggie burgers, chillis, etc are all excellent sources of protein.\n\nI recommend that you take a multi-vitamin every day -- one that includes iron / minerals. Most newbie vegetarians often don't eat enough minerals and wind up deficient.  Consider using a free web site such as http://www.fitday.com to monitor your protein and mineral / vitamin intake.\n\nGood luck.