Get A Leaner Body Through Wise Food Selections

And you thought to get a leaner body is having a gym membership, eating organic and watching Baywatch reruns! Well, you're almost there, but not quite! Now, with all seriousness, choosing your foods during the day can have an effect on your goal of how to get a leaner body.

So, what do I mean by food selections? I am talking about how to choose your meals with the concern for the macro nutrients ratio for each meal you eat during the day including proteins, carbohydrates and fats.

Before I continue on how to get a leaner body by eating your meals, let me throw out some questions* to you just to make you think of what you're inadequately doing and not doing regarding enhancing your body composition and getting leaner body than what you have now…

*I am assuming you are doing a great job with the other aspects of the weight-loss and performance spectrum (a sufficient amount of training, giving enough recovery time, optimal sleep, etc.)

- Are you eating whatever you've got in your fridge OR you are following an eating plan that is targeting your goal?

- If you do have an eating plan, are you evaluating this plan to see its effectiveness?

- Is your body composition changing for the better? Are you getting leaner or you are still waiting and how long will you wait?!

- Do you have a Plan B, and maybe a Plan C; in other words do you have another eating plan so you can move on?

- Before you change your original eating plan to plan B, are you REALLY following and adhering to the original eating plan?

You need to ask yourself the above questions so you can measure your progress towards your goal otherwise things just won't happen if you wait for another year. Any effective eating or diet plan should give you a positive (or even a negative) outcome within 2-4 weeks.

That does not mean you will accomplish your goal of getting leaner and losing 25 pounds of fat within the first 2-4 weeks. Nonetheless, you should notice some initial results (like, losing 1-2 Ibs/week) and these positive initial results are continuing on a weekly basis.

So, with all that said, let me highlight the following points that will help you in how to get a leaner body composition by consuming your daily meals wisely:

1. Do most or all of your meals consist of higher portions of carbs, particularly bread, pasta and other starchy foods? Probably, your body has less tolerance for carbohydrates than other people.

2. Adjust the amount of carbohydrates by minimizing the portions and substitute it with healthful fats and/or proteins.

3. Eat highest amount of carbs. portion in your meal after your workouts.

4. Minimize or even eliminate your carbs at your "last meal" before going to bed.

5. During the day, choose most of your meals/snacks and carbohydrates with vegetables, fruits, and to a lesser degree breads and pastas, and, of course, avoid sugar which is high in processed foods

These food selection guidelines are very effective in helping you to get a leaner body and weight loss in general. They’ve been successfully tried before and still are, but the key factor is to observe, evaluate, and change (if you have to) on a constant basis.

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