Planning your protein meals in a high protein diet

Hey guys so in this post im going to quickly cover how you should plan your meals if you follow a bodybuilding diet. In order to gain muscle, you need a lot of protein and a lot of calories. Protein shakes and protein powder will only take you so far to reaching your total amount of protein for the day, which we discussed in this post.

I personally prefer to eat every 2.5-3 hours. Now some time ago this was the common thing to do. Bodybuilders and health professionals would profess that eating a small meal every 2.5-3hours was the best way to gain muscle or lose weight. The belief of this was that eating regular, or mixing your protein powder with water or milk and drinking that, would fire up your metabolism.

Years later, people who say these same things not get shunned for sprouting "broscience". Whilst eating this regular may not effect your metabolic rate, it does have some benefits. ( this broscience nonsense is especially prevalent on the bodybuilding.com forums.

Eating a high protein, high carbohydrate diet for gaining muscle requires a huge amount of calories. This is why people use protein shakes, meal replacement shakes and a variety of other bodybuilding supplements. However if you had to consume 4000 calories a day in order to build muscle, then you're going to need a lot of protein supplements and weight gain shakes, otherwise your belly will be getting stuffed at each meal from over eating. Rather than tackling 4000 calories of high protein and high carbohydrates over 3 meals and maybe one protein shake in the form of a post workout shake, it is easier, at least for me, to eat 6 meals a day.

By breaking your meals down into smaller portions, it prevents that bloated feeling. It also prevents me from snacking on junk food. I also find myself becoming hungry after 3 hours or so, and need to down some protein. Rather than going hungry, i prefer to eat and add some clean, high quality calories from good protein sources and clean carbohydrate sources into my diet.

So I structure my meals as such.

A typical bodybuilding diet looks like this (at least for me and my schedule)

Breakfast - 8 am
Meal 2 - 11 pm
meal 3 - 2 pm
meal 4 - 5 pm
Workout - 6:15 pm
Post workout 7.45 pm
Final meal 9 pm

So if you're trying to gain muscle or lose weight i would urge you to give this ago. You could always take a picture to show your before and after weight loss transformation following this type of meal plan, and compare your results.