Healthy Diet at Home

hey guys, dr. axe here. welcome to my nutritiontips for building muscle as part of our 30 day program. and when you're trying to packon muscle, my key tip, and by the way, i get this question all the time from people. iget emails in or facebook messages, and people say, "okay, dr. axe, i'm a hard gainer. icannot seem to put on muscle. what do i have to do?" the secret is getting a lot of calories inand doing it in liquid calories because it's really hard to sit down and eat six big mealsa day. and so if you can do, let's say, five meals a day and a few of them are what i callthe super human shake, really loading up on those liquid calories, it is absolutely goingto help you in packing on the muscle. and so along with doing that super human shake,which you can see here on this page, the other thing you want to be doing is you want tobe getting a certain amount of fat, carbs, and protein. and i want to tell you your bestsources. number one, when it comes to prot...

(This is part 7 of a multi-part series on How to Tweak a Low Carb Diet . It explains the path I have traveled in my weight loss journey so far. If you didn’t read part 1, you can do so by clicking on the how-to link. Part 1 also includes links to the rest of the series.) My diet break obviously refilled my glycogen stores, since I was eating more carbohydrates, but that wasn’t a surprise. I was okay with the eight-pound weight regain because everything happened exactly as Lyle McDonald said it would. Although each of us have the potential to hold different amounts of glycogen in our liver and muscles, there was no reason to believe those eight pounds were fat. I was used to inputting everything I ate into Fitday, and that didn’t stop during my break, so it was easy to keep tabs on my daily calorie count. That helped to keep me zeroed into maintenance. Overall, my complete diet break went well, except that I took my husband’s suggestion and enjoyed a full month off from dieting that Dec...