David Marsden - Personal Training

Feed the hunger, fight the cravings. Pretty simple concept but this is where most people lose their health goals. Eat 6-8 small balanced meals per day. Plan them out ahead of time. Get the fats and carbs in early in moderation then cut em out at night. Try to have these small meals range from 200-300 calories. If after this meal you are craving more, fight it and wait for next small meal. Your body and stomach will adjust after a few days and these cravings will go away. You will turn your body into a high metabolism fat burning machine and you will be constantly protecting your muscle tissue meaning the body will burn fat for energy. Because you are spreading the meals out and making them small, you are giving your body a better chance of burning the calories you are eating and thus reducing chance of your calories turning to fat.

In the previous post of "must haves", If your protein powders/drinks do not have BCAA's or glutamine than these become must haves. These amino acids are critical to the recovery (muscle growth) process. Now on to what I would consider luxury items based upon money concerns. Also, I realize supplements change based upon goals and all of my training posts will always be about building lean muscle and burning fat.

Luxury Items - Carnitine (helps body use stored fat for energy), any combo of agmatine sulfate, glycocarn or arginine (these convert to the all important Nitric Oxide which improves blood flow and more nutrients to muscles among other things. Arginine is probably most well-known but leasteffective of 3), creative (best supplement for building muscle), caffeine or other fat burners (many out there and they speed up metabolism and well....burn fat) and CLA (promotes muscle growth and fat burning).

I may have forgot a few and will add in comments but I will also list the exact products I take.