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As a personal trainer I often get people come to me asking why they are not achieving the results they want even though they are training really hard!

The answer is always simple..... they are not eating the right nutrition for their desired results.

These are the most common problems:

1. Not drinking enough water
2. Eating too late at night
3. Portion Control
4. Eating too late at night
5. Drinking too much Alcohol
6. Eating to many Carbohydrate and Sugars.

If you would like any more information on eating correctly for your training goals then please contact me
 
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1. Drinking water is good for you, but I'm not overly convinced that it has much (if any) direct impact on goals, other than the goal to not pass out from dehydration or butcher your kidneys.
2. When you eat is irrelevant. What you eat, and how much of it you eat, is relevant. Since September I've been smiting the keg that hides my 6-pack while consuming a small meal roughly 1hr before bed most nights.
3. Yes and no. How much you have in each individual meal isn't entirely relevant -- how much you eat each day is. If you need to be consuming 2,000kcal/day including 200g protein (as an example) to meet your goals, it often doesn't matter whether you consume that all in one meal or in 10 meals. Just make sure the numbers are hit and that how/when they're consumed is organised around what you can adhere to.
4. I love that you wrote this one twice.
5. Drinking too much alcohol is indeed a bad practice, and I don't recommend it to anyone. The health and life issues can be pretty severe. However, it's worth noting that consuming alcohol doesn't actually make people fat. It's usually the stuff the alcohol is mixed with, and other party drinks/foods that go along with alcohol, that are the problem.
6. I'm a proponent of IIFYM (if it fits your macros). On one hand I agree with this, because eating too much CHO is breaking your macro budget, however in saying that, CHO shouldn't be villified, either.
 
I gotta agree with the point(s) about eating at night. A calorie at 10:00 PM is no different than calorie at 2:00 PM. It will still take the same amount of energy expenditure to burn that calorie, no matter what time it entered your body. Eating late just means you might carry it over to the next day, but there's nothing that happens that makes it more readily stored as fat.
 
Some of this is simply adding to goldfish and jrahien, which is not unusual here.

1. I drink a lot of water to aid my training, because I sweat like a fire hose during and know this needs to be replaced.
2&4 Time of eating as an issue. Disproven so long ago even old fogeys like me consider this out of date. I eat whenever I am awake and not to close to the start of training, not affected me one bit. Still waiting for some guidance on eating in my sleep, no-one has come up with tips yet, very disappointing.
3. Portion sizes. Reducing portion sizes overall is good for those wanting to drop weight vice versa for increase. Eating more or less often is not a big deal. The reason I eat litle and constantly is because the volume of food I need is too much for me to consume in a few sittings, convenience and comfort nothing more. Flip side for those dropping weight, eating a smaller amount spread throughout the day can make them feel less hungry, but not always.
5. Drinking alcohol does impair training as anyone who has watched the hangover brigade aka living dead in a gym will tell you. As of yet I haven't met anyone doing this who wasn't aware they weren't training at their peak. In moderation it's fine.
6. Why is everyone so down on carbs, and for the record it isn't carbs and sugars in the same way as it's not vehicles and cars. Sugars are a type of carb, the one we need least of. The human body is designed for a high carb diet, all the way from the high amylase volume in our saliva through to our incredible tolerance to sugars, which many of us still manage to defeat, type 2 diabetes. My diet is at least 70% carbs, pasta, cous cous, rice, oats etc. 4,500 to 5,000 calories a day, I am not considered fat, but have plenty of energy to commit to my training and work with my body rather than against it.

For those looking for easy dietary answers, please google the food pyramid, and for your sake avoid fad diets.
 
I agree with the fact that getting right nutrients is important but the proper amount is also essential. There are other factors like wrong habits that affects our health. Proper diet, exercise and adequate amount of sleep is very much essential.
 
I totally agree with eating the right nutrients and proper diet. Diet is KEY in seeing results. Eat 6-7 small meals a day, every 2-3 hours. And most importantly DO NOT STARVE
 
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