Can I Get Muscle Building Nutrition From Fast Food Joints?
Holding down two jobs, meetings to get too, kids to pick up from school and so on there are so many distractions, pressures and time constraints that if we are not careful can only lead to one thing… not enough time to prepare your meals. If you are anting to pack on muscle then this is one of the biggest crimes imaginable. The main reason is because it leads to eating fast food.
Fast food is exactly what you don’t want to eat to build muscle up. Too much fat and very little nutrient value combined with little in the way of decent energy providing nutrition. So, if it is not possible to avoid fast food restaurants then what can we eat for decent muscle building nutrition?
Here are a few golden rules for eating at fast food restaurants in order to build muscle up:
Avoid the apparently good value for money drink and fries. A simple portion of medium sized fries will stuff your body full of around 200 calories including around 400 calories with around 20 grams of fat and the drink will provide you with around 200 calories with heaps of sugary content!
make sure you always choose the grilled option. You can save around 80 calories coming mostly from fat by eating a McDonald’s grilled chicken sandwich as opposed to a premium crispy chicken. A straightforward selection but often overlooked.
Try to give the dessert a miss. At any fast food restaurnat you are going to be bombarded with so many chices of sugary desserts and if you really must have a sugary item then keep it down to a kiddies portion size.
Make sure that you don’t go over the top with the sauces. Many of these are very high in fatty content with little muscle building nutrition value. I am positive that you are very well aware of the fat filled little packages of sauce that I am talking about, mayo tartar sauce and such like. Look after yourself and skip them.
If it is not possible to avoid a fast food restaurant then what can I eat?
If you want to build muscle food that you could eat at McDonalds would be:
For the bulk of your dinner/lunch a Premium Grilled Chicken Sandwich will nourish you with 10 grams of fat, 51grams of carbohydrates, 420 calories, and 32 grams of protein. A Grilled Honey Mustard Snack Wrap would give you around 260 calories, 9g fat, 27g carbs and 18g of protein. The Asian Salad Grilled Chicken would give you 390 calories, 12.5g fat, 38g carbs, 33g protein with the Sesame Ginger Dressing that is low in fat. Probably the premium option would be the Caesar Salad Grilled Chicken that, yields 220 calories, 6g fat, 12g carbs and 30g of protein.
For those of you that reside in Australia the choices change slightly too:
A Beef Burger: 250 calories, 8g fat, 25g carbs, 18g protein or a Herb Fusion Chicken Salad: 100 calories, 2g fat, 3g carbs 20g protein.
Excellent breakfast selections would include an Egg McMuffin which gives your body 300 calories, 12 grams of fat, 30g carbs and 18 grams of protein. Possibly a Sausage Burrito including 300 calories, 16g fat, 26g carbs, 12grams of protein or If you are looking for just a snack then how about the Fruit ‘n Yogurt Parfait which beaks down into 160 calories, 2g fat, 31g carbs, 4g protein.
Ih ope that shows you that you can indeed get a decent muscle building snack even at a fast food restaurant such as McDonalds. Of course it would be better to allocate some time for planning decent meals throughout the week but if you can’t do this then the above selections should be a good guide and on some level help you burn the fat feed the muscle.
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