Following the Principles of Body Building:

The Body building principles require that what ever food, one takes, must be recorded on day to day basis. In the absence of such a measure one is going to commit a mistake of either overestimation or underestimation of the results and not achieving what is desired.

Thus prior to considering details of body building diet, it is necessary to look into what a diet literally means, what is it’s composition.

Body Building Diets:

For body building the right diet and nutrition are the essential pre-requisites, which ultimately determine successful or failure of the achievement of body building. The training one gets becomes useless without proper nutrition support and seems one is going in the opposite direction, without any positive results. Such an approach shall at the most maintain a status quo situation and the attempt becomes futile.
A Diet does not mean Starvation:

A good body building diet is observes 3 following rules:

• It should accommodate small quantity and more frequent eating pattern timings spread in the entire day in place of same quantity at less frequent timings.
• Each meal should provide carbohydrates, protein and fat in the right ratio proportion of  40% carbohydrates, 40% protein and 20 % unsaturated fats.
• The calories need to be changing cyclically for prevention of the metabolism to get accustomed to a predetermined calorific value.

Carbohydrates: It is a primary source for deriving energy needed in carrying out activities. Bodybuilding diet needs to ensure that they are sourced from structurally complex making available energy slowly like oat meal, brown rice, sweet potatoes or sources having lot of fiber like green beans and broccoli.

Proteins: They are popularly called as sources from which tissues are built. The best sources are from Chicken and tuna etc.

Fats: Fats are the materials from which hormones required are manufactured by body. Fats are lubricating materials in joints, good performance of brain and the source of fats should be from mono-saturated or poly-unsaturated oils like olive oil, flax seed oil etc.