Dieting is the practice of ingesting food in a regulated fashion to achieve a particular objective. In many cases the goal is weight loss, but some athletes aspire to gain weight (usually in the form of muscle) and diets can also be used to maintain a stable body weight.

Its no wonder so many people taut the high protein diets, claiming that carbs are the cause of your weight gain. Well that’s simply not accurate. Lets get to the bottom of the good carb bad carb issue

“Eat less by eating more; it’s the Holy Grail of dieting,” said registered dietitian Angela Shaw, D.T.R., coordinator of “The Healthy Weigh” weight management program offered at Cooper University Hospital. "Skipping meals or eliminating all protein, starch or fat from your diet can sabotage your weight-loss efforts."

Other diets fail because they don't care if you lose "body weight" or "body fat." If you lose "body weight," you lose lean muscle. If you lose muscle, you lower your metabolism. If you lower your metabolism, you don't burn calories efficiently, resulting in a gain of "body fat." Feed your muscles protein! Muscles = Metabolism!

If you are serious about weight training, you have probably experienced the "plateau phenomenon." You train harder, you consume extra protein in your diet, but you just don't get the strength and power gains that you want. For the last ten years sports nutrition has focused on "what" to eat. The latest research from leading sports science labs now

Unless you are eating right, exercising alone will not be able to get you to your optimum fitness and weight. To gain weight, you will need lots of protein in your daily diet. As such, it is a waste of time to exercise a lot in hopes of trying to gain weight if you don't have your nutrition squared away. So the first step is to read the first part.