The Body Beast Eating Plan

“To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.”

— François de La Rochefoucauld —

The first part of this sentence is obvious; we need food to live. But there’s a big difference between just staying alive and actually bettering our bodies. Yes, you need to eat to survive—but to thrive, to allow your body to live up to its full potential, you need proper nutrition.

What you eat directly affects your body. Your body takes it in, then breaks it down and reassembles it into your brain and other organs, your hormones, your bones, your muscles—every cell in your body. So proper nutrition has a huge influence on  improving our health and vitality, preventing disease, achieving desired weight, and  of course building muscle. In order to become a mass of muscle, you’re going to  need to eat. A lot! In fact, you might even say that making sure you get all those calories is the very crux of the entire Beast program.

That’s what I want to teach you to do in the Body Beast Eating Plan.

The plan consists of 5 to 6 meals a day—or even more, if mass is your goal.

How many calories you need to consume will depend on your goals and our body type, which you can figure out by using the equations on the following pages. Once you’ve worked that out, you’ll choose from one of two caloric paths: Mass or Ripped. Either can be done whether you’re following the Huge or Lean Beast training schedule.

My Body Beast Eating Plan will not only help you determine what to eat, it will help you  determine when to eat. Nutrient timing is important. So to help you do this as simply as  possible, there’s the Beachbody  Performance line—Energize, Hydrate, Recover, Recharge, and Creatine. 

When used alongside the Eating Plan, they’ll help give your body targeted fuel when you need it, as well as the tools to help you recover faster. As you read through  this guide, you’ll see how I’ve incorporated these supplements into the plan.

You’ll often hear weightlifters say that food is 50% of the equation. I don’t agree. I think it’s 100% of the equation. It influences your lifting sessions. It influences your recovery.

It influences every single aspect of your health and every one of your fitness goals. If you don’t eat enough of the right foods, you simply can’t get the body you desire!

So pull up a knife and fork and get ready to eat like a Beast