If you want to maximize your progress, you have to avoid traps and mistakes in your diet program.

1. impatient diet changing

A lot of bodybuilders jumps from one nutrition diet to another, without giving primary program enough time, to see the results. It takes at least three weeks before body adjust to changes in diet. Mostly you can expect visible results/effects after approximately 21 days, so do not expect immediate results on your body.

2. inexact calorie counting

Just counting calories isn't enough. You have to calculate how many calories you get from carbs, how many from proteins and how many from fat. Successful bodybuilders put down exactly what they eat. They don't estimate or guess. Otherwise you can't lose as much fat as you expected or you don't gain that much muscle.

3. scattered nutrition

When you are trying to lose fat or gain mass, the key to success is constancy. Scattered nutrition is the main reason for bad progress. The best way is to eat five times a day (every two or three hours). This way you'll prevent fat accumulation and increase pure body mass.

4. relying on sundry scales

In nutrition adjustment, don't rely only on scales and tables. They serve only as a help to put together a menu. You have to be careful not to eat too much or too less calories. It depends on what you want (gain mass or lose fat), how your day looks like and how much you exercise. It's better to check your body in a mirror or on a photo. If you see the results you are looking for, your diet must be working, even if the scales disagree with it.

5. excessive nutrition

Those who want to gain mass, often exaggerate and eat too much calories, which turns into a fat not muscles. Also many bodybuilders take a low fat diet, but still gain some weight because they eat too much carbs. It's true that carbs are needed for a hard training and they are also helpful in regeneration, but when body absorbs what it needs, the excess is quickly stored as a fat.

6. impersonal diets

It's not wrong, if you learn and take someone for example. But each bodybuilder has it's own diet that works. One's diet may be not appropriate for another and the opposite. You can adjust your ideal diet only with careful notes of what you eat and how you respond to some food.

7. supplements are not magic weld

Supplements are meant to increase the effects of alimentary program. They can't be substitute for a bad plan and mistakes in nutrition.

8. become a slave of canned tuna

To be successful, you must eat regularly all the time. Lots of athletes get bored, as they eat only white chicken meat and canned tuna. This way, you might give up. There is a lot of recipes to prepare a delicious meal whit no or minimum fat.

9. elimination of all fat

Reducing fat in your diet helps to control total calorie intake. However, entirely elimination of fat leads to decreased digestion of fat and/or obstacles in growth. Low fat diets, which contains essential fat acids, are better choice. Also they are useful for optimal regeneration, growth and fat digestion.

10. making big changes or more changes at the same time

When you are adding or reducing amount of calories, try to make small changes, so you give your body time to adjust. The reaction on reducing too much calories will be more stored fat. And if you make more changes at the same time, you won't know which one works and which one is useless.