Weight-loss and nutrition Myths :)

Ingredients List :
1 box of Wheaties Fuel Cereal
1 cup shortening
3 cups sugar
4 eggs
1 qt. buttermilk
1/2 cup raisins
1/3 cup raw oats
5 cups flour
5 tsp baking soda
2 tsp salt
Instructions :
Using a large mixing bowl, mix cereal,sugar,flour,raisins,oats,baking soda & salt. Add the beaten eggs, melted shorting and buttermilk then mix everything well. Cover the bowl and refrigerate for 35 min ( will keep for one week). Spray muffin pan with oil and pour the mix into the pan. Bake @ 400 for 15-20min.Cool. Enjoy
 

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Your pre and post-workout nutrition must be supplying the body with the right nutrition at the right time. If you don't do this, if you forget to eat before or succumb to that desire to fall onto the couch and "veg" for a couple of hours after your training, you are cheating yourself out of muscle gains. While you will only be in the gym engaging in intense resistance exercise for less than one hour, it is what you eat in the 90 minutes before and the 90 minutes after that workout that can determine how effective that hard work will be at moving you towards your goals. This "four hour window" (90 minutes before, 60 during, 90 after) will be the most important period of time in your program in terms of feeding your body for muscle growth. It is during these four hours that you can significantly enhance your ability to build muscle. The body will be both most in need of muscle building nutrition and most receptive to it.
PRE-WORKOUT
Your pre-workout meal is the second most important meal of the day, topped only by the post workout meal.The goal of this meal is to prepare the body for the assault you will soon be putting it through. During intense exercise, as stored energy is used up, the body will turn to glycolysis to replace this energy. Glycolysis is the process of converting sugars (carbs) into ATP and ultimately the very energy you need to contract a muscle. Therefore, it stands to reason that you want the ingredients (carbs) that make energy to be readily available. Not having them will impair your ability to workout to your full potential. The pre-workout meal needn't be all that different from one of your normal meals (assuming your eating well). It should be focused on protein and complex carbohydrates. It is important that both of these macronutrients be present.
POST-WORKOUT
The basic goal of resistance training  is to force the muscles to break themselves down ( catabolism ) and then rebuild (anabolism). When the workout provides sufficient trauma to the muscles, small tears in the muscle fibers and connective tissue are created. In the hours and days following the workout, the muscles will attempt to rebuild themselves and become stronger and better able to deal with such trauma in the future. This process is called adaptation. The muscles need carbohydrates to replace their drained fuel sources (muscle glycogen) and they need protein to begin the rebuilding process. The better the materials you provide them, the better work they will be able to do. The sooner you get them the materials, the sooner they can get started. A good goal is to try and make your post-workout meal about 15-25% of your total daily caloric goal. A sports drink is a good first step in post-workout nutrition. It will act to quickly replace energy stores, replace lost nutrients and also create an insulin spike more on the importance of insulin. High glycemic index fruit or fruit juice can also address this need as well as some bodybuilding supplements made expressly for this purpose. Providing the body with a quality protein source is the next thing on the post-workout nutrition agenda and it should follow the first step as quickly as possible. A liquid source is ideal because it can be processed and utilized by the body quicker. Whey protein powders, certain meal replacements and weight gainers can fill the bill. Studies have shown that time is truly of the essence, the sooner the body is provided with these materials the quicker it will exit its catabolic state and enter an anabolic state (the less muscle you will lose and the quicker you will start building new muscle). Following your workout, consume your post-workout nutrition meal as soon as your stomach and schedule will allow it. This can vary by individual. Generally, the longest you want to go is 90 minutes post exercise but ideally you would want it within the first 30 minutes. The resulting muscle gains you experience as a result of your workout can possibly be dramatically affected by how quick you are able to re-supply the body with muscle building nutrition.

A carbohydrate is an organic compound with the general formula Cm(H2O)n, that is, consisting only of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, the last two in the 2:1 atom ratio. Carbohydrates can be viewed as hydrates of carbon, hence their name. The term is most common in biochemistry, where it is a synonym of saccharide. The carbohydrates (saccharides) are divided into four chemical groupings: monosaccharides, disaccharides, oligosaccharides, and polysaccharides. In general, the monosaccharides and disaccharides, which are smaller (lower molecular weight) carbohydrates, are commonly referred to as sugars.

There are many different kinds of fats, but each is a variation on the same chemical structure. All fats consist of fatty acids (chains of carbon and hydrogen atoms, with a carboxylic acid group at one end) bonded to a backbone structure, often glycerol (a "backbone" of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen). Chemically, this is a triester of glycerol, an ester being the molecule formed from the reaction of the carboxylic acid and an organic alcohol. As a simple visual illustration, if the kinks and angles of these chains were straightened out, the molecule would have the shape of a capital letter E. The fatty acids would each be a horizontal line; the glycerol "backbone" would be the vertical line that joins the horizontal lines. Fats therefore have "ester" bonds.