As I have mentioned in an earlier article: nutrition is 60% of your training. A good diet for bodybuilding will allow you to add muscle and to subtract fat from your body so your muscles will show up better. An important body building tip is to eat foods that are filled with protein, like eggs and meat. Try always to get the mono-unsaturated fats, they are the good fats that will stimulate testosterone production. Create a plan and let it evolve as you become more muscular taking into account your particular size and body type,

One of the best tips for a good and effective body building diet is too just keep it simple. You need the carbohydrates for energy and you need fat for general health of your body.

With any type of body builder diet you will have to have a certain amount of self-control and discipline. With a good pre-workout drink as a part of your over-all body building diet you will ensure that you'll have enough energy for your entire workout. Gaining lean muscle requires that you increase the amount of calories you eat everyday plus the amount of protein in your body building diet. 

One big fitness truth is that lack of proper nutrition, especially post-workout, severely compromises muscle growth. Your muscles are made of protein, so you have to have that available for muscle growth. And what you take in your pre-workout meal will make the difference between a workout that gives you lean muscle, less fat and increased strength or one that is ineffective. 

Tip: split your food intake for the day into 5 to 7 meals of roughly equal nutritional content and attempt to eat at regular intervals.

There are many factors involving weight gain, muscle and fat are the two major ones.  If you’re overweight, I highly doubt weight training alone would burn all that fat off. 

Using the proper body building supplements can help you work out longer, recover quicker, and feel healthier and more full of energy. 

Tip: avoid over-eating in one single meal even if you didn’t eat much the rest of the day.

Nutritionists estimate that building muscle requires adding approximately 300-500 more calories to your diet. It is well known that cutting calories too much slows down the metabolic rate, and causes loss of lean mass, so the question is how much should you cut. We recommend that your calorie levels should never drop below 1800 calories per day for men and 1200 per day for women. In simpler terms, more muscle mass equals a higher metabolic rate, meaning more calories being burnt, meaning more fat loss. Track your protein, carbs, fat and calories accurately to get the results you desire. For example: one regular beer ranges between 150 and 200 calories, a light beer has 100 calories. 

In short, track what you eat, do a nutritional diet according with your body building needs and gather all your will to stick to it. Remember that depending on what you eat you will get different results.