The "fat effect" you get with meat is when your organism lacks some elements to digest/absorb the meat correctly, so it gets stocked instead

To avoid that stupid effect, eat some veggies with the meat, and vary the combinations/meats

Nothing fancy and no need to eat tons, green beans, broccoli, carrots, potatoes a little bit of everything, farm veggies, with farm animals, no need to eat ze bug

Portion control , obviously, and grilled chicken , fish , broccoli , yams , eggs , do me good

Skinny woman, this is what I eat:

Breakfast: 1 banana or peanut butter bagel or 3 eggs, pick one option

Lunch: Dark leaf salad, no meat. Sometimes a hard boiled egg or half an avocado in it, with assorted veggies, and a piece of fruit.

Dinner: Whatever I want in a controlled portion.

Typically no snacks. I drink exclusively water except for a cup of coffee in the morning.

Become fat adapted. Use Autophagy to bring forth your God given DNA. Personally I fast when I work my body. lol

Eat when you are hungry, Learn to put about 6 hours between your meals. I go 8 to 10hrs sometimes but it's conditioning. You don't need a whole lot of food to stay fit. NO sugar. But if you gotta have sugar, no more than 20 grams a day. You can eat a lot more fats if you avoid the sugar. 1 gram of sugar = 4 calories, 1 gram of protein = 4 calories, 1 gram of fat = 9 calories. do the math in your head and decide if the taste is worth the calories. 20 grams of sugar gives you 80 calories. absolutely no high fructose corn syrup. it all goes to fat. sugar is better for you. HFCS doesn't initiate an insulin response so it just floats around in your blood stream causing insulin resistance and makes you fat. good luck.

My friend always said he got bigger when he added more carbs. It's not white sugar, but starch from potatoes and things like that. If you're going to build a brick wall, you obviously need the building materials. There is also one more thing that you need, and that is energy for doing the work.

I'd say some version of the Mediterranean Diet is best for general fitness and longevity.

Start with a mostly protein diet. Meat/vegatables. Then add carbs once you develop a fitness routine.

Really depends on your specific goals. Generally you need to be either gaining muscle or losing weight - you will struggle if you try to do both at once. To gain muscle you need to eat more than your daily caloric requirements with a focus on proteins To lose weight, you need to eat less than your daily caloric requirements.

Cardio is amazing for getting lean and fit, but won't help you bulk up at all. Sprinters are often told to never run 1k+ at more than a light jog, as you WILL burn muscle. Looking at the builds of different athletes will give you a good general idea of what that activity does to your body if done repeatedly. Distance runners are lean and fit, sprinters are muscled and fit - both are fit, but in very different ways.

If you're trying to bulk, you likely will gain fat as well. Most people deal with this my cycling their training/diet. When on a cut, make sure you don't starve yourself or eat less than 1200ish calories a day (this number varies a lot depending on your mass/musculature), or you will lose those gains you just added.

The biggest fail a lot of people deal with is trying to cut fat while gaining muscle. Long term, more muscle will help you burn a lot more fat, but you will find you struggle to gain muscle quickly if not eating enough.

If you're fat and weak now, I'd suggest a quick fat cut before focusing on gaining muscle, but again, your own goals are what really matters.

I had great results with keto, almost zero carb. Eat meat, cheese, eggs, and only green leafy veg if you must have rabbit food. No sugar, starch, grains, legumes, etc. You'll get cut quick, and as long as you keep up with eating bacon and steaks you'll stay that way.