Meal Plan for a Bodybuilder Cutting WITHOUT Supplements

You can read about cutting and the science behind bodybuilding and losing fat in our Bodybuilder Looking to Lose Fat and Gain Muscle meal plan. The plan below has been designed to help bodybuilders lose body fat whilst maintaining muscle and without using nutritional or sports supplements. The plan has been structured so you should have sufficient energy for training and daily activities.

Meals must be small but regular with high protein and careful manipulation of your intake of carbohydrate foods, i.e. carbs should be low, but not omitted. Consume low glycaemic carbohydrate foods regularly, but in small portions only.

Following a meal plan similar to the one below should give a steady loss of body fat whilst maintaining muscle providing, of course, that you’re training hard. It is also reasonable in portion sizes, so should help in keeping you feeling full up and satisfied whilst cutting. This plan is completely food-based and involves no bodybuilding supplements.

Example plan for a cutting bodybuilder:

As with all the meal plans this is merely a guide and must not be stuck to rigidly! You must eat a variety of different meats / fish / alternatives, complex carbohydrates, fruit and vegetables every day, and drink plenty of water. Adapt the plan to suit your own needs according to your results in order to keep the gains coming and body fat down. Varying portions from day to day, along with hard training will help maximise gains.