Make Food not Supplements a Priority

Fat Burners, CLA, L-Carnitine, Detox Products, Testosterone Boosters & BCAAs are a complete waste of money. Anyone selling them is either honestly unaware they are selling junk (which is just as shameful), or just looking to make a profit off you.
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Sure, you can make an argument for using creatine and whey protein, but if your diet is absolute garbage to begin with, they aren't gonna make any difference.
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Focus on getting the fundamentals of solid nutrition in place first: Calories, Macros, Micros, and Timing, before you go wasting your money on supplements. They can benefit a good nutrition plan, but they cannot make up for a poor one, and they are NOT needed to transform your physique and to reach your goals.
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Fix Your Diet First. Stop even thinking about supplements, as the majority of them do absolutely nothing, are completely useless and a total waste of money. "Weight Gainers" for example will not cause you to suddenly build loads of muscle. Most of them use cheap ingredients and charge you a premium price. All you need to do is eat more food.
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In summary: don’t spend any money on supplements, at least not until you have been consistently great with the basic nutrition principles. They won't help you gain muscle, lose fat or really accomplish anything other than less money in your wallet.

So true, so true. When people ask me to make a plan for them, I tell them that the diet part is going to make more of a difference than the supplement part, and I go through the macros, etc. I haven't had a single person take me seriously on it yet.

People don't get it and the few that do get asked over and over what they are doing and no one believes them.