One observer who kept a careful record of what he saw

Bodybuilding is not the most enjoyable activity, but the progress achieved when using a potent training and diet plan are motivational, extremely worthwhile, but many experience a feeling of negativity towards their workouts that encourages inconsistency specifically due to poor eating habits, as the absence of a properly structured meal prior to a weight lifting session can sap all desire to train. Even those who aim to burn fat benefit from eating before their workout, as a correctly structured meal will not interfere with fat burning, and in fact, withholding food can slow metabolism and result in muscle loss, which harms physical appearance, and will adversely impact the rate of fat loss. Since many accept incorrect muscle building or fat reduction diet advice found in magazines or on popular Internet fitness sites, they become convinced that certain methods, cargo belts such as avoiding food before a bodybuilding workout, is helpful to long term results, when in fact, such methods are the very reason why numerous bodybuilders build muscle mass at a slower than expected pace, and those seeking fat loss lose muscle at an alarming rate, or find that fat reduction is far less visible and dramatic than the initial expectations.

Do not allow hunger to become the determining factor for whether you eat prior to a weight lifting session, as even those with tiny appetites must consume sufficient nutrition before a workout, and there are numerous convenient, quick to prepare, and easy to consume carbohydrate and protein sources that will make a meal prior to weight lifting fun to consume, and simple to digest.Think through, then follow through is good advice.  If you do heavy lifting with your mind, physical lifting can be efficient, productive, and pleasant.  Abraham Lincoln, one of the greatest thinkers the United States has produced, grew up in a culture that held thinking in low esteem.  With a frontier to tame, land to clear, and riches to claim, Lincoln felt constant pressure to get out and do something.   Lincoln's father made this observation about his soon-to-be-famous son: "If Abe don't fool away all his time on his books, he may make something yet."  Lincoln was 27 years old at the time.  In American society even today, action often is more highly regarded than thought, doing more than being.  To be called an intellectual can be deadly for an American politician. Yet this quintessential American politician became an intellectual.  He was thinking all the time.  In fact, we know quite a bit about Lincoln's thought processes.

One observer who kept a careful record of what he saw was Lincoln's private secretary, John G. Nicolay.  Here is Nicolay's observation. "...Mr. Lincoln often resorted to the process of cumulative thought, and his constant tendency to, and great success in axiomatic definition resulted in a large measure from a habit he had acquired of reducing a forcible idea or an epigrammatic sentence or phrase to writing, and keeping it until further reason enabled him to add other sentences or additional phrases to complete or supplement the first--to elaborate or to conclude his point or argument.   There were many of these scraps among his papers, seldom in the shape of mere rough notes, but almost always in the form of a finished proposition or statement--a habit showing great prudence and deliberation of thought, and evincing a corresponding strength and solidity of opinion and argument."  (Michael Burlingame, editor, An Oral History of Abraham Lincoln: John G. Nicolay's Intervays and Essays. Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 1996, p. 107)  You can use this Lincoln technique yourself.