Originally posted by gav
that's a lot of food in one day! if you do that everyday, there's no doubt you'll bulk up. That's the hard bit though - putting the effort in every day.
how much do you weigh btw? that might be too much protein for you depending on your body weight- your body can only absorb so much so the rest will be wasted (i've gone mad with the protein today)
i haven't been totalling up my calories in a while, but it usually goes something like this on a workout day
1. 3/4 cup oatmeal + 300ml milk + 1scoop whey
2. 2 gammon (cold ham) wholemeal rolls + 1packet of crisps+ 2 apples
3. gammon (cold ham) + chicken breast + new potatoes + creatine monohydrate
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workout
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4. 2scoops whey + 300ml milk + dextrose lucozade sweets (40g C (sugar)
5. 1 scoop whey + chicken breast + new potatoes + wholemeal bread
6. chicken breast + pasta
7. 3/4 - 1whole cup oatmeal + 300ml milk + peanut butter sandwich
also, i drink around 4-5 litres of water a day. today i drank 6
it's not the best of bulking diets (cuz my carb intake is too low just now - that's what happens when you're at the uni from 9 till 5) but it's certainly healthy enough
ok, i'll count up the calories roughly
meal
1 - 40g P
45g C
2 - 20g P
- 80g C
3. 45g P
40g C
4. 60g P
40g C
5. 60g P
50g C
6. 35g P
60g C
7. 30g P
60g C
total: 290g Protein
375g Carbs
i haven't calculated this in ages. at a glance, i need more carbs. protein intake is fine (i don't usually take this much whey protein, but it was a leg day today). i haven't included fat but i think it'll be pretty high cuz of those crisps i ate today. bastard mccoys
and can you calculate calories from looking at the protein and carb intake? how do you do it?
Yeah, I ate like a maniac yesterday.
According to DIESEL's bulking guides "maximum" amounts, I took 40g protein, 40g carbs and 7g fat "too much"!
If I'm not getting any weight by this diet I'll be a scientific miracle!
That day I drank 2 liters milk, 1 liter of multivitamine juice and 1 liter of water.
You can guess I went to toilet like 10 times that day!
"it's not the best of bulking diets"
Yeah, you seem to concentrate on proteins and pretty much only eat foods that are high on protein..
Where you get your vitamines etc. which you need to make your diet really healthy?
"and can you calculate calories from looking at the protein and carb intake?"
I think so if you know the amounts of calories protein and carbs have..
If I remember correcly it was 4cal/gram for carbs and proteins and 9cal/gram for fat, but don't trust that information cause I remember reading it somewhere and I might remember it wrong.
I count calories just simply by looking those nutrient amounts each food has same time I check for proteins, carbs and fat.
I highly recommend of getting a little notebook where you can mark EVERYTHING you eat by the day and count up the numbers.
It's hard at first to look every food from some damn pasta bags, but when you keep eating the same foods you can copy the amounts from previous days you know. It only takes you couple of minutes after meal to mark it up and by doing so, you'll get motivated to eat eat and eat, and you know exactly how much you should eat and what.
By some guide I looked with my training I'd need 3500 calories per week to gain 1 pound of weight.
This is where most of skinny guys that train hard fail. Proper eating!
Guys should ask themselves: "Am I serious about bulking up or not?"
If the answer is yes then you have the motivation.
I asked this question myself lil over a week ago and I got the notebook and I've been counting proteins, carbs, fat and calories ever since and it feels great and can't wait for the first results!
