18 y/o. Don't eat enough. First time working out.

[ChrisGuilday]

Hi, I am 18 almost 19 years old and I want to start working out. I struggle with eating enough because I pay for all of my own food and I don't make enough money. I probably eat around 1500-2000 calories a day. Which I know is not much at all.

I am 6"0 tall and 143 LB's. My job is coming into season (I work at a restaurant in Florida) and I plan on putting most of my money towards food.

I have a very high metabolism too, which doesn't help. Even though I am really skinny, I feel pretty strong for my size. I'm big into parkour stuff and I can do 100+ pushups and 30+ pull ups. I don't think they help me very much because my body just doesn't weigh much haha.



so I have a few questions.


1. What is a good source of food that is cheap? Specifics would be good. Some thing easy to make.
2. What kind of workouts should I be doing? My friend is going to sell me a bench press set for $80 and I have some free weights.
3. Is it necessary to get a gym membership? I have a ymca close to my house.
4. How many calories a day? 4000+? I worked out for 3 weeks a few months back and was eating 3500+ calories a day and gained 8 LB's. But I lost it all because I don't eat enough.
5. How fast can I expect to gain weight if I put a lot of effort in?

Thanks for your help! Here's some pictures.

*EDIT* By the way I drink a LOT of milk. I hope its a good thing because I'm obsessed with it. Can a lot of of the calories needed come from milk?

[BnPk]

start eating like 9 meals aday

[ChrisGuilday]

start eating like 9 meals aday

Is that your go to answer for every thing? I've seen you post that exact sentence on 4 other threads.

[loic901]

start eating like 9 meals aday

omfg all you do is post this retarded **** everywhere...


MEAL is a MYTH!

for cheap food it depends on where u lives... but for me .. i eat a lots of tuna, chicken salmon, tilapia, milk/cholate milk.

getting carbs from cheap banana/ fruits like apple.

pepper steak is kinda cheap just like tuna and frozen fishs... like tilapia get them when they are in special and freeze em!

bought a freezer and filled it with mass chicken/fish

also YES you can drink a lot of milk if you plan on bulking.. dont buy 3.25% tho XD

[tallntoned]

Eat lots of rice and pasta its cheap.

[ChrisGuilday]

omfg all you do is post this retarded **** everywhere...


MEAL is a MYTH!

for cheap food it depends on where u lives... but for me .. i eat a lots of tuna, chicken salmon, tilapia, milk/cholate milk.

getting carbs from cheap banana/ fruits like apple.

pepper steak is kinda cheap just like tuna and frozen fishs... like tilapia get them when they are in special and freeze em!

bought a freezer and filled it with mass chicken/fish

also YES you can drink a lot of milk if you plan on bulking.. dont buy 3.25% tho XD

Is steak actually a good source of calories? I live by a supermarket that always sells their crappy steak dirt cheap. I can get a pound of steak for like 3-6 dollars some times and I love steak.

[Often]

Smaller meals, instead of three main ones, make it six every 2-3 hours. Meet your macros.

[Providence94]

Iifym.

[Huskarl]

Milk and em cookies