trouble in taking more calories

[pauliec4l]

My goal is to try to eat 3.000 calories a day to pack on some muscle I have been force feeding myself and now everything I eat is making me want to throw it up. Does my body need to adapt or should I go about this in a different way.

[jdrush]

Try to shoot for more calorie dense foods like fats. If you hit your minimums then eat what makes you comfortable but still gets your calories up.

Never had the problem of hitting 3000 per day, I can do that at one meal.

[magician27]

a large pizza with few meat toppings has around 3000 calories or more alone.. you really cant eat that ? wtf

[digistp]

pizza, pb, ice cream, etc

[dgrierms]

How long have you been doing this? When I first started I struggled to get down 2800/day but eventually I got used to it. After 2800 I will still be hungry some days.

[ironwill2008]

My goal is to try to eat 3.000 calories a day to pack on some muscle I have been force feeding myself and now everything I eat is making me want to throw it up.


Does my body need to adapt.....

Absolutely.

Depending on how much you were eating previously compared to your 3000 calories now, if you try to make a big jump all at once, your digestive system will rebel. Bump up your daily intake over however much you'd been eating by a few hundred calories and stay there for a week, bump up a few hundred more for another week, and so on, until you're able to handle your daily requirement.

[ShyGuyXS]

Bump up your daily intake over however much you'd been eating by a few hundred calories and stay there for a week, bump up a few hundred more for another week, and so on, until you're able to handle your daily requirement.

Agreed with ironwill's post entirely. Slow, more gradual changes are handled much better by your body than drastic changes in intake. Even when I had to continually bump up my calorie intake to gain weight, I had to do it in stages (a few hundred calories every 5-7 days) until I was where I needed to be.

Try gradually adding calories and use calorie-dense, low-volume food at first. Trail mix, peanut butter w/ crackers or fruit, pizza, ice cream, and the like are good, calorie-dense items that usually don't fill you up too much in moderate portions.

[fjlondon]

Bump up your daily intake over however much you'd been eating by a few hundred calories and stay there for a week, bump up a few hundred more for another week, and so on, until you're able to handle your daily requirement.

I agree. It's what I've been doing for the last 4 weeks. Going up by 100 calories every 5-8 days. The gradual increase has made it easy to manage, has also allowed me to monitor the changes and has enabled me to find my actual TDEE (instead of what a website told me- although granted it was useful having a ballpark number/starting point.)

[XCRunner9]

Along with eating more caloric dense foods such as peanut butter and ice cream, perhaps spreading out your intake over more meals may help stimulate more hunger.

But IronWill's suggestion seems like the best way to go IMO.