I've been working out now for about three weeks and I have been consistently eating at least 3000 balanced/healthy calories every day. I lift heavy weights (bench my own weight, etc...still not much weight but good for me) and then sit on my ass and eat other four days of the week. The problem is that I haven't gained a pound, if anything I have lost weight according to the scale. Am I supposed to eat 4000? I'm afraid that I just can't eat that much food, I feel sick eating 3000.
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02-13-2006, 09:54 AM #1
5'9"/130 Not gaining weight on 3000 calories
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02-13-2006, 09:56 AM #2
You should try a wight gain shake, do you take any at the moment? if not, eat what your eating and take a weight gain shake try mammoth 2500 or an Atlas product like Atlas weight gainer 1500.
gogz
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02-13-2006, 10:02 AM #3Originally Posted by lynxaken1
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02-13-2006, 10:25 AM #4
I don't eat precisely the same thing every day but my diet consists of basically only rice, oats, pasta, beef, chicken, cheese, yogurt, cottage cheese, milk, veggies, fruit, almonds, peanut butter, beans and olive oil. I eat four big meals of at least 700 calories and then one smaller slow burning meal of about 400 near bedtime. I am for about 150 grams of protein, 500 grams of carbs and 70 grams of fat.
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02-13-2006, 10:29 AM #5Originally Posted by lynxaken1
you obviously have a fast metabolism, id recommend adding 1 or even 2 weight gain shakes a day.. that should help considering it would be adding ~2500-3000 more calories to ur diet///
GO
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02-13-2006, 10:31 AM #6Originally Posted by lynxaken1
No cardio
.........low reps heavy weight as you can
Remember this
Why run when u can walk, why walk when u can sit, why sit when you can lay down........words to live by when gaining weight
Bottom line u ain't gaining weight ur not eating enough......eat before you go to bed that is a must........eating to gain weight is a fulltime job buddy....
welcome to the lifestyle........remember if it gets too hard you can always switch to golf
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02-13-2006, 10:32 AM #7
lucky you - eat another 100g of nuts/peanut butter, thats not much volume, and gives u like 600cals more
Last edited by psychojoe; 02-13-2006 at 10:38 AM.
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02-13-2006, 11:18 AM #8
I remember flex wheeler used to wake up in the middle of the night and down a prepared meal/shake and then go back to sleep.
If you feel sick chances are you are eating 3000 calories but you are far from assimilating 3000 calories. Fats are dense and you can eat many of them.
Try this, Shread up some lettuce real well, get a can of tuna and 100 grams olive oil mayonnaise, (you can make your own cheaply http://www.afn.org/~poultry/recipes/mayo.htm )
That will give you over 500 calories and you'll be hungry again within an hour, 2 maximum. So you could eat that as like a starter 1/2 hours before every other meal and add 1500 Cal just like that.photochop thread
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02-13-2006, 11:27 AM #9
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02-13-2006, 11:56 AM #10
Don't buy a weight gainer, make your own.
Keep a complete food log and post it here...
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02-13-2006, 12:09 PM #11Originally Posted by nithos
An awesomely delicious thing you could make would be honey and peanut butter mixed up together, **** yea. Especially if u warm it up5'11", 187lbs, 19 y/o
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02-13-2006, 10:22 PM #12
Eat more. I take in 3000 kcal (on workout days), and I'm currently cutting.
You have to stretch out your stomach. When I first started, I went through two weeks of hell. I was CONSTANTLY bloated, stuffed to the point of near puking (on only 2500 kcal a day or so). After those couple weeks, my stomach was all stretched out. On my bulk cycles nowadays (3500 kcal), I am still constantly hungry. I'd get hungry 30min after finishing a meal. It got to the point where I could easily eat 4500+ calories a day.
Work your way up there, brother.
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02-13-2006, 11:48 PM #13
go to www.fitday.com and make sure you are eating 3000 calories. I thought I was eating 3000+ and until I did all the proper calculations on fitday I was only getting in 2000 !
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02-14-2006, 02:07 AM #14Originally Posted by PoopEaterLive Laugh Love,
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06-18-2015, 01:37 PM #15
struggles
I know the struggles im having thensame problem an iv just taken alot of useful stuff from this.
Iv got a good bulking shake rich piana says to make
1 cup of oats
10 egg whites
Spoon of natural nut butter
1 banana
any other ideas??
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06-18-2015, 01:43 PM #16
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06-18-2015, 01:54 PM #17
Get on a real strength program.
How is it that to you the only increment you can increase calories is 1000?
Why not try 3300 a few weeks first? Unless you are losing weight at 3000?The most important aspect of weight training; whether for the athlete, bodybuilder, or average person is to better ones health and ability without injury. - Bill Pearl
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06-18-2015, 02:32 PM #18
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06-18-2015, 02:37 PM #19
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egg whites in shake disgusting.i would rather use protein powder. by the way thread is from 2006 lol
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06-18-2015, 03:13 PM #20No brain, no gain.
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