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    5'9"/130 Not gaining weight on 3000 calories

    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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    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.

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    Originally Posted by lynxaken1
    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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    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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    Originally Posted by lynxaken1
    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.

    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
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    Originally Posted by lynxaken1
    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.
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    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....

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    lucky you - eat another 100g of nuts/peanut butter, thats not much volume, and gives u like 600cals more
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    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.
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    Don't buy a weight gainer, make your own.

    Keep a complete food log and post it here...

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    Originally Posted by nithos
    Don't buy a weight gainer, make your own.
    fo real. Commercial weight gainers are a stupid idea imo. No way are they as calorie dense as something as simple as nuts, olive/cod liver oil, fatty meats, whatever.

    An awesomely delicious thing you could make would be honey and peanut butter mixed up together, **** yea. Especially if u warm it up
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    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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    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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    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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    Originally Posted by tonyexley View Post
    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??
    Eat more food.

    Don't listen to anything Rich Piana has to say regarding nutrition.

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    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?
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    Originally Posted by lynxaken1 View Post
    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.
    3000 calories = no gains
    Eat 3500.

    If 3500= no gains
    Eat 4000

    Unless you have a tapeworm or are literally sh!tting out large amounts of undigested food, the answer is to eat more.

    If it's one of the other options, see a doctor.
    Come and take it.

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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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    Originally Posted by tonyexley View Post
    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??
    And on this note, this thread is closed.
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