is 2000 calories a day enough to bulk with?

[Human.Shield]

height: 5'10"
weight: 140lbs
goal weight: 160lbs - 175lbs

i am currently bulking and i just wanted to know if an average of 2000 to 2500 calories a day would be good enough to bulk with?

[$$Diamonds$$]

Unless you're an endomorph, I doubt it...even then, that's not a whole lot...

You're more than likely an ectomorph if you're only 140...I'd go at least 3000

[Vadim Beliaev]

Heh, I cut up with 2000 cals .

[Oddball8945]

To start i would say 2000-2500 calories would be a good idea to bulk with, considering you are only 144 pounds your BMR would be much lower then people who weigh 160+.

However try to find out what your caloric intake is currently that you eat to maintain your weight, do this by tracking what you eat on a normal day, when you find out what it is just eat 500 calories more. By the end of a week if you havent gained any weight up it 100-200 more. If you did gain weight keep eating like that till you stop then i would up it 200 calories or more as you probally added LBM and your BMR is higher.

Try to keep gains at 1-2 pounds a week as you dont want to be adding on to much fat, also stay away from junk foods.

[Mr_Thing30]

I would be shooting for about 3000cals. IMO that way if you fall a lil short you'll still end up around 2500cals.

[NightRyder]

height: 5'10"
weight: 140lbs
goal weight: 160lbs - 175lbs

i am currently bulking and i just wanted to know if an average of 2000 to 2500 calories a day would be good enough to bulk with?

dude...im 145 lbs...5'9...around 9% bf...so we're give or take the same size...

im currently bulking as well...i just calculated that ive already taken in 2000 calories by 11am lol...just to give you an idea of my daily intake haha

i probably take in upwards of 4000/day

[armz_ha]

Heh, I cut up with 2000 cals .

me too and i'm always hungry.

[psychojoe]

go with 2000 and increase by a few 100 per day, each week. When I started on this site I was 144lbs at 6ft, and people told me the same **** theyre telling you now, and I listened and ate about 2500 cals, MAXIMUM 3000, and I got so ****ing fat. So start slow, 2000 might well be enough to gain

3001 posts, **** yea

[vsx]

I feel you - this sites made me fat LOL - JK.

I started bulking at 152 - not at 156, so ive gained 4lbs in 3 weeks and im not freaking out but I am fattening up and Im not to excited about it. I wasnt eating enough before but I am trying this 40/40/20 at 2500 calories and sticking pretty close to it and im thinking im gaining to fast. I may cut it back to 2300 - I do feel stronger but I also feel by belly expanding.......its so hard to get into the BULK mindset if you were once overweight - im trying but I cant say Ill stick to BULKING for like 3 months at a time and I dont know of 1 month bulk, and some time mainting/slow gaining, and then cutting really makes sense.

go with 2000 and increase by a few 100 per day, each week. When I started on this site I was 144lbs at 6ft, and people told me the same **** theyre telling you now, and I listened and ate about 2500 cals, MAXIMUM 3000, and I got so ****ing fat. So start slow, 2000 might well be enough to gain

3001 posts, **** yea

[psychojoe]

good luck finding the right balance vsx