tips on gaining weight?

[stutz567]

I'm 18, I've been recently trying to bulk. I've bulked before at about 3500 calories and it was easier to get those calories in and I built plenty of muscle while staying really lean. For a while I was just maintaining until I started to get bored and felt weak so I decided to really start going at it again about a month ago. Since that time I haven't really gained weight but I've been stronger then ever in the gym. At the end of my first bulk about 6 months ago, I couldn't even get up 155 on bench press, now I can get 205 up for 3 reps on a good day. I was also vegan throughout the time I was maintaining but I stopped when I noticed couldn't eat enough calories when i started to bulk again and I started to feel really weak (I'm now pescatarian), once I started eating fish and eggs I began feeling super strong and felt like an absolute animal. I've always tried eating really clean but this past week I started eating more unhealthy foods just to get the calories in. Prior to this it was hard for me to get even 3000 calories in. Tomorrow I'm gonna start a new diet which is 2 bagels with vegan cream cheese, 4 pasture raised eggs cooked in 1tbs olive oil, 2 cups of orange juice before my workout. About a cup and a half of white rice, 1 can of tuna, mayonnaise, blue berries, more orange juice after my workout. More rice, one fillet of wild caught salmon (about 300 calories worth) and also some vegetables for dinner. Ill also have dessert which is 500 calories of ben and jerry's non dairy ice cream topped with peanut butter or a bunch of reese's puffs or captain crunch with soy milk. Also on days which I eat out with friends ill just eat as much as possible. I'm wondering how people think this is gonna go and if they have any other tips on gaining weight and building as much strength specifically on bench press.

[Mrpb]

You should be gaining about 2 pounds per month, if not eat more.

Don't eat tuna everyday. It's too much mercury.

About your bench press: Follow a proper training program. Fierce 5 is good.

[1MANU]

Increase your portions of the foods you are already eating if not gaining to your liking.

Tips:

One of the bagels have PB/honey on it.
Have six eggs instead of 4 eggs.
Increase rice serving to 300g...maybe add some butter.
Whole milk great for easy calories..if lactose issues try the Vit D fair life milk. It's great. Trader Joes has a nice version as well. Sub some OJ with whole milk.

Maybe a little hard to get it all down at first but your body will adjust in a week or so.

[superman704]

Eat more

[superman704]

I'm 18, I've been recently trying to bulk. I've bulked before at about 3500 calories and it was easier to get those calories in and I built plenty of muscle while staying really lean. For a while I was just maintaining until I started to get bored and felt weak so I decided to really start going at it again about a month ago. Since that time I haven't really gained weight but I've been stronger then ever in the gym. At the end of my first bulk about 6 months ago, I couldn't even get up 155 on bench press, now I can get 205 up for 3 reps on a good day. I was also vegan throughout the time I was maintaining but I stopped when I noticed couldn't eat enough calories when i started to bulk again and I started to feel really weak (I'm now pescatarian), once I started eating fish and eggs I began feeling super strong and felt like an absolute animal. I've always tried eating really clean but this past week I started eating more unhealthy foods just to get the calories in. Prior to this it was hard for me to get even 3000 calories in. Tomorrow I'm gonna start a new diet which is 2 bagels with vegan cream cheese, 4 pasture raised eggs cooked in 1tbs olive oil, 2 cups of orange juice before my workout. About a cup and a half of white rice, 1 can of tuna, mayonnaise, blue berries, more orange juice after my workout. More rice, one fillet of wild caught salmon (about 300 calories worth) and also some vegetables for dinner. Ill also have dessert which is 500 calories of ben and jerry's non dairy ice cream topped with peanut butter or a bunch of reese's puffs or captain crunch with soy milk. Also on days which I eat out with friends ill just eat as much as possible. I'm wondering how people think this is gonna go and if they have any other tips on gaining weight and building as much strength specifically on bench press.

Don't be pescatarian or anything like that, eat red meat, plenty of red meat daily, trust me, you'll thank me later

[snailsrus]

Don't be pescatarian or anything like that, eat red meat, plenty of red meat daily, trust me, you'll thank me later

being pescatarian is absolutely fine. You can 100% bulk that way and lift with results

[NomadNA]

Sardines have 10x less mercury than Tuna and you can buy them stored in olive oil.

Milk, cottage cheese, peanut butter are common strategies.

Intra-meal nutrition. Get you some mass gainer shakes that typically add eggs, fats, carbs to your basic whey.

[Strawng]

being pescatarian is absolutely fine. You can 100% bulk that way and lift with results

This. The idea that you can't bulk as a pescetarian is utter nonsense. I've personally made the best gains of my life eating a pescetarian diet, and there are absolutely no known health or muscle-enhancing properties of red meat or chicken that can't be found in a diet that includes fish. There are some potential downsides of a vegan diet for gaining muscle that require some srs working around (been there done that), but a pescetarian or vegetarian diet that includes some egg &/or dairy products is an entirely different animal...no pun intended.

[AdamWW]

This. The idea that you can't bulk as a pescetarian is utter nonsense. I've personally made the best gains of my life eating a pescetarian diet, and there are absolutely no known health or muscle-enhancing properties of red meat or chicken that can't be found in a diet that includes fish. There are some potential downsides of a vegan diet for gaining muscle that require some srs working around (been there done that), but a pescetarian or vegetarian diet that includes some egg &/or dairy products is an entirely different animal...no pun intended.

Yup, 100% agree

Even a properly planned vegan diet can produce very good results... perhaps not 100% potential (but who knows...) but certainly you could get most of the way their if you ensure you’re getting enough leucine and overall protein/calories.

[rhadam]

Don't be pescatarian or anything like that, eat red meat, plenty of red meat daily, trust me, you'll thank me later

Uh, no.