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Eating before early morning workout, help please
Due to my class schedule and work, I recently had to change my lifting schedule to lift at 4:30 or 5:00 in the morning. I usually am walking into the gym about 35 minutes after I get out of bed. However, I need some help with my preworkout nutrition. What should I eat before lifting, if anything? Since I am going to the…
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Gains on the waist
I'm only 146 pounds yet my waist is 30/30.5, is this too big for my weight? I'm also 5 ft 9 and 20 years old
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Adding Protein!!
Trying to Stack up on my daily Protein intake. I'm currently lean and ripped, but want to add about 10 more lbs of muscle
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Fasting while gaining to minimise fat gain?
Has anyone had any success with this? I'm going to run a little experiment over the next 6 weeks. I'll eat a surplus of 2600 on my training days (3x week) but skip breakfast (fast) and lower my calories to 1800 on rest days. The goal is to gain weight without an increase in waist size. I'm currently 133lb with a 30.25" -…
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Muscle to Fat Ratio
I've been lifting weights pretty consistently for about 4 weeks now. My workouts consist of 3 days weight training for 30-40min and two other days of 20min cardio. The cardio is a varying intensity run that changes intensity every 2min for a 20min total. Sounds confusing but if you've done the body for life workout you…
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Weight Gaining advice
I am trying to gain and keep on a couple of pounds before my birthday in a few months and nothing seems to be working for me. I don't have an appetite when there is food to eat but yet when I start cooking I am starving... is there any like magic pill that I could take to help me get hungry and stay hungery? I am at a loss…
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Good TDEE calculator?
I've been trying to find out my TDEE. The last one I used gave me 2250 for my TDEE and I added 250 calories to that as I'm trying to bulk however Ive been losing some weight. I weight myself once a week in the morning. 19 yrs old, 140 lbs, 5'8"
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Losing appetite
Is it weird that the more I exercise, the less appetite I have? I thought the more calories I lose working out, the more food my body would crave, but the opposite is happening. Anyone has the same problem?
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1 pound a day?
Is it possible to gain one pound a day by eating a 3,500 calorie surplus or is there a limit to how many calories your body can convert in a day? I've heard of the 10k challenge but the weight gain seems to be negligible.
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Not Gaining...Weird?
So I have been 138lbs (male, 21, 5'7) for three years now. I have always wanted to bulk but never really dialed in by weighing everything and tracking...I recently (last month) upped calories and started counting to get to about 2700 calories (200 above maintenance) and found that not only have I been under eating for a…
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Getting fat?
Is anyone actively trying to get fat?
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Traveling
I travel a lot for work and it's insanely hard to keep the muscle gaining! Do any of you have suggestions?
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Do you think the BodPod gave me the right results!?
I don't know if I'm correct to be skeptical or if I just can't see it yet, but the BodPod put me at 21% body fat. According to their information, that puts me in the lean category, and the tester thinks I can drop down to around 18% by losing 5ish more pounds of fat. I'm so eager to bulk, but I don't want to get my hopes…
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Lean Muscle Gain
Hello. I am trying to gain pure muscle and bulk up over the course of pre season. Can I have some tips of what sort of things I should be eating in general and post workout? Plus, do I need to be taking whey protein to help me with this? Thank you
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Constipation and eating more
Tips and ideas for this problem? I'm always full because of it
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Body Comp getting worse?
Hi everyone. So I've been in attempting to bulk the last month seriously. My weight hasn't changed at all, which doesn't surprise as I struggle to hit my numbers. Usually around 500 below the suggested. But I'm not losing but my body comp seems to be getting worse over the last month
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The bulk so far
Bulk is going well! Just thought I'd share some progress!
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Weight-gaining protein
What's everyone's take on stuff like Mass Gainer? I looked at the info and liked that it had more calories than my usual stuff, but then I noticed that it's because one serving is 4 scoops. What if I just took 4 scoops of my usual stuff. Same thing?
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Bigger bum
I've always had a flat bum and I want to put some weight on in my bum can people suggest anything I can do I know about hip thrusts squatting deadlift etc but any advice will help
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First time bulker!
Hey guys! I'm trying to gain some weight and muscle, I'm currently just over 9 stone and very slim, if anyone has any tips or advice it would be helpful! Also looking for any friends on here to help push each other to where we wanna be !
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More suggestions?
Im still pretty new here. I'm 23, 5,6 and 115 pounds. I have celiac, so I'm gluten free. (I've slipped up a few times.) I'm eating so much junk just to keep my calories up. I've had a few suggestions but not many on what else I could try to add. I can't ever think of anything gluten free for breakfast, aside from eggs and…
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How much should I raise my calories too?
I'm currently bulking for the first rime, I'm 5'8,137 lbs. I eat 2550 calories a day and strength train 5 days a week for 35-45 mins . a few weeks ago I was 138 lbs, last week 139 lbs and I just weighed myself and I'm 137. I make sure to eat my calorie goal but I'm losing weight. How much should I add to my calories? I'm…
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What should my daily diet include for me to gain weight?
Hello! I am currently at 72kg with 186 cm, and would like to get to aprox 86 in a healthy way. Gotta eat roughly 2700 calories per day. Got shakes too. What food do you guys recommend? As a side note: I suffer from psoriazis, so pls nu nightshades, spicy, junk food or gluten pls. THX!
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Body Fat estimate please :)
I just want to get an estimate on my BF%. Ideally I would go get a dexa, bod pod, or hydrostatic weigh done, but I don't have it in my budget now. Just wanting an approximation of where I'm at to see if it's about time to start a bulk. Height: 5'4.5 Weight: 125.4 lbs
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Rough Time
So the last month or so has been so rough for me. I have been in and out of the hospital with so many issues. It has been rough on me emotionally as well as physically and it has really been hard on my weight gain journey. My start weight around April 20th was 93 pounds. I began using Apetamin and it really helped me so…
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Tips for gaining weight when I'm currently underweight?
I'm a beginner at exercising. I'm a girl and weigh 105 pounds (underweight), but my goal is to weigh around 120 pounds. I'm sure my body fat percentage is somewhat higher than average. I want to eat more and build muscle through exercise, but will losing fat and gaining muscle make me look even more bony? My goal is to not…
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Conflicted on bulking vs cutting!
Please help. I want to bulk to get some more glute muscles, but I've already been on a bulk and I've gained some fat that I'm not happy with, so I want to cut. Also my powerlifting knee sleeves are starting to get tight so I think that might stop me from bulking. I'm restarting my strength program starting Monday so the…
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How many doctors does it take....
This topic is about working with a medical team to resolve chronic underweight issues. We have plenty of suggestions on high calorie foods to try, so let's please save that for a different thread. Short story: I use to naturally maintain a bmi of 20 (21 in the winter). It looked GREAT on me, if not a little lean. I had…
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Coming from an ED - New to bulking
Hello! I'm not new to the whole weight loss journey (Been on MFP for almost 2 years now), but due to my obsessive control with calorie counting and being afraid of weight gain, I've been diagnosed with an ED (AN restrictive subtype), along with OCD and depression because of weight and other certain things in life. I used…
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Does Bulking Really Make You Fat?
I am in about the third week of bulking and I am reading a lot about how bulking can make you fat. I understand that bad results come from eating way over maintenance and not paying attention to macros. However, should I expect to look out of shape at the end of my bulk? I have seen people (like my brothers) who have eaten…