Getting into a calorie surplus can be hard for some
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^ bahahahahahahahaha0
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This has been an eye opener for me.
Some of you may like to believe that I've kept this going for fun, but I can't honestly say I'm all that happy about the way this has all played out. What saddens me more than my own situation is that I feel like the way I've "acted" in this thread is not how most people who know me IRL would say I am. I know there have been plenty of people who have commented in this thread who have a lot more experience with life in general who have given me words of advice (and I don't just mean with bulking).
As I stated back on page 16 (January 24), I didn't start this thread to directly ask how to bulk. Rather, I was frustrated with a discussion about food that was going on in another thread and was then suggested to create my own thread.
The desire to test out my 1 rep max on a real bench press, combined with the convenience of some other plans, led to me finally getting around to doing what was suggested to me for a huge portion of this thread. I brought back the thread to report on what I found out, but I certainly did not expect things to explode this much.
I will go ahead and repost what I said back on January 24, as it applies again now in the context of how to train and eat.
"I think it is time for me to be quiet now in this thread given that I'm still contemplating my short and long term goals. I realize I can't really ask for more advice since I'm not even sure what I really want at this point, and the message of how to bulk is pretty clear to me at this point. I know the essence of what needs to be done to bulk, and it's just a matter of me figuring out what I really want to do at this point.
So, I will not complain anymore about my size or strength."0 -
I don't think anyone has intended to upset you. I, for one, find you very refreshing - in that, when you ask for advice, you don't take offence and shout 'mean people' when the advice is harsh but accurate.
I think most people on here just want you to stop procrastinating and do it now! We all know how good it feels to be strong and healthy and want that for you too.
Getting a job would be a means to an end in helping you to fund your fitness and nutrition but it'd probably help you feel a lot better about yourself too. But getting stuck into training right away would make you feel (corny but true) awesome - that's why I suggested some bodyweight routines in the meantime. Check out Waldo's site, strengthunbound.com
Anyway, it was good hearing from you, I hope you can get round to putting some of the advice into action.
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After reading your thread I have come to one of two conclusions:
1. You are a troll.
2. You don't actually want help, you want people to tell you that it's not your fault you fail.
Either way I have decided to direct my effort to others who actually want help. I highly encourage others to do the same. Not only in this thread, but in other threads that he jumps into and turns into threads about himself.
^^this^^ I strongly want people to ignore this young man going forward. JOB--on campus--moving crew(furniture, equipment) state workers pick you up AND drop you off in between classes. Get a workout AND paid. People look for solutions or excuses. Your time is up on here.
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And this thing's still going.
When it (inevitably) rolls, will it disappear off my notification list for ever?
Please, God. Make. It. Stop.0 -
So now I have to hope an over-eager mod deletes the lot?
My day just started sucking a bit more...0 -
beastcompany wrote: »You don't have some miracle metabolism.
You just don't eat enough.
Same as every other "hardgainer".
Additionally, having abs when you weigh 120lbs and are 5'8 is not an accomplishment...it's malnourishment.
Anyone can be "skinny".
There is a difference between being "skinny" and being FIT.
Abs are pointless if you have no muscle mass.
You don't look healthy.
What this guy said.
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Yeah, it's not starred for me.
I've got it set to give me notifications for any thread I've posted in, but the volume of them from this one buries the notifications from others (where I might genuinely want to post again.)0 -
Yeah, it's not starred for me.
I've got it set to give me notifications for any thread I've posted in, but the volume of them from this one buries the notifications from others (where I might genuinely want to post again.)
And this is the most glaring deficiency in MFP's current notification system. It's either all or some...and that "some" has to be identified for each and every thread requiring you to be psychic to determine if it's a thread you'll want to follow eventually.
Nested notifications such that a few dozen new posts on a thread in which you posted only take up one line is the obvious solution. The timeline for implementing this seemingly simple solution that many other forums have had for about a decade, however, is still undetermined.0 -
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Yeah, it's not starred for me.
I've got it set to give me notifications for any thread I've posted in, but the volume of them from this one buries the notifications from others (where I might genuinely want to post again.)
how do you do that? I think I missed that setting...0 -
Yeah, it's not starred for me.
I've got it set to give me notifications for any thread I've posted in, but the volume of them from this one buries the notifications from others (where I might genuinely want to post again.)
how do you do that? I think I missed that setting...
Go to notification preferences and tick
"Notify me when people comment on discussions I've participated in."
I set this so that I wouldn't have to favourite everything. Now I'm wondering if I should have left this off and just favourited stuff, instead...
Guess I've tried it this way round and it's not working for me. I'll try just starring stuff, it's not like I'm a prolific poster anyway...
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And this thing's still going.
When it (inevitably) rolls, will it disappear off my notification list for ever?
Please, God. Make. It. Stop.
Yep still going. . . .so this thing gives you a notification EVERY time a new post hits. . . .hehehe. . . .options. . . .un--check the option and star the ones you want to follow. . .problem solved? Another option. . .have someone bomb the thread with personal attacks and a poop load of swearing. . . . more attacks, cat gifs, mention Gale Hawkins or Steven Hawkings and/or paleo sucks and you may get it shutdown
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ForecasterJason wrote: »"I think it is time for me to be quiet now in this thread given that I'm still contemplating my short and long term goals. I realize I can't really ask for more advice since I'm not even sure what I really want at this point, and the message of how to bulk is pretty clear to me at this point. I know the essence of what needs to be done to bulk, and it's just a matter of me figuring out what I really want to do at this point.
So, I will not complain anymore about my size or strength."
If it takes you this long to make a decision about whether or not to bulk then good luck with the rest of the decisions in your life. Since this thread has been created I've gained 10lbs BW along with increasing my deadlift by 100lbs, went from squatting nothing to 85lb front squat for four sets of 7 (recovering from a hip stress fracture), DB bench from 35lbs for 3 sets of 8 to 50lbs for three sets of 7, and pull-ups have gone from 12 in 5 minutes to 21. All the while OP has done nothing, what a surprise.
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_Terrapin_ wrote: »And this thing's still going.
When it (inevitably) rolls, will it disappear off my notification list for ever?
Please, God. Make. It. Stop.
Yep still going. . . .so this thing gives you a notification EVERY time a new post hits. . . .hehehe. . . .options. . . .un--check the option and star the ones you want to follow. . .problem solved? Another option. . .have someone bomb the thread with personal attacks and a poop load of swearing. . . . more attacks, cat gifs, mention Gale Hawkins or Steven Hawkings and/or paleo sucks and you may get it shutdown
Right, so I've never heard of this Gale Hawkins chap (or chapette?).
But I am genuinely confused as why mentioning Stevie boy would get a thread shut down...0 -
_Terrapin_ wrote: »And this thing's still going.
When it (inevitably) rolls, will it disappear off my notification list for ever?
Please, God. Make. It. Stop.
Yep still going. . . .so this thing gives you a notification EVERY time a new post hits. . . .hehehe. . . .options. . . .un--check the option and star the ones you want to follow. . .problem solved? Another option. . .have someone bomb the thread with personal attacks and a poop load of swearing. . . . more attacks, cat gifs, mention Gale Hawkins or Steven Hawkings and/or paleo sucks and you may get it shutdown
Right, so I've never heard of this Gale Hawkins chap (or chapette?).
But I am genuinely confused as why mentioning Stevie boy would get a thread shut down...
Oh no it wouldn't; it was the closest I came to rhyming with Mr Gale H. . . . he is a CEO of firm in Kentucky and someone in the MFP world has taken his identity as their own. . . .he usually brings a certain amount of disdain to a thread and it closes. . . .then again. . .this thread may die out. . . .
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If you have tummy troubles, it might do to keep a list of foods that do/don't agree with you, unless you can straight up remember them all. I can tell you things that are high cal with good nutrition, but it's up to you to know which ones agree with you; I won't know that part.
Cheese has a lot of nutrition *and* a lot of calories. In your place I would be looking at some nice hearty homemade cheeseburgers (if it's affordable to you, grind up some sirloin. Yum!) and meals where the main dish is pasta with meat and cheese. Pasta is very calorie dense. Some vegetables are good with cheese sauce as well. If you use milk, get whole milk. Avocadoes are high in healthy fats; put them in your salads and sandwiches.0 -
Okay well since you don't want to eat foods with high calories your only other option is to chug nutritional supplements that are in liquid form. ie. Boost Plus made by Nestle, highly recommended especially for you since you're extremely underweight. There is also protein powder which in itself has calories and should be consumed with something other than water!! There is also weight gainers, but I never really liked them. I should also recommend this powder called Karbolic, mix it with water or whatever (this is actually only good with water otherwise it will taste like pure crap). Karbolic has CARBS which YOU NEED!!!!
I don't know why you think you SHOULD NOT increase your carbs, because you should. If you were on the heavy side of your BMI, I'd say otherwise. Increase your carbs and fat! This can be healthy fat, salmon for example is a fatty type of fish and has ton of protein! I eat a lot tuna with mayo, that's great too! Oils are great, hell, eat a tablespoon of freakin olive oil every day, ton of fat there and healthy fat too! Point is you continue to make crazy excuses for not eating a lot, when there are many ways to do so. You should honestly just worry about gaining weight period. Don't do an ounce of cardio, if you're a runner well then you need to up the calories like it's your last day of eating!
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Well, it's been two full months now since I stated I was going to bulk at 1 pound per month.
In terms of my bulk, while I may not have put on a solid 2 pounds of LBM in this time, it looks like I did get pretty close in terms of overall weight gain (although I realize some of that is water). However, there are other things with my training that I can say has been successful, and I have to wonder how close I may be to the maximum amount of strength I can gain in some areas with my existing muscle mass.
I did say back in January that I was stalled out on several lifts on my machine. However, over the last 5 weeks I have seen strength gains on all of my lifts. It turns out part of my problem was how I was training. When I look back where I was around the third week of January, to get to where I am now seemed hopeless. Just this past Saturday, I set a PR that means more to me than any other accomplishment I've achieved with lifting over the last few months.
So overall, I can't say that I'm disappointed with my lifts and weight from my original plan two months ago, and I have no reason to complain about any of this. Of course, I realize what I'm doing is not considered "ideal". But I feel as though I'm making the most of it and doing something, and I think most of you would agree that something is better than just sitting around doing absolutely nothing.
(And as a side note, I've been applying to more jobs recently as well, and did actually have a job interview earlier today).
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ForecasterJason wrote: »Well, it's been two full months now since I stated I was going to bulk at 1 pound per month.
In terms of my bulk, while I may not have put on a solid 2 pounds of LBM in this time, it looks like I did get pretty close in terms of overall weight gain (although I realize some of that is water). However, there are other things with my training that I can say has been successful, and I have to wonder how close I may be to the maximum amount of strength I can gain in some areas with my existing muscle mass.
I did say back in January that I was stalled out on several lifts on my machine. However, over the last 5 weeks I have seen strength gains on all of my lifts. It turns out part of my problem was how I was training. When I look back where I was around the third week of January, to get to where I am now seemed hopeless. Just this past Saturday, I set a PR that means more to me than any other accomplishment I've achieved with lifting over the last few months.
So overall, I can't say that I'm disappointed with my lifts and weight from my original plan two months ago, and I have no reason to complain about any of this. Of course, I realize what I'm doing is not considered "ideal". But I feel as though I'm making the most of it and doing something, and I think most of you would agree that something is better than just sitting around doing absolutely nothing.
(And as a side note, I've been applying to more jobs recently as well, and did actually have a job interview earlier today).
Glad you are seeing the progress you wanted.0 -
Glad your progressing. How'd the interview go? Fingers crossed.0
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Glad you have made some progress and have started to understand enough to know that you were making mistakes. I hope that you will land this job and then get to a real gym and find out how good free weights really are.0
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