Having trouble eating 2500 calories!!!

cwolfman13

michaelchamp24 wrote: »

youngmomtaz wrote: »

I just posted on another thread, so will duplicate it here. Snacks, eat everything with dip/dressing, add nuts, cheese, protein shakes with banana and Pb, bacon, milkshakes. Etc. You don’t have to always have”healthy” things. Branch out. Eat healthy but add in yummy fun things. Calories are all that matter.

While I agree with this logic it is mkre important to know and track macro make up of calories to obtain goals. The body uses protein/ complex carb/ simple carb/ fat differently and through different mechanisms.

As someone who was once upon a time medically underweight and below essential body fat levels, this is super low on the priority list...so low as to be basically non existent. When you're medically underweight, calories are first, second, third, fourth, etc priority.

When I was in the military I can guarantee you they made no effort to give me some kind of magical macro ratio...they fed me calories.

ninerbuff

michaelchamp24 wrote: »

youngmomtaz wrote: »

I just posted on another thread, so will duplicate it here. Snacks, eat everything with dip/dressing, add nuts, cheese, protein shakes with banana and Pb, bacon, milkshakes. Etc. You don’t have to always have”healthy” things. Branch out. Eat healthy but add in yummy fun things. Calories are all that matter.

While I agree with this logic it is mkre important to know and track macro make up of calories to obtain goals. The body uses protein/ complex carb/ simple carb/ fat differently and through different mechanisms.

If one is trying to gain weight, you don't HAVE to be spot on with macros. Calories would be first. Think of Michael Phelps. He can burn up to 8,000 calories a day. You think he's only eating "clean" foods? To be able to consume that volume, one would be full all the time and that would INTERFERE with training. You have to combine both together to grow, so being full all the time would hamper things like squats and deadlifts. I know. I've thrown up a few times even after waiting an hour after eating. Sometimes you just have to take the high calorie meal just to keep from losing weight. Hence pizza and burgers for me.

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Slimfitlady

I remember being your age and so skinny. My girlfriend and I were always having food shoved at us telling us to eat more, that we were too skinny. Neither one of us was a sweet eater and still are not. So for one month every day we ate what fat people should not eat and we never gained an ounce. Then when we were in our 50's we started gaining weight for no apparent reason, we ate the same, nothing changed. Then in our late 60s we are having to diet and have tried every one possible, some costing a lot of money and with very little success. We are finding this KETO diet is the easiest and most successful so far. It seems to be an easy enough way of eating to continue that style even after we lose the weight we want to. So do not be in a big hurry to put on weight that your body is telling you it does not want because it is too hard to get rid of later. You are beautiful the way you are.

davew0000

(Newbie post)

My target is around 3000 calories at the moment and I don’t seem to have any problems. I’m not drinking and am fairly low on fats, and in particular saturated fats. I try to eat healthily in general.

Breakfast of porridge with almonds and dried fruit sets me off fo the day. That can be 700 calories.

Peanut butter and jam on toast as a snack.

Lots of wholemeal pasta, rice and quinoa. Plenty of chicken, occasional lean pork and tuna. If I’m short, the rice pudding (skimmed milk) with raisins does the trick.