Gaining/Bulking?

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  • marvybells
    marvybells Posts: 1,984 Member
    I'm tracking my calories now yes. I eat roughly 1200 a day but more often than so it's a less than that by about two hundred calories and I just can't seem to eat any more without feeling full up.

    My advice then, is to join this group and read all the info there that you need to in order to understand the best course of action.

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/forums/show/10067-eat-train-progress-

    The group is weight loss, maintenance, and weight gain alike.

    it will fill in the details in your knowledge, such as "Why am I having trouble getting in enough calories even at the 1200 level?"

    btw, the answer to that is that people slowly become accustomed to a certain long-term food intake. And it takes just as long get un-used to it.


    totally agree on checking out this group http://www.myfitnesspal.com/forums/show/10067-eat-train-progress-

    There is so much valuable information to be found and they spell everything out in a way that is very easy to understand.
  • JoRocka
    JoRocka Posts: 17,525 Member
    Start raising your calories by a 100-200 calories per week. Do this until you start gaining weight. If weight gain stalls increase it again.

    Try to get a minimum of 1 gram of protein/pound of body weight and .35 grams of fat/pound of body weight. The rest of your calories can be whatever you want.


    Of course you need to be doing some form of resistance training or a lot of the weight gain will be fat.

    The golden ticket right here OP

    Don't listen to anyone telling you to jump right in a surplus from a severe deficit..you will avoid alot of headache. Just as mentioned, increase cals by 200 per week until you are where you need to be in a surplus. You can jump right into a cut from a bulk and take advantage of certain hormonal effects but NEVER jump straight into a bulk from a cut.

    You can check out my diary for an example of how a bulking diet looks

    concur- this guy- he knows stuff.

    also- women aren't the only ones who struggle with the mental shift from deficit > maintain > bulk.

    I have a healthy relationship with food... and I switched from a severe cut/deficit- to maintenance and had a hard time with it.

    People often forget there are psychological things at hand- not just the physical side effects.

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