What activity level do you put to gain weight?

ej05301004

Hi, I'm 22 years old female, trying to gain around 6-8 pounds. Currnetly I'm only 112 pounds and 5'2.
I workout 6 days a week (2 days lower body/ 3 days upper / 1 day abs and cardio) for 1:30 to 2 hours. Intense workout, also.
I'm a student and not working, so except 3-4 days walking around the school (I use stairs to go up or down 10th floor), rest of the day I'm staying home sitting on my desk studying.
I really need to gain more muscles, and I started with 2000 calories but it doens't seem like I'm putting much weight.
After the heavy weight training, seem like I'm getting even smaller.
So now I'm on 2450 calrories a day (306 carbs/ 122 protein/ 82 fat), is it too much? or okay?
I put my activity level as active, otherwise I get to little calories.

What do you think?!

csman49

Yeah sounds good, if you're current cals isn't putting weight on then add 500 cals

Fithealthyforlife

Until yesterday I was set to active, plus eating back exercise calories, plus an additional 500-cal surplus each day, and it still hasn't been enough. After using this setting for months, I finally set a custom number yesterday. It's between the active and very active levels.