Eating 4100 calories a day

I have to do this to LOSE weight. I know this is a gaining weight topic but I couldn't help myself... LOL

FYI I managed to hit 4k+ intake by eating a serving of almonds every hour. I would have regular meals, but no matter if I was hungry or not, I would eat those almonds. They are pretty easy to squeeze in, small volume with a decent caloric punch.

Just wondering... Even though you are burning the calories, does eating fried food and the like effect your cholesterol levels or does the exercise take care of that too?

Exercise will not "take care of that too" if you eat it exclusively. Cholesterol and triglycerides will skyrocket if you eat deep fried foods 24-7 for extended periods of time. If you are bulking, you'll stop eating this way after a period of time so it'll work itself out eventually but I think it's better to train your stomach up on wholesome foods rather than eat fried all the time.

I'm a fat woman but I once got paired with a lean cyclist for a project in a health course. We had to get our levels checked. He biked routinely 15-20 miles a day (at least), but ate fast food almost exclusively. I was more sedentary, but ate more natural foods, salads, greens and cheeses, etc. His triglycerides were almost 3x's mine. He was dumbfounded, he assumed that because I weighed over 2x him that I would automatically have worse numbers, but he was wrong!

^^Nice... I wish I could eat with you... I know you would be always up for a meal or a buffet...

Just wondering... Even though you are burning the calories, does eating fried food and the like effect your cholesterol levels or does the exercise take care of that too?

Exercise will not "take care of that too" if you eat it exclusively. Cholesterol and triglycerides will skyrocket if you eat deep fried foods 24-7 for extended periods of time. If you are bulking, you'll stop eating this way after a period of time so it'll work itself out eventually but I think it's better to train your stomach up on wholesome foods rather than eat fried all the time.

I'm a fat woman but I once got paired with a lean cyclist for a project in a health course. We had to get our levels checked. He biked routinely 15-20 miles a day (at least), but ate fast food almost exclusively. I was more sedentary, but ate more natural foods, salads, greens and cheeses, etc. His triglycerides were almost 3x's mine. He was dumbfounded, he assumed that because I weighed over 2x him that I would automatically have worse numbers, but he was wrong!

I thought triglycerides aren't stored and they are used as an energy source... high cholesterol foods like eggs have proven not to increase cholesterol in the body... I'm not advocating high fat diets, but I eat 4 eggs a day which puts me over on my cholesterol... pretty healthy. I think what you really meant to talk about are trans fats... those are no good.

Poor baby. No sympathy whatsoever, what are you eating, 4100 cals of lettuce?? And why so much, massive aerobics?

Yeah I'm teasing OP, but really 4100 is not much if you are a big guy, and you are taller than me by your profile. Maybe you are trying to eat "clean raw" foods? Then that can be hard. If not, just add things in like burgers, pizza, avacados, chocolate, nutella, fried fish and chips, indian curries, indian buffet, and you'll have problems staying under 4100 probably, and have a damn good time eating. I'm jealous, I don't get to eat so much usually, maybe one day/week since I'm losing.

I read that Olympians eat up to 5000 a day during training. Go you!!

Phelps eats 12,000 a day when training, and elite cyclist do 8-10K. That's a lot of damn food.

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.....................wow.

Sounds like fun.

500+ calories of beer a day helps.

My husband struggles with this as well, eating between 4000-4500 calories a day. He works 10 hours and day and then is at the gym with hard heavy lifting for 2 hours. He has that magical ridiculous fast metabolism too. I do what I can to help him buy stocking up on protein bars and trail mix for him to snack on .

He eats all the fast food he like and I'm all like "uh, I can have ketchup" ... lol.

(seriously though) The trail mix works wonder for upping that calorie intake.