Need Advice on Gaining Weight Faster
tjames4357
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Right now, i am eating over 5,000 calories a day. I have a really high metabolism, so im trying to eat as much as possible, but healthy as well. I workout everyday with heavy weight lifting. Any other ideas? Or motivation at all?
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5000 calories a day?!
Are you burning a lot of calories through other activities every day?0 -
OP - what other daily activities are you doing?0
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Want to gain weight faster, EAT MORE0
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Don`t eat that healy. Binge on fries,ice cream, donuts...0
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peanut butter and full fat milk0
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Eat, eat, eat and then eat some more, I wish I could burn 5000 calories a day!0
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A tube of ice cream, spoonfuls of peanut butter, candy, and drinking a lot of calories could do the trick.0
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Haha. Thanks. I want to try and stay healthy still eating. But i stay active throughout the day. J wake up at 4 am to workout for an hr and a half, then go to work doing IT work, not hard labor but still walking around a lot. And then after work usually have a lot of activities, like i am part time for a fire dept and i play competitive slow pitch softball0
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tjames4357 wrote: »Haha. Thanks. I want to try and stay healthy still eating. But i stay active throughout the day. J wake up at 4 am to workout for an hr and a half, then go to work doing IT work, not hard labor but still walking around a lot. And then after work usually have a lot of activities, like i am part time for a fire dept and i play competitive slow pitch softball
so you think anyone who eats a portion or 2 of ice cream is automatically 'unhealthy'?0 -
TavistockToad wrote: »tjames4357 wrote: »Haha. Thanks. I want to try and stay healthy still eating. But i stay active throughout the day. J wake up at 4 am to workout for an hr and a half, then go to work doing IT work, not hard labor but still walking around a lot. And then after work usually have a lot of activities, like i am part time for a fire dept and i play competitive slow pitch softball
so you think anyone who eats a portion or 2 of ice cream is automatically 'unhealthy'?
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At some point you filled your micronutrient requirements.
Since you seem to have a very active lifestyle there is no harm at all filling the additional calories you need to eat with some high calorie low micronutrient food.
Furthermore, eating a bowl of icecream and some cookies is way easier than having to eat a large volumes of low calorie vegetables.0 -
Just going to point out that Michael Phelps and other elite Olympic athletes regularly eat foods like ice cream, pizza, pancakes, etc... in order to get enough calories. And to quote alan aragon, you don't get extra points for eating more nutrients than your body needs.0
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At some point you filled your micronutrient requirements.
Since you seem to have a very active lifestyle there is no harm at all filling the additional calories you need to eat with some high calorie low micronutrient food.
Furthermore, eating a bowl of icecream and some cookies is way easier than having to eat a large volumes of low calorie vegetables.
thisJust going to point out that Michael Phelps and other elite Olympic athletes regularly eat foods like ice cream, pizza, pancakes, etc... in order to get enough calories. And to quote alan aragon, you don't get extra points for eating more nutrients than your body needs.
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Well i cant eat ice cream due to lactose allergy... But i do eat my pizza.0
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tjames4357 wrote: »Well i cant eat ice cream due to lactose allergy... But i do eat my pizza.
How about butters (especially peanut butter) or nuts? They are both nutritionally and calorie dense. By all means, stick a spoon in a jar and go to town. It's what my friend was doing while he was eating 5000-6000 calories a day.
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Which also ice cream is very high in sugar, by which i have enough of in the diet due to gatorade, protein bars and occasional red bulls. I am trying to stay away from too many sweets. But ive been hitting my 5000 calorie mark everyday besides a couple days as of recent0
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tjames4357 wrote: »Well i cant eat ice cream due to lactose allergy... But i do eat my pizza.
How about butters (especially peanut butter) or nuts? They are both nutritionally and calorie dense. By all means, stick a spoon in a jar and go to town. It's what my friend was doing while he was eating 5000-6000 calories a day.
That is the exact reason I would love to bulk... For the peanut butter!!!0 -
tjames4357 wrote: »Right now, i am eating over 5,000 calories a day. I have a really high metabolism, so im trying to eat as much as possible, but healthy as well. I workout everyday with heavy weight lifting. Any other ideas? Or motivation at all?
How much cardio are you doing if a lot cut down on it
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tarikhasbrouck43 wrote: »tjames4357 wrote: »Right now, i am eating over 5,000 calories a day. I have a really high metabolism, so im trying to eat as much as possible, but healthy as well. I workout everyday with heavy weight lifting. Any other ideas? Or motivation at all?
How much cardio are you doing if a lot cut down on it
Very little cardio.0 -
Eat more fat. Why? Because fat has twice as many calories as carbs and proteins. So high fat foods apart from all the junk food are: nuts, seeds, salad dressing with olive oil, nut oils or best quality whole egg mayonnaise, butter, meat with fat (avoid processed meats because these are more carcinogenic, which matters if you are eating a lot of it), avocado,oily fish like salmon and sardines, cheese, full cream dairy (but don't drink more than 3 cups worth daily because there seems to be a link between high milk consumption and prostate cancer), cheese sauce, white sauces on your food, full cream yoghurt. These are probably the foods highest in fat that are whole foods or considered whole foods. Its easy to cook with lots of oil to make your food more tasty. Just don't overdo it so that it tastes bad. Cooking with good oils but minimise industrially produced oil because these are not so healthy. Stick with nut oils, cold pressed oils of any sort.
The fat will not make you fat if you are burning it up. Cut back when your activity levels fall or you reach the desired weight.0
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