Gain a lb a day
RoyalFitnessFreak31
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Will eating 4,000 calories a day gain me a lb a day?
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No. You burn 2500 a day or so just living. You might gain 2 pounds a week doing that.
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Whàt do you mean?0
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About 3500 more than your TDEE. Have fun eating, but expect to gain a lot of fat quickly.2
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How can you say this without any knowledge of the OP's current weight or height?No. You burn 2500 a day or so just living. You might gain 2 pounds a week doing that.
^This. OP, use an online TDEE calculator and then aim to eat 3500 more calories per day than your TDEE. Although I do have to question why you're interested in gaining 1 lb per day...robertw486 wrote: »About 3500 more than your TDEE. Have fun eating, but expect to gain a lot of fat quickly.
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Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »
Apparently the average healthy sedentary american male burns between 2000 and 2600 a day.1 -
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Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »Alatariel75 wrote: »Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »
Apparently the average healthy sedentary american male burns between 2000 and 2600 a day.
Jeepers.. at that rate, i guess obesity is just a problem for women since men have those awesome calorie burns lol
Right?? and that's sedentary!0 -
Alatariel75 wrote: »Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »
Apparently the average healthy sedentary american male burns between 2000 and 2600 a day.
I guess that's why it's so hard for me to gain weight. I started on 1/6 at 172 and I'm at 184.8 now0 -
It sounds like a "fit to fat to fit" experiment or something. What is your goal?0
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robertw486 wrote: »It sounds like a "fit to fat to fit" experiment or something. What is your goal?
My goal weight is 195.. I don't want to be fat and it will be tough for to get fat... I'm very active and workout everyday. Just want to gain0 -
RoyalFitnessFreak31 wrote: »robertw486 wrote: »It sounds like a "fit to fat to fit" experiment or something. What is your goal?
My goal weight is 195.. I don't want to be fat and it will be tough for to get fat... I'm very active and workout everyday. Just want to gain
If you're putting on weight quickly, it's not going to be muscle. You will put on a little muscle, but it'll be mostly fat regardless of how active you are.
What does your "working out" consist of? If there's lots of cardio, perhaps consider reducing that?0 -
livingleanlivingclean wrote: »RoyalFitnessFreak31 wrote: »robertw486 wrote: »It sounds like a "fit to fat to fit" experiment or something. What is your goal?
My goal weight is 195.. I don't want to be fat and it will be tough for to get fat... I'm very active and workout everyday. Just want to gain
If you're putting on weight quickly, it's not going to be muscle. You will put on a little muscle, but it'll be mostly fat regardless of how active you are.
What does your "working out" consist of? If there's lots of cardio, perhaps consider reducing that?
I don't do cardio..
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The upper limits of muscle gain are about a pound a week without drugs. If you gain that quick, the majority will be fat.0
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robertw486 wrote: »The upper limits of muscle gain are about a pound a week without drugs. If you gain that quick, the majority will be fat.
That's fine.. as long as I'm gaining.. muscle gain will come as long as I lift0 -
A pound a day is a tall order.1
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Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »Alatariel75 wrote: »Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »
Apparently the average healthy sedentary american male burns between 2000 and 2600 a day. Jeepers.. at that rate, i guess obesity is just a problem for women since men have those awesome calorie burns lol
I wish that were true for all American men! My RMR is somewhere around 1,600. I plan to get an RMR test done soon to get a more accurate amount, but online calculators and results show probably is closer to 1,500 than 1,600 - online calculators come up with about 1,630.1 -
RoyalFitnessFreak31 wrote: »robertw486 wrote: »It sounds like a "fit to fat to fit" experiment or something. What is your goal?
My goal weight is 195.. I don't want to be fat and it will be tough for to get fat... I'm very active and workout everyday. Just want to gainRoyalFitnessFreak31 wrote: »robertw486 wrote: »The upper limits of muscle gain are about a pound a week without drugs. If you gain that quick, the majority will be fat.
That's fine.. as long as I'm gaining.. muscle gain will come as long as I lift
You say you don't want to be fat, but then also are trying to gain at least 6 lbs. per week of fat - assuming 7 lb. /week gain less 1 lb. per week of muscle gain even at the high end. These two things contradict each other.1 -
Yea it seems like that but I'm not really getting fat. Been eating about 5 thousand calories a day and have gained about 11lbs but not really getting fat. I figured if I start looking fat I'd slow down on the calorie intake and keep working out like I am.0
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RoyalFitnessFreak31 wrote: »Yea it seems like that but I'm not really getting fat. Been eating about 5 thousand calories a day and have gained about 11lbs but not really getting fat. I figured if I start looking fat I'd slow down on the calorie intake and keep working out like I am.
You are not eating enough to gain 1 lb. per day of either fat or muscle. If you are gaining 1 lb. per day, it is water weight and that won't stay on. If you want to actually gain 1 lb. per day, you need to eat a lot more. I don't think you really want to do that, though, because most of it will be fat.0 -
My maintenance is 1560 so theoretically for me to gain a pound a day (let's pretend water weight and all that doesn't exist), I'd have to eat 1560 + 3500 = 5,060 cals/day. So if you're eating about 5000 then you're not actually eating enough to be gaining a pound a day, assuming your maintenance is higher than mine (which it should be because you don't look like a 120 lb woman).
Although I would always suggest that you try and gain it slower than a pound a day. You might not look like you're "getting fat" now but one day you will.
+1 for this, also keep in mind that a lot of fat isn't visible on the surface but it's there around your organs and essential innards and it can be damaging.1 -
Alatariel75 wrote: »My maintenance is 1560 so theoretically for me to gain a pound a day (let's pretend water weight and all that doesn't exist), I'd have to eat 1560 + 3500 = 5,060 cals/day. So if you're eating about 5000 then you're not actually eating enough to be gaining a pound a day, assuming your maintenance is higher than mine (which it should be because you don't look like a 120 lb woman).
Although I would always suggest that you try and gain it slower than a pound a day. You might not look like you're "getting fat" now but one day you will.
+1 for this, also keep in mind that a lot of fat isn't visible on the surface but it's there around your organs and essential innards and it can be damaging.
Okay well thank y'all I guess I'll slow down on eating haha! Try and gain it slower0
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