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I do IF for cutting and not for bulking, I only do it to spread the calories missed across the rest of the week though, so on a 2800 a day diet I can add 450 a day to the non-IF days on a one IF day week. so 3250 kcal a day, then it doesn't feel like cutting. On bulking, when I go between 3500 and 4000 kcal a day I would…

I tend to work out the previous day what I'm going to eat and just spread it throughout the day as convenient. I tried the 6 meal a day protocol, the equal split over three, no carbs after x time, protein before and after workouts, and others and to be honest it made no difference to how I put on weight or lost weight. I…

Calorie dense snacks like nuts between meals. I add peanut butter/olive oil to stuff to add calories. Have a high calorie shake a day, I have a 900 calorie shake that just has protein, maltodextrin and whole milk in it. 4500 kcal is a lot of calories btw! Good luck!

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Muscle is denser than fat. </thread>

Buy pure whey in bulk, add flavouring as required. Then you can be sure to have control over what you eat. I buy instatised 90% Whey Protein and mix it with skimmed milk witha few drops of banana flavouring. Cheap, tasty and healthy. :)

I think I ate about 6000 a day for 2 days when I did an endurance mountain climb, but then I was burning off nearly as much if not more. The thing is though, you can't really tell how much of that you have put on by weighing yourself next day, some foods are more calorie dense than others. it's possible to gain weight by…

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http://aka.media.entertainment.sky.com/image/unscaled/2012/01/19/Jodie-Marsh-Body-Building-0112-16.jpg I had a long discussion with my PT about her a few weeks ago, if you look carefully at her photos you can see the look she has acheived is quite impressive, but we agreed that most of it was acheived by losing body fat…

My God people, chill out and take a joke without climbing into orbit. :D

We are all different rml_16. Don't think everyone can eat like you do and lose weight. ;)

In porridge... oooooh, I like this idea.

myprotein and bulkpowders sell the pure butters, they are much cheaper than Sainburys, Tesco, ASDA and contain nothing but the nuts. The only downside is that you need to stir them every time you use them as they have no Palm Oil as an emulsifier to keep them from separating.

I think the point that was being made is that PB is a VERY calorie dense food, which if you are not careful with can ruin hours of hard work eating well or working out in the gym. As I said, I only have it to bolster my intake, because it is very easy to make a 1000kcal shake with just Peanut/Almond Butter, milk and honey.…

I think that's a bit unfair. Most obese people are like that because of their bad relationship with food. In your second paragraph you are actually agreeing that if you have food control issues you shouldn't put yourself in a position where you can be week. Same can be said of drugs, alcohol, smoking, etc...

Agreed 100%. Unless you weigh it precisely and count it as one of the ingredients of your daily food you might be on the nasty end of a bad week of weight loss. I use it to ensure I meet my targets as a booster to my calories. If I'm 500cal short in a day for example, I'll knock up a shake/sandwich with Peanut/Almond…

You could make your own, there are loads of recipes online.

Here you go: http://www.keyingredient.com/recipes/94630/chocolate-covered-banana-honey-and-walnut-flapjacks/ I used Milka Swiss chocolate because it was on offer in my local store, you could use any though, avoid cooking chocolate or the value ones as they taste rank. I also used three different type of oats; rolled,…

Heh, glad I wasn't shot down for my opinion. You more or less mirrored what I said! :)

I'll post an amazing flapjack recipe later, it was the most popular one amongst the ones I made for the team. Honey, banana and chocolate! :)

I might get shot down in flames for this, but there is no reason to eat loads the previous day, just eat normally. If your body can't store in glycogen muscle/organ stores it will store as fat, which you will probably have enough of anyway (unless you are very low on body fat). Eat a little more in the morning before the…

Buy it in bulk and flavour it yourself. I get instantis(z)ed Whey Protein Isolate 90% from Bulkpowders or Myprotein and flavour it myself. They also sell the flavo(u)ring systems for them in little dropper bottles. If you want you can add your own flavo(u)ring; banana, PB, honey, sweetener. Much cheaper and you know…

I still see no sound evidence to be honest, but I'll happily accept that there is belief that on a deficit you can't gain a large quantity of muscle, but I still do not understand the need for a calorie excess. Why give the body more that it needs to live, grow and survive. All you do is end up fat surely? The…

I don't mean to be argumentative in my reply, but is there anything other than anecdotal proof of this? As tigerswords says, muscle can't be produced from glucose or the intermediary storage glycogen, but if your diet includes enough protein for conversion to myosin/actin/etc for growth and other required fuel, why can't…

That probably means that you do not have to eat above maintainence until your body fat is below a certain % to put muscle on unless I'm mistaken.

There's a lot of bro-science in this thread, with very little research to back it up. All of you saying that you can't gain muscle mass whilst in calorie deficit need to explain why you need to eat more than your body consumes to get bigger muscles. If you have fat, your body an use that to burn for energy surely, which is…

Although I'm married to a tattooist and own a tattoo studio I only have 7, I'd be covered if I had any choice in the matter though, but I come last in the pecking order; customers, staff, family... :(