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Starting Strength overeating recommendations
I started reading Starting Strength, and its section on nutrition dumbfounded me. The author recommends up to 6,000 cals a day for the first few weeks. I can't imagine how it's possible to eat that much. He has a solution though - drink a Gallon of whole milk every day. At ~2400 cals that can help, but how can one drink so…
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Increasing caloric intake without much change
Hello, I'm a 6'0", 171lb male with an office job and now trying to bulk in parallel with weight lifting (~1.5 focused hours a week). Over the past few months I've been counting calories meticulously and trying to find what intake makes me maintain and gain, but the results are... strange. With 2,200 cal / day, I lost about…
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Discrepancy between the MyFitnessPal and other calculators
Hello, I'm 6'0", currently at 170lb, 33-y.o. male My activity includes 2 hours a week of martial arts (krav maga / MMA) and ~1.5 hours a week of weight lifting. Otherwise I have an office job. According to these, this puts me at least into the "moderate physical activity" range of BMR calculators. I've checked a bunch of…
