Before anything, I’m 145lbs, 5’8”, 26 years old. Anyways, after a while spinning my wheels I finally said screw it, I have to bulk to get stronger. My calorie intake was about 1800 calories daily easily. This may not be 100% accurate but it’s certainly a lot better than before but...I used a few online calorie calculators to find my maintenance calories at an activity level of lightly active (workout 1-3 times a week). My maintenance came out to 2200 calories so basically my maintenance calories are already above what I’ve been eating. Crazy, right? Anyways, I added 200-300 calories to that as my surplus on top of my new surplus...so now I’m getting 2400-2500 calories a day. I’m measuring my calories to the T, so I’m not like one of those people stuffing themselves and claiming they “eat a lot”. The first few days I just ate whatever to get in 2400. After that I started looking into my macros and realized my protein intake was only 50-60 or so grams so I was like I do NOT want my bulk to be mostly fat gain. For the next 5 days until now, I’ve focused heavily on making protein a priority, making all my meals around protein. Went to the warehouse grocery store..got a bunch of cottage cheese, Greek yogurt, eggs, tuna, chicken breast, lentils, quinoa, milk, whole wheat bread, and almonds. So now my protein intake is about 160g which is pretty good being that you don’t really need more than 1g/lb of bodyweight. Once I hit my protein intake I just fill the rest of my calories up with carbs but I haven’t really even had to do that. Having to get in enough protein has forced me to eat healthier too since I’m not going to find much protein in chips, candy, and popcorn as well as not eating out anymore.
Now I should be gaining half a pound a week with 2400 calories a day seeing how that’s already 600 calories above what I was eating daily. Only thing is this morning I weighed myself no clothes, after using the bathroom...weight came out to 145.2lbs. When I was on 1800 calories a day, I was at 145.6. I’m thinking well, it’s only been a week, it’s not enough time yet or the high protein is dehydrating me considerably so technically I did gain half a pound, I’m just really dehydrated waking up.
If I don’t gain 2-3 pounds by end of this month, then I’m increasing my calories by another 200...so 2600 a day until I gain 2-3lbs a month.
Am I missing anything diet-wise? Do I have it down pat more or less?
Now I should be gaining half a pound a week with 2400 calories a day seeing how that’s already 600 calories above what I was eating daily. Only thing is this morning I weighed myself no clothes, after using the bathroom...weight came out to 145.2lbs. When I was on 1800 calories a day, I was at 145.6. I’m thinking well, it’s only been a week, it’s not enough time yet or the high protein is dehydrating me considerably so technically I did gain half a pound, I’m just really dehydrated waking up.
If I don’t gain 2-3 pounds by end of this month, then I’m increasing my calories by another 200...so 2600 a day until I gain 2-3lbs a month.
Am I missing anything diet-wise? Do I have it down pat more or less?
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