Thread: Gotta gain weight! muscle and body fat!

Bulking w/ Slow Burners

Rule of thumb: 15 - 18 cals per lb. of body weight

Hope this helps! Good luck!

I would just say eat as much as your can of somewhat healthy stuff

Originally Posted by jaim91

Bulking w/ Slow Burners

Rule of thumb: 15 - 18 cals per lb. of body weight

Hope this helps! Good luck!

If I ate that trying to bulk, I'd probably lose weight or maintain at best. 15 x 185 come to about 2700 and 18 x 185 comes to abour 3300... I have trouble gaining weight at 3900 and my metabolism's not especially fast either.

If I were you, I'd shoot for 4000 cals to start with if you can manage to eat that much, but sometimes you gotta work your way up to eating that much each day.

As for macros, I don't really know the exact numbers that would be good for you, but you want the most carbs, then protein, then fats. Just some random #'s so you can see the approx ratios would be 400 carbs, 250 protein, 120 fat. That's most likely more than you'll need, but you get the idea of the proportions.

I thought good ratio's were 40/40/20, or even 33/33/33, not more carbs than protein?

I started off at:
1.3g of Protein per lb of body weight
2.5g of Carbs per lb of body weight
.38g of Fat per lb of body weight
18 - 20 Calories per lb of body weight

The first 2 - 3 weeks I gained 10lbs. I was struggling with the getting up early part everyday so I didn't gain much after that. I started this when I was 140lbs 6'2"

It's a month later and I'm just under 160lbs and starting to climb up again

When you're bulking you'll want more carbs than protein.

Originally Posted by Seanp156

If I ate that trying to bulk, I'd probably lose weight or maintain at best. 15 x 185 come to about 2700 and 18 x 185 comes to abour 3300... I have trouble gaining weight at 3900 and my metabolism's not especially fast either.

If I were you, I'd shoot for 4000 cals to start with if you can manage to eat that much, but sometimes you gotta work your way up to eating that much each day.

As for macros, I don't really know the exact numbers that would be good for you, but you want the most carbs, then protein, then fats. Just some random #'s so you can see the approx ratios would be 400 carbs, 250 protein, 120 fat. That's most likely more than you'll need, but you get the idea of the proportions.

Nice thanks for the info man. Yea i think i would have a problem gaining if was to only eat 3000 cals a day, i probly eat that on a regular basis but i dunno cuz i never kept track. I think i am going to start out at 3500 cals a day and if i see no gains in a couple weeks i will move up.

Originally Posted by zootroid

I started off at:
1.3g of Protein per lb of body weight
2.5g of Carbs per lb of body weight
.38g of Fat per lb of body weight
18 - 20 Calories per lb of body weight

The first 2 - 3 weeks I gained 10lbs. I was struggling with the getting up early part everyday so I didn't gain much after that. I started this when I was 140lbs 6'2"

It's a month later and I'm just under 160lbs and starting to climb up again

Wow nice gains man, i hope i can do as well as you. I think my problem is i have a tough time sticking to my workout routine and eating alot everyday. But its gonna start this coming monday.

Good things to eat: tuna fish, bread, nuts, brown rice?, cottage cheese, milk what else?


And thanks to everyone else who posted.

For me, I'm good with eating as much as I do now. Although it took me a good month or so before I could actually eat as much as I should've :P

I'm slowly gaining still, but that's because I think I'm over sleeping. My weight increases and decreases at a very fast rate. Is that unhealthy?

During this time I've been gaining weight I lost 5lbs over 2 - 3days because I missed a couple meals on the days I worked out. ~_~

Anyways, good luck with this!