Thread: Bulking Diet

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why dont you try giving us more information on the foods that you will be eating and maybe we can be of some help...you only gave us 4 meals and you wrote down that you would be eating 9....plug in foods that will equil about 3140 calories and we will work with that...

That is what I need help with, I don't know what foods to add and stuff.. I also don't know how many carbs or fats I need in a day..

That's not really much of a diet. You did like 10% of the work and left the rest up to chance.

A few tips to designing a meal:

• Include a fruit or vegetable with most or all of your meals. Get in 3+ servings of veggies throughout the day

• Include a source of complete protein at each meal.

• Round off the rest of the meal with some EFAs, carbs, or both. I personally like to get a little fat, carbs, and protein with each meal except for two; continue reading...

• Your post workout meal should leave out the fat. Get lots of carbohydrates and protein after your workout. This is a time of day your body can shuttle those carbohydrates into active cells without a problem.

• Skip the carbs with the very last meal. If you intake carbohydrates and cause your insulin levels to rise into sleep then it fights for attention with IGF-1, the active form of growth hormone. This is primarily released while you sleep and is very important for maintaining/building muscle mass as well as general health.

• Drink an assload of water. I shoot for a gallon each day.

So, as an example, your first meal is lacking. It has a small amount of carbohydrates in the form of lactose that is included in the milk, but you could juice that up a little bit and make it a more balanced meal. Breakfast is another time that carbohydrate tolerance is generally better because your blood sugar levels are naturally lower first thing in the AM.

Can you guys please give me a good food list so I can add some?? I can't think of any foods offhand and I did google it a little.