What do you put in your shakes?

[CancerNV]

Ive been drinking 2 - 3 (Banana, Oats, Peanutbutter, milk) shakes a day and I was just wondering if people have any other mixes they would like to share.

I get about 700 calories per shake and it only takes me 5 minutes to drink.

PS: Any disadvantages of drinking shakes?

 

[Doublebase]

Do you cook the oats then put them in your drink and blend? Or do you just use raw oats?

 

[CancerNV]

Do you cook the oats then put them in your drink and blend? Or do you just use raw oats?

Raw oats.

 

[P-funk]

do you think you can assimilate 700 cals?? Are you that big??

 

[CancerNV]

do you think you can assimilate 700 cals?? Are you that big??

Well, pretty much everything Ive read says "Consume 4,000+ calories a day" and "Eat 4 - 6 meals a day"

If i do the match correctly that comes out to about 900 calories per meal. Is there any other way to assimilate 700 calories than by eating?

 

[P-funk]

Well, pretty much everything Ive read says "Consume 4,000+ calories a day" and "Eat 4 - 6 meals a day"

If i do the match correctly that comes out to about 900 calories per meal. Is there any other way to assimilate 700 calories than by eating?

caloric intake is dependant on the person and their own metabolism. if you are reading something like flex magazine or a bbing magazine of course those guys eat a ton of food per meal......they are huge!!

you need to figure out what is good for you.

what is you weight?
bf%?

are you gaining weight? losing wieght? skinnny? overweight?"?

 

[CancerNV]

caloric intake is dependant on the person and their own metabolism. if you are reading something like flex magazine or a bbing magazine of course those guys eat a ton of food per meal......they are huge!!

you need to figure out what is good for you.

what is you weight?
bf%?

are you gaining weight? losing wieght? skinnny? overweight?"?

Im 6'2'' and weigh 190lbs. I started at 170 so I must be doing something right. Only now for the past 2 weeks I havent gained a pound.

Im trying to get to 200 lbs by summer.


I have read those BB magazines and they say that if your a huge body builder you should eat even more. Like 7,000 calories a day. I thought the general rule was eat 25 times your weight for calories.

 

[ReelBigFish]

Just take the amount of calories you have been eating and add 500 a day. You should gain a pound in a week. If not then add 200 more until you gained a pound. If you want to gain more than 1 pound a week just do the math to figure out how many extra you need to meet your needs.

 

[overthepond]

You may have gained 20 pounds but how much of that has been fat?

 

[musclepump]

Yeah, adding weight isn't always beneficial if it isnt' the right type.

 

[CancerNV]

You may have gained 20 pounds but how much of that has been fat?

How can you measure? Ive worked pretty damn hard the past 4 months or so and ive ate basically nothing but good food so im guessing i put on 10 - 15 lbs of muscle and 5 - 10 lbs of fat.

 

[CancerNV]

caloric intake is dependant on the person and their own metabolism. if you are reading something like flex magazine or a bbing magazine of course those guys eat a ton of food per meal......they are huge!!

you need to figure out what is good for you.

what is you weight?
bf%?

are you gaining weight? losing wieght? skinnny? overweight?"?

I still dont understand what the problem is with eating 700 calories in one sitting?

PS: Is there anything wrong with eating raw oats?

 

[DeadBolt]

I still dont understand what the problem is with eating 700 calories in one sitting?

PS: Is there anything wrong with eating raw oats?

Eating enough cals is key in order to grow but if you eat TO MANY cals then you will only be storing them as fat. Your body can only handle so much food bud....why do you think most of our society is fat? They eat to damn much for the amount that they burn.

Raw oats are fine...I put them in my shake its np.

 

[CancerNV]

Eating enough cals is key in order to grow but if you eat TO MANY cals then you will only be storing them as fat. Your body can only handle so much food bud....why do you think most of our society is fat? They eat to damn much for the amount that they burn.

Raw oats are fine...I put them in my shake its np.

I realise eating too many calories makes people fat but I think Im in the exception group.

I work out hard 4 - 5 times a week and I eat nothing but healthy foods. Ive read nothing but "Eat 25 times your weight in calories" to bulk up, and now, out of left feild, I hear "Your eating too many calories."

 

[P-funk]

I realise eating too many calories makes people fat but I think Im in the exception group.

I work out hard 4 - 5 times a week and I eat nothing but healthy foods. Ive read nothing but "Eat 25 times your weight in calories" to bulk up, and now, out of left feild, I hear "Your eating too many calories."

we don't know if you are. all i did was ask you if you thought you can assimilate that. when i get up to 4500 cals a day or more my meals total 650-750cals. But a lot of that is coming from carbs and some from fat as I try to only get around 50g protein per meal when I am eating that much and the rest is carbs and fat. I don't really know that I can assimilate more than 50g of protein per meal. I wish there was a way to tell for sure.

 

[ReelBigFish]

He means too many at one time. Your body can only digest so much at a time and if you have a bunch of excess food just sitting there it will be stored as fat. and that 25 times your body weight stuff is not for everyone, each person is different. I've heard anything from 20 - 23 but it all depends, Just keep track of your cals and if you dont gain just add 500 dont go by some calculation.

 

[CancerNV]

He means too many at one time. Your body can only digest so much at a time and if you have a bunch of excess food just sitting there it will be stored as fat. and that 25 times your body weight stuff is not for everyone, each person is different. I've heard anything from 20 - 23 but it all depends, Just keep track of your cals and if you dont gain just add 500 dont go by some calculation.

So if 700 calories is too much then what else do you do? Eat 400 calories in a sitting? If you wanted to make it to 4,000 calories that day you would have to eat 10 freaking times.

PS: Do carbs allow you to put on weight faster? Ive been eating pasta/spagettios/ramon noodles non stop for the past 4 days and I put on like 3 - 4 lbs.

 

[ReelBigFish]

I wasn't saying it was too much just trying to let you know what he meant. and dude 3-4 even though its prolly mostly water, is not a goo thing. You should shoot for 1-2 lbs a week unless you want to gain a good bit more fat. I would nix the sp. o's and ramen, because they are full of crap and extremely processed.

 

[ReelBigFish]

carbs dont make you gain "weight" persay but they make you hold water. each gram of carb holds some many grams of water. I forget the exact amount.

 

[CancerNV]

So carbs arent really helpful when trying to put on "good weight"?

 

[ReelBigFish]

of course they are, but in balance with good fats and protein. You will gain weight from eating excess calories. Carbs give you the energy you need for your workouts and allow the protein you eat to be used for muscle building and repairing. You want to eat good carbs tho. Oats, Potatoes(most people prefer sweet), rice(brown is better but white is not bad), beans, milk.

 

[Emma-Leigh]

Personally, I don't think that 700 cals in one sitting is too much. Our bodies are capable of digesting and absorbing huge quantities of calories in one sitting (as long as you do not force too much bulk into your gut at once).

It is how your tissues respond that is the issue. If you are massive, or if you have a very rapid metabolic rate (or, if for some other reason, such as disease or rapid growth) then you will use those calories for energy, growth and repair. If you are sedentary and inactive, then those calories will be shuttled to be stored as glycogen or adipose (depending on their origin and your energy level).

If you need to eat 700 cals in one sitting - then eat 700 cals in one sitting.

Also, carbs are a very easily accessable energy source - especially those calorie dense sources you stated (pasta). As they are calorie dense, they will obviously be helpful in letting you gain weight because they will give you a lot of energy at one time.

Whether that weight be fat or tissue, is, once again, dependent on your body (growth, activity, hormones, energy status, insulin sensitivity etc etc).

 

[CancerNV]

Thanks for the help people.

 

[Musclebeach]

Cancer ~ I am in the same boat as you. I am 6'2" and have had the hardest time gaining weight. 4 years ago I weighed about 145, I now weigh 201 at approx 8.5% BF.

I take in about 4500 - 5000 clean calories per day with each meal/shake around 800 cals. I am lucky because my mom is a RD (registered dietician) so she keeps my head on straight after I read a convincing article about gaining size/weight from the internet, mag, etc. Right now Im about 45-30-25 (carbs-protein-fat), thats not perfect day-to-day but it is close.

Also I lift everyday (sometimes twice a day), have vball practice everyday, and run 4+ miles everyday. I am burning some serious calories, but I am still putting on about 1lb every 3 - 4 weeks. I know I could gain quicker, but I cant imagine eating more without some sort of appetite enhancer and I dont want to start taking that stuff. My BF is actually dropping (from 8.9 to ~8.5 in the past 5 weeks) and I havent been trying to do that.

I hope you gathered something from all those letters above. Keep in mind what works for one may not work for all.

-Jeff.