Posted by Veiny One on February 27, 1997 at 23:19:10:
In Reply to: D-ball and caloric intake....please respond, my cycle is going down the drain posted by under-eater on February 27, 1997 at 22:28:34:
: Help!!!! Especially guys that were formally skinny! I on 2nd week of d-ball, am very aware that I should be eating 5-7 thousand calories, but I can't. I'm trying, using heavy weight gainer 900(mixed with water it's only 600 calories a serving) 3 times a day and 3 other meals but I get full. I mean, eating has become such a chore, I can't go through the next 4 weeks like this.
: Can you guys recommend something to increase my appetite. I'm trying b-complex vitamines, waking up in the middle of the night to eat, ice cream, gallons of milk, etc.
: I can't get the calories high enough.
: Surely someone has had this problem. Can I get by on just eating alot of protein. I hear d-bol is ESPECIALLY sensitive (works a lot better) only with alot of calories.
: Any suggestions. I don't want to sound like I can't suck it up, but I thought my appetite would increase dramatically while "on". It has a little, and maybe I should have gotten used to eating more before starting, but what do I do now? Thanks,
I'm a former skinny person, and I got away fron all of those meal replacements years
ago in favor of frequent high protien meals.
The thing you need to do is change your metablolism.
Start by eating mid-sized meals with a good meat source like tuna, chicken turkey or beef
every 4 or 5 hours.
After a while your metabolism will begin to increase and you will actually NEED to eat
constantly to avoid excessive hunger pains.
I now eat around 5-6 K a day and can't get enough.
I eat every 3 hours usually Chicken or beef or Tuna
with some sort of starch source such as pasta, rice or bread
i also get a fiber source with most meals such as green beans
broc, peppers etc. Sometimes I also add corn or peas for extra calories.
Another calorie booster I use is MCT Oil. this is a fat like supplement
that acts as a calories source for energy. Approx 600 of my calories a
day come for this MCT oil.
So in a nut shell start eating smaller meals more frequently, and after a while
your meal size and freq will increase.
In the meantime, while you are on dbal, i would rec adding MCT oil to
your diet to increase calories. Also the ice cream with protien powder sounds like a
good short term fix but I would recomend changing your eating habits for good and constant growth.