My bulking diet

[DrBones]

I mentioned how much weight I was gaining in another thread and BFold suggested that I list what I have been eating..
I am not eating the cleanest, and I have gained a few lbs of fat and water(I just started taking creatine)... but I have gained a total of 16 lbs in roughly 20 days.
Here is my general day

Wakeup 820am
2 Packets Quaker Oatmeal with 1 serving Physique Meal replacement mixed in and soy milk.
10:00am Either 2-3 hard boiled eggs or whatever meat was left over from the night befores dinner.
11:30am a roasted turkey sandwhich with 200Gs of meat on a whole wheat bun with lettuce, cucumber, tomato and mayonaise.
1 pizza bagel, 1 nestle milkshake
1:30pm Piece of fruit or whatever I have lying around work(sometime oatmeal), soy nuts and roasted peanuts
3:30 protein bar or soy milk, some crackers
4pm workout
5:30 Shaklea Physique protein drink
6:30 2 chicken breasts, or 1 big new york steak, or tuna or roast beef or meaty pasta(mmm tortelini. Usually with a baked potato or rice and some vegis.
7:30 a can of tuna or something else to keep me going.


This is kind of a typical day.. however since I'm bulking there tends to be a lot of fluctuation. I do eat quite a few carbs.. I love carbs.. and umm.. carbs love me. I'm guessing this is somewhere around the 4000 calorie mark... I havn't really been counting since I have been bulking, I just EAT... I know when Spring comes around, the new muscle I have packed on will help me very easily shed any excess fat. I'd like to thank BFOLD for helping me realize how anabolic eating your face off really is..
By the way.. I am completely natural so far.
Hopefully this motivates somebody to eat like a famish is coming
Thanks
Ryan

 

[louden_swain]

Excellent work!! Looks like you are following a solid plan. B Fold tends to motivate everyone on this site to eat big. Everyone seems to be gaining weight. Keep up the good work!

 

[bearrito]

Good job on the weight gain man. Eating and sleeping is key to gaining weight/muscle mass and getting stronger. Like b fold said, when you do cut, be sure not to go too extreme. That weight gain really is impressive.

 

[DrBones]

Monday September 2nd 2002

1030am wakeup
11am 1 pack quaker oatmeal with physique protein powder
12pm workout (back)
1pm physique carb/protein shake in 500ml 1% milk
115pm two whole wheat thins crackers
2pm medium quiznos santa fe turkey sandwhich
2pm 1 bag ruffles sour cream & onion potato chips
2pm 750ml barqs rootbeer
5pm 2 breast lemon chicken kantonese style
5pm 2 cups white rice
5pm broccoli, colliflower, carrots in a chease and cream of cellery sauce
5pm two slice 12 grain bread
5pm 1 piece of cheese cake
730pm 2 beers (friend forced me)
10pm 1 7-11 nachos with loads of cheese
10pm 1 slurpee...

Wow... yesterday really wasn't a very healthy day.. but hell I'm bulking... I'm going to enjoy it

I also did Back yesterday...
Here was my routine

Deadlifts
1x5xbar weight
1x5x135
1x5x225
2x5x282 <-- last rep I pulled something in my kneck
1x3x225 <-- kneck was really bothering me so I stopped

Wide Grip Pull ups
3x6xbodyweight (hopefully 8 reps will come soon)

Wide grip Cable rows
3x10x150

I will post what I did today and what I ate when i get back from the incubus concert tonight..

Thanks
Ryan

 

[DrBones]

Bleh.. Yesterday was the first day back at college... so I was running around like a chicken with my head cut off... and on top of that I was going to a concert at night... This made me rushed for time which made my food selection somewhat shitty..
Anyways... Heres yesterdays food consumption and workout.

9am wakeup
930 banana
10 protein bar
11 70g honey roasted peanuts
1130 diet coke
12pm turkey sandwhich on sour dough bread with light swiss cheese
1215 apple
1230 workout(chest)
130 physique protein drink
330 Mcdonalds McChicken Combo Supersized
530 3 slices ham and pineapple pizza
730 750ml coke at concert(was thirsty)
1030 2 slices ham and pineapple pizza
11pm sleep


My kneck was still bothering me pretty badly from Mondays deadlifts when I pulled something in my kneck... So I tried lifting quite a bit lighter on the dumbell bench presses

Tues Chest

Rotator cuff warmup 5 min

Dumbell Bench
1x15x40 lb dumbells (warmup)
1x15x60 lb dumbells (warmup)
1x8x90 lb dumbells (semi-warmup) <-- Noticed a lot of stress in neck so decided to lower weight
2x10x60 lb dumbells (102 pace)

Dumbell Pullovers
3x8x90

Incline Bench Press
2x8x80 (kneck didn't hurt doing inclines and the weight went up REALLY easy)

Hammer strength bench press machine
2x8x215 (was using as a supplement for my crappy dumbell presses)

This chest workout was really not that great.. I can feel a bit of tention in my chest today.. which makes me feel like I got a decent workout.. but while I was doing it, the neck pain really dragged me down... I'll see how my neck holds up today through squats.

Thanks
Ryan

 

[abc 1]

congragulations on the weight gain, that is great. one word of advice, getting really heavy in the "off-season" (i.e. 16 pounds in 20 days, very unhealthy, more than likely 50% is water and fat) is not easy to shed come cut time. if you are natural and plan on cutting, monitor your weight gain carefully. natural cutting is very difficult considering that keeping the new muscle and shedding the fat is the goal. anybody can no carb or very low carb it and drop 20 pounds, but how much fat was dropped? and how much muscle? work at gaining lean mass and limit the fat gain. this is very easy to do if you take it seriously. i know from experience how easy it is to cut with aas and how very time consuming and difficult it is without aas. your best bet is to gain lbm with a moderate amount of fat. 16 pounds in 20 days is alittle much. good luck.

 

[DrBones]

I don't have any problem losing weight naturally. No ECA stacks, no AAS. Like I said in my other post, I started taking creatine at the same time, which is probably the reason for the dramatic water weight increase. I can gain weight(fat, water) very easily and I am lucky enough to be able to lose it very easily, so losing whatever I pack on isn't my biggest concern.
My goal is to put on 10lbs of solid muscle by next summer... If I can overshoot that I would be extremely happy. If not I'll live, just won't bulk to this extreme again...
I'm treating this partially like an experiment. So far, it appears my body is working well with all the food I've been taking in. I have a slight BF increase, but not enough to make me feel like a tub of lard. My current plan is the following
August 12-Nov 12 Heavy Bulking
Nov 12-Dec 12 Moderate Cutting
Dec 12-Feb 12 Moderate Bulking
Feb 12- May 12 Modeare Cutting
May 12-Aug 12 Extreme Cutting

By tossing in some moderate cutting between nov-dec I will reduce my BF by a couple percent and prevent myself from becoming to hefty. Then come christmas time I can eat christmas food without having to worry about dietting. I will continue to eat 500-1000 calories a day over maintenance and hopefully put on a couple extra lbs of muscle before summer. Feb-May I will go 500 cal/day below maintenance and May-Aug I will go with 1000 cal/day below maintenance. This gives me the potential to lose 40 lbs of fat between feb-aug... I doubt I will be carrying even close to that many lbs of fat.... so I don't think I have that much to worry about.
I appreciate the advice though.
Thanks
Ryan

 

[DrBones]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
I went by fitness depot today and asked if they carry Body Fat Calipers...
The guy said nope.. but we do have a scale that measures body fat electrically through water levels in my body..
Anyways.. I hopped on the scale and it said I was weighing 192.xx
Well, I waited for the body fat reading to come up... 18.7%... wholy shit can this thing be acurate? I know I gained around 14-16 lbs... but can my fat really have jumped over 6% in less than a month.
i can definitely visibly see more fat on my body... but 6 percet is a fucking ton.
How accurate can this thing really be... that would mean my LBM would only be 156lbs which is friggen impossible.... way too low.

Now.. heres my next question.. that I'm looking for opinions on... I DON'T WANT TO STOP BULKING... however.. I would like my bodyfat to drop by maybe 2% (if its actually at 18.7)
Would tossing in 20 minutes of brisk walking at the end of my work out 3 days a week allow me to still grow, but take advantage of the fact that I have 0 muscle or liver glycogen and in turn force my body to fry the fat without causing much cortisol production. I still want to add mass, and I still want to get stronger but I think i may start eating a little cleaner.... I'm really concerned about turning into porky pig. Any suggestions and constructive critisizm are very welcome...
Thanks
ryan

 

[DrBones]

BUMPITY BUMP BUMP

 

[johnb]

Those scales are grossly inaccurate, I wouldn't worry about it.