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Help me gain some weight??

fireloard Posts: 665 Joined: 2001/03/27	2003/10/21, 03:41 PM I don't usually have too much time in a day but lately I planned out about 3000 calories in a day and its not all junk food. A lot of what I eat is pasta/extra lean meats/fruits/oats/etc. I usually hit about 2600-3100 calories a day and make my protien goals of 1gram per lbs everyday. Now here is my problem. Since I started i'm a lot less ripped. I don't look nearly as cut as I do in my gallery pictures but I can't break past 120lbs. I went from 114 to 119. Its been weeks and I can't get anymore weight on. I think i'm eating all I can because sometimes it almost feels like i'm forcing down lunch with no more room left. So what i'm wondering is that if it would somehow be better if I just added in tons of junk type foods (on top of protien shakes etc to make my protien goals of 1gram per lb per day) to my diet so I could get way above 3100 calories. I know I could easily blow past it if I started eating things like take out pizza and bags of doritos. Anyone have any ideas on that or will that just help me gain fat rather then any lean mass period? I would think that it would but it appears eating healthy isn't helping.
asimmer Posts: 8,201 Joined: 2003/01/07	2003/10/22, 05:12 PM I think you will just gain fat if you start eating junk. You have to be realistic about how much mass you can gain and how fast you can gain it. 5 pounds of muscle is a lot to gain, 10 lbs a year is actually a lot for most people. You may need to look at things like are you training correctly to gain mass and do you get enough rest. are you supporting your efforts with the correct timing of your macro nutrients and are you taking the right supplements? Eating healthy is always helping you , in more ways than just gaining mass. -------------- Challenge + Consistency = Results "You do or you do not. There is no try." - Yoda
	2003/10/23, 12:01 PM Fireloard. I have a feeling most people here would be thrilled to be in the shape you appear to be. Go with it.