Fry up 1kg beef mince, add tinful of canned tomato, a handful of bay leaves, season, then 15 minutes later slurp all that down with a fistful of bread. Fully anabolic!
My experience has taught me that it's not food that I should be focusing on in the first instance, but rather that I should examine my level of activities, especially the ones that are not related to the main sport I'm involved in. Upon close scrutiny of the big picture, I found that it's these little activities, with their frequency, was the hurdle that was stopping me from adding the weight I needed to add, despite the amount of food I was consuming.
So for me at least, (and perhaps others may fall in that same category), it was about consciously slowing my fast metabolism down by doing less (first and foremost), before moving on to eating more and more. Losing weight I would suspect, would be exactly the same but in an opposite manner to adding weight. Move more first, before considering starvation through elimination (of many loved foods)...which may be bad for both psyche and health (due to stressing out over deprivation).
I know, it's not the reply the OP have asked perhaps, but I'm simply sharing my experience and possibly different point of view on this subject.
Fadi.
This is what I recently discovered for me, always struggled to put on weight no matter how much I eat. Found out I walk roughly 10kms a day and burn about 600 cals just doing my job.
My experience has taught me that it's not food that I should be focusing on in the first instance, but rather that I should examine my level of activities, especially the ones that are not related to the main sport I'm involved in. Upon close scrutiny of the big picture, I found that it's these little activities, with their frequency, was the hurdle that was stopping me from adding the weight I needed to add, despite the amount of food I was consuming.
So for me at least, (and perhaps others may fall in that same category), it was about consciously slowing my fast metabolism down by doing less (first and foremost), before moving on to eating more and more. Losing weight I would suspect, would be exactly the same but in an opposite manner to adding weight. Move more first, before considering starvation through elimination (of many loved foods)...which may be bad for both psyche and health (due to stressing out over deprivation).
I know, it's not the reply the OP have asked perhaps, but I'm simply sharing my experience and possibly different point of view on this subject.
Fadi.
My experience has taught me that it's not food that I should be focusing on in the first instance, but rather that I should examine my level of activities, especially the ones that are not related to the main sport I'm involved in. Upon close scrutiny of the big picture, I found that it's these little activities, with their frequency, was the hurdle that was stopping me from adding the weight I needed to add, despite the amount of food I was consuming.
So for me at least, (and perhaps others may fall in that same category), it was about consciously slowing my fast metabolism down by doing less (first and foremost), before moving on to eating more and more. Losing weight I would suspect, would be exactly the same but in an opposite manner to adding weight. Move more first, before considering starvation through elimination (of many loved foods)...which may be bad for both psyche and health (due to stressing out over deprivation).
I know, it's not the reply the OP have asked perhaps, but I'm simply sharing my experience and possibly different point of view on this subject.
Fadi.