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Increasing calories for bulking.

SWH

SWH

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I'm currently weighing around 77-78kg (Not entirely sure since waterweight is always a factor when I hop on the scales) from around 75kg in 3 months. Goal weight is around 85kg by around April. I'm sitting at around 2k calories but I don't really count too strictly. Normal meals for a day would look like this -

Breakfast - Cereal, 4x Toast w/ Peanut butter

Meal 2 - Chicken and rice

Pre workout - Shake w/ oats or just plain shake

Post workout - Shake w/ Dextrose

Dinner - Steak with potatoes and vegetables

Meal 6 - Peanut butter w/ protein powder and milk

This would usually be around 2000 calories a day. I was wondering if I should up the calories even more or if i'm doing something wrong nutritionally? Any help is appreciated
 
Maxwell Smart on the forum recommends 35 x desired body weight as a target calorie intake. Something like that anyways....but 2k in calories is way too low bro.
 
I use a simple method and thats eating a shit load of steak, potatos, rice, pasta, oats, milk, cottege cheese, protein shakes and train fucking hard....
 
As DKD mentioned, Start off at 35calories/kg of bodyweight. Increase by 5-10% if after 2 weeks weight has not increased.

If you are gaining more than .5kgs a week/1kg a month you are gaining fat for the most part.
 
outofloop said:
I weigh 80kgs and am eating 3200-3300 cals per and am slowly putting the weight on.
If i ate 2000 per i would waste away to nuthin.
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I was maintaining bodyweight at 2k. I didn't lose any weight at that amount of calories, but that wasn't precise it would of been 2k-2.5k probably, its not strict calorie counting. i'm eating around 2.8k - 3k calories now.
 
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