So I am on a bulk at the moment (hoping to go from 87 to 100 kilos), and I tend to work pretty well on carbs, and I recognise their importance in a bulking diet (especially if you are carb tolerant), but I have experianced a problem.
I find carbs too filling (I’ve been eating low carb for about 2 months). I could eat almost unlimited amounts of protein and fat, and not feel full, but now I am introducing carbs back into my diet, I find that they will leave me full for hours and it gets pretty uncomfortable with the huge amounts I have to eat.
So I can get a much higher caloric intake if I keep to fats and protein, but I know I need carbs for growth.
In my last really sucessfull bulk (which even though I was 16/17 was helped a lot by tribulus) I went from 78kgs to 93kgs (coinciding with playing rugby union as second row), and there wasn’t too much of a problem with fat gain (i’ve never not had the top 2 abs), but I had to add carbs in pretty unhealthy ways to get my calories up, and I would like to avoid doing this (my father and grandmother have type 2 diabetes). Example was taking GNC mass gainer and eating a dutch butter cookie which is basically sugar and fat (got 500 calories from these alone a day).
Has anyone else had the problem with re-introducing carbs back into their diet after staying on a low carb diet? Anything to do except for just adding as many as I can without comprimising calories? (plus probiotics and enzymes)
ps if anyone wants some good low carb calories just ask, cooking is one of my passions, and I really got into it when staying low carb.