Good Improvements on My Diet?

Training Bodybuilding
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A cheat meal? On a bulk? You gotta be kidding me!!! If you have to call it a cheat meal, then you aren’t bulking.

I got hungry last night. I had a shitty workout and ended up pigging out on three big bowls of Count Chocula. I chased it down with some almonds. I don’t know how many almonds. I just ate until I was full. And this was late at night.

Was it ideal? No, and I don’t really care. I want calories. 90% of the time I get them from great sources. Sometimes I don’t. But I’m not going to waste a second of my time worrying about it.

It’s called a bulk for a reason. You’re supposed to eat A LOT OF FOOD!!! If you eat a little too much one day, it’s not going to ruin it! If anything, it’s a better opportunity to lift heavier.

I’m all for keeping track of calories if that’s your thing. I try to do it so that I know about how much I’m eating.

But you are obsessing about miniscule shit. You’ve got a 40 gallon gas tank, and you’re freaking out about whether you have 20.001 or 20.002 gallons of gas in there.

Take care of the important stuff first, not P+F, P+C, C+F, A+Z, or whatever combination you like. This is not the most important thing for you right now. You need calories. Your lifting and cross country will take care of the fat. Eat big first. Then you can start to worry about macronutrient ratios and weight.

Do you realize that if I had the amount (not percentage, but amount) of body fat on me that you do right now, I’d be ripped and have bulging abs? You can’t be more than 15%. That’s not even 20 pounds of fat. It’s nothing, and it will look like nothing if you actually give your body some muscle to work with instead of nickel and diming things.

Why are you so afraid to grow into your fat?

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Dude,

What is with the running? Why is it that you must run? Because i think it is killing your metabolism. That shit is the most catabolic body fuk in the world. If you must run then you must re-eat all those calories, which means quit counting and eat.

Eat everything. move as little as possible. If you are worried about geting fat you are likely skinny. Lift heavy and sleep. Cafeteria is the best place to get hyouge, you know why? All you can eat!!

Start running again when you want to cut down after putting on some decent muscle mass and strength. If you are running your ass off and not gorging pre and post then you are killing your gains, even in your legs.

But if running is your sport for whatever reason then you should resign yourself to looking like a runner.

Basically if you are not in pain after eating and you are running all the time you are likely not eating enough. To get big you have got to shit or get off the pot.

-chris

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I have to laugh. Skinny dude thinks he has a binge problem because he runs a lot and works out in the gym and actually, gasp, gets hungry.

Your body knows it is starving to death because you have an obsession or fear of body fat… and it wants some damned food so it can get to a healthy body weight.

Anyway, maybe this little story can help put your mind at ease, though maybe it will just slide off like everything else, you saying “uhhuh, I get it” when your next statement is the same thing over and over again.

Not too long ago I had spent a decade or more in cubicle heaven. I was a sedentary 250 lbs. You think your emaciated frame has body fat? You don’t even know what body fat is. Fat isn’t lack of muscle definition. Fat is covered in slabs of fat!

Anyway, after improving diet and getting exercise, and dropping about 20 to 30 lbs, I was still overweight and out of shape, but I thought I was the man, losing all that fat. Hell, I dated the hottest women of my life all of a sudden. Damn, attraction isn’t about being the skinniest fucker on the planet, it’s about feeling good about yourself – learn to do that.

With the regular exercise, I went to see my doctor, run the regular tests. Everything is great. All the numbers are great. He takes my blood pressure, perfect he mutters.

Your health is not permanently damaged just by carrying around a bit of fat. In fact, if you are too lean, you can be healthier with more fat.

Your attractiveness to the people of the world is not directly tied to the amount of body fat you carry either.

Anyway, a couple years later I’m actually putting on a bit of muscle, almost looking like I’ve been in the gym, and there is no way I’ll sacrifice hard earned muscle just to try to be a little leaner.

The key point in the above is that whatever is motivating you to be so damned fearful of fat needs to be unlearned.

Lack of muscles, hence lack of muscle definition does not equal fat. Movement on the scale does not equal fat. Change in size does not equal fat.

And don’t even bother saying “yeah, I get it” because every time you open your mouth and start another stupid thread about how you ate a muffin and shat three gallons of blood and the scale moved up an ounce, the truth is glaringly obvious.

Binge eating my ass. Shake your head, your whole world view is fucked.

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Thanks…

But yeah you are right my whole world view is completely fucked to out in space, and if it werent for so much damn pressure and how I feel like I quit everything I do, I wouldn’t be doing cross country, it is killing my willingness to bulk.

I feel like shit while running, meanwhile it is NOT encouraging seeing all these skinny ass kids get all the girls and all the eat is a rice krispy and drop of juice and say ahh I’m full. That is why I think I am fat lately is because I’m around all these kids that are ACTUALLY skinnier than I.

But yeah I’m still keeping up with it, just looking at myself in the mirror thinkin about how good this is for me. I am also keeping up with the school doc about it and he supports it so it’s all good.

Thanks for all the support guys, if it weren’t for you I’d still be in my anorexic state of mind.