I just started college and I’m having a really tough time trying to eat enough to gain some weight. It’s really difficult to eat enough calories when I’m walking so much. Anyway my question is should I keep forcing myself to eat until my appetite comes back or should I take it easy for a while and not eat or lift so much? It’s probably the stress of moving to a new place. Any advice?
Hopefully working out relieves some of the day to day stress of college life…
I don’t know why you’d want to, but if you want to stop improving, stop eating…
[quote]pavlaki wrote:
I just started college and I’m having a really tough time trying to eat enough to gain some weight. It’s really difficult to eat enough calories when I’m walking so much. Anyway my question is should I keep forcing myself to eat until my appetite comes back or should I take it easy for a while and not eat or lift so much? It’s probably the stress of moving to a new place. Any advice?[/quote]
A lot of you seem to be asking this question and I truly don’t understand why.
If you want to grow, you will have to constantly feed your body. That may mean force feeding or eating when you aren’t really very hungry. If you don’t care that much about making progress, then don’t do that.
What is the deal with this being some hard decision for some of you that you would even need to ask the question?
When I started, I wanted to get big and strong. Therefore, I ate more. Do some of you think you will gain a ton of muscle without doing so? How?
I also think the mental image of huge five course Furrs Cafeteria meal fives times a day comes into the minds of these guys scaring them with visions of their stomachs bursting at the seems.
Think of it like grazing all day. Boil some eggs, buy beef jerky, have some Metabolic Drive bars, keep these in a day pack that you carry with you to class. Before class eat a hardboiled egg after class chow on some jerky, lunch eat whatever is in the cafeteria and slam a protein shake. Afternoon class munch an a Metabolic Drive bar.
If you break it up like that your body will adapt sooner and you will still feel good as opposed to bloated. The idea is to keep protein and aminos flowing through your body all day long keeping you anabolic and halting the catabolic effect.
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Well said. I still get the idea that if I really eat enough in a day I’ll feel bloated and not want to do anything. Constantly snacking on small stuff is the best way to do it. Thats my goal for training durring school this year, to eat enough all day, every day.
Try almonds and peanutbutter sandwiches. They are pretty calorie dense, yet they don’t fill you up too much. Hell, I can’t wait till I go to a real college and have access to a cafeteria. You don’t know how good you have it.
DD
yeah im starting to live at college this monday. i can’t wait to eat whener i want. bulking made easy.
[quote]iamawesome wrote:
yeah im starting to live at college this monday. i can’t wait to eat whener i want. bulking made easy.[/quote]
For real man, my parents were about to kick me out of the house this summer because I was putting down about 5 dozen eggs per week.
I love our dining hall… pile up the tuna sandwich, salad w/ plenty of dressing, whatever pasta they have out with a bigass portion of mystery meat. MMMMMMM!
you should take it easy for a while and not eat or lift so much if you want to look like Richard Simmons…
but if your goal is to look like a well built bad-ass you’re going to have to chow down and bust your ass working out…
the decision is yours alone to make…