Hey everyone. I have made huge progress and am very happy with myself. Put on a lot of weight, but was dirty bulking at the time. Now I’m mainly trying to save money since I’m in college. What I eat now is a buttload of chicken and rice. Im definitely gonna add either broccoli or mixed vegetables, but was wondering if I should take multivitamins as well. I wanna make sure I’m getting the proper vitamins/nutrients and such along with my reaching my calorie goal. Would really appreciate any advice. Thanks

trying to start my bulking journey and have been doing research about implementing more fatty foods like fish , honey and peanut butter but I can’t have any of those. What would be a good substitute for those ?

Hey folks, I’ve a few nutrition related queries. Will be very helpful if you could help.

I’ve consumed both whey and plant protein. Whey is more effective but upsets my stomach more often. With plant, I don’t see too much effectiveness and it also causes bloating. I’ve been meaning to move to whole foods.

Weight - 61 kg height - 180 cm. I’m vegetarian.

My plan is to

100 g of cottage cheese - 25g protein 700ml milk - 21 G protein 100g soya chunks - 50g protein Or tofu/ tampay

I think 90g protein should do. I’m being advised to take egg instead of cottage cheese / soy. Is there any benefit to having eggs instead of soya / cottage cheese ?

Plus, soya chunks have more protein and deliver less calories per gram than cottage cheese and are cheaper too. Why would people choose cottage cheese ?

I’d like to stay vegetarian. So I’m a bit hesitant to take eggs. But over the last 12 months with plant protein, while there has been progress, I’d like it to be better. So I’m open to taking eggs if that’ll help my progress.

Any advice / suggestions ?

Getting bored of eating oats, chicken breasts, brocolli, protein shake everyday.

I'm wondering whether or not I should eat my tea Beforeor after gym, And Weather or not , it's a good idea to take my protein shake with it.

Or if I should do my protein shake Before and tea after or Vice versa.

I know people have ask for shake recipes millions of times but I couldn’t find any posts for smooth ones. Eating is pretty hard for me so drinking my calories is pretty good with me starting to go to the gym. But it’s so THICCCC does anybody have a homemade recipe that won’t be so THICCCC and will go down easy?

I combine canned pumpkin, unsweetened applesauce, peanut butter, and unsweetened soy milk. I then add the usual spices for pumpkin pie. I eat this pudding with crackers like the ones I make from lavash in my air fryer. That replaces the crust of pumpkin pie. This is also tasty when eaten with fresh banana.

I don't measure my ingredients so you may want to experiment with the proportions.

830 calories, 44g protein

3 oz. Kirkland Peanut Butter Pretzels 390 calories 12g protein

2 Greenridge Farm beef sticks (Costco)
440 calories. 32g protein

1/7 slice Costco cheesecake 200 grams peanut butter

About 2,150 calories and 60 grams protein

Title. I get terrible flareups with caffeineated drinks and some sauces. I really need to gain weight but IBS diets are all low in carbs, sugars and fats which doesn't help. Anyone has a list?

Not even there's only the gravy, pepper, eggs, I dropped in a handful or two with crumbled beacon, I let stew in the gravy. These are the pasturized farm raised eggs, okay. These eggs check out. Here I have 5 eggs, and oiled the pan, plus a teaspoon of beacon fat.

my boyfriend is 6’5 and he wants to eat higher calories. I’m not sure how much he would need daily to gain weight. he struggles with eating because he has little to no appetite most days. I am on a strict calorie deficit, and he normally just eats what i eat. What meals do you think I should make him? I need something that’s higher calories but lower volume.

Q: i ate ONLY chicken breasts. I want to try lean ground beef. Do you think Its ok to eat 150 g daily if Its lean ? Ty

It started with the thought I could get a ton of calories from whole blocks of cheese. And, all I had to do was add salsa. Except, sometimes it was me trying just with salsa, but adding with that, oil. Just the salsa and corn chips together were about 500 calories. And, you don't feel full. And, you don't taste the oil.

But now, I have a have an even better treat for myself than that. It just so happened that I've been trying to make soups for months and only now had all the ingredients. I didn't want my first experience with more soups to be a bad one, so I made something I concocted. I had to be something I was imaging, so I just went with it.

I took my pot. Now it has 1 can of Jack Links Jalapeño chilli, 1 can of Ranch Style Beans Jalapeño, 1 can of roasted tomatoes, 1 cantainer of of beef broth, 1lb of ground meat that I made 1 packet of McCormick hot chilli mix into, tiny bit of better than bouillon for vegetable and beef, 1tlb of balsamic because it is soupy, 1 bag of assortment of potatoes that also had onions peppers that I pan fried first, 2 pasture raised eggs, just a dab of hot salsa. And, then added 2tbls beacon fat and oil.

So it's loaded with calories and protein. But, there's not the twist that I wanted to bring up. Because now, I just received my package today I ordered of Quest, you know, protein bars Quest, yeah, just 20g protein chips, 8 in a box, you know, nothing special... chilli lime flavor and dorito shaped too...

So many calories 🤣, so much protein, 😫, jk, 🤣🤣, nahh, I feel like I've stubbled unto something that I shouldn't have. It's like, I just basically, basically, made a hot pot ...of very hot chilli. If you know how chilli is made, though, you use tomatoes, and this has a can of them. And, why cheese? I put extra sharp cheese because I'm also admist the process of trying out crumbled beacon in together with blanko velveeta cheese, and I wanted to see what cheese would taste like with the beacon fat I was storing, that and everyone's favorite everyone knows is grilled cheese and tomato soup, ok, haha. The potatoes are the starch. And, you know what, not gonna lie, it came out very thick, not like soup like.

This is probably the best bulking method for me that I could probably ask for, to be honest. I don't imagine anyone eats chilli and frito pie like I do. I'll eat frito pie for 3-4days. That's right, frito pie for days. I'm serious about my health, but so, see, that's why it's funny, because with this having as a recipe card, if I was to show anyone, it feels like if there's anyone trying to talk to me about bulking, it feels like I'm the mafia and I have this thing I'm pulling out of my jacket. It's just like that, best all you can do for your bulking in an all in one solution, just, blop. You just know it. The way I've come to this conclusion is very unorthodox, but you know what, it's the idea behind the thought, that's actually pretty cool.

I have finally gained weight in a year from 45 to 49. However im just stuck there and not going any higher. Whenever i try to eat more i feel nauseas which puts me off and dont eat.

Any tips on what to do to continue this journey. Currently eating around 2000/2150 cals per day

21yrs old 5ft 5

Hey everyone, I have been bulking this year and have been successful up until a plateau when i started college in a dorm. I gained 20 pounds this year, and I have not been able to eat properly at all due to a poor schedule and stress from college, and I am finding it hard to adapt. What are some quick and easy meals I can have that you can only make with a microwave or fridge? What would you say is the highest calorie pre made protein shake that you guys use, since i don’t have a blender here.. Any easy to heat up foods as well? Thanks I feel like i’m losing all my progress here at college

This whole time, I've been consuming bpa free tuna. Little do you know, all the while, the cans are sometimes made with bpa, and the amount of bpa in can tuna can still exceed the daily limit, even. Well, now you do know like me, have fun contemplating that tid bit of information.

Hi! I’m new to this sub and I imagine this question is probably asked a lot, but I find weight gain rlly hard and I need some advice…

I weigh about 106pounds (48kg) and am 5’7(171cm tall), facts that made me lose my period. I want to gain some weight but it’s hard to eat. For the last 2 days I’ve been forcing myself to eat more, and it is now my 3rd evening laying in bed uncomfortably full. I have downloaded a calorie tracking app and I haven’t even reached my maintenance calories, I ate about 1400-1600.

Am I doing something wrong? How can I make it easier?

Hi there!

My mom’s chronic illness has caused her to lose a lot of weight :/ Her appetite is nonexistent due to her medications and she has trouble eating heavier foods (ie. fatty meat).

Wondering if any of you have good recs for “light” calorie dense meals? Smoothie recs would be great, but really looking for savory recipes as well!!

Thank you in advance :)

-iceberg lettuce -ranch made w/ greek yogurt, ranch seasoning + pepperoncini juice -seasoned ground beef 80/20 -sautéed yellow onions and mushrooms -2 slices melted habanero cheese -home made in n out sauce -pepperoncini’s

sooo good!

1/2 can of coconut milk (I use thai kitchen brand from costco)

1/2 cup of frozen pineapple

the juice of 1/2 a lemon

1.5-2 oz of passionfruit syrup ( i use re-al brand its at Total Wine, but might be in your local grocery or liquor store)

20g of mct oil

1 cup of full fat yogurt

1 banana

add any powders of choice, protien, oats, whatever. you can also add frozen cherries thats pretty good too. sometimes i add spinach and it works well in there. the shake itself like that is around 800 calories. delicious and its what ive been making lately.

Chicken soup/broth with a ton of crackers. They break down and get a little soggy as they absorb the chicken broth and it's easy to eat 400-600+ calories of crackers that way. Just take a spoon and shovel them down.

(This is not a medical question, I’m not asking about how to take your meds, just asking how you all go about meal prep).

My appetite has always kinda sucked, but it now doubly-sucks since I’ve started taking medication.

I find I’m really good at snacking, but really bad at sitting down to eat meals. I’ve always kinda struggled with that, but now I am really bad at it. I can eat an entire party veggie tray in one day along with a meal if you gave me the full day to pick at it, but I can hardly fully finish even just fast food orders on a lunch break.

I’m a tall guy, 6’4”, at 172. The heaviest I got was 210ish, and I was eating basically 4500-5000 calories a day via two protein shakes a day. This was in college when I had wayyy more time to plan meals out and go back to my residence to get more food. After feeling constantly bloated, I stopped dieting and lost all that weight in a relatively short period of time. Which sucked, because my body looked awesome, but it wasn’t worth how awful I felt day-to-day.

I totally, fully recognize that my issue is that I have to eat more, but with taking medication I feel like my issue isn’t as much getting the food as it is actually stomaching it. I eat one cheeseburger and that’s about as much as I can stomach without feeling sick.

In my fitness journey, the hardest lesson has been with protein supplements. I was poorly advised on proper dieting and, at one point, was drinking three protein shakes a day alongside real food at least but it was still ridiculous. I’m a larger person (I need 215g protein alone). I struggled to cook protein options that I didn’t have to choke down and was in school at the time, so it just happened. Processed protein—like protein shakes, whey, and protein bars—should not be consumed daily. They’re more suited for days when you’re in a pinch and absolutely don’t have time. My most economic solutions have been ground turkey/beef, eggs, and greek yogurt.

TL;DR: Eat real food instead of protein shakes!