Large Calorie Puns

As a 5'7, 140-pound male that wants to gain muscle mass and strength quickly, what would happen if I ate a clean diet while being in a very large calorie surplus?

The way I want to approach this diet is by eating at about a 1,000 calorie surplus, ensuring that it is high protein (1-1.5g/lb body weight) while limiting junk food so that I don't gain a ton of unnecessary fat. I know it will be extremely hard to eat that much food especially when it is healthy, but I will find a way to get these calories in. I want to go on an aggressive bulk because I am planning on undertaking an intense bench press program sometime in the near future, between now and June. My goal for the end of the school year (Grade 10) is to get a 225-pound bench press, but I am currently at 180. I know it sounds ambitious, but I am ready to work hard to achieve that big goal of mine.

The bench press is always something I want to get super good at, and I believe following the 3-week program will help increase my gains really rapidly so long as I'm strictly following the program and eating in a calorie surplus. After the bench press program is over, I plan to eat at a more reasonable calorie surplus of about 300-500 calories, while still eating mostly, whole unprocessed foods, and I am hoping my bench press will still slowly increase afterward. Will I see substantial changes in my physique, particularly my chest, or will my body put on a ton of fat due to all the excess calories I am consuming?

Check the link in the description for the program I am following, it is called the Smolov Jr, the shorter version of the Smolov Squat Program that is typically used for bench press. Some people reported gains of up to 20-30 pounds in their bench press following the program.

Maybe a dumb question buuuut How do y’all figure out calorie count for individual portions of large batch meals like home made soups, stir frys etc?

My guess is to weigh the individual ingredients as you put them in (ie x grams of carrots, x grams rice, x grams chicken), then add it up, weigh and add up the total calorie count of the batch.

Then when you want a portion you weigh the portion itself and see what fraction of the total batch it is, and calculate a rough calorie count from there?

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Hi, so I've always dislike cooking everyday, and have been trying different recipes and neal prepping. Probablem is, all of them have been such a struggle to cook, as I'd spend almost a quarter of my day cooking and cleaning up. So I'm here, just looking for a high calorie recipe where I can just use a single pot for everything.

Please help Edit: Thank you so much for all the help! I'll definitely be sure to go through all of these in due times :3

Hello all! I've been working weekly with a personal trainer for about 6 months and while I feel good and see myself getting stronger, the number on the scale inched up about 6lbs and has stuck firmly there: time to refocus my eating! I'm getting married in just over two months and would love to re-commit to losing the bit of extra fat I still carry, but I get really anxious about small portions when I calorie count. Does anyone have any suggestions (inspired by the earlier post about high cal foods!) of foods that were lower calorie than you realized? I was so excited to see that potatoes, a food I'd basically written off as bad-starch, are actually not awful calorie-wise and plan on incorporating them into more meals (using less olive oil!). I was also surprised to see that ground chicken was better calorie-wise than ground turkey, so I'm excited to switch those out! And going to try to curb my avocado addiction :D

Unfortunately, while dutch bros has calories for unmodified drinks on their websites, there’s nothing on how many calories are in the syrups or how much syrup is used so I can’t really estimate this. If anyone knows an estimate for the calories in this drink please let me know! Thank you!

I initially started losing weight by eating the "recommended" 1200 calorie a day diet. Sometimes less, sometimes just a tiny bit more. But always within that range. Worked great, lost around 30 lbs. Then it just stopped. I wasn't losing weight despite still eating in that range and exercising regularly. My body just said NO, we're staying right here. I had both a nutritionist and my personal trainer tell me I needed to be eating more. Especially in light of how much I now work out. That's honestly been a hard pill to swallow. We've always been conditioned to think a simple "calories in, calories out...and the bigger the deficit the better". But appears it's not the case. I still maintain a deficit, just a smaller one. I had read that 500-1000 deficit a day results in weight loss. Period. And that if I wasn't losing weight anymore, it MUST be because I am eating more than I think I am. Which is bullshit. I track and measure everything. But on any more than maybe a 500-600 deficit, I don't lose weight anymore. Worked at first, but stopped.

Our metabolism drops when our bodies are deprived of enough nourishment. Caused a total stall for me. I've started losing again, but VERY VERY slowly. Still trying to figure out the right balance to speed it up just a little more (I'm only losing like 2-3 lbs a month at this point).

Using a fitness app to count my calories. It also shows my macros for the day as well. I am noticing that I am struggling with keep a balance of protein, carbs and fat. The more I try to balance, it seems the worse the percentages are off. Its starting to stress me out. Any thoughts on the macros vs. Calories? Should I be focusing on one over the other? Thanks!

i got hungry before my predetermined snack time, so i ate. all good there. i chose ice cream, which is also okay... until i ate 2/3 of the pint. i feel awful, it wasn’t a binge and i tried to eat mindfully. i just wanted more and more.

i understand the logic to recover when you’re eating large calorie amounts at a celebration party or something— that’s fun and contributing to your life! but what if it’s just a random sunday afternoon? how do you justify that?

I've read that you shouldn't eat less than like 80% of your BMR per day (often stated as "healthy weight loss is a 500-1000 calorie deficit per day") but can't get a good explanation as to why

Ignoring issues of motivation or hunger, what would happen if a large-but-not-obese man ate 1,000 calories per day, while exercising for a TDEE of 3,000 calories per day, and kept that up long term?

The obvious answer is "not enough vitamins/nutrients, and eventually you'd die," so suppose you take supplements and stop if BMI gets below 20

Hi folks, I need advice on this unclear matter. I read the Obesity Code and basically it says if you put less calories in your body, your metabolic rate slows down over time, as your body gets adjusted for reduced food intake coming in.

So now my problem is that I fast 20:4 (F/43 SW: 75kg GW: 65kg) and I also daily exercise and my calorie burn is around 2500 kcal/day, but I am unable to eat so many calories in my window unless I force it down my throat or eat some high calorie junk food. I usually manage 1600 kcal, which is 900kcal deficit daily. I do not fast over the weekend.

Is this somehow not good? I am worried that I will have this yoyo efect related to reducing kcal.

Pls help if I do understand this correctly. Shall I eat more food in my eating window? What is an OK cal deficit?

Hello, folks. This is my first post here. The title isn't entirely accurate and should probably say "notable reduction in hunger".

I've gone from eating a colossal amount of take-out, fast food, and calorie-loaded sweets and snacks to instead eating measured amounts of good, home-cooked food that I thoroughly enjoy making. Unfortunately, I'm making this post out of concern because I've noticed that a lot of my newfound lifestyle seems to cross over directly with the dreaded crash diet I've been told to steer well away from.

Some personal information:

• I've begun intermittently fasting between 10PM and 2PM. 16 hours fasting, 8 hours eating.
• I used to drink between two and four litres of Pepsi Max a day. Now I drink orange cordial, or water if I'm mid-fast.
• 25, M, 6'1. At the beginning of the month I weighed 315lbs and now twenty days later I weigh 295lbs. 20lbs in 20 days.
• Recommended daily calorie intake, according to MyFitnessPal: 2,300kcal

My diet used to be largely made up of processed food such as chicken nuggets, curly fries, and other oven-made food from the frozen section at any grocery. It was also made up of a hefty amount of food from local take-out places and store-bought snacks and sweets. Not great.

Now it's made up of a small bowl of cereal for breakfast (about 200kcal), a snack a few hours later of whatever I can scrape together for less than 500kcal, and dinner is usually made up of meat/fish, home-made mashed potato, and steamed vegetables as well as maybe some form of sauce, such as gravy or parsley sauce.

All in all, by the 10PM cut-off I've usually eaten about 1,200 calories. Sometimes less, to the tune of just under 900kcal. I've never been able to comfortably get by on such a low number of calories until now, and I use the term "get by" because I'm not even feeling hungry between meals, except for when I wake up.

I'm making nearly all of my meals from scratch, and as someone passionate about cooking I'm thoroughly enjoying it. Again, I don't feel hungry despite the low amounts I'm consuming, something I attribute to the intermittent fasting and the sheer lack of unnecessary insulin now that I'm not drinking such an ungodly amount of soda and eating so many snacks, and I've been feeling happier and more hopeful these past weeks than I've felt in a long time.

I don't feel bad about eating the food I eat, which is to say I don't feel guilty like I thought I would. I'm not constantly stressing out about eating

Hi all - the title says it all. Recently listened to this talk by Dr. Greger about caloric density and have been thinking about this a lot. It seems like he suggests that a large enough serving of low calorie foods will fill you up, yet no matter how much I eat (or how much water I drink with my meals), I never feel full on low caloric density foods.

Example: I made a huge dinner salad last night that took me about 20 minutes to munch my way through. It had greens, cabbage, carrots, celery, cilantro, cucumbers, edamame, clementines and quinoa. Yet despite the size, the protein & calories from the edamame and quinoa (of which I added quite a bit!), and the fat from the dressing (a thai green curry dressing - I know coconut milk isn't technically part of WFPB, but I allow it at times), I still felt hungry enough that I went for higher caloric density/non-WFPB-compliant snacks after.

It seems like the only way for me to feel satisfied with a meal like that is to eat something like bread or pasta along with it, but I thought the quinoa would solve that. Nope, was still hungry.

By contrast, my (super starchy) lunch was very filling: steamed potatoes, corn & green beans, black beans.

So is it a need to have something starchy with each meal... or is this just a craving thing? Has anyone else experienced this and had it go away? I've noticed that eating meals that are majority veggies leave my stomach feeling "full" yet my body still begs for food, which is an uncomfortable feeling. I'm not sure if it's just that I'm not eating enough calories at these meals or what. I'm currently trying to lose a small amount of weight (~10 lbs) so I'm hoping to stay in a deficit.

Thanks!

I really don't care what it's made from, as it will just be a vessel for a ton of meats/veggies. I just want something that is as large as possible with the lowest calories for something that size. What would you kind folks recommend?

Also I plan to make a bunch of burritos and freeze them for easy meals on a lazy day.

I really don't care what it's made from, as it will just be a vessel for a ton of meats/veggies. I just want something that is as large as possible with the lowest calories for something that size. What would you kind folks recommend?

Also I plan to make a bunch of burritos and freeze them for easy meals on a lazy day.