Hello, doctors. I’ve always had the tendency to be skinny: if I don’t watch what I eat, I tend to lose weight. At the moment — with rigorous calorie and weight tracking — I am at 180 cm, 70-71 Kg, around 13 % bf according to the us navy formula, and I eat 3000 kcal/day. This calorie intake is what it takes to mantain my bodyweight (it has been stable for the past 3 weeks, at least).
My question is: do these numbers sound reasonable to you? Comparing with much, much bigger guys anywhere on the internet, my calorie intake seems always much higher than what it should be. Huge guys calling a 2500 kcal diet a “bulk diet”… are you kidding me? If I ate 2500 kcal/day I would lose 1 Kg in a week.
Should I have some check ups? Aside from being a skinny bastard, I don’t have any symptoms… but these numbers sound outside the “normal range” to me…
Thank you very much for your answer. My calorie tracking is very very diligent (I’ve been in the hardcore tracking game for at least a year, now… and I did make some progress, if you consider that I used to weigh 58 Kg ) .
Would you suggest changing something in the diet for an individual like me, compared to your basic general guidelines (To Be A Beast)? Or just more in the same proportions? In a podcast you suggested to add milk/ peanut butter at every meal for gaining weight, and keeping everything else the same. I really like this tip, because it is really simple… but I fear my fats would get too high, given the huge amount of extra calories I need.
I’ve never heard a huge guy call 2500 a bulking diet. That’s 250 less than my cutting diet and I’m not huge and I don’t do any cardio other than what The Bridge specifies.
That may have been an overstatement, but a 3000 kcal diet is definitely a bulking diet for guys much bigger than me… while, for me, it is basically a maintenance diet (at 70 Kg). I may be wrong in my impression of having to eat much more than anybody else… In any case, if the Doc says that my caloric need sounds “reasonable “, that’s fine by me
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