Kad

Awesome! Thanks - my new bible! Seems like the perfect article for me. Will do a thorough read through when I am at home. Hmm yea on the points - probably did jump up the calories very fast. ie: in one day! -More milk needed! Aiming for 200g per day. Getting about 100g until i tweak things and grab some protien shakes. -Hope it is! xD Will post routine etc here -Bloody better be for the cost! haha - Yes and YES!!! O_O lol 5 hours and crushingly stressed just now. Should work on that. After two weeks a lot of projects at work are over so .. should be better! ------------- Day 2: Monday 25th Nov Calorie tracking app is working well. Even though all the default foods on there are American. So i do a bit of data entry when eating! Workout yesterday, which I have been doing for a while - time to vary things up a bit soon - 12 x Dumbbell Curl x 3 Sets 28lbs each arm 10 x Shoulder Press x 3 Sets 28lbs each arm 10 x Bench Press x 3 Sets 78lbs Poor weight I know, but any more starts to mess my shoulder. So taking it gradually. 12 x Overhead Tricep Press x3 Sets 28lbs 12 x One arm Dumbbell Raise x 3 Sets Each arm 28lbs 10 x Squat x 3 Sets 28lbs 12 x Side Raises x 3 Sets Resistance band 12 x Front Raises x 3 Sets Resistance Band

Yea I figured that much Seems to be getting gradually better as long as I take things easy. So pullups are off the cards. Stress is a bit out of my control at the moment ... I run my own business and for the last few months it's bordering nervous breakdown levels >.> Will keep this in mind though. 🖕 Will do! Thanks

Ahh yea I know what you mean, going from one unhealthy to another unhealthy is not really my goal. More gym needed! Need to download more audio books Sup! *finger guns* Thanks Machete. It's damn tricky to keep things consistent without a fair amount of conscious effort. It's like that school science project - you know where you look after the plants and measure how many ml of water and hours of light they get in relation to their growth. That's me now, I am a science classroom pot plant. Currently the sick yellow looking one Yea it's probably a good idea. I'll cough up for some personal training after the expense of christmas i think ... and for physio. I screw my shoulders up for a day each time i do a pullup.. which is annoying as hell. 50 hours sleep - this is my kind of training! -- Made a battle log at last Time to get strict!

It's time to start a Battle log! Hopefully this will be useful for me to keep track of what I'm doing, and not go round in circles. Plus to sponge some more advice from you all folks And perhaps others in my position of "I wanna GAIN weight!" will find it useful. Intro was here, if anyone wants a bit of background on me. https://rebellion.nerdfitness.com/index.php?/topic/115113-hello-nf-community/&tab=comments#comment-2543275 Turns out I had just presumed I was eating enough calories a day (seemed a lot...) but actually i was at least 500 a day under what I should have been eating to get some weight. So the mission is to reach 176lbs (80kgs) in a healthy manner, not just get fat. Starting weight is 70kgs (155lbs). To do this, the goals are: Exercise with weight training 3-4 times a week. Start swimming once a week Eat a healthy 2800 calories a day. Starting me, starting stats (lol, ok it's an RPG right? xD) I should probably do proper progress shots, I dunno - do we do that here? Starting Stats: 25th October (im going back a bit which was low point) Weight 70kgs (155lbs) Body Fat 14.9% Muscle 80.8% (it's a weird stat on my scales, it counts as everything which is not bone or fat basically) Bone 4.2% Water 57.8% Current Stats: 22nd November Weight 72.1kgs (158lbs) (+2.1kgs) Body Fat 16% (+1.1%) Muscle 79.8% (-1%) Bone 4.2% Water 57.2% It's been a busy time at work and I have not been exercising enough 😕 So gotta keep an eye on the fat % or i am going to just go from one type of unhealthy to another xD

Thanks, will get into the habit of drinking more milk. So far, day 4 of eating more and i gained 1.5lbs. I may have overshot on the calories on a few of the days but scales say it is both muscle and fat, sooo not too bad. Thanks TGP! It's already nice to have somewhere to voice stuff about this, rather than battling alone! Gym? I converted my garage to a mini gym. I find i never managed to actually get out the house and travel to the real gym with any real consistency. When i can just shamble to the garage gym, I am pretty good at getting in there every other day for 45 min to an hour I have a bench, dumbbells and barbells and when i get my DIY hat on, i will put up a pullup bar, which i have been meaning to get around to! Might need a few pointers on technique, I will post a new topic tonight.

Thanks Flanders! Downloaded and will try it. Thanks! Yea it calculated that to get to 80kg in 4 months, i should be eating 2.9k calories a day. Which is interesting since it looks like i was eating about 2k before ... i had just presumed I was eating enough .. seemed a lot! Damn my shopping bill just jumped by 33% lol Will get to making a progress log topic in a bit. Maybe other folks will like some of my recipes or something

Heya! That's some solid advice, thanks. I will certainly start a food journal so I can see what is going on. I never counted protein either so if it turns out that is low - i guess I can start making sandwiches of bacon in between two grilled chicken breasts xD Downloaded a calorie counter app now ... OK I need to eat more ... 2.9k calories a day so it says. Hmm go figure haha.

Skipping meals can encourage weight gain through slowing down your metabolism. (Unless you build it into a schedule as part of a diet.) Your body says "Ooo damn, seems there is not as much food around, I better start storing some energy in fat reserves." If you want to reduce calories, try to stick to eating regular meals all the time, but just smaller portion sizes. https://www.piedmont.org/living-better/what-happens-to-the-body-when-you-skip-meals You can do it!

Hello everyone! I'm Kad, im from England, I am in my 20s, I work a very stressful desk job (Yes. The desk; the nerd's natural habitat!) and I have been working out for about 18 months .... and i never, gain a milligram! :/ So here I am, hoping to get some advice and motivation from the NF community. My goal is (clearly) to gain weight. At the moment I am 155lbs .. which I have been floating around for... far too many years! 5'11" if my posture is good. Have a pic from last weekend's shopping trip (nope, I didn't buy that shirt) I am making a conscious effort to have good posture here. I'm a little exasperated training on my own, since no matter what I do, I can not gain weight. But during times of high stress, i lose weight in a literal flash. For example, for 10 days I lived away from home. Worked longer hours 9am to 8pm, it was a particularly stressful 10 days. Didn't gym. I lost 4.5lbs in 10 days >.> It took me 6 months work to gain 4.5lbs... I can't eat processed sugar, as I seem to be allergic to it if I eat too much at once. Three doughnuts in a day will kill me with stomach cramps which feel like a new black hole has just formed in my guts, for example... so I guess the outcome of that is that my diet is pretty good. I will have a cake/cookie/dessert maybe once a month. <.< I kinda miss cookies ... I gym for about 3 x 1 hours a week. But i tore my shoulders about a year ago, which can start hurting if i overdo it. So perhaps my gym is not as intense as it should be? Not sure. Ahhh Help! xD lol So that turned into a rant rather than an introduction!! hah. I'm considering getting the NF personal trainer help. Would be great to hear any advice from other (ex or current) bundles of sticks, on how to go about gaining weight!! Cheers