03-16-2011, 07:40 AM
(03-16-2011, 07:02 AM)Solidify Wrote: Well I go to the gym at the bare minimum twice a week and have 1 hour of racquetball each week so that totals up to about 3 hours of physical activity per week, give or take an hour.
And that makes perfectly good sense because I'm assuming I need calories so that I can bulk up and/or get the energy I need to go on with my day but the problem is I'm eating wrong foods.
For example, I'm making this post the morning after the OP took place. As we speak, I'm eating breakfast at 10:00 AM. I set my alarm so that I could wake up early enough to have breakfast and lunch together otherwise I would have woken up late. I'm easting two scrambles eggs with two slices of toast and a couple of grapes on the side along with a glass of cranberry juice. Good? I'm doing my best to eat a lot because I have a really hard time eating in the morning after I wake up for some reason. Which is bad because breakfast is the most important meal so I need to slowly start making that adjustment.
Well if you're working out, you're going to need more protein than just 2 eggs for breakfast, let alone the other meals. You need 1-1.2 grams of protein per pound of bodyweight per day when you're trying to bulk up.
The average medium/large egg has 6-7 grams of protein.
I'm guessing you have a high metabolism, you should eat 5 times a day instead of 3, ideally anyways, I know it isn't always convenient with work etc.