do you have any advice for a beginning gainer?
Yeah I got some tips and tricks :)
I can't eat a ton what should I do?
Here is my way I expanded my stomach to the absolute churning machine it is. My suggestion is to eat as much as you can until you start getting naseua. Then from there just eat snacks and drink to keep yourself at that same level of fullness for as long as you can. The more you keep your belly as full as possible the more your stomach will stretch out naturally. I did this for a while the first year of my gaining. I legit doubled my stomach capacity in one year.
I can't gain! Even though I eat tons!?
Gaining is a numbers game. It's your body burns a certain amount of calories just by living this is called your metabolic rate. So if you're active and you're young your body will naturally use up more calories. So my suggestion is first find out how much your body uses, then try to go past that.
Use this calculator for a good estimate!
Calculate your maintenance calories (TDEE) using Gym Geek's free calculator. How many calories should you eat a day?
When getting your calories up start looking at what foods are the most calorie dense or find ways to add more calories. Examples of calorie dense foods: any fast food, milk, soda, bread. Pretty much anything with carbs.
I'm never hungry... How can I fix that?
There is three natural ways to make yourself absolutely ravenous.
Number one: Increasing your stomach capacity.
Going back to the first question on this post you can increase your stomach capacity. But the reason why does it make me hungry? Well it's mostly since after increasing your bodies stomach capacity over and over it gets used to the food influx you give it. Then your stomach begs and needs to be filled again when it's empty! Since if your stomach is empty long enough it will naturally shrink. But if your always full your body will prefer that.
Number two: Changing diets
This is not for everyone since if your planning on staying healthy through gains this one does not help you. So when going from a healthy diet of greens, meats and fruits your body only needs a small amount and it feels satisfied. But processed food and fast food has been legit through psycholoogy and bioengineering to make you more hungry and to not fill you as much. So if you start eating these processed foods like fast food, chips, soda etc. your body's gut biome will change to prefer that and be hungry a lot more often.
Number three: Working out
This is very good for almost everyone. If you work out a bit. I mean weight lifting, we don't do cardio here lol. Your body will become ravenous wanting a ton of food to offset the calories you "burned". So you give what it wants! Stuff yourself to the absolute max and replenish those calories! When doing this over and over you gain muscles which is amazing for mobility and you gain hunger and fat! Win win win! After a while your whole body will just crave food naturally no matter what and you just listen to it!
