Neither carbs nor fat make me fat, if I am
not in a calorie surplus.
Remember, if you want to get big, all the weight lifting in the world won't amount to anything if you're
not in a calorie surplus.
Not exact matches
If you're
not counting
calories in any real way, there's a decent chance you'll get the deficit /
surplus aspect met (though even this fails
in a lot of cases), but a pretty good chance that it won't be
in the optimal range.
If you're eating
in a
calorie surplus but aren't generating a sufficient growth stimulus through your training plan, you'll inevitably end up gaining more body fat as opposed to lean muscle.
While you're looking to put yourself
in a caloric
surplus when bulking, eating too many
calories won't give you any extra muscle building advantages.
Vegetable oils, which aren't whole foods, can also possibly cause weight gain, if they put a person
in a
calorie surplus.
I have been eating a
calorie surplus of about 2,300 but noticed I was gaining too fast (I gained two pounds
in two weeks) and getting thicker than I'd like around the waist (which is what I don't want.)
Consume a healthy
calorie Surplus: It's true that you need to eat a surplus of 3500 calories in a week if you want to put on a pound of fat, but you're looking to put on muscle, not fat
Surplus: It's true that you need to eat a
surplus of 3500 calories in a week if you want to put on a pound of fat, but you're looking to put on muscle, not fat
surplus of 3500
calories in a week if you want to put on a pound of fat, but you're looking to put on muscle,
not fat right?
: It's true that you need to eat a
surplus of 3500
calories in a week if you want to put on a pound of fat, but you're looking to put on muscle,
not fat right?
On the other hand, if his junk food eating had lead to a
calorie surplus and he gained weight, which is very likely to happen
in free - living (especially sedentary) individuals who aren't carefully tracking
calories like Haub did, his health markers would have gone down the sh*t ter.
That is, intermittent fasting doesn't let you «eat whatever you want» or
not have to watch
calorie intake or lose fat
in a
calorie surplus or any other nonsense.
The most rigorous and accomplished overfeeding experiments have repeatedly demonstrated that people on the same
calorie surplus differ
not only
in the amount of weight they gain, but also
in the fat - to - fat - free mass ratio.
Hi Nazeef, You cant really gain weight if you can
not bulk or be
in a
calorie surplus.
The energy out from my body fat stores was
not inhibited, so my body either used or «dumped» the
calories coming
in to keep me about the same size despite being
in a 56,645
calorie surplus.
However, remember that you still need to be
in a caloric
surplus, so don't use the workout as a way to burn off all of the extra
calories.
In either case, if you don't know exactly how many
calories you're utilizing for fuel, upkeep, reconstruction, etc., you're better off running a
surplus of fat
calories than of sugar
calories: As you mentioned,
calorie surplus will go into the fatty tissue.
So,
in the vast majority of cases, any
calorie surplus you run will be autonomically regulated by eating less later on when the initial
surplus is a fat
surplus, but
not when it is a sugar
surplus.
This is why,
in my initial comment, I said that they often don't constitute a
surplus: if you burn 2,000
calories from exercise and the metabolic rate (which is typically what people measure) you still need a whole bunch more
calories to go
in, and those
calories need to be from all 3 macronutrient groups.
Which brings me to a final point:
in a lot of people, the 1,000 extra
calories they eat (3,000
in, 2,000 out) don't constitute a
surplus — they go into rebuilding muscle, bone, and other tissues,
not increasing fat content.
Even though eating a
surplus of
calories has been shown to increase testosterone levels short - term
in few studies, it's
not a good long - term plan, because you would simply get fat, which would negatively affect T levels
in the long run.
What you are missing, and what I drown
in daily being involved
in this industry to some extent, is that these people aren't saying, «Eating HFCS won't make you feel full, so you'll tend to eat more if you don't watch your intake and be
in a
calorie surplus, and therefore gain weight.»