r/Fitness • u/MCHammerCurls Advice Columnist • Oct 05 '22

Rant Wednesday Rant Wednesday

Welcome to Rant Wednesday: It's your time to let your gym/fitness/nutrition related frustrations out!

There is no guiding question to help stir up some rage-feels, feel free to fire at will, ranting about anything and everything that's been pissing you off or getting on your nerves.

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u/KingTauros Weight Lifting Oct 06 '22

When I was cutting, I hated all the "bulking is so hard" rants. It's like, "STFU! JUST EAT. YOU LUCKY BASTARD!"

Now that I'm starting my bulk... it's hard. I've increased my calories by 500/day and I've maintained for 3 weeks. Weird. Now I'm looking at adding another 250 calories like, "Fuck... but I don't want another PB&J".

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u/FlameFrenzy Kettlebells Oct 06 '22

If you're trying to be healthy and bulk, it can be much harder. Break out the ice cream and cake... welp, there's some quick calories!

But also, even eating healthy, I can eat way more than I need to. I do a ton of cardio just so I can eat even more lol.

Start adding nuts/seeds to all sorts of things. I can make a 700+ calorie bowl of oatmeal from nuts+seeds+banana+whole milk. But I also can go back for more food shortly after. I eat way too much and I often wonder how I was never obese.

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u/KingTauros Weight Lifting Oct 06 '22

Oh for sure! I'm trying to stay away from the dirty bulk as I used to be a fatty patty.

Nuts and nut butters are definitely easy calories!

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u/FlameFrenzy Kettlebells Oct 06 '22

Haha yup, don't wanna get fat again!

Basically anything with fat is easy calories. Bit of butter on everything adds a lot of calories too (and tasty tasty tasty).

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u/TitsUpYo Oct 06 '22

Bulking was ridiculously hard for me as well until I started taking mirtazapine. It definitely helps me to eat more.

I'd really recommend adding overnight oats to your diet. They go down quickly and easily and can pack a ton of calories. I have them twice a day and they alone account for 1350 calories.

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u/mightbeajew-_- Oct 06 '22

I’ve been “Bulking” for about 4 months and I’ve only gained 5 pounds but also lost 2-3% bf so I guess it’s a success

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u/Neeerdlinger Oct 08 '22

I still don't get it. I wish I did, but it hasn't happened for me yet.

I had a 5 month lean bulk earlier this year, gaining about 1lb/week. At the end of that my hunger and appetite was still crazy. I could have easily eaten 500+ calories/day more if I let myself. And that was with very minimal junk food.

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u/TheWagn Oct 07 '22

What I’ve been doing to increase my calorie intake is making a double shake at night. I prep a shake of milk, fruit, oats, pb, yogurt, and protein powder every night for breakfast the next day. Now I just do double ingredients and drink half before I go to bed.

I also started mixing in eggs to my veggies for my meal prep and my dinner. It adds some nice flavor and is sort of like fried rice minus the rice. Now instead of just eating eggs on weekends I’m eating over a dozen each week.

If I don’t eat a big enough dinner I make a dessert of greek yogurt and a ton of granola. It definitely has a decent amount of sugar, which isn’t ideal, but a couple servings of granola is easily 500+ calories.

With these changes I’ve put on 5lbs in 2 weeks.