I know I was a little brief in my initial answer, sorry
I know that the concept of bulking is about gaining weight in a controlled manner
But you know, I've often heard people tell me:
"just eat more food"
"I eat 20 eggs a day, that's why I'm growing" - umm yeah, and that's why you have a huge flat tire of fat bulging out of your pants? Congrats on the 100 kg bench press, now give me 20 clean push ups, remember to hit the chest to the floor, not your stomach, oh.. sorry I forgot! <-- Not impressed!
I am how ever impressed by people benching 100+ kg and, being able to do 10 - 15 clean pull-ups, & 40-50 clean push-ups, only people with discipline in the kitchen are doing that, and in my center you can count less than 5 regulars accomplishing that (out of literally 1000+ members).
It all depends on ones goal though, but I've always had a hard time taking advice from huge guys who completely ignore the importance of diet & functional strength. If that works for them, cool with me, but I'm not them.
"I was finally able to take my problems to the gym vs let the problems take me out of the gym."
That's what I've started to learn too, although it's taken me years to learn.
And yeah I don't increase my kcal on non-training days, I do however cut the carbs, and exchange with fat & protein. Seems to work for me, WHEN I'm consistent that is. I'm lucky that my mom & dad in law are very understanding when I'm bringing my bags of protein & nuts to their house. Not everybody are that understanding in my experience.
Your maintenance cals = 2000? So, you weigh around 160-165?
Carb intolerant doesn't sound fun to be. How many gs would put you into the excess category? What can you eat without feeling the effect carbs?
About my weight, I'm only 140 lbs, although people tell me I look 20 lbs heavier (weee
) probably because I have a mesomorphic body type, with a tiny waist and broad shoulders.
Excess carbs to me would be 200g+ on a non training day. I aim to around 150g, max on non training days. On training days, I try to keep it within 200-225, however it appears that I can easily handle more ON training days, without feeling bad the following day. So when I say I'm carb in tolerant, I'm not talking about having a slow metabolism, in fact my metabolism is probably faster than most, but it wasn't always like that, and my body still reacts negatively on too many poor carbs, also in terms of mood I've realized.
What can I eat: any vegetable, but that makes sense as they're dense in nutrition, but limited in kcal compared to e.g. the devil: white bread, pasta, rice etc.
Other than that, my body tolerates nutrition-dense foods like legumes & nuts very well, hence my metabolism is just fine, it's all about the nutritional value & quality of the foods.
I hope I didn't make it sound like I'm this poor soul who has to monitor everything I eat, far from it, in fact I feel lucky to have the body I have. But compared to my best friend, who is carb-TOLERANT with a BIG T, I do need to keep my body type in the back of my head often, especially when going out, eating at other peoples' houses and such.
I agree about the macro's. Nobody are the same, that's why we should all handle our diets individually. However there are always guidelines to follow.
What type of training are you doing btw??
