Diet: Some one who knows, help

Long time lurker, finally registered, just because I need this help. For over the last 6 months I have been trying to gain weight to no adue. I have been bustin' it in the gym as well too like never before. My current stats are: 5'6"-7", *goes to scale* 140.2 lbs, stout for my size, strikers build(not lanky though). Anyways here are my past diets that have failed:

1 Huge calories diet -

9:00: Full Meal 1 - Sausage/Egg/Cheese biscuit, tater-tots, drk. choc. milk, 1270 cals.
11:30-45: Half Meal 2 - Sausage/Egg/Cheese biscuit, drk. choc. milk again, 1090 cals.
2:00: Snack 1 - Whey Pro. or Creatine or Weight Gain supplement according to day, + drk. choc. milk: 740-1140 cals.
4:00: Lunch, Meal 2 - Some hamburger or philly chesse steak: 700 cals., drk. choc. milk, 1140 cals.
7:00: Full Meal 3 - Varies, reg milk - ? cals.
9:00: Workout Time
After Workout: Supplements(Pending)
10:30: Snack: 2: Weight Gain + Reg. Milk
11:00: Bedtime

Summary: 4250-5000ish cals. a day. Did gain someweight, but eventually developed a beer belly(prob. from the many carbs. from drk. choc. milk.)

After not good enough gains(5 lbs. at most.) & devoloping a beer belly, I changed to this:

2 Lesser than before diet:

Practically the same as above except stop drinking drk. choc. milk. & changed my 11:30-45 meal. Also stopped taking weight gainer.

Summary: 3300-3600 cals. now. Not seeing much weight gain.

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Now, someone please help craft me something that will actually work & not give me a really fat belly. I need specifics! I don't know aht I'm doing wrong. I eat the exact same thing everyday(yes, this sucks, but whatever. Only way I know how to stay consistant). Thanks for dealing with the long post. Appreciate any help.

 

if you're not sure if you should eat something, rub it on a piece of paper....if the paper becomes clear, its your window to weight gain.

 

too much meat and cheese. more veggies

 

I am currently under the impression that my diets really sucked. Go figure I didn't make much gains. Any more advice guys to help COMPLETELY change everything about how/what I eat. I have read plenty but a lot of the time I read the same things: eat full meals every two hours throughout the day, get around 1.5x-2x your bodyweight in protein, lift big, take in a lot of calories, if you're not getting bigger, you're not eating enough. Well, technically my diets did have all that covered. So, forgive me for my ignorance. These threads I read all say pretty much the same things. So, someone break it down for me like it REALLY is. I have followed the advice I have read. Help me. I do search, I do read. I am still lacking. BTW, thanks for the opinions already guys & the useful information. I've got a lot of things I need to change. *goes off to research.read some more*

 

Okay, since you're reading some back threads I'll chime in. If I had to only make a few points I'd reduce it to this.

1) Shoot for about 150 grams of protein per day. That should be easily attainable for you and sufficient to build muscle on.

2) You're looking for a caloric surplus of about 500 (hundred) cals per day to build bulk (muscle with some fat). When you were noticing the gut before, chances are it was because you were in too big of a caloric surplus. Your body can only build muscle so fast. It takes time. However, you can pack on the fat as fast as you can eat the calories. In general, if you are gaining faster than a pound a week you are adding a pretty high percentage of fat. Adjust your calories back by a few hundred per day.

3) Building real muscle and quality bulk takes consistency over time. Random big meals one day and average food intake on others is only going to promote fat storage.

4) Focus on whole food. Use supplements as supplements. Not as a replacement for food and meals.

Maintain a caloric surplus (if you are maintaining weight, take your current caloric intake and add 500 cals per day to start). Consume adequate protein (for you about 150 grams of protein per day). Lift heavy. Make sure to take days off of lifting (but not eating) to recover.

 

What do you mean by your metabolism will function a bit better and itll help him store weight easier. Say I wanted to lose weight, would eating a bunch of greens help my metabolism function in a way that burns more fat or should I not eat greens at all if I was trying to lose weight? I guess what I'm asking is, could you re-explain the part about how eating greens works with metabolism?

 

A lot of what KK said goes for healthy eating for both bulking and cutting times.

You ought to eat well in both phases.

Lots of greens, lean meats, whole grains, nuts are healthy. Its the amount that you eat that determines whether you are bulking or cutting.

I see no reason to eliminate lots of quality greens, ever.

 

Just reading that makes my arteries hurt....

 

<---Bacon is my 70lb English Bulldog.....I'm Sizzlean baby

 

I don't know, but the sizzlean jingle still gets stuck in my head from time to time. The only bacon alternative in my local store it turkey bacon....I'd rather eat my asics...

 

Ha ha, yall got me laughin now. Anyways, thanks KK & Kou for those excellent posts, just what I needed to read. Much respect. Now it's time to re-evaluate everything & make somethin happen.

 

This is false. Dirty bulking can actually be a LOT healthier for someone with a fast metabolism. Eating dirty foods makes bulking go by much faster, meaning you can start cutting and doing more cardio sooner.

 

If this is false, then why didn't it work for the person that started the thread?

 

There could be a number of reasons. He could be eating too frequently so that his metabolism is at a high, and so he should try to space out his meals a bit more. He could be skimping out on his meal before bedtime (take plenty of casein protein). It could be that he needs to eat more calories.

Do you honestly think that eating less is going to make him gain more weight? At the core, bulking is defined as taking in more calories than you put out.