If you really want to gain weight you just need to eat enough food combined with exercise.
Things like oatmeal and boiled eggs as mentioned on the previous page make taking in a lot of calories very simple.
Just buy what you like to eat and cook though. If you don't like it, you won't take the time to prepare it or eat it.
Eggs and canned tuna are easy portable protein sources.
Pasta, brown rice and oatmeal are great sources of carbs without too much work or time.
Add some olive oil or butter to the pasta with a grilled chicken breast and some seasonal vegetable and you have a very fast and healthy meal. I also like to add pine nuts.
Personally, I enjoy dates as a calorie packed snack. They're sweet, store easily and loaded with energy.
On August 12 2013 01:47 Slusher wrote: I've never made homemade soup belive it or not.
I think my mom makes it with bones (not joking) like after a xmas dinner she keeps the bones and it's pretty good, but I'm not sure how it works.
Homemade soup is actually incredibly easy, one of the easiest homemade foods to make, and yes, using bones in some fashion is standard. You don't have to get extra bones, just use a boney cut, such as shoulder chop, to get that infusion of deliciously tasty marrow from the bones. Just throw whatever you want in it, bring to a boil, and then let it simmer on low when you leave for the day, ideally for 8+hours. It's so little work and can be done in large quantity. To store it I chill it in sink of ice before refrigrating/freezing, and I ladle out the ingredients and store them separately from the broth. Freezing in a good airtight container can keep your broth a good 2-3 months, but the ingredients are usually less desirable to freeze.
On August 12 2013 09:29 Chrispy wrote: Yo fit nerds can someone make me a grocery list/meal order for a skinny nerd trying to gain weight? I'm only slightly stronger and bigger than TheOddOne jr. but stretch him to 6 feet for reference.
My grocery list so far:
1. Chicken Breast 2. Carrots 3. Almonds 4. Mandatory protein shake?? 5. Eggs
#Time2getbuff #bowflexing #dongsquad420
Beef (flank steak, steak, ground beef) Pork (bacon, ham, pork chops, tenderloin) Chicken (Legs/thighs, organs if you eat those) Cured meats (salami, pepperoni) Sausages
Peanut Butter
Any carbs (rice? bread? oatmeal?)
If you're trying to gain weight you need to eat lots of food. Sticking to lean, calorie-light foods won't get you anywhere.
I also really loved hikaru no go. Honestly its not really the subject of go, but rather the suspense of the whole story, and the whole high level + noob + hidden identity + hidden power concept that made it exciting. It was really good writing and honestly could have been about any subject.
I heard Hikaru no Go got cancelled because the Korean guy lost to the Japanese guy and there was some uproar about that, so the author got stressed and quit.
On August 12 2013 13:33 kainzero wrote: I heard Hikaru no Go got cancelled because the Korean guy lost to the Japanese guy and there was some uproar about that, so the author got stressed and quit.
I actually remember finding that manga at my friends then gobbling up the manga online it was great i loved it. :D also like the game go but cant find any place that sells it
On August 12 2013 09:29 Chrispy wrote: Yo fit nerds can someone make me a grocery list/meal order for a skinny nerd trying to gain weight? I'm only slightly stronger and bigger than TheOddOne jr. but stretch him to 6 feet for reference.
My grocery list so far:
1. Chicken Breast 2. Carrots 3. Almonds 4. Mandatory protein shake?? 5. Eggs
#Time2getbuff #bowflexing #dongsquad420
You don't need a special diet to bulk up. Just eat lots of food at first, especially if you're just naturally very skinny.
What a good diet does though, is give you more energy at the gym (instead of eating shit and not being able to do much). So try to just cram in a lot of calories, but avoid really crap stuff like fast food, and you should be ok.
For reference, when I first did my gainer diet of +20 lbs in 6 months I did like 2.8k calories a day. Peanut butter + ice cream is a really easy way to fit in calories that isn't completely awful (high in saturated fat, but if you buy the right stuff at least it isn't processed corn and hydrogenated oil). You can also buy gainer formula which is usually processed carbs and protein make from milk solids and soybeans and mix it in with ice cream as a weight gaining shake.
Keep in mind though, if you're naturally very thing, keeping the weight on is very hard because you just have a naturally very high metabolism. I stopped eating huge meals and dropped to moderate portions and lost all of the weight over a year or so, so now I have to get back in it.
Summary tips: 1. Eat whatever you want, but junk food will mean you feel like shit 2. Do power workouts because you want to get those muscles in maximum atrophy at minimum calorie output so your calorie input >> calorie output. 3. Trying to gain more than 5 lbs a month is extremely ambitious. 4. Get lots of sleep, so you have energy to do your shit without having to burn calories in overdrive.
For reference, I'm current trying to gain the weight back and +4 lbs over 5 weeks. My fridge is stocked with Costco bags of prewashed broccoli florets and baby spinach, and my freezer is filled with their bags of chicken thighs (better flavor, more edible, less lean protein though) and chicken tenders (more lean protein, still more flavorful than chicken breast, costs more $). Everything else I just buy on an as-need basis.
On August 12 2013 13:33 kainzero wrote: I heard Hikaru no Go got cancelled because the Korean guy lost to the Japanese guy and there was some uproar about that, so the author got stressed and quit.
I've heard of similar things, but googling around doesn't give me anything concrete. All I see are random forum posts that aren't really showing any evidence.
On August 12 2013 13:33 kainzero wrote: I heard Hikaru no Go got cancelled because the Korean guy lost to the Japanese guy and there was some uproar about that, so the author got stressed and quit.
I actually remember finding that manga at my friends then gobbling up the manga online it was great i loved it. :D also like the game go but cant find any place that sells it
If you want some place to pick it up again, online go isn't so bad. I used to frequent KGS(gokgs.com) quite often when I played it. It's more community orientated than some of the other go servers in my experience.
On August 12 2013 09:29 Chrispy wrote: Yo fit nerds can someone make me a grocery list/meal order for a skinny nerd trying to gain weight? I'm only slightly stronger and bigger than TheOddOne jr. but stretch him to 6 feet for reference.
My grocery list so far:
1. Chicken Breast 2. Carrots 3. Almonds 4. Mandatory protein shake?? 5. Eggs
#Time2getbuff #bowflexing #dongsquad420
You don't need a special diet to bulk up. Just eat lots of food at first, especially if you're just naturally very skinny.
What a good diet does though, is give you more energy at the gym (instead of eating shit and not being able to do much). So try to just cram in a lot of calories, but avoid really crap stuff like fast food, and you should be ok.
For reference, when I first did my gainer diet of +20 lbs in 6 months I did like 2.8k calories a day. Peanut butter + ice cream is a really easy way to fit in calories that isn't completely awful (high in saturated fat, but if you buy the right stuff at least it isn't processed corn and hydrogenated oil). You can also buy gainer formula which is usually processed carbs and protein make from milk solids and soybeans and mix it in with ice cream as a weight gaining shake.
Keep in mind though, if you're naturally very thing, keeping the weight on is very hard because you just have a naturally very high metabolism. I stopped eating huge meals and dropped to moderate portions and lost all of the weight over a year or so, so now I have to get back in it.
Summary tips: 1. Eat whatever you want, but junk food will mean you feel like shit 2. Do power workouts because you want to get those muscles in maximum atrophy at minimum calorie output so your calorie input >> calorie output. 3. Trying to gain more than 5 lbs a month is extremely ambitious. 4. Get lots of sleep, so you have energy to do your shit without having to burn calories in overdrive.
For reference, I'm current trying to gain the weight back and +4 lbs over 5 weeks. My fridge is stocked with Costco bags of prewashed broccoli florets and baby spinach, and my freezer is filled with their bags of chicken thighs (better flavor, more edible, less lean protein though) and chicken tenders (more lean protein, still more flavorful than chicken breast, costs more $). Everything else I just buy on an as-need basis.
So, I'm thinking of starting up another pokemon game so I can try this Nuzlocke* run stuff (I like doing challenge runs of other games, why not pokemon?)
I'm probably not going to make a big fancy let's play thread, but I probably do want to make a thread about challenge runs of games in general.
I kinda want to do a pokemon game I'm NOT intimately familiar with, of which there are very few, so:
*Nuzlocke run - Pokemon Faints = permadeath (immediately release pokemon), Only catch the first pokemon encountered in each new zone. Name it, so that if it dies, it's personal.
On August 12 2013 15:29 sylverfyre wrote: So, I'm thinking of starting up another pokemon game so I can try this Nuzlocke* run stuff (I like doing challenge runs of other games, why not pokemon?)
I'm probably not going to make a big fancy let's play thread, but I probably do want to make a thread about challenge runs of games in general.
I kinda want to do a pokemon game I'm NOT intimately familiar with, of which there are very few, so:
*Nuzlocke run - Pokemon Faints = permadeath (immediately release pokemon), Only catch the first pokemon encountered in each new zone. Name it, so that if it dies, it's personal.
On August 12 2013 11:14 onlywonderboy wrote: No spoilers but the new episode of Breaking Bad was soooooo good. Can't believe there's only seven episodes left.