If you want to add muscle you're going to need to start eating more than you think you need to. Maybe even more than you want to.
And you will probably soften up a little around the middle before it's over. But it'll be worth it.
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I'm not pushing hard to gain, but kind of tinkering with diet and exercise changes to see what happens. If I stay this size and just build lean muscle I'll be fine. Wouldn't bother me if I gained a bit either.
My breakfast is about 12-12:30 3 boiled egg whites, salsa, 1 oz cheese, 2 pieces of toast with PB and honey, banana, and every couple days bacon or sausage. I usually save the meat for days I know I'm going to do a lot. A day or two a week I'll do a seed bowl instead.
Lunch at 2:30- varies but nothing big. Meat if I didn't have meat for breakfast, no meat if I had meat for breakfast. Mainly for cholesterol reasons.
Dinner at 5:30- dinner is pretty big for me because I'm headed to work.
8:30- couple pieces of beef jerky and 1 oz cheese
11:30 trail mix or almonds, about 2-3 ozs
2:00 am 1 to 1.5 C vanilla greek yogurt and home made granola.
I've bulked up Bfast a bit, and added the snacks at night. On my evenings off I switch the snacks to a fruit smoothie as a post workout thing and usually end up eating pork rinds while having a drink after the kids are in bed.
I'm eating more on this "diet" than I think I did before. But I'm eating far better and less junk, plus the exercise and muscle keep all that in check. Hard to believe how much you have to eat to maintain once you get out of the junk food and get the weight off. If I slowed down on my eating I'd probably drop back to the 160's again. But some days I'm not sure I could eat more. lol