Is this enough food to bulk up?

[Darren Avey]

What do you guys think of this bulk diet?Should i add anything?

8am - 4 eggs, oatmeal, yougurt, 2 bananas, orange

11am - protein shake

1pm - 400g chicken breast,pasta,yougurt

4pm - cheese and ham in pitta

6 pm - train

830 pm - steak, pasta, rice, yougurt, banana, orange

11pm - protein shake

[darksol]

Is it enough food?  Yes. But you are missing your sugars.  If you goal is to bulk up, I would recommend adding some dextrose to each of your meals, especially the protien ones. This will cause your insulin to spike, and help transport all your food into your cells.

[Darren Avey]

Can you give some examples?Thanks

[darksol]

Can you give some examples?Thanks

Dextrose is a simple sugar.  You can buy it at home brewing stores for about $1 a pound. You can also buy it at whole foods and such but you will pay 3 x as much.  If you want to bulk quickly.  get some creatine, and take about 10 grams of creatine per day.  Then take about 35 grams of dextrose per 5 grams of creatine.  When I got on creatine back in the day, I put on 20 pounds in two weeks. Even though it was mostly water saturation in my muscles, the phycological impact was huge, and it helped to keep me motivated. 

One thing that has worked for me in the past everytime, is PBJ 6 x a day.  Make sure you use plenty of PB and plenty of jelly.  I guarantee you will bulk up on this.  Even though you will put on some fat, you willl also put on muscle too.  Meal Frequency is very important try to eat 6 x a day, with about 3 hours between sittings.

[Princess L]

Make sure you use plenty of PB and plenty of jelly. 

Make sure it's crunchy! 

[The Squadfather]

it's allright but don't be afraid to throw some pizza, ice ceam, candy bars etc. in there, this will bump up your caloric intake which is the key to weight gain, look at it this way, two king size Snickers bars is 1000 calories, how much chicken and rice would you have to eat to get that much?

[darksol]

Make sure it's crunchy! 

If its cruchy, just be sure to chew.  Else it will come out the same way it came in,  Crunchy.  If you are on any kind of Ephedra, this will feel like shards of glass coming out. 

[Team Diver]

Is it enough food?  Yes. But you are missing your sugars.  If you goal is to bulk up, I would recommend adding some dextrose to each of your meals, especially the protien ones. This will cause your insulin to spike, and help transport all your food into your cells.

Good luck for the diabetes!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but he should rather eat a lot of quality carbs, brown rice, oatmeal etc. Dextrose only after workout. I mean, if we are speaking about gaining muscle, not fatty tissue.

[MidniteRambo]

I know it's a bulking diet, nevertheless, whole eggs, ham, cheese and steak all in the same day seems like alot of fat to consume.  I'm not seeing any EFAs in there either. 

[pushinweightwi]

Adding a fish oil would not hurt, or some flax and olive oil to help bump up the cals.

[candidate2025]

yeah dude the best bulking diet is one full of dextrose(aka simple carbs)..you can find these in varieties of ice creams and sweets. it helps boost the insulin...its a wicked punp dude its llike your on the juice.  sort of like cell tech. anyways...i like to drink a pitcher of syrup before i go to sleep just to make sure my body doesnt slip into a "catabolic" state(that means it starts to eat a bucnh of muscle because of all the energy i use while i am sleeping). do it, itll get get you swole!!!

[pushinweightwi]

Ya, I dont know about adding a ton of sugar to the mix unless you are a extreme ecto.

[Bodies]

that diet will work great for bulking just be sure to run a gram of test/wk

[Lugar]

What do you guys think of this bulk diet?Should i add anything?

8am - 4 eggs, oatmeal, yougurt, 2 bananas, orange

11am - protein shake

1pm - 400g chicken breast,pasta,yougurt

4pm - cheese and ham in pitta

6 pm - train

830 pm - steak, pasta, rice, yougurt, banana, orange

11pm - protein shake

how can anyone say it's enough or too much?  Macros!??!?!?!  Quantities???

[MidniteRambo]

yeah dude the best bulking diet is one full of dextrose(aka simple carbs)..you can find these in varieties of ice creams and sweets.

i like to drink a pitcher of syrup before i go to sleep just to make sure my body doesnt slip into a "catabolic" state(that means it starts to eat a bucnh of muscle because of all the energy i use while i am sleeping)

Three things:

(1) Most ice cream  and "sweets" are sweetened with high fructose corn syrup, some with sucrose, as opposed to dextrose.  Generally, ice cream is not a prferred insulin spiker as far as I'm aware (leaving aside the unwelcome addition of the high fat content);

(2) As far as drinking a pitcher of syrup before bed, that seems ill-advised to be spiking insulin levels before sleep (try low fat cottage cheese or a milk/egg protein).  Insulin spiking is preferred for pwo purposes only as far as I'm aware;

(3) Finally, weren't you asserting on a prior post that there was no such thing as night-time catabolism? (I believe you said, unless you were doing wind sprints in your sleep, there was no such thing).  What gives?