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Hey everyone, figured I'd say hi - I've been reading through loads of your discussions since finding this site the other day. Hopefully all this good info can help me bulk up my tall skinny frame! :oops:

After being very inactive for most of my 28 years, I have since been weight training for about 18 months, but haven't really known what the hell I was doing for most of that. But now I think I've got a better idea of what I need to be doing..... EATING :)

My home workouts have become more intense, and the weights heavier - firstly using dumbbells, and then adding a barbell/bench, and most recently adding a pullup bar. I'm only just barely benching 80kg, so yeah, nothing too flash yet obviously, but its a start I guess.

I can see some body shape changes now, and also actually have some strength these days, well, compared to my elderly grandmother strength that I had previously - but the weight/size gains haven't been nearly enough for my liking. I was very underweight for my height of 185cm, probably around 70kg yikes! But since working out I'm now at 80kg, officially I think that puts me about dead center average BMI, but that doesn't cut it for me! I'm still aware I appear very skinny for my height, so want to bulk up, both for appearance and continuing to build strength. The fact that I've discovered I enjoy weight training and seeing some results from it is whats kept me going, despite the slow progress, but I'm really hoping I can accelerate things a bit...

I'm pretty sure the lack of eating has been my downfall so far. Eating twice what I have been is probably the first step! I would usually have around 3 meals, plus snacks... but I think with my lanky genetics and what not there was not much chance of filling out with that low intake. I'd quite often realise I felt very hungry, and suddenly realise I hadn't eaten in ages that day. I guess this has effectively been holding me back all this time.

I think I've really registered this now though... and have just started eating a LOT more than I have been. I'm aiming for almost twice as much as I was previously eating per day. I'm really hoping that I'll start to see the results of this, in addition to my intensifying workouts, over the next 6-12months.

Anyway, enough of a novel from me, I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on my situation...

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Welcome Progress :grin: So what does your daily food intake look like at the moment?

Thanks :)

I've just started trying to get my food intake into a spreadsheet so I can figure out how much protein/carbs/calories etc - as I had no clue what it was... but for example, yesterday I had:

Meal1

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3 egg omelet

4 slices bread

cheese 25g?

tomato

2 glasses milk

Meal2

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chicken breast

2 lebanese pita bread (big ones)

cheese

tomato

2 glasses milk

Meal3

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chicken breast

2 lebanese pita bread (big ones)

cheese

tomato

2 glasses milk

Meal4

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3 peanut butter sandwiches (6 slices bread)

2 glasses milk

Plus during day about 2 bananas, 1 orange, 1 pear etc - think that was about it? Its an improvement on my previous eating habits, which were much more erratic and might leave me starving half the day, before "remembering" to eat :roll: but I think I need to keep adding more until I'm around 6 meals everyday.

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Yeah cheers everyone, thanks for the welcomes.

Nah very little training for legs. Although I do use a bike for my transportation :) But I haven't been mountain biking much at all for ages so my legs are back to the mighty pale signposts they naturally revert to ;) mmmm sexy time.

I have been meaning to do some more for legs, though upper body strength is my main interest.

Oh and yes buying protein was something I did at the outset, until finances became a little frayed - but I would probably benefit from it all the more these days. I will be buying plenty of protein powder and other protein-rich food sources once finances are back in order :shifty:

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Cheers mate, will do!

I'm curious how significant a difference you guys reckon upping my protein intake will have? I mean, I know in theory people talk about 2g protein per kg of body weight etc, and in theory that should be a good move on my part, but as a relative beginner, do you guys still think its likely to be a real noticeable boost for my strengthening and bulking up progress?

I think I'm on the right track as far as working out goes, with 3-4 workouts per week, of at least an hour - working with weights as heavy as I can handle, doing 3-5 sets of 8-12reps for each exercise.

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