2,000 calories may be a good estimate for how much the average person should eat, but not for me. I need a surplus.
Bitter experience has taught me that I need to be eating far more than that to gain anything. The scale hardly starts moving until I'm over 3,000 calories a day. And that's a lot of food.
So I need to do two things: eat hard, and eat smart.
Eating hard means eating frequently and as much as is comfortable. It really is hard work. Sometimes I just want to relax and fast for a day， or eat nothing but celery sticks. But nothing was ever accomplished by giving up.
Bitter experience has taught me that I need to be eating far more than that to gain anything. The scale hardly starts moving until I'm over 3,000 calories a day. And that's a lot of food.
So I need to do two things: eat hard, and eat smart.
Eating hard means eating frequently and as much as is comfortable. It really is hard work. Sometimes I just want to relax and fast for a day， or eat nothing but celery sticks. But nothing was ever accomplished by giving up.
Eating smart is just as important. For instance, breakfast. I can't eat a lot at breakfast. My stomach won't handle it. But I can drink. Liquids slide easily into my stomach in the morning.
That's why I have refined the 1300 calorie smoothie. I can drink it in the morning without feeling a thing, and yet it has more than half the calories that the average person needs in a day. Here are the ingredients.
That's why I have refined the 1300 calorie smoothie. I can drink it in the morning without feeling a thing, and yet it has more than half the calories that the average person needs in a day. Here are the ingredients.
3 cups of whole milk.
100g whole oats (ground into flour)
1 banana
50g peanut butter
30g weigh protein
Et voila.
1,346 calories (www.calorieking.com)
Is this overkill?
Not as I see it.
I don't know how I would make any progress without my beloved smoothie. If I didn't eat this I would have to eat four cans of chickpeas, or two whole baguettes to make up for it. I just don't have enough hours in the day.
And is it unhealthy? Well, I am obviously using the calories. In addition, peanuts are high in healthy mono-saturated fats, oat bran is good for lower cholesterol, and bananas are high in potassium. The milk fat isn't great, but the calcium is nice and the milk adds important backbone to the whole thing.
Here is (half of) the finished product.
Not as I see it.
I don't know how I would make any progress without my beloved smoothie. If I didn't eat this I would have to eat four cans of chickpeas, or two whole baguettes to make up for it. I just don't have enough hours in the day.
And is it unhealthy? Well, I am obviously using the calories. In addition, peanuts are high in healthy mono-saturated fats, oat bran is good for lower cholesterol, and bananas are high in potassium. The milk fat isn't great, but the calcium is nice and the milk adds important backbone to the whole thing.
Here is (half of) the finished product.
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