5’10. 170lbs. I’ve been the exact same weight since I was a teenager. Barely losing or gaining a single pound.
I just found this subreddit and I’d like to know what the best course of action is for me. For several years I’ve only been eating twice a day because I work manual labor and eating in the morning time makes me tired at work and that sucks. I eat my first meal of the day when I get home around 5pm and then again at night, before bed. I don’t even get hungry until 5pm most days. I eat no snacks during the day and drink mostly water.
As I’m getting older, I’d like to get into better shape and start weight lifting some without losing weight or having to eat extra meals. I was pretty fit in my younger days and I’d like to be again. My job keeps me in fair shape, but it’s not as much as I want. I’m afraid, though, that since I spend so many calories working during the day that two meals a day won’t suffice if I start working out too. I’m just not sure how I will cram that much food into me in two meals. If yall have any ideas, I’d like to hear them. For what it’s worth, I know literally nothing about diets or calories or any of that. I’ve always just eaten what I wanted to eat without thinking.
Ayyo! This is my goal too! I’m also 31, but a woman with a sedentary job. With fasting it can be kind of hard to fit all of my calories in my window. My macros and calories are at 2310 and it can be hard to cram healthy, nutritional foods in that window without some form of supplaments. I recently started adding in mass gainers some days when I am light on calories.
Are you getting enough protein?
If you’re already eating intuitively and maintaining, I wouldn’t even worry about it. Until you’re working out for hours every day, the number of calories burned is pretty minimal in the grand scheme of things. You’ll likely eat the couple hundred calories extra without thinking about it.
However, if you want to build muscle you will want to start tracking and targeting protein. There’s all sort of formulas and theories from height in cm to grams. 1-3g per pound. Etc. Find something that feels right for you.