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« on: January 14, 2012, 05:37:47 PM »
For somebody trying to bulk, can you just make healthy decisions, get enough food throughout the day, etc? is it necessary to actually calculate the calories needed to gain weight?
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    « Reply #1 on: January 14, 2012, 05:39:01 PM »
    No. Moreso if you are confident that you are comfortably consuming more than your TDEE. If you are trying to maintain or lose weight, then counting (if only a rough estimate) would be wise.
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    « Reply #2 on: January 14, 2012, 06:41:29 PM »
    In order to bulk, you are correct you'd have to make healthy choices.
    I would say you don't have to count calories, just the nutritional facts (i.e fat content, sugar, etc.).

    When I started bulk, I just ate a bowl of cereal with yogurt and a tbsp of peanut butter... Packs on maybe 200-300 extra calories which puts me over my TDEE (assuming I'm full). Really, bulking is just eating more (healthy food) than you're supposed to.
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    « Reply #3 on: January 16, 2012, 09:28:13 PM »
    Scooby comes up with all these calorie calculators so I'm assuming he wants you to use them and count your caloric intake. That's just my biased opinion.
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    « Reply #4 on: January 17, 2012, 09:02:34 AM »
    it takes up somuch time writing all calories, fat, protein etc down i suppose as long as youve got a good relative idead of how much your taking in its all good
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    « Reply #5 on: January 17, 2012, 08:21:32 PM »
    Quote from: wolf798 on January 17, 2012, 09:02:34 AM
    it takes up somuch time writing all calories, fat, protein etc down i suppose as long as youve got a good relative idead of how much your taking in its all good


    I agree. If your not a profesional bodybuilder you dont really need to do that. Or bulking for that matter
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