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Greetings everyone, I've started on the road to weight lifting and I have some questions. I started in December, 3 times a week and have made some decent gains so far, i'm getting stronger each time, with an average increase of 5% of so every week, so I hope that's good. My only problem is I want to make sure i'm eating enough. I'm spreading my food out to 5-6 small meals a day, and i'm using fitday.com to track what I eat. Now i'm 21 5' 4' and now around 157-160Lb's depending on water weight and such. I have yet to get a true test done, but I would say i'm roughly 21-22%BF. According to the website I seem to average around 2050 calories, usually ranging from 2000 to 2500 day to day, depending on what is cooked for me at dinner. I tend to eat a lot of fish, meat, chicken etc. I average around 45% fat, 30% protien and 25% carbs, always getting atleast 150g of protien a day. Except for weight lifting, I don't do much activity, I have a desk job that keeps me sitting at a computer for 10 hours a day or so, and my walking consists of getting my meals, and walking to the subway, so I wouldn't exactly call my lifestyle active. Am I meeting the calorie intake to bulk up, or am I merely keeping it in balance, and so far just experiencing beginner gains? I know you have to eat big to get big, and that's my main goal, but I know the body can only use so much of that extra calories to build muscle, and then usually the rest is turned to flab, especially with an unanctive lifestyle. so to cut this story short, what is a good number to shoot for everyday to bulk up, but try and get fat gain at it's minimum. Thanks in advance!
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