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Anonymous
Hello /fit/.

I'm a relative beginner, recently I turned a page and decided I'm tired of being a scrawny punk that I am and started to raise my body mass along with exercising. At first when I tried to eat more than I usually did, I felt a bit sick but over the period of week or two I became adjusted and now I'm constantly hungry and eating, solid and liquid foods (yogurt, milk etc). I try to consume at least 3000 (healthy) calories a day, which is a lot for my 132 pounds body weight (I'm ~6 feet tall) . But the thing is, I'm gaining minute amounts of weight.

Now, I am exercising, but not too intensely, so my calorie intake should be most definitely positive. My question is, can a lot of the calories taken in as proteins be excreted by kidneys? I can see no other reason as to where the intake goes.

Pic unrelated, would be nice to be like that though.
>> Anonymous
Lift them heavy weights.
>> Anonymous
The thing is, I am using the maximum amount I can lift, but this has stayed constant, i.e I don't see any development in my triceps and biceps. Only a bit in size, but minimal. (I'm not overtraining, I allow sufficient time for the muscles to recover.

I don't have the time right now to go to a gym, I have some equipment at home. So I don't have access to a professional trainer, but I have read a fair share about training. Yet I can't shake the feeling that I'm doing something wrong.
>> Anonymous
Anyone?
>> anon
How long have you been lifting & eating more?

Also, are you consuming around 132 grams of protein per workout day?
>> Anonymous
>>412812

A bit over a month. I know it isn't that long, but I should see at least some development. And yeah, I'm consuming around that, probably more. Although about half of it comes from dairy products, can it be too monotonous?
>> celotil !AN26.8FkH6
I used to cycle, a lot. If I had to go somewhere, it was on my bike. When I'd wag a day of school, "play hooky" for you yanks, I'd ride a bit over 40 kilometres to Brisbane - it usually took 90-odd minutes - and spend the day in the city.

At the age of sixteen I was eating ten to twelve weetbix with sugar and milk for breakfast, three to four sandwiches for lunch, and usually a packet of pasta and mince or a one to two kilogram rump steak with mixed vegetables for dinner, nearly every day.

I was a fairly thin 175 cm tall, 60 kilogram kid who liked wearing baggy slacks, with rather oversized muscular legs - I (don't know what that piece of gym equipment is called that you lay back in and push the weight up with just your legs) could repeatedly lift 250 kilograms twenty times before breaking a sweat.

If you're still growing then it's likely that most of what you eat is being burned up by growing up, however, muscular weight gain, whatever your age, tends to take a while unless you've got a personal trainer and exercise most of the time.

OP, stick to a regular regime of exercise and have patience. Maybe put up a poster of someone who resembles what you want to achieve where you can see it when you exercise. When you don't feel like exercising, force yourself to - rhythms and patterns are important to the body.

If you're looking to focus the muscle gain on your chest and upper arms, might I suggest a regular regime of swimming a hundred laps of an olympic-sized pool, at least once a day, mostly butterfly.
>> OriginalContentGuy@gmail.com
>>412845
That isn't very long at all. Give it like, a year maybe. Muscle growth is SLOW as all fuck, it takes a lot of time to get anywhere, years in fact.

>>411723
>My question is, can a lot of the calories taken in as proteins be excreted by kidneys?
Yes, protein will be excreted if it isn't used.

Also, what is your current routine? Your lifts, recovery time etc.