Hey-

I heard youse guys telling Dave "Skinny" Carl about packing on the weight. And I can enforce that idea with this little story.

I'm proud to say that when I got started throw'n, I put on 30 pounds (without a change in my waist size) from the excitement, hard training, protein, ... and the guinness. And I improved during that time in every event. Since then I've cut back down to maintain my weight at 197lb so that I can compete in the middleweight division, but I know that your body weight can help you in this sport if you manage it properly.

Unfortunately, now that I'm over the hill my legs seem to be getting shorter and heavier, ... and I'm rounder at the beltline. What gives? Is it the gravity? What goes up, ... and all that?

Anyway, Dave ... learn to eat eggs. Crack 4 of em into a glass, add a little milk, stir with a fork and chug'em down every morning... but be sure to drink it near the sink. It'll get your day started with the best possible protein and then you've gotta get as much done as possible to make it work for you the rest of the day.

Trust me on this one, ... if you can get past the gag reflex,

-EggHead    

... but be sure to drink it near the sink

Yeah, and keep a garbage can handy for a while until you get used to the taste.  A buddy and I started doing this in 10th grade to bulk up, I got big, he got salmonella.  Just watch out for the shells, that's what usually gets people sick

  Rockhound/Egghead and others,

  I'll give it a shot.  A Fear Factor contestant, I'm not.  I like the idea of cooking and eliminating salmonella.  I had a parasite once, I wouldn't like to experience anything like that again.

  -Thanks, Dave "Tapeworm" Carl

For those of you that are "uneasy" about the salmonella try this:

http://www.lanaseggwhites.com/ - http://www.lanaseggwhites.com/

Or just purchase some basic protein powder where the main components are egg and milk protein.  Every issue of Milo comes with an ad for just that. It's call Just Protein...I think. 

Just another alternative

Tim-

But ya don't get that FearFactor effect from some powder in a bag.

Com'on go ahead, you can do it. Don't be a sissy. You wuss. Chug, Chug, Chug, Chug.  Atta boy!

-Salmonella is for wussys

raw eggs!!! eeewwwwww, cook em! with salsa! tobasco sauce! I guess you could do that with raw hamburger also...or better yet just go to a farm and bite a pig!

Dont forget the supplements!!!

Dude it's called oatmeal with protein powder mixed in...

2 cups of oatmeal and 35-50g of protein!!!!

You crap like a champ!!!!

I am shocked at our group.   They come in a dozen for a reason.  Why eat 3 or 4 and break up the set? 

Again let me suggest the previous link.  Eggs have no lactose in them. 

Milk proteins, however, are whey and casein.  The whey is absorbed quickly while the casein is absorbed slowly.  The benefit to drinking both at the same time is that you maintain a better and longer nitrogen balance.  There is great benefit to this for those that are trying to put on weight.  I have had good success with a product called Grow.  It contains milk proteins but most (maybe all) of those that I know have little or no tolerance problems with it.  A company called Biotest makes it.  Type the name in to Google and you should find it.  If you need the link let me know.

Good eatin'

How do they milk a soy bean?? How can they tell a girl soy bean from a boy!

I have to cut out the milk but I do take calcium citrate and a half a flacker of cow a day!

Silverback wrote: I am shocked at our group.   They come in a dozen for a reason.  Why eat 3 or 4 and break up the set?

My man!  I couldn't agree more!!  You all are talking about gaining weight, then follow it up with 3-4 eggs.  Many a morning I cook the dozen. 

Lemme make it really easy, if you want to gain weight, eat....MORE.

Silverback wrote: Fried pork chop sandwich, now that is breakfast in the south baby.  .

You know they don't carry that at the Hardee's up here?  I was rather disappointed....

234lbs in my pj's today

and dropping

(the pounds, i mean)

lookout lightweight class, here i come

what a difference a year makes

rgds

old plaid wrote: 234lbs in my pj's today and dropping (the pounds, i mean) lookout lightweight class, here i come what a difference a year makes rgds

Whoa old man.  Not to fear, 230+ is still plenty for what you seek.  You'll be back in no time....

I have no Idea what you all are talking about! I was just about to enter the 190 and under class (two spots that is).

I never have had any problem with putting on the weight. I am around 380lbs and 6' 5".

Thats where the BIG in BigdogEMT comes from!

Terry

overhead squat and deadlift. Puts on the pounds from tip to toe. Makes you "one" piece. I personally like the soul kitchens down here on the Alabama Nation. I'm lucky to live in the south where everybody cooks like Elvis liked to eat.

Good luck to ya Dave! - Jason Irvin

Eating before you go to bed has nothing to do with weight loss or gain.  That said if the sumo gains weight it is because of how much he eat not when he eat. On that note I think I’m going to go to the China Buffet.

 If you what to gain Squat. Squat deep. Squat often. I think my weight is stable at 280

Oh if you can’t drink milk, http://www.greatlakesbrewing.com/whatsOnTap.php - drink Liquid bread . monster IPA (Never touched a supplement in my life!)

 if you were to consume a high protein low-fat meal prior to bed, it might actually aid in the process of fat loss! Protein is highly thermic. A lot of work is required to take those protein chains, break them down into dipeptides and tripeptides (small chains of 2 or 3 amino acids), transport them through the wall of the digestive tract, and then virtually reassemble them as new cell tissue. That means your body's going to increase momentary metabolism as you sleep, increasing its caloric burn, absorbing and assimilating those vital amino acids necessary to maintain or increase lean body mass (muscle tissue).

G-man is correct about the night eating.  It won't neccasarily make you fat.  It may not help in lossing weight though.  All food, though, does have at least some thermogenic effect.  If you like, you could simplify it to:  Calories in VS. Calories out.  Are you taking in more than you are expending?  Then you can start to fine tune what you are eating.  You really do get out of your body what you put in. 

This may sound like heresy to some but as you increase your calories try to limit you simple sugar intake and intake of "bad" fats i.e. saturated.  Oh, and try to not combine the two...ever.  This will help you control your insuline level throughout the day and will help increase your performance.  The one time when simple sugars are beneficial, preferably maltodextrose, is post workout.  By manipulating your insuline levels at this time you will use the food you eat to restore your glycogen levels and repair your muscle as opposed to storing it as adipose tissue (read:fat).

Here Dave, I've got a link for you to help you figure out how much to eat.  Beyond that the best tip I've ever gotten was to write down what you eat for a week.  You may find that you are grossly over-estimating how much you are eating.

http://www.johnberardi.com/updates/july262002/na_masscalculator.htm - http://www.johnberardi.com/updates/july262002/na_masscalcula tor.htm

Oh, I had the same problem the first time I did it.  The bottom section is not how many times you work out in a week, it is how many times you work out in a day.  For most that is once. 

The calories will be high though.  It is a "massive" eating calculator.  Most people are shocked by how many calories they need to eat but again this is if you are trying to gain weight.  If you are 6'5" and 295lbs. you'll have to take in a ton of calories.  But do you really need more weight at that point.  Hell, maintanence for a guy that size is already high enough.

The bottom line is if you want to grow, you need to eat accordingly.  Lift heavy, eat heavy, get heavy.

>Oh, and try to not combine the two...ever.

Ahhhhhhh.... Donuts. Atkins is being vindicated here.