Getting Big and Gaining Weight at College

[SuperScro]

I'm a college freshman now, and I am hoping to start gaining more weight. I have done a lot of things wrong in the past, as far as diet and training go. Now I know more than I have before, and I hope i can finally gain weight and muslce so I have more confidence.

There are just a few things I need to ask. Since I live on campus, i have a meal plan, which averages about 14 meals a week. This has some pros and cons. For one, I can only eat 2 meals a day and have buy food or eat something I brought during the day to get more meals in. The good thing is, I can eat as much as I want during each meal, and they have a surprising wide variety of foods that would give me good weight gaining diet.

With my BMR, I need about 3000 calories a day, give or take a few. The problem is how I will be able to get 5 meals in each day. I think I will be able to, but some may be small meals.

The gym on my campus is amazing. It has just about every type of workout machine I could possibly use and plenty of them. I just need to find time between classes and studying to go.

Another question I have is about post-workout protein shakes, creatine, etc. What I have now is whey protein, 1 serving has 20g of it, i usually take 1.5 servings, and I have creatine. I saw somewhere you should have 40g of whey, 5 of creatine, and dextrose. I have enough creatine, its just finding dextrose. I believe I asked the question before, but was confused as to where to get it. I believe that I could easily get 1.5x my body weight in protein, since my protein/weight gainer has 900 calories and 68 grams of protein.

So any advice or encouragement would be really, really appreciated. Like I said, I did a lot wrong in the past, but after I read the article on this site called, "Why you're not building muscle" or something, and started to follow it.

If I don't build any muslce at college, then there must be something wrong with me.

[SuperScro]

I talked a little much, but let me some up my question. Will 4 meals a day be a problem, even though 2 of them will be big, or 3 since the weight gainer is a lot of calories plus another small meal. I will probably work out in my morning since my classes don't start until 12.

[bbaker352]

The only thing I forsee (depending on your body-metabolism makeup) is eating 2 large meals a day CAN add more fat than muscle gain (thus why we try and get 6 meals spread evenly as possible throughout the day).
As far as the dextrose, you can buy it off line.... or, you can just drink a simple carb (grape juice is the norm) with your creatine post workout, then take your whey afterwards.
I recommend finding a way to spread your meals a little more evenly throughout the day. They dont have to be PERFECTLY even, but 2 large meals with 3 small, insignificant meals, Im afraid will backfire......

[BolanRox]

any chance you can sneek a sandwich or someething out with you, my caf was all you can eat too, and looking back it wouldnt have been tow hard to bring stuff out just a tupperware or plastic wrap in my back pack.

[SuperScro]

hmmmmmm this is a problem...

[5kgLifter]

Originally Posted by BolanRox

any chance you can sneek a sandwich or someething out with you, my caf was all you can eat too, and looking back it wouldnt have been tow hard to bring stuff out just a tupperware or plastic wrap in my back pack.

I saw this on a film once, where the guy walks along picking his food up, and every so often he was placing a wrapped sandwich/ or carton of juice into a pocket, placing the rest on the tray, and then paying at the till; I found it amusing, but it does make you wonder if it could work, and whatever else you have on your tray that you don't eat, you could out in the backpack.

[SuperScro]

Lol that sounds like the see from animal house. But the way my dining hall works is that I swipe my card to get in, and from there its all I can eat. I figure I assume i can somehow sneak out a sandwhich or something out of the cafeteria. I don't think they let you carry out food. I will just have to bring a bag and my bookbag to carry stuff out. I figure I will eat breakfast with the food i have in my dorm, go eat lunch, eat a snack from waht i took otu of the cafetria, go eat dinner, eat another snack somehow. I really only see 5 meals, but I guess its better than 2 big ones.

[oakbark]

Just take extra and take it out with you.

If anyone questions just tell them your Doc has told you there is some form of genetic disease in your family and you should eat your food in smaller portions but more often to avoid putting on excess weight or overstraining your digestive system rather than eating it all at once.

remember BS Baffles Brains.

[SuperScro]

I can probably put a sandwhich and something else in a bag, then sneak it out in my bookbag. Nobody would know, and I doubt the people who work there would notice or care.

[CWil]

Yea, I had the same exact plan with the swipe card and all. I always took food out almost everytime. The people working there could care less and it wasn't against the cafeteria policy to take food. Sometimes I would take plates and cups out for my dorm and they never said anything. Like you said, you can always put it in your backpack.