Im on 5500-6000 calories nowadays and im losing weight.
Severe ectomorphs need lots of calories, i know this is going to annoy people again but i shall once again bring up the discussion of genetics.
Has anyone seen me when i was 5'11" 110-115lbs?
Has anyone seen soccerking when he was 6'5" 140lbs?
Them pictures of us look disgusting, very VERY ill looking (of course soccer was actually ill, but thats beside the point)
Just because weve both added a load of mass doesnt change the fact that our genetics still have that bodytype, we just took steps to loophole it.
It doesnt mean our metabolism has slowed down.
Metabolism is through enzymes and natural bacteria, everyones bacteria count is usually in the same region, so the variable here is enzymes, enzyme counts do differ, they also do differ in actual design.
A lot of proteins are similar but are different, one persons pepsin might actually have a different (slightly) amino acid chain than anothers.
They both do the same thing, but slightly more efficiently etc.
Theres also enzyme count, and how well the negative feedback occurs, negative feedback is where little of A makes loads of B, loads of A makes little B.
Loads of B makes little A, little B makes loads of A.
Its so the body doesnt just conveyor belt out millions of enzymes, and this point is reached differently in different people.
Metabolism is controlled via these enzymes, and these enzymes are made by our literal base pair genetic code, enzymes are merely proteins, proteins are merely amino acid chains, and they are made from our nucleotides
http://algoart.com/aatable.htm When you put 400-500 odd amino acids into a chain it makes a primary structure protein, then secondary then tertiary
http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/P/PrimaryStructure.html Secondary structure is made from certain amino acids "cohesion" to each other.
This is where one difference in amino acid can turn one protein into a completely different one.
Binding sites on enzymes arent quite 100% specific as basic biology textbooks like to make out, there are specific enzymes, but a lot do have a few different structures and can bind to a fair few things.
Not all proteins are the same, yet pepsin and its derivatives can bind to all parts of the proteins.
My point here is metabolism IS GENETIC, PURELY GENETIC
It can not be sped up, and it can not be slowed down, you can make secondary adjustments to "speed it up" or "slow it down" but this is merely giving your body extra tools or taking the tools away, its not changing the genetics and the true hardcoded metabolism remains the same.
Get an endomorph in here whos lost 150lbs of fat, get him to eat cake, he'll gain weight fast again, i on the other hand-wont.
Metabolism stays mostly the same, it only changes with age through hormones etc, which, again, is controlled by, DUN DUN DUN, genetics.
You might all be wondering why im posting this here, well, my point is people like me and soccerking cant really gain weight on a 100% pure organic diet like others can, i have always eaten white pasta and white rice because i can eat brown rice and brown pasta until my eyes pop out and im still starving.
Ive clean bulked before and it merely maintained my weight and lost bodyfat, i was gaining muscle, but too slowly for my liking.
Our water supplies have large amounts of chlorine, chloramine and fluorine in it.
Our atmosphere is full of sulphur, mercury, and god knows what else
Our foods (even organic) is covered in many chemicals
Our soils have mostly been tainted with chemicals in the past too
Eating slightly unhealthy isnt going to break any barriers, and eating unhealthily is a rather loose term.
By unhealthily i simply see "bad fats" as the only contributer to unhealthy eating, or sugars.
I dont eat sugars much, and as to bad fats, 20-30% of my fats are bad fats, but i dont think it will take 20 years off my life, and it helps me gain weight-so i do it.
Im against most fast foods, but i dont think brihead or me (who are the main guys who like the "stuff your face" approach dont eat fast food, we still shop for healthy foods, but high calorie alternatives)
where some may buy there own mince and make there own burgers, we'll just look on the back, see the macronutrients and mainly calories and say "thatl do"
Its not that were hiding in a corner munching on mcondalds etc, but counting nutrients to the point where you know exact ratios and have all these "perfected" diets is mainly for pros, weve got many decent physiques on here without that, and quite frankly as danimal says, we dont have the time, i know i dont.
Bodybuilding/powerlifting/weightlifting to me is a hobby, and everything i do trumps it.
I prepare many foods, and a lot are healthy, but if im peckish, yes i will buy a bucket of KFC, not really a problem for me