[Vedic]

Originally Posted by Rowan11088

Well if you're trying to gain weight, you don't have to worry quite as much about how healthy everything you eat is. Obviously you don't want to gain just fat, and you need to supply the nutrients required to put on lean mass, but both those objectives can be accomplished while still eating plenty of the things you like, even if they're not 'health food'.

You should not be aloud to give advice in this forum.

[likkuid]

Originally Posted by earthman32

Add a meal of Salmon & Avocado every evening. It's calorie dense, loaded with protein, and has a lot of healthy fats that will help keep weight on you.

Damn, I totally forgot about avocados - I need to add those to my diet. Salmon every night - isn't that bad (because of the mercury) or is that just a myth?

And don't listen to these guys saying you don't have to eat healthy to gain lean muscle mass - they don't know wtf they're talking about.

[BLOCK]

^ yeah I know.. I've tried just eating everything I want b4, and yeah I gain weight and get a little stronger, but almost ALL of that extra weight goes right onto ur belly..no thanks..

[Rowan11088]

Originally Posted by Vedic

You should not be aloud to give advice in this forum.

Hey, a little overly harsh here?

I'm just speaking from personal experience...when I'm really training hard, I can down a pint of ice cream every night before bed and not gain weight. Not that I do....usually...I'm just saying that generally, people who have trouble bulking just don't eat enough, period, and anything that gets them to eat more will help. If you have a huge caloric intake every day, not all of it needs to be veggies and cottage cheese.

[T.J.T]

Originally Posted by likkuid

Damn, I totally forgot about avocados - I need to add those to my diet. Salmon every night - isn't that bad (because of the mercury) or is that just a myth?

I belive The higher you go up the food chain the more Mercury levels go up. Something like shark contains a lot more then Salmon. I thought i had seen a post about how to choose your fish for mercury levels, but i cant recall the thread name or if it even existed

Aslo BLOCK, if you dont mind putting stuff in your shakes, the foods you have a hard time eating start putting them in your shakes, it will help you get those foods down you might not normaly eat(eg you mentioned you didnt like eating oatmeal, well you can have it in your shakes if you can handle that)

Ps there was a better quote about eating food that is good for you regardless of the taste, i belive it went something like this...

"I'd eat muff every day if it had health benefits"

I thought that was a little more too the point

[ronin0352]

Originally Posted by T.J.T

I belive The higher you go up the food chain the more Mercury levels go up. Something like shark contains a lot more then Salmon. I thought i had seen a post about how to choose your fish for mercury levels, but i cant recall the thread name or if it even existed

Aslo BLOCK, if you dont mind putting stuff in your shakes, the foods you have a hard time eating start putting them in your shakes, it will help you get those foods down you might not normaly eat(eg you mentioned you didnt like eating oatmeal, well you can have it in your shakes if you can handle that)

Ps there was a better quote about eating food that is good for you regardless of the taste, i belive it went something like this...

"I'd eat muff every day if it had health benefits"

I thought that was a little more too the point

I remember that thread also, and there was a link on there if I remember right. I don't know where it is, but here's one to an FDA chart on mercury levels in fish: Mercury

And I like the quote.

[BLOCK]

shark and other pelagic or migratory deep water fish have waaay lower levels of mercury actually... inshore species have much higher mercury levels... heres a pic from lastnight btw ;) I'm the one on the right with 2 much ink...

[ronin0352]

Did you look at the link above? According to the US Dept of Health shark is the second highest on that pretty long list of fish.

Pretty cool pic anyway. You look a tad out of place.

[ninjajesus]

I never understood the logic that mercury levels are higher in fish that are bigger.
Sure, as a whole, they'll have a more total combined amount of mercury, but proportionally, a big fish should have the same amount of mercury per square inch as a small fish would.

I heard that it depends on how long the fish lives. Like a fish that lives for a week won't have time to build up much mercury in their bodies as opposed to a fish that lives 5 years.

[BLOCK]

Originally Posted by ronin0352

Did you look at the link above? According to the US Dept of Health shark is the second highest on that pretty long list of fish.

Pretty cool pic anyway. You look a tad out of place.

I look out of place cuz I'm the captain and those are some tourists dressed for golf that just caught like their first fish ever..

And I don't need to look at a link to know about mercury levels in fish..the way they rate them is bullshit...mako and thresher shark are not high in mercury..and if they listed any other type of shark its pointless because those are the only 2 sharks worth eating..sounds like a PETA scam to get people to back off the sharks lol..