If your concern is acquiring more muscle (and minimizing fat accumulation), which is what most average fitness individuals want, then...its my opinion, you need to bare down on educating yourself on your dietary needs to gain good tissue, and then base a diet structure off of this.
It begins learning your calories needs coupled with constructing proper macro nutrients, and then adjusting these two areas according the type of feedback you are obtaining from your body.
It is a high "probability" you have a fast and efficient metabolism because you are so young, but their is an energy-line within your body (both in the calorie construction and manipulation of macro nutrients) that will solicit proper weight gain. You have to find it, and it may take some work, but its there.
Do you want to learn how to approximate your calories and macro nutrients? I can post some info if you want it.
Now, I ramble.....a bit:
Well, is eating fries and brownies going to inhibit my weight gain process?
Bare with me for a moment:
Bottom line?
Really, its: Yes and no.
Dependent on how "much" you are eating over your Maintenance, cause' theoretically you could just eat these two things (only) and lose tissue (or not gain any tissue), cause you are simply not eating enough (despite the obvious malnutrition)
Fries and Brownies, say 1,000 calories, and this is the only thing you ate, and for two weeks this is all you ate, and you needed 2300 calories to maintain your weight. Hypothetically (in the numbers), you would lose tissue.
There is a problem here though (IMO). And, it points to the quality of the food source (which is my point).
First their is very little protein in these two items and a load of fat, and sugar. When dieting to lose tissue (just using losing tissue as an example), protein becomes MORE IMPORTANT, and since it is primarily absent in the diet, where do you think your body is going to do (despite your training?).
The odds increase rather drastically that the muscle to fat loss ratio is going to be at ratio not liked by the dieter. In other words, this is breading ground for increased muscle loss.
There can of course be exceptions (such as new persons to training, and whatnot).
Three primary causes: 1. Lack of protein in the diet, 2. The severe calorie restriction, and 3. The brevity of the macro nutrients.
Now, flip this to weight gain.
First, we have an efficiency problem to talk about. When dieting to lose tissue (
keeping the parts of the diet and one's metabolism equal with this example), muscle growth is more difficult, and the fat or tissue loss (keeping things equal) are in the more primed position.
With weight gain its sort of the opposite: Muscle growth though still somewhat difficult is in the prime position; however, so is fat growth accumulation, and tissue loss is less efficient. And, the body's ability and efficiency to put on fat tissue normally exceeds its ability and efficiency to put on muscle.
And,
the way to assist this scenario, is through your diet (and exercise), which makes the Fries and Brownies, much
less optimal for your fitness needs (or "quality weight gain"), no?
Am, I saying you couldn't eat this in moderation, while "normally" TRYING to eat a healthy diet? No I am not.
But, what I am saying is that the focus point of your diet should be in giving your body all the calories, macro nutrients, and micro nutrients, to build muscle, and MINIMIZING fat accumulation.
And, one's diet can surly mess this up.
I am a hard @ss when it comes to nutrition.
I think its too damn bad, I have hunger when I diet to lose tissue, and use sand paper as my butt wipes, but this just me.
And, if you care at all about controlling how the body partitions its calories (which we have little control over, other than the contents that go in the mouth),
than you need to learn about your approximated calorie needs (so you can learn where your approximated MT-Line is to provide a calorie surplus), and how to properly arrange your macro nutrients, and when or if necessary manipulate the macro nutrients.
We spend about one hour in the gym (as an example), but the diet works on you 24 hours per day.
My first impulse is to say: Dude! Chuck the dang brownies and Fries!
BUT! If you can enable 95% of your diet that surrounds trying to eat healthy (and enough to cause good weight gain), then this 5% isn't going to have much impact on your efforts to gain "proper" weight.
Now, (like many others), you are faced with choices to make. What ever you decide, when the smoke clears, the diet will still remain KING,
and all the crying (and depression) in the world, will not change this mighty and obvious fact.
Get your diet in order, and if you can not eat in moderation, then chuck the brownie and fries! NOW!
I do not have one gram of excess fat on my body, and never had any. In fact, I think I lack some in my face and cheeks...
Would it be possible to post a pic?
If you didn't have "any" fat on you, you wouldn't be able to post on the forum. Why? Because you would be dead.
Even IF you were largely made of muscles.
You just may be very efficient because you are young.
There is a line drawn in the body (so-to-speak), which we rarely speak on on this forum, and this is "essential fat", and if you were even "able" to go below this threshold, you would not survive. Though this level of fat can vary in percentage dependent on the person, it is somewhere in the neighborhood of 3%. And, since you are posting and breathing, you are above this threshold. And, the ones that even come close or near this threshold are some professional body builders ready for a show, but it is not the level of body fat they maintain all the time. This is one of the reasons, I am reluctant to go any lower than 7ish%. Its not that I can't, I just see no health point.
Best regards,
Chillen
