Hi comrades

I want to start handling my nutrition and fitness better. I usually work out at home and can do pushups etc., I would say I’m quite underweight.

While I’m reading the guide by CriticalResist on Prolewiki, I decided to count my calories. I barely reach 1500 calories a day which at this point I’ll go malnourished. I just feel full very quickly. I do not eat processed sugars and avoid sweets, and I’m basically vegan at this point.

I exercise too and can do push ups, squats etc with no problems whatsoever, though as expected I cannot build muscular mass, most likely because of my nutrition. I don’t have the money to go to a gym so I want as much as possible to work out at home, I saw that calisthenics might be a good option? Though they seem unreliable for building muscle mass and strength. I want to put more weight but not fatty weight, which had happened to me in the past. I do eat healthy, but I eat way too less because I feel I just get full quickly. This might be due that in the past I was overweight and conditioned myself to not eat much, but now I’m basically starving myself.

How would I go about increasing my caloric intake while putting muscle mass (preferably at home)?

  • 201dberg@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Beans baby. In fact, with the right kind of beans you can actually get in your daily protein needs at a caloric deficit with JUST beans. It’s would be a lot of beans, but you can do it. I know because I was doing math on how I could do this the cheapest way possible in the event I lost my job and had to go hard on money. lol. A 25lb bag of Kidney beans (I think) could be all the protein you would need for close to a month I believe. Not like, hard muscle mass building levels but more of a steady maintain and slight growth situation. lol

    I need to double check my notes. It may have been a different kind of bean but I’m pretty sure it was kidney beans.