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)?
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.
