Originally Posted by
Jordan Feigenbaum
Got it, too much studying for me.
If you don't gain any weight after 2 weeks, I'd bump carbs up by 25-75g and fat up by 5-20g depending on plenty of factors like age, training status, leanness/lack of leanness, goals, compliance issues, etc.
As far as if you should up your calories up when stalling, that depends on where you are programming wise. If you stalled as a novice while eating sufficiently, then you don't need to up your calories, you need to have more appropriate programming. On the other hand, if you just started SS and stalled 5 weeks into it (without being a more advanced trainee) you either started too heavy, your form is suspect, you haven't fueled appropriately, or you're a female.
The calories go into repairing, remodeling, and ultimately rebuilding skeletal muscle tissue and constituents therein in addition to the rest of your bodies metabolic processes that require energy. Ultimately, all of your food will become amino acids, glucose/fructose/galactose (at some point it'll be one of these three), or a fatty acid and it will then enter into one of many pathways to get assimilated into tissue, energy, or formed element of the body.
Cheat meals?
