Originally Posted by
Jovan Dragisic
I'm also 5'9'', I started training at about 200, I am 235 now. I got there by eating about 5000 calories per day. I thought I was a big eater until I tried gaining weight, but I soon found out that the eating part was much harder than the training part. There is some kind of chance that you will be able to eat 6000 calories of solid food per day without half of that being sugar, but it's not a big chance. If you do it right, you will find yourself at a weird spot where you start hating steaks, which I also thought was impossible until I was four months into training.