Bulking.

I was losing weight for a while, in total I ended up losing around 85 pounds. I plateaued after 85 lbs, I tried everything, upping my cardio, cutting carbs, lifting lighter for more reps, switching cardio machines, nothing was working. Now I've made the decision to start bulking. I'm going to be "clean" bulking. Eating plenty of healthy foods to go up in muscle mass. Here are my daily meals.

For breakfast I wake up at around 9 when I don't have work and eat about 30 minutes after I awake. I eat 4 eggs, a whole wheat bagel, and a protein shake. The protein shake has one scoop of ON whey, about 2 tbsp of peanut butter, and a banana. I also try and eat yogurt in the morning as well.

My next meal usually is another protein shake for post workout. Its the same thing as the one I have for breakfast, except for I double everything up.

My next meals are all pretty much the same from here on out, I try and eat this 4 times a day, Usually it's Chicken or Tilapia, with some sort of whole grain carb, sometimes breads, bagels, tortilla, but as of recently I've started cooking brown rice to go along with my meals.

and that's about it for diet.

For lifting it surprised me as to how weak I got. So I've taken up a variation to Mark Rippetoe's "Starting Strength" a basic 3x5 program, to put on muscle and strength. Just by doing basic power movements such as Squats, Deadlifts, and Bench Pressing. I also do 10 minutes of light cardio before I workout out, and I do 10-20 minutes after, just to try and stay lean.

as of 8/29/11 I'm at about 176 with 17% bodyfat. My goal is to be able to squat 1.5x my bodyweight, deadlift 2x bodyweight and bench 1x bodyweight by the end of 4 weeks. (August 31)