To start off I’ve been working out 5-6 days a week for about 14 months now and my main focus was strictly to lose fat for the longest time. Around June I learned the importance of getting stronger and gaining muscle too, so I’ve made a point to emphasize that, but I was having such trouble getting out of the mindset of NEEDING to count my calories and be in a deficit.
The past 6 weeks I’ve taken to throwing that mindset out the window by attempting to bulk, but all that restriction is coming to bite me in the ass. I’m now consuming around 3,000 calories a day as compared to 1200-1400. Most of my calories come from eating crap that makes me feel like crap lol. And while I’ve gone up so much in my lifts in such a short amount of time (for months I could only use 10pound dumbbells and now I’m using at least 30 pounds for anything you can think of. I do 20 on each side for shoulder presses, squat 120 pounds, hip thrust 90 (that’s probably not my max, but I’m still trying to figure out what I’m capable of).
Anyway, the point is I’m mostly binging on sugar while burning anywhere around 800-1000 calories a workout. I’m so scared of gaining back all the fat I’ve lost and I immediately want to go back into cutting disregarding my plan to “bulk”. Any advice?
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