Montecore - I have been experiencing similar imo. Tbh, I wish someone had said before I started SS that you don't just go up linearly for a long time without stalling a bunch. Instead I was told that as long as I eat a surplus (but not enough to gain tons of weight) my body should be able to adapt and allow me to keep making gains.
JF - 'bout three fiddy. Actually, I should review what I eat again. This was my review a few months ago:
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...&postcount=167.
Ok, so from looking at that and thinking about how I'm eating today, my plan was to eat this (my yogurt was curdled so instead of that I ate a Builder bar so I'm gonna get ~150 more calories & 7g more protein due to that mistake by me, lol):
1) museli cereal + soy milk - 326 - 7.5
2) greek yogurt + banana - 210 - 13
3) pb&J + apple + carrots/celery - 581 - 13
4) 3 scoops optimum nutrigion 100% whey protein powder + cheese + crackers - 400 - 88
5) veggie burger/pick/onions/ketchup/mustard, orange, spinach salad/dressin - 340 - 27
6) 3 scoops optimum nutrigion 100% whey protein powder - 120 - 72
total calories: 1977
total protein: 220.5
I also eat out maybe 3-4 times a week (2-3 dinners & 1 lunch). 1 meal out ends up replacing 1 of the above meals. Unfortunately this often ends up replacing meal 5+6 so I lose 1 protein powder feeding sometimes. These meals out are very, very high in calories though (1200+ at least imo). Like last week I ate at Smashburger and had a cheeseburger, fried pickles, and a soda (don't often have soda). And ate some extra onion ring straw things.
I'm actually VERY surprised I'm potentially consuming so few calories. The sample menu above is likely on my lower end, but I mean, unless I go out (or eat a big piece of lasagna at Cha's), I'm not getting 2500 calories doing what I'm doing. I'm not sure how many cals I *should* be eating, but my guess is more than 2000.
Perhaps the only thing keeping me gaining weight and moving on up are my meals out. How have I even gained weight: both fat and muscle?