I've been actively gaining weight since November. The idea is to consume more calories (focusing on protein) than I need in order to encourage muscle growth. Unfortunately, a side effect is an increase in body fat too. I had been consuming around 2400 calories a day, and I have to say I somewhat enjoyed the extra dietary freedom. Tomorrow, though, it's back to about 1800 a day.
What I noticed was that, prior to starting the phase, I had become accustom to 1600 calories a day. I felt full when I reached it everyday. And, at the beginning of the phase, I felt bloated. As time went on, I then started getting used to the extra calories, craving food until I reached my new typical intake. It was also during that transitional period, before I got used to the regiment, that I really added weight to my lifting workouts.... but Christmas and New Years kind of disrupted the routine, so that I'm not sure if I would have continued increasing weight.
Nevertheless, I'm curious to try a sort of "diet confusion," which, like muscle confusion, is never letting my body get used to a routine. It'd be shorter periods of increases and decreases in my calorie intake to coincide with the plateaus of my body's adaption, which has a very Zen like quality in the amount of self-awareness I would need to maintain.
But, first, I have to burn off like ten pounds.
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