Gaining Weight and Muscle

Okay so after posting "Your Body and Weight Loss" I received an e-mail from a friend asking how to gain weight and muscle. So here's the answer for him and anyone else out there who's looking to gain a little muscle. Weight gain is pretty much the same concept as weight loss believe it or not it's probably even a little harder. For example, (and I'll use my real weight this time) I weigh 145 pounds, so I naturally burn 1450 cal. If I'm working out it's a good chance I'm burning at least 200 to 300 cal. that means I have to be sure to add the additional 300 cal to my meal intake for the day putting me in the area of eating somewhere between 1750 cal to about 1800 calories. The more weight and muscle I gain the more food I need to eat, until I reach my desired goal. Then everything becomes about maintaining my results. If you're looking to gain muscle and you want to be lean instead of bulky then you need to do a lot of cardio, and cardio burns a lot of calories. So let's say you're like my crazy boyfriend who likes to go workout for two hours a day, an hour of cardio and an hour of weight training, then your going to be eating more food then a garbage disposal on brussels sprout night! So continue to write down everything that you're eating no matter how good or bad you think it is. At the end of the week or the beginning of next week I'm going sit down and talk to you about how to read that funky little nutrition box on the back or side of all your food products. I'll even talk to you about common enemies of weight loss/gain and your best friend in the fight against waistline vs. bottom line