As previously stated I am a literal skeleton, so there's no concern about diet or counting calories. Generally I just try to not do insanely retarded shit like eating an entire cake in one day. Well, at least not regularly.
Still at 0.6g/lb that's about 300g of chicken a day. I guess I'll have to go around looking at the labels of everything else I eat to figure out how much protein I'm incidentally getting.
GOMAD Can be Useful If You're Scrawny
If you're scrawny, then GOMAD (Gallon of Milk a Day) can help you. That is, you're severely underweight for your height such that you receive comments from friends, family, colleagues, etc., on it.
Taking Advantage of Novice Stage of Strength Training Curve, You Can Cut Later
You should milk (no pun intended) the hell out of the novice phase of the strength curve to put on as much muscle and strength you can.
You can easily perform a cut with a calorie deficit later, however, most of your gains will come from your novice phase and therefore ought to be taken advantage of.
If You Get Too Fat You Can (and should) Stop
Changes do not happen overnight, and it is pretty obvious when you're becoming fat. Just switch to a more lean diet with a higher protein concentration. It's harder to eat a bunch of protein, therefore, you will eat less and will just drop calories, which is an excellent strategy for cutting without tediously tracking calories.
Starting Strength Program for Novice Lifters
You should look into
Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe. I understand that it has some sort of meme reputation online, however, I have used the program, along with friends and family, with success.
This goes against conventional wisdom, however, in my experience, making sure you are in a
calorie surplus is the most important aspect when it comes to gaining strength and muscle mass (not necessarily with the best muscle mass to fat ratio)
Food is Anabolic: Calorie Surplus Matters More Than Protein
I have tested out getting extremely high protein and getting really good sleep at or below maintenance calories and up plateauing on my numbers. (
high protein + good sleep, <= maintanence calories) = stuck
I have tested out getting just chugging milk with piss poor sleep and I've moved up on my core lifts: deadlifts, bench, overhead press, squats. (
low to medium protein + terrible sleep, > maintanence calories) = gainzzz
Milk Has Many Nutrients
Milk has quite a bit of nutrients and there is a heuristic that Mark Rippetoe exclaims about milk that goes something along the lines of: "Milk has all the nutrients to grow a baby cow and if it's good for them then it's good for you."
Speaking From Experience
These tips are from my experience with strength training for many, many years now. I used to get comments about how skinny I was and after doing strength training for 1.5 years, I had people come up to me for advice. Although I know "real" powerlifters would not consider me impressive, I'm among the strongest in most gyms as a natural (most gym goers don't do strength training or know how to train in general). I won't list out my numbers to avoid power leveling. I gained over 50lbs during the novice phase to reach a more reasonable weight and pretty large lift numbers.
Eggs are delicious, but half the protein by weight of chicken, and like four times as much cholesterol, which doesn't sound good, but I guess I do also eat whole cakes so what more damage could I do? I might start eating iron nails again too, that was a fun time.
Dietary cholesterol, especially from eggs, isn't as big of a deal as people say it is.
Here is a good document explaining why: Debunking the Myth: Eggs and Heart Disease
