Critique this (please?)

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mynameis_matt

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Alright - so a couple of months ago I finally decided to stop with being strictly talk and actually do something about my desire to stop being the "skinny kid". So I joined a gym and signed myself up for some personal training. As of Labor Day weekend, I was 146 pounds @ about 6'1". As of this morning, I'm up to 156. I'm pumped/thrilled/ecstatic as honestly, in my 27 year of living, this is the most I've ever weighed. However, I'm eating a ridiculous amount of food. I mean, ridiculous. I wanted to run things by everyone here to maybe get another opinion? Thank you everyone! Here's what a typical "gym day" looks like:

5:00am: wake up
5:30am: 1 piece of ezekial low sodium bread with 1 tablespoon almond butter and one banana
6:00am - 7:00am: gym
7:30am: 1 scoop of whey with water, 1 scoop of whey with 8 ounces orange juice, 5 egg whites with mushrooms, onions, spinach, 1/2 cup oatmeal with apple, 1 piece of ezekial low sodium bread.
10:30am: 1 cup non-fat greek yogurt with 1/2 cup blueberries, 2 pieces of ezekial low sodium bread
1:30pm: 1 cup (or so) of spinach with red and orange bell peppers, 1 tbsp olive oil, 1 small sweet potato (yam), 6 ounces chicken breast
4:30pm: 1/3 cup uncooked quinoa (cooks up to more), 1 cup broccoli, 1 can tuna
7:30pm: 1 whole egg, 4 ounces chicken/turkey/lean red meat, lots of vegetables
9:30/9:45pm: 1 cup nonfat milk and 1 scoop whey
10:00pm: bed

Does this seem excessive to anyone? Should I do something different with my pre-gym snack (more protein)? And on rest days, how should this be edited? Typically as it stands, because rest days are on weekends and get started a bit later anyway, the quinoa/tuna/broccoli meal is cut out altogether and instead of whey at night, I do cottage cheese.

Thoughts? Thank you again!
 
I actually don't see a problem with this meal plan. Even for someone who skis trying to LOSE weight. In fact I think you might need to eat more if you're trying to gain.
 
Since I have no idea when Labor Day is, I have no concept of the time frame in which you've gone from 146 to 156. If it's been 5 weeks or under, you may have been eating excessively. If not, you're probably fine.

I've been skinny all my life, too, and in the last 12 months I went from about 135lb to 170lb. My daily diet looked something like this:

Breakfast: 6 weet-bix (or equivalent-thereof) + 2 cups whole milk + 3 tbsp sugar
Lunch: 2 sandwiches and 2 fruits
Dinner: Hungry Jack's Whopper Meal with 2-3 refills of Coke, or a meal from KFC or Subway
Second Dinner: Meat and 3 veg
In between meals: about 2-3L whole milk per day

And that only had me gaining about 1lb per week during the times that I was gaining weight (I had a couple weight gain plateaus, one sitting at 67kg for 3 months and one sitting at 72kg for 3 months). You're consuming a much healthier, much more reserved diet than I did. Just to give you some perspective.
 
Thank you everyone!

Labor Day is the first weekend of September, so it's been a couple of months at this point. There was a lot of balancing when it came to the diet and nutrition, figuring out how much was needed and what not. I've finally gotten more-or-less there and would love to continue seeing progress. If I were to add more, I'm not really even sure where I would add. As it stands, this is more than enough to keep me satiated throughout the day and I'd be lying if I didn't say a concern was putting on the wrong kind of weight. I've successfully avoid that at this point and I'd love to continue to avoid.
 
My only comment would be that you'd probably benefit from getting some more protein before you train. It's a really really minor point though. Generally your going good. It's not that much food, it just seems like a lot because its all heathy stuff. You'd get the same amount of calories from 3 or 4 slices of pizza.
 
I do think that I'm going to change one of those protein "shakes" to half of it pre-workout along with the banana and some other carb, abandoning the almond butter for later in the morning and see what happens.

What are thoughts on keeping this same level of intake up on rest days? I might cut down on the protein supplements, but otherwise aim to keep everything as is?
 
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