Originally Posted by PecDec
There is a very HUGE paradox in your logic...you say you discovered thru experience that eating has a lesser role in making gains than u thought...but the fact that you have relaxed your eating and thus feel bigger and stronger is the most potent evidence that nutrition IS THE MOST IMPORTANT FACTOR. The fact that you are feeling "stonger and bigger" is indicative of a few eating related facts:
1. You were never eating enough to support your muscle mass to begin with.. :unsure: your body is probably needing more calories to grow now compared to a few months ago (assuming u have been putting on some lean mass). You need to re-assess your BMR and daily caloric requirements.
2. relaxing your eating has probably increased your fat/carb consumption, prompting water rentention in the muscles, making u feel fuller. :afro: ..this also means you probably were semi-carb depleted before relaxing your diet...i think ppl tend to be over-conservative with most carbs because its such a bodybuilding no-no, esp during cutting
3. If you were to go back to eating the 6-7 meals and carefully plan out your nutrient profile so that the total calories match your current haphazard consumption, your gains would probably come twice as fast!! :banana:
anyways,
just my two cents
cheers