You're a hard-gainer. You need a different approach to bulking. 95% of this board has no clue what you'll have to go through to get where you want to be.

Your goals of 150 - 160, which is only 20 pounds or so heavier, is achievable. I can tell you from experience that once you get there you will likely find out you're not as big as you thought you would be! You might end up needing 175 lbs. I was 6' and 125 lbs. and I wanted to get up to 160 - I figured 180 would be all i'd ever need to weigh. I was at 195 a few months back and that's at least 20 lbs lighter than what I want to look like. I don't look anything ike what I thought I would at this weight!

Eat alot of small meals all day long. Your body cannot digest but so much food per meal anyway. The diets the big guys eat won't work for you because think about it - if your digestive system was as efficient as thiers is would you be 130 lbs? Of course not.

As far as AS - you need to push yourself naturally for awhile and see how far you can get. Then - if you do resort to AS - which I suspect you will - don't worry about the cutting stuff. You won't need cutting cycles or cutting steroids to achieve a hard cut look. I can achieve more in 2 weeks of cutting (on mass steroids) than the big guys can in a 12-week cutting cycle. It's genetics. Of course it takes me a 12-week mass cycle to achieve what the big guys can do naturally. Stick to the bulking steroids and don't waste your money on a cutting cycle. Just add a week or two of "cutting" to the end of your mass cycles.

You must focus on preserving your body's natural testosterone production. Chances are your natural production is low to start with. Be careful - you could easily get yourself to a size you cannot maintain without AS - and you could get to where without AS you're 110 lbs instead of the 130 you're at now! Take the right amount of time between cycles and don't overdo it! Pay close attention to how your body feels in-between cycles because that's the body you have to live with!

Start out by locking your body into a maintenance calorie level - figure out what it is and eat at that level for awhile. It's probably between 2100 and 2400 calories a day. Remember - if you eat small meals all day long you'll get alot more out of those calories. Then crank up the calories to 3000 to 3500 a day and work out hard and see what happens. Give it at least one month before deciding whether it works or not.

You have to eat right. Let me suggest starting out with a diet that includes 3 or 4 protein shakes a day with about 30 or 40 gms of protein per shake. Eat 6 light meals a day about 2 to 3 hours apart. They can be as simple as a bagel and a hard-boiled egg. Avoid fats and sugars. Try to eat about 30 gms of protein per meal for at least 4 of those meals. Focus on getting complex carbohydrates. Rice, potatoes, pasta, bread. You'll need about 60 to 80 gms of carbohydrates per meal and i'm not counting sugars. You should never eat more than about 100 gms of sugar or 100 gms of fat in one day.

This is a starting point. Eat like that and work out hard for awhile and tell us how far you get. If you can get there naturally the body you keep for life will have a longer warranty on it than the one you'll build on AS even if it is a few pounds lighter.