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You calculate your calories and TDEE based of your age, height, sex etc. Everyone will be a bit different so you judge by the scale goinging up or down every couple of weeks.
Any calculator like iifym.com is going to be an estimate.
And also I second Starting Strength. I did SS for the first 4 months of my lifting career although i did rows instead of cleans.
So as of recent, my body has started packing on muscle mass at a quick rate, but I am also feeling very hungry during this period, and feel the need to eat more. My weight isn't an issue right now (still at 179.54 lb for a while), but will muscle building eventually lead to an increase in weight Due to more food consumption ? If so, by how much. Additionally, how do I control my need to eat more.
If you aren't eating to bulk, you won't gain weight. You ultimately have control over how much you eat and, therefore, how much weight you will gain and what your body composition is. The same calorie in, calorie out relationship exists whether you are sedentary and just adding adipose tissue or if you are adding muscle. There's a process known as "clean bulking" in which you maintain your caloric intake at a very precise level so that you will add lean mass without adding fat, but it's extremely difficult to do and requires that you are very disciplined, understand your body exceptionally well and know exactly how much you need to eat to keep from adding fat with the muscle. Most people just eat to bulk while training to grow mass and add strength, then change their diet and/or tweak their routine to cut fat.
I notice that I want to eat more when I'm doing a lot of strength training, but I think most of that is a demand for carbohydrates to replenish depleted glycogen. Sometimes I crave rice, for example. Is that similar to what you're describing?
After putting on 25 pounds of muscle, I can definitely say that yes, I have more of an appetite now than I used to, despite being older.
If you're a vegetarian, eat lots of whey, casein, soybeans, tofu, etc, but any vegetarian is going to constantly struggle with getting enough protein while not overdoing it on carbohydrate intake.
Over a fixed number derived from about a month of tracking intake. Verified by carefully monitoring weight and body fat. It's possible for fat to sneak up 'undetected' to some levels.
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