Starting Strength is ok. Stronglifts by Mehdi is shit.

While SL is a good program for beginners to drill in good form on compound exercises, it may result in muscular imbalances due to lack of isolation work. Jason Blaha's ICF 5x5 routine is a more well rounded full-body style program which addresses the issue with SL.

Just to add about ICF 5x5 . I ran it for 3 months when I started gym from nothing and was on 250cal surplus (lean bulk). What I experience is massive stalling on the Bench Press and OHP which should be due to the tricep isolations. Then the progression also may get unrealistic after 1 month of doing it and it is extremely taxing and lack programming. So you wanna do it... you can do it for 1 month ++ at max 2 months. It's not a good program whereby you will be overtraining quickly, stalling and takes unnecessarily long time (1.5 hours min per session).

It did bosted my squat from 37.5KG to 62.5KG(Bodyweight = 61KG) in 3 months.

I recommend All Pro's Beginner instead:
http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=155009423

Look at Mehdi's lifts. Crappy. Would you take advice from a weak powerlifter who has been lifting more than 10 years? I lift more than him. Lol. And I'm no powerlifter.

Plus his program got bad reviews on powerlifting sites.

And his forum and site is more of a money making site. Join gold membership status for extra content. Lol yea right

During my degree years, eating is hard. I don't have that much money to spend on eating is one thing, not having a transportation to go eat is another. I ended up usually only eat when my friends are going to eat (because they have transportation) and sometimes they only eat once a day. That is how, I started craving to eat, even though it is enough that time, my mind have already remembered how hard is it to get food and eat.

Tdee 1.8k sedentary

Errr yes? What is the problem with that statement?

Aduh, its really hard to swallow in that much food everyday.   

i've been eating about 2900 calories for almost 1 week, and up till today i got really scared of seeing food. My stomach was like a big balloon and i don't feel comfortable doing my daily activites with my stomach so full all the time.

this morning i felt like giving up already because eating was suppose to be enjoyable but it turns out to be missionary now. i become picky with foods just so that it hit my calorie intake. really demotivating

so i was thinking whether i can choose to eat lesser or not tracking my macros during my non-workout day just so that me and my stomach can have a rest.

beginner here need some advice or some motivation from pro   

just show this



is it true just one scoop produces 710 calories?