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I've recently been working to increase my calorie and carb intake due to several hypothyroid symptoms and because I just haven't been getting enough calories. The chart below is from today and was a heavy lifting day and this is me really pushing the calories. The coconut milk was an experiment and that much coconut milk apparently has side effects (several trips to the toilet).

What are some other tricks I can use to increase the calories? I was able to exceed my carb goal today but the calories remain an issue. I felt full pretty much all day.

I'm 6'4" and 185

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check that your coconut milk does not contain Carrageenan (a thickener made from seaweed, additive number 407), i have heard that some people have problems with it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrageenan#Health_concerns – daz Sep 26 at 2:16

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Cmon dude "really pushing the calories." and your are around 2000, I'm 17 years old male, and eat around 2500 daily. Whey aren't people eating more? Everybody says they eat around 2000 kcal a day..?

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It's weird but I'm consistently eating between 1700 and 2200 per day and at 2200 I'm very full throughout the day. – Jason Oct 11 at 13:38
I'm 5'5" female, 48 yrs old, 130 lbs. I lift very moderately and get long walks & such. I can maintain my weight at 1900 calories per day. 125 g of carbs still sounds in the low range to me and I ate low-carb for a couple years to lose weight. – arugula Jan 2 at 13:16
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There is a distressing tendency for people here to give advice without knowing anything about the problem being discussed. You save you have "several hypothyroid symptoms." What are these and have you had your thyroid checked? That would seem to be the first order of the day. As for not getting enough calories, what is the basis for believing that? Your BMI is 22.5 which is completely normal so I don't understand the concern.

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Breakfast - No nutritional benefit. Skip or replace with a Bulletproof coffee or a high protein/high fat breakfast.

Lunch - More eggs (5-6)cooked in grass-fed butter or beef pemmican (olive oil will oxidize when exposed to heat and light).

Dinner - cauliflower and carrots don't give as mucn bang for the buck as others.

Snacks - I like almond butter as well. The honey and bananas should be in moderation and not everyday.

Notes: Need better fruit choices (avocado, berries). Need higher quality vegetables (spinach, kale, broccoli). How often do you eat fish? It's much better than the SAD, just need to fine tune it. Need more days to give you a more accurate assessment.

Matt
PhysiqueRescue.com

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The breakfast bars are mainly nuts and dried fruit. I got the recipes here zenbellyblog.com/2012/09/14/on-the-go-bars I definitely need to look at the veggies I'm eating. I'm thinking that increasing my tubers might help give me more calories and help with increase the carb count. The snack is post workout and is a banana mashed with the almond butter and honey. I only do that twice a week at the most. – Jason Sep 26 at 13:09
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 Skip the bars. While the nuts can make them calorically dense, there are better choices. The banana/almond butter/honey sounds delicious. I don't need to have that at my house, it wouldn't last long. – PhysiqueRescue Sep 26 at 23:47
"olive oil will oxidize when exposed to heat"- no idea how this idea got started but its not supported by research....nothing wrong with using olive oil for cooking – John Jan 30 at 14:55
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More beef,more lamb, more beef, and more beef. Coconut oil. Tallow. Sweet potatoes. You're menu looks like a focus on variety and pleasure eating, instead of mono eating for the purpose of putting fuel in the tank of a machine (your stated goal).

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Jason, any update on your diet and its impact on your hypothyroidism? For example, did adding carbohydrates lower you TSH level? I have subclinical hypothyroidism but I am presently keeping my carbohydrate intake low with hopes of containing SIBO. I don't feel this has changed my hypothyroid situation but I have yet to get my TSH retested.

_Lazza

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I've been following a carb backloading protocol for a while now and I've had great results. The hypothyroid symptoms are gone, fat kept burning and I'm bulking up. I haven't had a blood test recently but I'm planning to get one soon just to check on everything. – Jason Jan 31 at 1:31
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If you really want to increase your calories, I would suggest adding nuts or nut butter, such as almond butter. These are very palatable, and it is easy to rack up a ton of calories when eating them!

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