I've started a bulk 4 months ago. Currently sitting at 174lbs 5'9 with bf around 15-16%.
I honestly feel like shit. Muscular definition has fade away, and so my face did. My jawline is barely visible.
Apart from that, I also have acne. Now, I realised that acne has to do with your diet 90% of the times.
I guess it's my case, even if I eat "clean" every day. For clean, I mean: pasta, some bread, chicken, eggs (whole eggs), red meat, milk, spinach, bananas and so on.
I eat all this mainly to meet my caloric intake with 200-300 kcal's above maintainance. Pasta, bread, bananas and milk are my main source for calories (carbs indeed).
This is probably not that "clean", but what I mean for clean is: no cheat meals, no sodas, processed food and general junk food. Last time I touched Pepsi or Chocolate it was on summer.
I get pimples on my face every day and that just sucks.
How can you really clean bulk and get lot calories from 100% clean foods which minimally cause you fat gain/acne and so on? If I had to remove pasta fo example, I would only get to 1000 calories in a day.
Also, how do you deal with acne during a bulk? Do you just accept it and wait until you cut?
I tried by eating lot of oranges (vit c) as on summer I noticed they made my skin clear as fuck, but that was probably because I was cutting and eating low carbs too. Indeed, I've been eating 2 oranges/day for a week and I still get regular ly pimples. Perhaps I've read it could be pasta (carbs) or milk.
What are your experiences?
there doesn't seem to be anything here