3000 calories weight gain challenge

The road is all crunchy. Look at this,

it's so slippery. Watch this car, watch,

watch.

Whoa, look at the moon.

I love this sound. Crunch, crunch,

crunch. It's so satisfying.

Oh look, there's the moon.

Oh,

look at

it! Let's just stop for a bit and

have a look at the moon.

Guess whose footprints those are?

Hey, so I'm back from playing in the snow.

It hasn't snowed for years. I can't

remember the last time it snowed and it

didn't melt. I just get— I get so excited

when it snows. Everyone at work is

moaning, oh no, not more snow. I hope it

melts soon. I want it to snow more. I want

there to be so much snow we can't even

walk out of our houses. I really pity

those people driving cars right now. They

have to spend like 5 to 10 minutes warming

up their cars, and then they have to be

really careful. And then at least there

were about 2 cars that broke down at the

petrol station. They couldn't get it

moving, and there was one car abandoned in

the car park. It was just a car there all

night with no people. I just love the snow

so much. It brings back all those memories

from school when it snowed and I got

really excited, because when it snowed it

meant that school gets cancelled. Because

in the UK when it snows, everything kind

of shuts down because we're not really

prepared for living with snow. Also, I

loved walking home from school in the snow

when it was like a blizzard outside. And I

always used to walk home from school with

2 friends, and it used to be so much fun.

We'd— we had to walk across the field,

and when it snowed and it was snowing,

you couldn't see anything. It was like a

blizzard, and we just ran into the field

into the blizzard on the way home. And

then I'd go over to my friend's house and

we'd go sledging, and he lived on a farm,

so So he had all these fields and hills

that we could sledge down, and there was

this one hill we always used to go to. It

took about 20 minutes to walk there, and

we used to go up and down this hill all

day. Then after we ran out of energy, we

would go back to his house. His mum would

make us food, and we would play on— I

can't remember, was it Xbox or PlayStation

2? Something like that. I miss those days.

And at school, we used to have these

massive snowball fights. All the kids

would get involved, but then people

started putting small rocks into the

snowballs, or they started throwing chunks

of ice, and people got hurt, and snowball

fights got banned. Okay, I think that's

enough about snow. Um, I talked a lot

about snow, didn't I? This isn't a video

about snow. No, it's not about snow.

Although I was tempted to make it about

snow, but there was something else I

wanted to talk about, and that's Calorie

intake and weight gain. So after

the video about— what was it? I talked

about being skinny. I decided to have a

look at how many calories a day I'm

consuming, and I recorded the things I ate

for the past 3 days, and on average I

was consuming about 2,000 to 2,200

calories a day. And if you Google it, it

actually says that the average male should

be consuming 2,500 calories a day.

But then I don't really feel like I count

as an average male. I'm a lot smaller than

an average male. So there's actually this

website where they have a calorie

calculator and you enter in your age,

your height, and your weight, and it

actually said Wait, I think I have a

The calorie calculator said that to

maintain my current weight, that I should

be eating 1,900 calories a day,

which I'm eating more than that. And it

said to gain 2 pounds a week, it said

I should be consuming 2,900 calories. 2

pounds is roughly 1 kilogram, isn't it?

So I'm going to try boosting my

calorie intake to 3,000 per day. So I

should be gaining a kilogram every week.

So I'm gonna do this for about 4 to 5

weeks and see if after 4 weeks I

can reach 50 kilograms, because I weighed

myself recently and I weighed 45

kilograms.

It might be a bit less than that because I

was wearing shirts and trousers. I didn't

really feel comfortable weighing myself

completely naked while taking a video, so

next time I weigh myself, I'm going to be

wearing the same clothes. I wore 3 shirts,

t-shirts, and one pair of trousers and

socks and stuff. It's gonna be kind of

like an experiment, a test, a test on

myself, using myself as a guinea pig. I

think it's gonna be interesting to see if

I can eat 3,000 calories a day for a whole

month and not gain any weight. I kind of

want to do this to prove to people and to

prove to myself that even if I eat a lot,

even if I eat more than the recommended

calorie intake for an average man, I still

won't gain any weight. Who wants to place

bets? After 4 weeks, will I still weigh 45

kilograms? We'll find out. I got this app

on my iPad. It's called, um, it's called

MyFitnessPal, and it's an app where you

can track your calories. And I want to

show you— I'm going to tell you what I ate

yesterday or last night. Before I start,

I just want to say that My breakfast,

lunch, and dinner times are completely

different to normal people because I work

night shift. My days are all reversed. So

I have breakfast at 8 PM, and I have lunch

at 1 AM, and I have dinner at 6 or

7 AM. I know it's weird, but that's what

my life is like. So for breakfast, I had a

bowl of All-Bran cereal with sultanas and

sweetened soya milk, and that came to 410

calories. I had to add the sultanas

because All-Bran It's like, it's like

eating cardboard. Now, this is the

surprising bit: what I had for lunch.

Now, I have one break, 20-minute break at

work, and that's when I eat my sandwich

and other stuff. But I also do a lot of

snacking after I've had my lunch, and I

wrote down a list of everything I ate last

night. So let's go through the list. I had

one Orange Club chocolate bar. 1 banana,

1 pork pie, prawn cocktail crisps,

a sandwich which I make and I put in the

sandwich salami, cucumber, tomato. It came

to 410 calories, the sandwich. 450 roughly

because I had to measure things and weigh

stuff. I also had another banana, so 2

bananas total, and I had a 50-gram packet

of almonds which tasted horrible. It was

like eating wood. It was just like chewing

on wood. And my lunch came to a total of

1,430 calories.

I know that's a lot just for lunch.

That's why my coworker is always joking.

He's always saying, Daniel, I always— you

always eat a lot, but you never gain any

weight. You're still so skinny. And for my

dinner, I just had a pot noodle and 2

kiwis, which came to 520 calories. So My

dinner is a lot smaller than my lunch.

Maybe I should eat more for dinner to try

and boost it to 3,000. So the total

calories I consumed for last night was

2,360. I feel like that's quite a lot for

someone my size. I feel like that's quite

a lot of food for someone my size to be

eating. I'm not that far off from 3,000

calories a day. All I'd have to do is

maybe add a few more bananas or chocolate

bars to my diet, and that would easily

boost it up to 3,000. I'm not sure if it's

actually gonna work. I don't really feel

like eating a bit more is going to make me

put on any weight. I know there's also

exercise. I don't really do any exercise.

I walk to work every day, so roughly 20

minutes of walking a day. And I feel like

my job is quite active. I'm always walking

up and down the shop. There's a lot of

physical stuff to do, like lifting boxes

of frozen food and doing the sweeping and

the mopping. So it's not like I'm just

sitting there behind the till for 8 hours

straight. I feel like I'm very active

during work. So I'm going to try and eat

3,000 calories worth of food every day,

and I guess we'll do a follow-up in 4

weeks' time.