Thanks very much for your very detailed post Richy, I think I'm on the right lines, but you have made me more aware of my macro breakdowns, which should have a higher fat percentage, and slightly less carbs.

I started my bulk on Monday, at 2500 calories, which feels great, it's so nice not being hungry all the time! I've attached a breakdown of today's calories from fitday for anyone interested. I think I'm going to replace the two pieces of Soreen Maltloaf with 2x20g of fruit and nut mix to get more good fat, otherwise I'm pretty pleased with it! I'm also managing to put away 4 litres of water a day, and a few mugs of redbush tea.

I'm currently doing the DC workout from here, following a scrict 5/5 cadence, which is extremely challenging, I've dropped the weight on most excercises right back, and am concentrating on proper form and pace.

My body fat calipers arrived on Monday, but I'm not very useful with them, most of the online calculators have me at 9% body fat from my chest, abdominal and thigh skinfolds, but I'm about 12% I reckon. Still as long as I can measure relative fat gains over the bulking period, that's the important thing.

I'm currently exactly 11 stone 7 pounds from the scales first thing on Monday morning, so hopefully next Monday I should be 11 st 8.

I will try to keep this updated regularly, as it will keep me motivated, and in 3 months time I should hopefully be a bit bigger!

Thanks for reading.

Rich