I read several books for beginners, one of them being Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle by Tom Venuto, and he recommended getting off all of my excess fat before I start bulking.
Right now my goal is to get to 130.0 lbs. so I'll be around 6% before I start bulking, because losing fat really stinks!
Also, I'm not sure if you know about somatotypes, but I'm pretty sure I'm an ecto-mesomorph, aka a "hardgainer", so it's pretty hard for me anyways to eat over my maintenance calories, making good choices (we all know it's easy to get to 5,000 with In-n-Out) without getting sick (like 4,500).
Any tips? I just joined today, but I'm definitely reading the stickies. I'm already having 6-7 meals a day, tapering my calories from breakfast to dinner. I try to keep my macro nutrient ratio at 50:30:20.
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