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I stated earlier in this thread that my digestion is the best it's ever been on a bulk - certainly better than last year when I was eating a large Blizzard almost every night. Here's a picture from today - yeah my waist isn't what it was when I was shredded but I think this is pretty good for putting down 7-8,000 calories. I'm way less bloated than last year.
You look great BTW, you are much bigger than me (not even close) but we do have a similar structure. I have naturally wide hips so I am always trying to do anything I can to keep as tight as possible. For me, I have noticed that when I eat clean (chicken, veggies, meat) it just makes my waist stick out by the end of the day. When I eat less calorie dense food ( I guess we could call it more junk), I am hungrier, but the waist is tighter, and body fat doesn't appear to go up. Just because that food is "light" and doesn't sit in my stomach as long.
Just my personal experience. Sometimes I get confused by what "good digestion" actually means. I do think we overanalyze it a bit when we see people posting threads about digestion. One person could complain that they are bloated feel full and call it bad digestion, another could claim they are too runny and call it bad digestion. I personally think people judge their "digestion" by transit time. We could eat chicken and broccoli and it will sit in our stomach to digest a Long time. We could eat dairy or Taco Bell and it will run though us faster, I don't think your average person could say that one is digested well or poor, we are jut commenting on the transit time. I don't know if either is better or worse for bodybuilding purposes (muscle gain and limit body fat accrual). That is just my belief.
Typically for me, when dieting eat more filling clean foods (volume) and when growing eat more, eat less volume (more dirty foods) to keep the stomach more tight.