Weight gain and fitness

So I'm gaining weight at the moment.

It wasn't intentional at first - I like to ride, and I'm trying to get a local hill-climb (2.3km with a 285m vertical elevation) in under 10 minutes.  I have a friend who is into weights show me the ropes of squats and deadlifts.  But then while we were there, we did some bench presses, military presses, and clean lifts.  Within a week my appetite had gone through the roof, so I started feeding it; a far sight from my previous MO of eating only enough to stop being hungry.  Then with more food came better results, more definition, more strength.  Within a month I'd gone from benching 40kg to 60kg.  Then I started looking in the mirror and going 'holy shit, what?'.

Long story short, my experience has been that strength and size are built in the gym and in the kitchen.  I'm doing weights in a 5x5 pattern and it's working out amazingly in all ways; strength, mass and definition.  The only thing about such a hyper-caloric diet is that you will be carrying some extra fat - a small price to pay, I think, for making sure the body always has what it needs to keep building.  I can always lean out when I'm done, which for me I suspect will be around 85kg (I was 75 when I started, now at 80).

Dietary method is a seafood diet - I see food, I eat it.  Haha no, not really.  I mostly eat lean meat (generally steak, salmon or chicken) with some vegetables and pasta, and try to eat as much as I can at any given meal.  Fucking shitloads, I believe is the metric measurement.  I eat roughly double what I used to. I tend to use Musashi protein powder with milk once a day, but especially after a workout.  No special vitamins really, just the odd Centrum or Berocca.

All of what I've learnt from this and my previous patterns of weight gain and loss can be condensed to two simple ideas:

1.  FOOD.  You can't out-exercise a bad diet.  A good diet does not necessarily mean small amounts of food, just not shit.  The appeal of junk food is surprisingly less when you are full of delicious steak.

2. WORK OUT.  Exercise frequently, and hard.  Be exhausted at the end of every session.  If you are not destroyed by the end you could have gone harder.  Work as hard as you can without failing.

So, pretty much exactly what I said in the previous post, but with a different goal.