I just wanted to share my progress here since I'm kind of excited about it myself. A little history on this is that I'm the epitome of a hard-gainer/ectomorph. I'm naturally lean and musclular. After a lot of intense dieting and training, I bulked up to about 185. I was happy with this weight for a while and decided to just maintain it.
Shortly into my maintenance phase, I contracted Lyme Desease while mountain biking and lost 30 lbs in a little over a week. Not only that, but I developed a neurological disorder associated with Lymes calles Bells Palse and became paralyzed over half my face. The Lymes made me extremely run down and lethargic and I didn't fully recover until 4 months later.
Determined not to let it keep my down, I hit the gym as soon as I could. I'm now 8-weeks into a 10-week bulking phase, and I now weigh 195 lbs from about 160'ish. I've put on some fat during the process, but I still have a visable 5-pack, so it isn't much. I will be cutting for 2 weeks when I'm done bulking.
I've done all this with just proper diet and using meal shakes (N-Large by prolab), protein shakes (Absolute Whey by Prolab), glutamine and creatine. The greatest part is that I don't feel like the extra weight as effected my speed or agility like it did last time. I still feel like skinny old me while doing althetic stuff except now I'm jacked. heh.