I received this question from a reader who was interested to know if weight gain pills will help you gain weight?
Well I have to say that I was a little skeptic at first when I found a number of websites online which are selling weight gain pills and weight gain capsules with claims from the product’s marketers that if you take a couple of pills before every meal you will increase your appetite so you feel the need to eat more and slow down your metabolism. Without having to train or diet they claim it’s possible to gain muscle weight. Saying that I found the claims to be full of hype is an understatement to say the very least.
With such bold claims I wanted to investigate exactly what was in these weight gaining pills. I wanted to know if by popping a few pills you could really gain extra pounds of muscle so I decided to find out what was actually in them. What I found by looking at the nutrition label is that these weight gain diet pills are really nothing more then an average Multi-vitamin with pretty packaging and inflated prices. They cost about 3-5x more then a Multi-vitamin.
Multi-vitamins, although not advertised to show this benefit, are actually a really useful supplement for gaining weight. Small vitamin deficiencies can impact your appetite which affects your ability to gain weight and muscle.
So instead of paying the inflated prices on weight gain pills which are really only a repackaged Multi-vitamin, get yourself a good multi-vitamin supplement. The mistake many people make when getting started with a weight gain program is they skip on important vitamins and minerals which are a good foundation for gaining weight in favor of some glamorous bodybuilding supplement. This is a mistake.
Don’t waste your money on weight gain pills – there is no miracle pill for gaining significant size. Instead, use a good Multi-vitamin. It won’t work miracles, but either will the weight gain pills. Instead, combined with a good workout and proper weight gaining diet program it will ensure that you are successful in your quest to gain weight.
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Ive tried several weight gaining pills but didnt put on weight. Now this really helps me so Ill try multivitamin with foods that are high in calories.
Thank you
Rose
Weight gaining pills and sadly enough alot of the supplements out there are useless crap. They will not make you gain weight the same way a balanced and healthy food diet will. This article is very helpful: stick to a high calorie diet (of the right foods), a good multivitamin and some whey protein. Creatine is also in my opinion, a great supplement.
Cheers
A few months ago I bought some Vita Salveo weight gain pills from this website http://www.weightgainplus.com
They DID NOT help me put on any weight and when I sent them back for my promised refund I never received the money and they simply stopped responding to any of my attempts to contact them.
Just a warning guys.
Cheers
I have been skinny all my life. I have tried to put on pounds but I never could. I have tried to eat lots of fast food, that did not work. I have stuffed my self for days that did not work.
I have taken lots of vitamins and pills, even tryed pot all I got was stoned. I’m still skinny. I have been doing this off and on for years . And yep still skinny.
Now I have a 15 year old son who is skinny and I see he is having a hard time with it. The dr. Say that is because I’m skinny so he will be too. And I had to pay him to tell me that, talk about ez money.
I read that you should take in lots of calories and work out . But if I work out , there go’s my calories. Yep still skinny. So what do you think I can do?
I would love to be fat one time in my life. If you could help let me know. But as of now. Yep still skinny.
Thanks. Skinny Keith.
@ Keith – When you are working out you are expending more energy. Energy is provided by calories. More caloric demand means you will feel hungrier. Anyone who lifts weights regularly will notice an increase in appetite. Also, the additional muscle mass will mean even more calories are required. It just never ends.
The bottom line is you should ALWAYS be eating, and the more you workout, the easier it should become eating because your body will be demanding the nutrients. It’s better to have 6 smaller meals then 3 large meals over the course of a day, because it will allow you to eat more often and you will not get a massice insulin spike. On workout days, it would be a good idea to consume more calories when you are expending more energy. I will always have a pre and post workout meal on workout days.
Keep in mind, as longest your BMI is in the healhy range and you eat healthy you are all set – do not beat your self over it. Consume big breakfast, have a healthy snack and lunch ,protein shake before and after work out following another Healthy dinner and you should be all set. Like David have had mentioned smaller meals but constant eating will help with gain but don’t forget to eat healthy junk food can only harm your body, healthy food will give you better results.
I am anemic will the weight gain pills have any affect on me?
Also, how long will it take for me to gain some weight with the pills?
I am also anemic. And I was 156 pound in june 29th 2008. I remember because I weighed my self on that day cause that was the day I started taking weight gain plus pills and eating cookies. Now this advise is for anybody who is really desperate to gain weight like I was. It took me only 5 months to gain over 60 pounds. That’s over ten pounds a month but here is the secret if you are like me you cannot eat three packs of chips ahoy chocolate chip cookies a day. That would mean you have to eat one whole pack for every meal, trust me its hard so I just blended and drank it, a lot easier and faster. It’s like drinking chocolate milk. Now take two pills 30 minutes before every meal will make you very hungry making it easier for the drink to go down.
Now I am going be honest with everybody this is guaranteed to work but its only for those who do not care about any concequences. I mean that will be a lot of sugar you will be consuming. But if you just want to gain weight by any means neccesary so you can get cute girls which am getting now lol LOVING IT. And yea I have lots of friends now and the best part is I JUST BEAT UP MY NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR WHO USED TO CALL ME SKIN AND BONE AND SKELETIN AND ALL SORTS OF BAD NAMES FOR BEING TOO SKINNY. NOW AM SLIGHTLY BIGGER THAN HIM AND I WOOOOPED HIS ASS lol.