Do you keep asking yourself, “Am I eating enough?” when it should be apparent, from the fact that your scale isn’t giving you higher readings, that the answer is “No.” If you were eating enough, you would at least be gaining some fat. And the question is almost irrelevant, for the more muscle mass you have, the more food you’ll need. If you think gaining 10 pounds from your current weight takes a lot of eating, wait until you try to gain 10 pounds after you’ve put on 30 pounds of muscle. You have to eat progressively.
How do you know if you’re taking in enough calories to gain weight? The scale will give you progressively higher readings. How do you know if you’re taking in enough calories to gain fast? Not only will the scale give you progressively higher readings, your bodyfat will increase (use a skinfold caliper, don’t try to estimate by eye). This is not sophisticated.
What should you eat? Basically more of everything. But healthy food, people. Read labels and don’t buy grain products that contain flours that aren’t whole grain, don’t buy food with corn syrup added. Eat more vegetables, more lean meat and dairy, more fruit, more legumes, more healthy fats. If you don’t know if an item is healthy, find out. Information is too readily available today for you to justify remaining ignorant.
And you should learn how to cook. Take a cooking class of any kind, learn to cook some new foods. You’ll be much happier if you learn to make a few different dishes. You’ll find it much easier to stick with your weight gain diet plan, you’ll save money, you’ll save time, you’ll stay healthier. If you haven’t yet learned to cook, you can’t imagine how much easier it is to eat a lot, or a little, with a variety of well prepared meals. You’re going to be eating a lot of meals, a lot of food, in your lifetime. Invest some time and effort up front to make it more enjoyable.
Don’t have time to cook? Don’t have time to eat right, or to go to the grocery store? Then you don’t have time to be reading this website. Health first, entertainment second. Get going!
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Hello im 26 years of age 5.7 H and 116lb and i am having problems gaining weight. one of my main concerns is how does one gain weight if eating wheat gives me imflammation around the heart. eating dairys seems to cause pains in my chest on my left side and eating animal proteen seems to cause a lot of heart burn? please if you could get back with me on a good answer i would much appreciate it. someone like me it seems that i am heavily male nurished and since i cannot gain any body fat due to the break down of body fat to protect my body from metabolic acids what would you suggest?
Try eating different types of food, such as Asian food like Chinese noodles and fish balls/raw beef plus a bit of vegetables such as “choi sum”. Drink weight gain supplements (whey protein). Hit McDonald’s and go for the burgers. Hit the gym and workout with intensity. Don’t sleep too late you should try and get at least 8 hours sleep per night. Drink juice/water all the time so you keep hydrated. Dehydration will affect your workout intensity. Cut back on intense aerobic exercise which burns calories (such as running on treadmill, intense swimming and basketball) If all else fails make sure to see a doctor, there could be medical reasons for being super underweight. Good luck!
Hi, I am 25 years old, 5′11″ and 145lbs. I have been this wieght for the past 8 years. gaining and droping only a few pounds here and there. My problem is that I hate the textures of most foods and can’t eat them or i will puke! not kidding. this makes gaining wieght and staying healthly very difficult is their any liquids that i could just drink rather than eating a ton of food that i will just end up puking?
hi im 19 years old i’ ve been working out for more than one year and my weight went up from 140 to 170 pounds. But im not satisfied about it. I need to know hot to eat to gain bigger muscles and more body weight in a shorter time?
I’m 27 years old and very skinny, and I’ve always been. Are there any pills I can take to help me gain weight or any food that I can eat everyday to help me
I’m 22 years old and very skinny, i can’t eat and don’t feel like eating food. Are there any pills i can take to help me gain weight? Am even lossing my boyfriend pls help.
first of all i’ve had this problem of never being hungry and as it turned out i have a serious medical condition, see your doctor get checked out once being treated potatoes will help eat a lot every day. however you like them french fries mashed and milk shakes lots of them. but see your doctor.
People, you are totally missing THE KEY to gaining weight. You must go on a DIET. Every hugely fat person dieted their way up the scale. Starve yourself for days at a time. Then just let nature take its course. A doctor in San Francisco did this back in the 80’s with his patients who could not gain weight. Most of them actually ended up a little overweight. Don’t eat so much! Your body is programmed to stop burning calories during a famine, so trick it into thinking there is a famine going on. In my day, people were still eating a good diet in America. The fat girls were the ones who went on starvation diets. Try it. The SF Doctor said that after a few rounds of dieting people in the study started to view food differently and ended up getting fatter the more they thought about each calories and gram of fat.
I am 19 years old 5.4 HT & about 115 LBS. I eat steak dinners almost every night, I am basically eating every 30 minutes Ive tried every thing. I run about 2 miles a day. Any suggestions?