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Tips on how to put on weight FAST.

EP158207

EP158207

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So I recently just got over mono and bacterial tonsillitis. This resulted in me losing a lot of weight. I was only about 100-110lbs so begin with so, I was never big. However, it disturbs me that I am this thin and would really like to put on weight. I have a fast metabolism, but there is only so much I can eat. At the moment, I am averaging about 3000 kcals per day, and pretty much eat and drink high sugar, carb heavy meals such as subways, pizza, rice, excessive amounts of fruit, candy, coke, cookies.

But this doesn't seem to be enough...what else can I eat? I even drink meal replacement drinks (complan).
 
^OP maybe you need to add some strength training/working out so that your body can build up muscle mass.

Instead of eating pizza, subway and candies please try eating chicken, potatoes, oatmeal, whole grain foods and fish for proper nutrition. You can also see if adding supplements will be beneficial in adding weight faster. Make sure to research first that the supplement you are buying is safe though like protein powders.
 
Maybe you are insulin resistant ? How much do you weigh.
If you eat fast food everyday you will gain weight. 3500 calories is a pound.
Therefore you need and additional 3500 calories each week to gain 1 pound.
 
n00bsaibot said:
Maybe you are insulin resistant ? How much do you weigh.
If you eat fast food everyday you will gain weight. 3500 calories is a pound.
Therefore you need and additional 3500 calories each week to gain 1 pound.
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I weight about 90lbs now, and I want to go up to about 130 or so. I think as Maya said i'll incorporate some exercise as well as food.
 
A few weeks ago after I watched Dallas Buyers Club, I was reading this article about how the actors in it lost the weight so quickly, and also how they put on weight quickly for other roles they had played in the past. One of them said to gain weight they were drinking olive oil in the evenings before dinner. It's high in calories and healthy fats, so its good for you but also can help you put on weight. Also there's plenty of other high-calorie, nutrient-dense foods out there just like this that you could add to your diet. These are the foods you want to be putting in your body to gain weight in a healthy way, so you don't end up with gout or something. Focus on eating foods that have the most bang for your buck, so to speak, because you can only fit so much food in your body in a day ;)

It sounds like you're eating lots of "junk food" to gain weight, which doesn't contain a lot of nutrients, so you're kind of putting on unhealthy weight so to speak. I think your best bet is to fill yourself with stuff like this to be as healthy as you can while you put on weight:

- add peanut butter (or other nut butter) to foods whenever you can, its high-calorie, nutrient dense and high in healthy fats
- whole milk
- avocados
- high-calorie cereals and granolas
- full fat ice cream
- whole grain breads (the dense, real kind, not the thin white bread that doesnt have any nutrients. go to a bakery!)
- drink 100% juice
- whole grain pasta
- potatoes with real butter
- have a milkshake with real fruit added into it for dessert
- nuts
- meat
- full fat cheeses
- dont forget the veggies, you don't want to just be eating only meats & dairy. thats a recipe for being constipated :)


Try looking around online for meal plans for athletes trying to gain weight. There's a ton of them out there! Good luck friend!
 
Go to a juice bar... Plenty of calories with lots of nutrients and no fibre to fill you up. Healthier than eating fast food.
 
Carbs are not very good for weight gain especially in someone with your metabolism.

Try consuming calories in this order of quantity: fat, protein, carbs.

If you do carbs, make sure it's complex carbs like root vegetables (potato, carrot, yam, beet, rutabaga, etc.). Simple carbs like crackers, bread, etc... will burn instantly and cause insulin spikes and blood sugar issues.

Strength training *can* help but because you're getting over chronic illness, you should just focus on eating right now. Let your body gain back some of its static weight, and then you can look into training it to gain more later. If you want to do exercise then just focus on your basic day to day activities, staying mobile, etc.

Adding L-glutamine to your routine along with a zinc supplement could help. L-glutamine is an amino acid our bodies can make, but in chronic illness the stores get low. It's used, among other things, to promote tissue regeneration and in the synthesis of human growth hormone. Take on empty stomach.

Zinc is important during and after chronic illness. It also lengthens the availability of serum testosterone before it's converted by aromatase. Zinc citrate is your best bet for what's available in common markets. Take it with food.
 
Google BMR calculator to get your maintenance calories for the day.
Then simply add 500 calories to that each day. That will be a 3500 calorie surplus a week. Thus gaining 1 pound a week.
Now that doesn't sound like a lot , but it is much healthier that way.
I mean if you want to get more technical, then you can start tracking your macros.
 
There is no way this guy is eating 3k calories a day and he's 90 pounds. Human beings almost always overestimate how much they are eating when trying to gain weight. I doubt he's even getting close to 2k.


The healthy way would be to eat a conventional healthy diet slowly increasing your intake, but that would take a long time. The dirty way would be something like having a liter of milk first thing in the morning and before bed, then eating every 3 hours during the day. Add olive oil to everything, make sure you eat plenty of pasta, bacon, chocolate and anything else you can get your hands on.

You also need to take care of your appetite, like it was suggested stay away from caffeine or anything else that suppresses it. That could be smoking or even soda, because the sugar bomb hurt your appetite before a big meal.

Your stomach is tiny now (there is no way it isn't when you weigh so little) so you need to slowly stretch it over time. You can't do that overnight but eating a little more every day, and making sure you drink a lot of water after your meals will help you stretch it and soon enough you will be able to handle more food.


Come to think of it it's pretty funny to hear someone that weighs 90 pounds say they eat a lot. You probably couldn't even handle 2 fast foods meals in a day even if that's all that you would eat and you come here saying you can't gain weight. What's probably happening is that you're eating a lot of calories in the high sugar high carb way you mentioned and then you don't eat for next 6-7 hours because you are so stuffed. But with a high metabolism that's counter productive.


For motivation you could try to watch competitive eaters like this guy. He eats more in 2 minutes than you probably do all day, and he used to be an anorexic too so there you go.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvILb8psZpM


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKjtVqLLLR0
 
When I was on a methadone script and having trouble eating I used to make 'milkshakes' by mixing together three scoops of hyperbolic mass gain powder (a mixture of carbs and protein), a banana, a couple of dime bars and full fat milk in a food processor and that would work out at about 1000 calories for a pints worth.

Knock that back first thing in the morning and not only are you well on your way to consuming your calories for the day but it will give you energy for when you need it and kick start your digestive system and actually enable you to eat more later on in the day. It's not exactly health food but it's an easy way of getting a huge amount of calories down you very easily and you can eat healthy for the rest of the day.

Grazing on nuts throughout the day is a good way of eating highly calorific food without eating junk food, full of protein.
 
Wow, thanks everyone for all the advice. As you all have suggested I have started to add in things like avacados, grilled chicken, full fat yoghurt AS WELL AS some junk because I need to be looking good for Tuesday. I have also started light work outs, like walks and squats at home. I'm still feeling tired from having Mono, but the more eat and move around the better I feel.

I have also stared taking Vit D, Iron, and vit B supplements and will def look into the products suggested.

I should have mentioned that I am an Asian female in her 20s, so its not that I am a man that needs to bulk up, I just want my curves back you know? Lol!

Foreigner said:
Carbs are not very good for weight gain especially in someone with your metabolism.

Try consuming calories in this order of quantity: fat, protein, carbs.

If you do carbs, make sure it's complex carbs like root vegetables (potato, carrot, yam, beet, rutabaga, etc.). Simple carbs like crackers, bread, etc... will burn instantly and cause insulin spikes and blood sugar issues.

Strength training *can* help but because you're getting over chronic illness, you should just focus on eating right now. Let your body gain back some of its static weight, and then you can look into training it to gain more later. If you want to do exercise then just focus on your basic day to day activities, staying mobile, etc.

Adding L-glutamine to your routine along with a zinc supplement could help. L-glutamine is an amino acid our bodies can make, but in chronic illness the stores get low. It's used, among other things, to promote tissue regeneration and in the synthesis of human growth hormone. Take on empty stomach.

Zinc is important during and after chronic illness. It also lengthens the availability of serum testosterone before it's converted by aromatase. Zinc citrate is your best bet for what's available in common markets. Take it with food.
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Thank you so much for this post. I think I was making the mistake of going down the carb route, and not including much by way of fat and protein. I have rectified that and will be including salmon, grilled chicken, mackerel into my diet.
 
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Foreigner said:
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Goji berries can help with this too... So I've read. I'm pretty sure I gained weight when I was eating them a lot, too. Plus, I think the protein is complete, and they don't spike insulin.
 
Count your calories. Do it diligently and it WILL work. Of course, as everyone else has said, don't make those calories out of junk food.
 
I'm a addicted to ice there for prob don't eat as much as I should and so always high so always doing something physical cleaning etc I recently went on a road trip to try n get away from the drugs that only lasted 3 days n I had to come back home to get on. I put on a little bit of weight in that time but want to put on more as I am going back to work (stripping) in a few weeks n just need to put on a bit more weight I currently weigh about 42kg how can I put on weight fast while still using
 
Your biggest problem is obviously appetite suppression from meth. Try to eat as much as you can before each dose.
Eat things like meat, chicken, fish, pasta, peanut butter, milk, etc.
 
SirTophamHat said:
Count your calories. Do it diligently and it WILL work. Of course, as everyone else has said, don't make those calories out of junk food.
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Personally I disagree.

In this situation just give your body as many calories as you can in whatever form you can. If that happens to be junk food then so be it, just take a multivitamin and fish oil daily to help out.
 
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