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Nnonovia

Nnonovia

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Hello, I am looking for healthy alternatives to gain weight, I cant afford CB4 weight gainer, but I do got some food. Does anyone have any suggestions or advice.?
 
Soylent and remeron are personal favorites. Waking up very early (early break fast?) also stimulates appetite, ime.

Prefer high fat, high carb shakes with sufficient whey isolate for shakes. Veggies are good for fiber and nutrients. Too much protein without enough fat and fiber, and you'll shite bricks!
 
I have no issues gaining weight and for me it is cheese, potatoes and enjoying meat with the fat on it are the foods that pile it on me. any carbs should help with weight gain. are you doing this for any reason eg weight lifting or is it just you need a bit more weight for health?
 
Well, I have five kids and instead of gaining weight, I lost weight. When I had my last child I went down to a size 0. When I was in school I was thick, now I look sickly to myself, and when I do drugs I don't eat, so that is against me. Yet and still, I never really have an appetite to eat anyway, unless I smoke mary jane. Thank you for your response, I definitely will try it.
 
brink said:
Soylent and remeron are personal favorites. Waking up very early (early break fast?) also stimulates appetite, ime.

Prefer high fat, high carb shakes with sufficient whey isolate for shakes. Veggies are good for fiber and nutrients. Too much protein without enough fat and fiber, and you'll shite bricks!
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This and I would also like to add, don't let 4 hours go by without eating as our bodies are like machines that need constant food and nutrition.
 
Trying2Iso said:
Take Zyprexa (olanzapine) that shit will balloon you 50 pounds in like 2 months its crazy
it stimulates your appetite, slows your metabolism, and lessens your physical activity and makes you tired all at the same time.
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Unless this is a joke, how does this even belong in "Healthy Living"?

Cut the cocaine out, eat good whole foods and take up some sort of exercise that will stimulate your appetite. Probably not what you wanted to hear, but like most things there's really no shortcuts. Taking psychiatric drugs for the sole purpose of gaining weight because one of the negative side effects happens to be a slowing of the metabolism is retarded and it's not like the weight you gain is going to be healthy weight. Throwing drugs at everything isn't always the answer, and no doctor in his right mind is going to prescribe you psychiatric drugs for anything other than mental illness.

As far as supplements go, the only thing I would recommend in your case is some whey protein. You don't need any special pricey pill that supposedly stimulates appetite, and besides you still have to eat the food. A lot of supplements out there are nothing more than snake oil. Hell there's a whole industry built on it.
 
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Switch all your dairy products to "whole" - no lowfat or non fat milk, cheeses, yogurts, etc. Stay away from transfats and overly processed foods, although fattening they are terribly unhealthy! Use real butter, no margarines and generally stick to "good" fats and carbs. Avocado, nuts, olive oil dressings , rice, pasta and wholegrains- things like that. Also, don't give up some sort of exercise. It may sound counter productive but it is not. A bit of strength training and a nice walk would be great however I'd stay away from aerobics and cardio for now
 
/\ Good advice, although I don't think cardio would be counterproductive if she's not doing any other sort of exercise because it's still going to stimulate appetite. Strength training would be optimal, but obviously that's not something everyone's going to get into.
 
have you been to a doctor to see if you have something wrong like an over active thyroid? it could be there is something wrong, but as Maya said eat often even if you don't think about eating do it even if it is something small it is better than not eating. Kittykat13 staying away from cardio and aerobics is impossible when you have kids :)
 
KittyKat13 said:
Switch all your dairy products to "whole" - no lowfat or non fat milk, cheeses, yogurts, etc. Stay away from transfats and overly processed foods, although fattening they are terribly unhealthy! Use real butter, no margarines and generally stick to "good" fats and carbs. Avocado, nuts, olive oil dressings , rice, pasta and wholegrains- things like that. Also, don't give up some sort of exercise. It may sound counter productive but it is not. A bit of strength training and a nice walk would be great however I'd stay away from aerobics and cardio for now
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Perfect!
 
Trying2Iso said:
Take Zyprexa (olanzapine) that shit will balloon you 50 pounds in like 2 months its crazy
it stimulates your appetite, slows your metabolism, and lessens your physical activity and makes you tired all at the same time.
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it's been two years since i'm taking it and i didn't gain any weight. I'm 5ft7in and i weigh 115 pounds....
 
Work out, eat balanced, eat a lot, eat often. You can eat a lot more when eating spread over the day compared to when you eat 2/3 meals. That's how I personally went from 55kg to 62kg (Male, 1.70m.) I just decided for myself that being 55kg was too thin and started eating double the amount of food, combined with sports. Carbohydrates before sports, proteins direct after. Mostly eating sandwiches during the day and a whole meat flour thingy (called Brinta) an hour before I started doing sports. My weight went up in no time, but I do have to keep eating large amounts.
 
LearntYoung said:
That's how I personally went from 55kg to 62kg (Male, 1.70m.) I just decided for myself that being 55kg was too thin and started eating double the amount of food, combined with sports. Carbohydrates before sports, proteins direct after. Mostly eating sandwiches during the day and a whole meat flour thingy (called Brinta) an hour before I started doing sports. My weight went up in no time, but I do have to keep eating large amounts.
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I'm about 70kg at 178cm and i feel like for me this is still too thin.. i have to eat large amounts quite frequently. When i was focusing on this i managed to get up to 74kg but i just couldn't maintain the amount of food i was eating. Now almost 26 years old i think my metabolism will start to slow down.
 
It's really very simple: increase your portion sizes. There's no magic formula, you just need to take in more calories than you burn and you'll gain weight.

You don't need to go OTT and double everything, just increase.
 
velmwend said:
It's really very simple: increase your portion sizes. There's no magic formula, you just need to take in more calories than you burn and you'll gain weight.

You don't need to go OTT and double everything, just increase.
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That's not really how human metabolism works, though? It's a lot more complicated than that.

Without getting too complex, it's a demonstrably obvious fact that there are thin people who eat a lot and don't gain weight and fat people who don't eat much at all and don't lose weight. Bodies are fascinatingly unique things.

I mean, yeah, increasing your food intake might put some weight on you, but if you have a noticeably fast metabolism it's not going to do too much. Most people find it very difficult to lose OR gain weight outside of a quite narrow 'set point' range, regardless of their original body size.
 
Seriously, Remeron. I was 90 pounds 10 days ago, since going on Remeron, I eat till I'm sick & eat more. I have major GI issues, pain issues, & health issues & it doesn't even matter. Today I'm 104 pounds, so in 10 days I gained 14 pounds. I went from an average of 750 calories a day to an average of 3500, based on the calculations in my spreadsheet. Definitely not healthy eating or living, but if your just looking to put on weight it works.

The side effects can be a bitch & in my case are, I didn't choose to go on this medication & I'm also experiencing opiate withdrawals due to a Hospital fucking my medications all to shit, but even with the stomach cramps, pretty much liquid stool, frequent bowel movements, nausea & the like I still can't stop eating. Personally I think that Remeron (Mirtazapine) is fucking evil, as TCA's, well it's a TeCA & NASSA but still, if you want something that will basically force you to gain weight Remeron is it.

I am being forced to eat till I'm sick & eat some more, it's horrible I can barely function let alone get anything done, but hey I'm gaining weight... Doctors logic can be royally fucked. Though in my case its a long story you'd have to read some other threads I've posted in to have a better idea as I don't have the time or energy to explain it atm.

But if all you care about is putting on weight Remeron will cause you to gain weight, I've never seen anyone take it & not do so. Most people I know gain 30-50 lbs, I'm hoping to stop taking it far before that happens.

Anyways I digress, but if you don't give a shit about health or side effects or anything else besides packing on pounds Remeron (Mirtazapine) is what your looking for.

BTW don't mean to be a dick but just giving the guy an honest answer, might not exactly fit Healthy Living but it answers the question. More than likely I'm just kinda bitter at being forced to take a medication I don't wanna be on.
Don't mean to offend or violate the forum rules in anyway, so I shall leave it at that.
 
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