Gaining weight drastically???please help!!!!?
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40 lbs in 6 months is too fast.. i think first of all you should visit your doc, just to rule out anything else that might be causing your wieght gain.. if it is defintily stress then you need to learn how to deal with it first before you can start thinking about your weight.. talk to a counsler or even search the internet for stress releivin techniques.. you'll find mnay helpful things.. after you have started to deal with the stress, the you can think about your wieght.\nFirst of all, try to exercise a little, start out by walking for 3 minutes for 2 days.. seems ridiculous and easy, right? So then on the 3 and 4th day add an extra minute or two.. keep doing that until you reach a reasonable time.. you don’t have to walk vigorously.. just take it one step at a time.. Also, walking doesn’t have to be boring, listen to your MP3 while you walk, or just give yourself time to think.. make “to do” lists while you walk and you wont even think of the walking.. walking doesnt need a special place, walk around your campus or something.. Secondly, follow a healthy diet.. I strongly recommend Jorge Cruise’s 3-hour diet.. where you eat every 3 hours.. because its so easy and you don’t cut out any kind of food so you don’t feel deprived.. I’m not overweight and I tried it (which means its harder for me to lose any weight) but I lose 7 lbs in the first month.. if you want to check it out vists this forum http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/forumdis...\n\n\nAnyways, a great solution to over eating is to drink more water.. it’s a natural appetite suppressant.. keep water around you, always carry a bottle and you’ll notice a difference.. drinking a lot of water also relieves you of water retention.. Also, eat 5 smaller meals everyday instead of 3.. have breakfast, a snack, lunch, a snack, dinner, a mini snack.. choose snacks that are low in calories but still yummy.. eating more frequently will keep your metabolism revved up! Also, NEVER eat 3 hours before you go to bed coz your body will slow down digestion and will store your food as fat.\nCheers, contact me if you want to ask more about the diet :)
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If as you say you cannot stuff any more food in and cannot gain weight, you should talk to a doctor.  She or he might be able to do more for you than changing your diet will.  Have you calculated your body mass index (BMI)?  There are many websites where you can do this, I recommend the CDC website: http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/bmi/index.htm (use the teen calculator).  This will let you know where you stand with your peers.  The best way to gain weight is to increase calorie intake.  If you are eating as much as you can, maybe you should change the types of food you are eating, i.e. no junk food, stay away from saturated fats, UNsaturated fat is good, as well as proteins which will help strengthen muscles (muscle weighs more than fat).  Whole milk, although not too low in saturated fat is a good source of calories from fats and proteins, and is sometimes recommended by nutritionists to help undernourished people gain weight.  Also peanut butter is good, it has a good balance of calories from fats, carbs and proteins.  Good luck, but most importantly you should talk to a doctor or nutritionist before making any drastic changes.
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I have been trying to gain weight for like 4 years and I finally am now- do this,\ncount how many calories you eat in a normal day, the next day increase it by 500 or more, do that for the week, and increase it by another 500 the next week. \nDrink boost plus, you can get it at a cvs or walgreens, the vanilla flavor is the best. Drink 3 a day but DONT skip any meals. Drink lots of water and get lots of sleep. \nBut most of all, I think the boost plus' helps most\ngood luck\n\nas for how fast, if you want to gain 20 lbs im guessing like 2 months, healthily
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How To Gain Weight \n\n\n\nThis one seems like a no-brainer, eh? How do you gain weight? You eat. You cannot gain weight without eating... in the exact opposite of losing weight, actually, you cannot gain weight without consuming more calories than you burn off. \n\nThe bigger question, in our weight-loss worshipping world, is why would you want to gain weight? Fact is that sometimes we become too thin, dangerously so, to the point where we begin to suffer all these negative side effects and eventually death. Sometimes gaining weight is a pretty attractive option by comparison. Being at a healthy weight helps every system of our body function better, allows us to heal from damage, and gives us reserves as protection against stress or illness as well. \n\nThe tougher part of weight-gain is how to do it in a healthy manner. Just as rapid weight-loss can be dangerous, so can rapid weight gain. Many EDs who go through rapid recovery end up with too high a bodyfat percentage, too much fat stored around their internal organs, compromised health, and high cholesterol. This is in part because traditional anorexic "recovery" diets are aimed at bulking up the patient as quickly as possible by fat-loading everything they eat with no thought for the health quality of the food being given. \n\nIt's safer to aim for a gain of one or two pounds a week so as to not put undue stress on your recovering system and to know that you're rebuilding bone, muscle, and nutrient stores instead of just frantically storing fat. It's more important to restore your body's protein, elemental, vitamin, water, fat and sugar balances than to simply send the numbers on the scale up. Once you do this, given sufficient raw materials your body will rebuild itself more strongly. \n\n\n \nIn The Beginning\n\nIf you're deciding to gain weight, odds are it's because you're underweight. If you're underweight, barring a purely illness-related weight-loss problem which should really be addressed by a doctor instead, you have probably not been eating enough. If you haven't been eating enough for a while, your digestive system will need to be retrained. Same goes for extended or extensive purging... it screws with your entire system, and there will need to be plenty of time devoted to patience and healing. \n\nExtended periods of time with insufficient solid food intake causes your entire digestive system to slow down and lose efficiency. Amounts of digestive chemicals in production may drop, and the tiny fingerlike cilia that absorb foods in your small intestine may become paralyzed or die off. The peristaltic muscles that move food through your system may weaken or atrophy. Large meals or a lot of food at once may confuse your stomach and intestines to the point where they cramp up and have trouble remembering what to do at all. All this will need to be repaired slowly, given time to reaccustom itself to the concept of processing and utilizing food again. \n\nStart with liquids. Rehydration is extremely important, since without food our overall water content drops significantly, and the digestive process requires a great deal of water. In the first few days of refeeding you may notice a sudden gain of several pounds... this is most likely, if you're doing everything right, your water balance trying to straighten itself out. You may feel bloated for a while as this happens and it's extremely important that you allow it to take care of itself and do not try to correct it with diuretics; limiting caffeine, which acts as a diuretic, may be a good idea here. Potassium can also act as a mild diuretic but do not try to limit that, as it's an important electrolyte and part of rehydration is bringing your electrolytes back up to a good strong level. You may benefit more from drinking water and juice between meals, instead of with meals, as liquids during meals can make your stomach feel fuller and may slow digestion a bit.
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ok...........eat pj sandwiches that'll help or peaunutbutter with honey on bread.......believe me you'll gain weight in a healthier way! ;)
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It's hard to do, because I use to run Indoor/Outdoor Track also, and it's was very difficult to gain weight, not that I wanted to. But anyway you should know that your personal surroundings can affect your weight desire. You need to develop a good and healthy eating habit. Try that before and after practice.Try something like Milkshake, I can't really remenber the name of the product,but it gaves you iron, and an appetite.And pasta, but it takes time to digest. Good luck.
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Wish I had your metabolism LOL.  I just look at food and gain weight.  Ok well best suggestion is to go to a health food store and talk to someone there they should be able to recommend something or like a vitamin health store is what I meant to say.
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The only way to increase your weight is to eat more calories than you burn. For someone who finds it hard to put on weight my advice is to snack constantly. Make sure you don't go for more than 2-3 hours without eating. Eat protein rich, conveinient snacks like nuts etc. Eat loads of meat and loads of carbs, never miss breakfast. Eat a big snack before bed and you will be putting on weight in no time. \n\nTo make the weight you put on muscle, weight train. Doesn't have to be anything special: Squats, bench press, chin ups, shoulder press, and some arm curls, leg curls etc will use lots of big muscles and train them to get bigger and stronger.
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foods that are high in carbohydrates, starches...like a lot of potatoes(starches), pasta(carbs), breads(carbs), rice(starches). any types of foods like that will help you gain weight...ice cream helps too lol.
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HOW TO GAIN WEIGHT HEALTHFULLY \n\n1. Eat consistently. Every day, have three hearty meals plus one to three additional snacks. Do NOT skip meals! You'll miss out on important calories that you need to accomplish your goals.\n\n2. Eat larger than normal portions. Instead of having one sandwich for lunch, have two. Eat three potatoes at dinner, instead of only two. Have a taller glass of milk, bigger bowl of cereal, larger piece of fruit. \n\n3. Select higher calorie foods. Read food labels to determine which foods have more calories than an equally enjoyable counterpart. \n\n4. Drink lots of juice and milk. Beverages are a simple way to increase your caloric intake, quench your thirst with calorie.\nHowever, remember that drinking water is important too as it gives you the energy to gain weight.\n\n 5. Do strengthening exercises (weight lifting, push-ups) to stimulate muscular development so that you bulk-up instead of fatten up. Some underweight people are afraid exercise will result in weight loss rather than weight gain. If that is your case, remember that exercise tends to stimulate the appetite; you will want to eat more. (Yes, exercise may temporarily "kill" your appetite right after a hard workout, but within a few hours, you will get hungry.) Exercise also increases thirst; you will easily be able to drink extra juices.\n\n\n6. (extremely important!)  Stay away from bad fat! Even though weight gain is your goal, you do not want to be gaining fat and eating junk. Get rid of the chips and candy. No more fast food, nothing fried. Stick to high protein, low (saturated) fat foods like tuna fish (and other seafood), chicken breast, turkey,  rice, pasta, fruits and vegetables, nuts.\n\nGOOD LUCK\nHaya
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Part of it could be your bone structure, but not all of it. Many people think they're eating a lot when in reality they're accustomed to getting full at their maintenance level. Many have a high metabolism, but it really is about slowly increasing your calories to the point where your body can't keep up (everyone has that point). Healthy fats (unsaturated) can be great and are dense with calories, try peanut butter, healthy oils, etc... Putting on muscle will look and be much better than adding fat, although muscle burns extra calories, it's benefits outweigh the added minor trouble you'd have about needing more food. Try actually counting your calories, at your weight/height, you're probably in the mid 1000's of calories for maintenance give or take a couple hundred, try eating around 2500, slowly getting there over a couple weeks. See what happens, and if needed, up it to 3000. Lift heavy (learn how first) and eat big and muscle/weight will come, if even after eating 1000 or so more calories than your body takes to maintain your weight doesn't help, possibly see a physician. Good luck!
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Find out your maintenance calorie mark, the number of calories you burn without doing any strenuous exercise during the day.  Then add 250-500 calories per day.  This will help you gain about a pound a week or about 52 pounds a year.  That should be easy enough.  Unless you're trying to put on flab, I'd recommend weight training and *some* cardio to go along with it.  In which case, you'd probably want to add an additional 300-500 calories.  Eat *lots* of complex carbs (oatmeal, brown rice, sweet potatoes, etc.) and more protein (chicken, fatty fish, lean steak) and a little more fat (mostly from oils such as flax seed, fish oil, peanut oil and other sources such as natural peanut butter).  You'll be bigger *and* healthier in no time.  Eat 6 big meals throughout the day.  It will boost your metabolism but you won't spike your insulin as much (again if you want to gain in a healthy manner).  \n\nIf you really do want to gain weight and don't care about your health, then whoppers, milk shakes, french fries at least once a day and no exercise should do the trick.
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i used to have your problem. 2 years ago i was extreemely underweight but i have since gained 40lbs (mostly muscle since my body fat percentage has remained the same). There is no such thing as being unable to gain weight. You just simply arent eating enough. if you are the same as me, then you would need to be eating 5-6 high protein full meals a day accomipanied by 3x a week weight lifting. click on my name and look at my replies in other threads if you want to know more.
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Ok, Iam not an expert, but due to my hectic training schedule, I was not able to eat properly, and I lost a lot of kilos. Iam already lean, now I became even more lean! Then I asked for methods to gain weight.\n\n                   The first thing you should keep in mind is that gaining weight is not the only sign of health. If it is, then why are so many people out there go to gym everyday and sweat like pigs to lose weight?! Your doctor diagnosed and didn't find anything wrong, right? And you know very well that you are healthy as a horse. Then what are you so worried about? You should be proud about your amazing slim body. Many people out there dream about a slender attractive body... :-)\n\n               If you still want to gain weight, try thick banana milkshake, and milk mixed with enough protein powder everyday.\nTake in a lot of dairy products(but be careful when you take in the butter). Go to a good gym, where a good instructor can give you advice on gaining body mass.I don't think non-veg is gonna help gain body mass. It just makes you obese.\n\n               "You are just 29, and you alredy have a good family, now why are you so worried about being lean? Be proud, man, just enjoy the life...." ;-)
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1) Count how many calories you eat in a normal day. Don't change anything, just eat like you normally would and count how many calories you consumed. This is an extremely important step, so try to be as exact as possible. Also, weigh yourself. \n\n2) Starting the day after you counted calories, eat 500 calories MORE then you normally do. So, lets pretend that the day you counted calories you counted 2000. For the rest of the week, you would now eat 2500 calories a day. Instead of eating 3 big meals a day or eating all day all the time, spread those calories out over 5-6 smaller meals. Eat one meal every 2 and a half to 3 hours. To get big, you have to eat big! Remember that. \n\n3) Weightlifting! Get in the gym and lift! This is another important step to how to gain weight, so make sure you are doing it correctly. For more information on weightlifting workout routines and splits, read the workout routines and splits section. \n\n4) At the end of that week, weigh yourself. You'll notice you're gaining just after one week! Now, don't expect to see a 10lb increase. Gaining anymore then 1 or 2 pounds a week is unhealthy and means you're putting on way to much fat. So look for 1 or 2 pound gains at the end of the week. Don't sound like much? You can be gaining 5-8 pounds a month! \n\n5) Heres an important one. At some point, you will stop seeing weight gain. At this point, you will have to eat even more. So, when you stop gaining for at least 2 weeks, it means it is time to start eating an extra 250 calories a day. Every time you see you haven't gained weight for at least 2 weeks, add an extra 250
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tips to gain weight:\n1. do not go for more cycling. \n2.don't play outdoor games.\n3.watch television or play computer games more.\n4.eat junk food more.\n5.do exercises more because they not only help u in losing weight but also help a lot in gaining\n\njust follow these tips and gain weight in just one month or even a few weeks.
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A few years ago I was able to eat absolutely everything and not gain weight. I would eat 4000 + calories a day and continued to lose weight. The issue was a stress disorder and my system was not processing all the food I ate. I visited a doctor, got my mineral balance back in check, and took mega dose liquid vitamins for about 6 months. The weight gain started within the first few weeks and continued until I was a more normal size 8. (I was down to size 2). A visit to a doctor or naturopath may be wise.