I want to  put on more weight fast. What is the best course of action in terms of eating pattern?
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eat plenty before you sleep, load up on carbs and protein..then work it all out into muscles which weigh far more heavier than just fat.
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trust me - you don't want to do it! It's so bad for you. Plus, eating less just makes your metabolism slower. So once you start eating after those four days of not eating, you will gain weight more rapidly because you have slowed down your metabolism so much. If you are really trying to lose weight- try drinking only water and sugar free drinks like teas and juices sweetend with a sugar substitute, no soda, eating smaller portions every three hours and no later than 8 or 9:00 at night. Try to eat more proteins, whole grains, and fruits/veggies. It will balance your blood sugar making you feel more satisfied eating less. Eating more often (every 3 hours) will also stimulate your metabolism to help you lose weight. YOU DO NOT WANT TO STARVE YOURSELF.
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The quickest way is to cut out red meats, starches, breads, sugars, alcohal, and sodas.\n\nEat veggies (salads are good), soups, and drink TONS of water. If you get hungry between a meal, drink water to fill up.\n\nIn moderation eat white meats, and fruits (fruits contain natural sugars, and that can put on weight)\n\nPractice portion control. Yes, you'll feel hungry at first, but think of your goal, and soon your stomach will start shrinking and you won't have that feeling anymore.\n\nEat 5 times a day. A small breakfast. A mid-morning snack, such as an apple. A small lunch. A mid-afternoon snack, such as carrots. A lite dinner. Do not eat any later than 7pm (6pm is better.)\n\nGo exercise for at least an hour a day, incorporating weight training. Weight training builds muscle. Muscle burns fat. You get the idea.\n\nGood luck!!
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The healthier you get the more efficient your body will be. I suggest that the ten pounds you're hoping to gain is muscle not fat. But still eat regularly not too much sugar in your meal not too less. Exercise a lot. Every morning do stretches, sit-ups, push-ups. And when you get stronger do more everyday. Do that and you will be healthier. Your self-esteem might be better if you do this too. Your lungs probably will be stronger so you can hold your breath longer. A healthy body, a great mind, a great soul.
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Refeeding \n-or- \nHow 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 slo
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Fruits have natural sugars, and that will actually put weight on over time. \n\nThe quickest way is to cut out red meats, starches, breads, sugars, alcohal, and sodas.\n\nEat veggies (salads are good), soups, and drink TONS of water. If you get hungry between a meal, drink water to fill up.\n\nIn moderation eat white meats, and fruits (fruits contain natural sugars, and that can put on weight)\n\nPractice portion control. Yes, you'll feel hungry at first, but think of your goal, and soon your stomach will start shrinking and you won't have that feeling anymore.\n\nEat 5 times a day. A small breakfast. A mid-morning snack, such as an apple. A small lunch. A mid-afternoon snack, such as carrots. A lite dinner. Do not eat any later than 7pm (6pm is better.)\n\nGo exercise for at least an hour a day, incorporating weight training. Weight training builds muscle. Muscle burns fat. You get the idea.\n\nGood luck!!
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Before attempting any drastic change, the best thing to do would be to go to a doctor. They can tell you exactly how much weight you need to gain to be 'average' which will make you healthier.\n\nThe best way to put on weight is with a diet of things like potatos, pasta, rice, meat and dairy products, but make sure you still try and eat five portions of fruit or veg a day. Also, have three square meals a day.
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The best way to increase your weight is to always exceed your daily energy requirements. Find out exactly how many calories you burn on a daily basis through an assessment of your BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate)& AMR (Active Metabolic Rate). Once you have these numbers, it's simple math. Ensure you are above or consuming more calories than your body burns on a daily basis and you should increase your mass with the appropriate weight training regimen. \n\nhttp://preventdisease.com/healthtools/articles/bmr.html\n\nHere are some tips:\n1) always eat a heavy complex carb meal (pasta/rice)at least 1-2 hours before going to sleep.\n2) try weight gainer shakes at your local health food store.\n3) STAY AWAY FROM CARDIO (this really should be a short-term ideally since refraining from cardiovascular exercise can jepordize long-term health). For your purposes in the short-term, cardio will only hamper efforts to gain weight. If you don't have to run then walk, if you don't have to walk then stand, if you don't have to stand then sit, if you don't have to sit then lie down.\n4) weight training (if you are at least intermediate level) should not exceed 8 reps, especially on large muscle groups. Please seek the advice of a professional trainer before proceeding with heavy weights if you are not at least an intermediate level weight trainer. \n5) concentrate on multi joint and power movements such as squats and deadlifts for the largest spike in growth hormone during your workouts (again proceed only under supervision)\n6) never workout more than 90 minutes\n7) track your progress - it's the only way you'll find out what works for you\n8) sleep sleep and more sleep - minimum 9-10 hours to maximize growth.\n9) Drink plenty of water\n10) Creatine - probably one of the best ways to gain weight (if used properly) in the short-term.\n\nHere's a list of weight training exercises to help you:\n\nhttp://preventdisease.com/fitness/Strength_Exercises.html
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You don't want to be doing that this is the way;\n1 Eat breakfast\n2 Eat lunch\n3 Eat Dinner\nfinish eating by 8pm\nStart again next morning\nDon't eat between meal unless it s fruit, no bananas fattening !\nno sweets biscuits ,cakes, ice cream cut the drink right down  Cook each night cut down on bread increase you veg intake stick to fish and chicken grill instead of fry steam instead of boil decrease salt increase water intake. Walk every where get a bike  exercise cut out smoking.\nthis will work keep that in mind\nYou look good in your photo! \nJoin the thin
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The fastest diet is fruits, veggies, and lean meats.  Cut down on pasta, bread and sugar, and you will lose weight and keep it off.  Drink lots of water too.
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Never binge eat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!\n\nJust increase calories to 2000 for weight gain and you will be ok. Make sure you eat 6 meals a day. Have a big breakfast really early like 6.30am. By 10.30am have a banana smoothie w 10 nuts. At 1pm have a bowl of pasta and a bread roll. 3pm have another smoothie w 10 nuts. 7pm have a big steak and potatoes w salad & dressing. 9pm eat 2 scoops of ice cream. \n\nShouldn't take too long! Everyone is different so it depends upon your Metabolic rate!
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Yeah the fastest and easiest and funniest is swimming... I know I know... maybe you don't have the money to do it... But if you live where a YMCA is you can go there anc get finacing I only had to pay 20 dollars a month for myself and my three other family members a month not bad and I lost the weight and it wasn't really work as I love to swim... another way is to walk in your free time... every other half hour or hour.. for 30 mins walk anywhere hills flat land what ever just do it.. sometimes your worse problems will be solved through walking plenty of timet o think.. and the wieght comes off. Drink 8 glass of water each day and then on top of that drink a glass and a half at least before every meal.. it fills you up faster... make your meal portions no bigger then your fist as your stomache is only supose to be as big as your fist.... so limit your protion sizes.. DOn't eat out to much once a week is fine to treat yourself stay away from the chocolate once a week is fine give yourself a treat for your work.. Don't deprive yourself when your hungry find a heathly snack canned fruit is good.. if you want to lose the weight fast and keep it off then do as I say and you will lose.. I weighed 199 lbs at 14 years old I lost 100 lbs in two months walking every other half hour drinking plenty of water before and after meals and 8 glass of water a day beyond that... I looked felt and sounded great. good luck to you .. I am now also on this diet trick again myself.. and fighting to lose my baby fat from my two girls I had I am 31 now.. and at 138 lbs... I have never gotten back up to the 199 lbs and don't plan to either but I would defently like to lose 30 lbs.... to get to my actual love weight lol. 110 is my goal.. wish you lived near by I would walk with you and we could keep each other company and going .. I ll pray for you and I hope you do the same for me.
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If you are trying to gain weight and do it properly go see a nutritionist, or even an employee over at GNC. There are supplements that you can take to help you gain weight. Since it sounds like you have a quick metabolism,  you should eat every 2-3 hours with proteins and carbs. Avoid the sugar, although a bowl of ice cream before bed will surely help you put on some pounds. But try and do it the healthy way.
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I am in the same boat w/you. If you dont act now, you're going to slowly put more weight on.  I didnt' notice when i went from 120- to 135 at all, so its good at least you're noticing. I acually went from 120- up to 150 and then i noticed it!! Scary.well anyway.. to your question. There is no safest, fastest way. Everything has its consequences. My best advice to you is to eat alot of vegetables and fruits. Eat meat only twice a week *boiled meat* is the best. Dont put it in the oven or grill Boiled meat in my opinion is the best, it will probably taste like crap, but it is the smallest in calories (it has to be lean too). Boiled fish, and stuff. I heard cabbage soup works too. Just cabbage, carrots, you can put lots of spices in it. Try eating it for a couple of days( i don tknow if you can eat it for a week) but if you do, guaranteed 10 pounds loss. I Have tried cabbage soup before it works great. Just make sure its only cabbage, carrots, spices, no potatoes!!! If you eat it for a week, you will loose 10-15 pounds. Tummy weight a lot of sit-ups. and jogging. Good luck!! I know its hard, butyou got to catch the beast early, because it only gets harder when yhou have to loose like 30 pounds and 40 pounds!! Also try to get a gym buddy if you can; i wish i had one!! hehe Good luck again, i hope this helps!
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Eat smart.\n\nThe way to do it is not eat high calorie foods. You want to add weight, not turn into a slob.\n\nHow old are you? That is not mentioned. If you are still growing, time will catch up with you on that.\n\nContinue to eat in a smart way, just increase the amount you eat (slowly, you don;t want to get a tummy doing it this way)
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There is no "fast" way that is healthy and nothing worthwhile is ever easy.  You must consume less calories than what you use in a day and you have to incorportate exercise.\n\nThat being said, if you are interested, contact me with your email address (diet is too many "characters" to fit in the Yahoo Answers mail system), I will gladly give you a diet based on Jenny Craig and Nutrisystem. You can do it yourself at home. You won't need to measure anything or count calories. It is all already proportioned. It involves all food groups and is based on 1250 calories. Very healthy.  I have shared it with many askers on yahoo answers.
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Very smart, excellent plan.\n\n-Drink lots of water.\n-Try to get away from "three square meals" in favor of 4-6 smaller ones.\n-Substitute fruit for dessert.\n-Cut back on dressings, cheese, and/or substitute lower fat/calorie alternatives.\n-Do something you enjoy outdoors.  Go for walks, run, bike, swim, whatever.  Anything you will do at least 3 hours per week will help.\n-Cut back alcohol intake.\n-Treat yourself to a "cheat day" every week.  Don't go hog wild, but enjoy something you like to eat.\n\nYou don't have to exercise every day.  Go for walks at lunchtime when at work.  Walk the dog.  Be in motion.  Have fun.\n\nYou can do it.  Take it slow.  Be prepared for possible weight gain if you add muscle.  You will lose inches and feel better no matter what.