What makes you gain weight?
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You are eating more than you spend.  Average person needs ~2000 calories a day to keep the body functions normal anymore than that is stored as fat.\n\nEat right and exercise, the only two time tested methods to weight loss.
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Yes, abnormal digestive system can cause you lose or gain weight.
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The best way to gain weight and still be healthy is to eat more protein, less carbs and lift weights, smaller amounts of weight but more reps.  I also eat about five to six small meals a day to keep my body energized.
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It doesn't directly contribute. It is natural for you to want to relax after eating because your body is putting a lot of energy into digesting your food. Now if you stay sitting or laying down and don't exercise daily, that will make you gain weight.
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I have wondered that myself because for me it is genetically impossible to gain weight. Trust me over summer one year I did absolutely no excersize as kindof an experiment and I ate so much junk food since I cant cook. I didnt gain a single pound. Im 5'10 and 135, thank goodness im skinny because I would be so fat right now if it werent for genes.
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These are some points, which would help in increasing your weight:\n\nEating: The first important point to increase your weight is to eat well. Eat more than you burn calories. Eating food, which contains more fat is good for people who are thin. Drinking milk, cheese, chicken meat etc are some foods, which contain more fat.\n\nExercise: Most people think that thin people should not exercise, as they could get even thinner. But it is recommended that they exercise so that they feel hungrier and eat more. Taking nutritious food would help the body gain weight. Do not lift heavy weight dumbbells in a gym; instead opt for low weight and do more repetitions.\n\nThere are lots of weight gain supplements available in the market, but they are not recommended. Instead have good amount of protein-enriched foods, fruits and products, which contain more fat. Eating lots of protein and fat, as it is very helpful in increasing your weight. So why wait! Start NOW.
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The SAFER way to gain weight is to eat slightly larger porportions of the food you eat now. By increasing your calorie intake, you will gain some weight, but not a lot like eating a bunch of junk food and sitting around will do.
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Jogging, cycling, stepping, walking fast.\nAvoid eating excessive oily foods, for example choice steamed instead of fried potatoes.\nEat simple food such as fruit,vegetables, no snacks, podridge, fish.\nGreedy in eating is the evil cause of gaining weight.
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Bets,\n\nA part of the reason why you gained weight is because your metabolism slowed down.  This is typical of college students (going from teens to 20s).\n\nJust bump up your cardio to burn off what you drink.\nLift weights to make your body denser.
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1.- Eating then sleeping will make you gain fat. \n2.- Skipping meals or not eating for long periods of time will make you gain fat. \n3.- Drinking soft drinks (even diet drinks) with fatty foods will make you gain fat. \n4.- Constant snacking on energy foods will make you gain fat\n5.- Stress without physical exertion will make you gain fat.\n6.- Toxic substances in your food will make you gain fat\n7.- Losing muscle mass will make you gain fat.\n8.- Overconsumption of fructose will make you gain fat
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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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If you are very lean and want to gain weight(not just fat) take a glass of wine/beer before lunch and dinner.Eat high carbohydrate and high protein food.Exercise a lot.After gaining required weight change to limited food intake and minimal exercise.
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No. It's not the mass of what you eat, but the calories of what you eat that will determine the amount of weight you gain.\n\nExample: After drinking 1 kg of water, you will gain 0 kg of weight because water has 0 calories and you will pass it all during the day.
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Well just eat foods that are healthy but in larger amounts.Then, lift weights so you can change the food you ate into muscle instead of fat.By doing that you will gain weight by gaining muscle.
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Well, i heard this on oprah.  If you trying to gain weight go on  diet for a little bit and then suddenly stop.  The shock will cause you body to pack on some extra pounds.
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Well, a lot of it is down to metabolic rate and how adept your body is at burning fat, some are better than others. Plus obviously, if you are eating more fat than you are burning off, then you will gain weight... its simple maths really!
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You have a very high metabolism.\nI have a Viet Namese friend who wanted to gain weight and she drank chocolate milk.\nRenee Zelwigger ate chocolate doughnuts to gain 35 pounds to play Bridgette Jones.