How can I gain weight?
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You might have high metabolism, which mean you would need to probably double you intake of pretein and healthy food to gain weight. I just got a nutritionist to gain weight for football. I mean muscle not fat. But let me tell you, 5 lbs of muscle every 2 months is a really good number, so just remember that.\n\nAnother thing, you really dont workout enough to gain weight. you probably do just enough to maintain your weight. I work out 6 days a week. Although is seems rediculous, you just need to have a protein shake after workouts for recovery.\n\nheres the basics of the plan that my nutritionist put me on. Its wokred nicely as i have gained 12 lbs of muscle in 3 months, which is really good. \n\n\ni dont really know where to start so ill just start blabbering on if you dont mind...ill just list rules in their order of importance:\n\n1-Eat a BALANCED diet...ask yourself if you got protein, fats, and carbs in each meal.\n\n2-Fats are good...make sure your fats are from natural sources...as in; try lots of nuts and peanut butter is really good for you. Its weird but in order to burn fat you have to have fat....kinda like "in order to make money you have to spend it"\n****Greasy or fats from processed foods are very bad****\n\n3-Sugars can be very bad...(high-glycemic) sugars actually slow down the process of burning fat....you find them in processed food like soda, white bread, twinkies, etc.\n\n4-The most important meal of the day is a small meal after you work out. If you dont eat a balanced meal (try some kind of protein bar) after you work out your body will end up burning muscle and organs instead of fat. You find high-glycemic sugar in PROCESSED food like candy, snack, etc.\n\n5-NO PROCESSED FOODS...that means no white bread, twinkies, sodas\n\nthere's a lot more but those are the basics\n\nand try to take 9,000-11,000mg of vitamin C per day. its basically the best vitamin out there plus us humans cant make it on our own. and take a multivitamin.\n\nBUT dont go on a crash diet...everything i just said above works.\nIt will take a month of two to notice a difference but when you do you will be happy. Plus, it gives you the flexablity to be lenient with what you eat as long as it is BALANCED. think PCF(protein, carbs, fats)
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For starters increase your dietary intake of good carbs and protein. I like the nytrowhey for hard gainers. Great stuff. Also creatine definately works great\nThe quickest way to put on weight(good weight) is a combination of weight training, supplementation, rest and diet. Everyday make sure you get ample rest 9 hours at least. Join a gym and get start training hard, this will increase your appetite for food. Get down 6 or more meals a day filled with red meat, chicken, vegetables and some carbs. Whether it be potatoes, rice, pasta, don't be scared of the carbs. Use a weight gainer such as Universal Nutrition Muscle Juice, along with creatine and Universal Animal Pak. Consistency as in anything else in life will bring results. You will look and feel great using this method. Remember muscle is heavier than fat, and more visibly appealing, so rather than just eating alone weight train, supplement, diet, and rest
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Gain Weight Step 1 - eating!\n\nEating is the first and most important factor that is needed to gain weight. It's simple - you need to eat more calories than you burn. This does not mean eating anything and everything that is not nailed down. Carefully plan your meals with foods that will help you gain lean mass, not fat. I suggest 6 meals. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, and three other small meals scheduled throughout the day. The goal is to eat every 2.5 to 3 hours.\n\nFocus on foods such as steak, chicken, fruit, milk, vegetables, cheese and assorted types of nuts. It's recommended to eat 4 - 6 pieces of fresh fruit a day, and at least four tall glasses of milk. Milk is a great, cheap protein source - take advantage of it. A sample snack meal would be a glass of milk, an apple, and a hand full of peanuts.\n\nGain Weight Step 2 - lifting!\n\nAs stated, proper eating is of utmost importance when attempting to gain weight, but if you do not lift weights, the majority of that gained weight will be fat - not muscle.\n\nWhen trying to gain weight, I suggest working out three times a week. You need to lift hard and then recover for the next workout. Focus on the big exercises such as squats, deadlifts, bent-over rows, chin-ups, bench press, & military press. These are the exercises that will turn those extra calories into muscle. You are not going to gain much by doing lateral raises and step-ups every workout. You need the multiple-joint lifts that will shock your system and stimulate your body into growth. Focus on getting strong by adding a small amount of weight each workout. If you focus on strength, size will follow. Case in point, look around at your local gym - the strongest guys are also the biggest.\n\nGain Weight Step 3 - supplements!\n\nTo gain weight, you do not NEED supplements, but they will help you gain the weight quicker. That's what they are, supplements to an already good diet and training program. Think of supplements as the finishing touch.\n\nI like to keep things simple and, therefore, I suggest only two types supplements for those wishing to gain weight. The first is a weight gain shake. The shakes I recommend are ProLab's N Large 2. It's the best value out there. The way N' Large 2  will help is by giving you a large quantity of calories in one small serving. It will provide you with 620 calories in one easy shake and is especially great for people who do not have time for breakfast, or snacks while on the go. Just mix a serving with water or fruit juice and gulp it down in a just a couple of minutes. Get yourself a Shaker Bottle to make it even easier.\n\n\n\n\n(I got these answers from the website below...check it out, it has some great advice)
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Gain weight or get pregnant...
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(Note: get proper diet plan from nutrition expert.)\nTo gain weight, you need not resort to junk food and beer, as, I am sure, your friends will suggest.\nInstead, have properly balanced diet, with protein and vitamin supplements, exercise moderately, and do yoga.
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Eat a variety of fruits & veggies.  I do daily, and it knocks off the extra pounds.  You have to maintain a healthy balanced diet...if you just eat apples, when you fall off the diet wagon, you'll gain weight very rapidly.\n\nGood luck,  :)
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Eat at McChokes\n\nGuarenteed you will gain weight eating that chit they serve
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i. Eat more calories\nDo the math. Eat larger portions and eat at least five meals a day.\n\nii. Make smart choices\nFor example, choose dairy products, fish and meat over bread. Choose eggs over vegetables.\nEat foods with high protein content such as beans, pulses and peas, and foods with high starch content such as potatoes, rice and tapioca.\n\niii. Protein is important\nncrease your protein intake\n\niv. Snack a lot\nConsume a lot of high-calorie snacks (not junk food) such as cheese sticks, milk shakes, muffins, dried fruits, yoghurt and breakfast bars.\n\nv. Fluids help too\nDrink a lot of fluids that supply nutrients and calories; milk, fresh fruit juices and energy drinks are good examples.\n\nvi. Intensify workouts\nAerobics are great, right? Not for weight gain!\nYou need to exercise really hard and intensely to gain muscle mass\n\nii. Weights are the way to go\nFocus on free weight exercises (which do not require machinery) that target your large muscle groups. For example, you need dumbells, not fancy gym machines.\n\nviii. Space out your workouts\n\nIf you have a high basic metabolic rate -- which means you expend a lot of energy even at rest -- you need short intense workouts instead of long periods of low-stress activity.\n\nix. Creatine?\n\nx. Be consistent
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FIRST ! calm down. Second, just eat something that you can eat, that has a lot of calories. Don't worry, im flipping skinny too :]. Well, im a girl, but whatever. Just eat something you can fit into your stomach, and don't stuff yourself, eat something with A lot of calories, A lot.  \n\nWeight Gain \n\n1) 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. 2) 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. 3) 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. 4) At the end of that week, weigh yourself. You'll notice your 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 your 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! 5) 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 calories. More tips for how to gain weight (extremely important!) - Stay away from fat! Eventhough weight gain is your goal, you don't want to be gaining fat. Get rid of the chips and candy. No more fast food, nothing fried. Stick to high protein low fat foods like tuna fish (and other seafood), chicken breast, turkey, lean meats, fruits and vegetables etc. (For more information, read the diet and nutrition section. - WATER! Drink water! Drink around a half gallon a day, more if you can. Yes thats alot of water, but its that water that will give you the energy you need to gain that weight! - Sleep! YES! Sleep! The easiest, yet most over looked step. Get atleast 8 hours of sleep a night. Your gonna need it! Now the concern some people have about how to gain weight, is how to do it without putting on extra fat. Let me tell you how, YOU CAN'T! Unless you are using steroids, it is basically impossible to gain weight without putting on a little bit of extra fat. But hey, you want to see some weight gain right? Well then who cares about the little bit of extra fat you might put on while gaining. You will be able to burn that off later on, right now gaining is your main concern, so that is all you need to worry about.
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Personally, I can gain weight with almost any kind of food. But if you are WANTING to gain weight, try to find foods that are calorie-dense, but still nutritious. Nuts, dried fruits, peanut butter, cheese are examples of calorie dense foods.
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take food supplement for weight gain
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every food you eat can actually make you gain weight, it depends on your metabolism (basal energy expenditure) and the physical activity you do. Nutrition bars frecuently are made low in fat for relieving some hunger or in case of protein bars it adds an extra protein suplement to your diet. If you want to  gain weight you have to increase the daily calory intake in a balanced diet, overcoming your increased metabolism . Also you  have to discard some wasting diseases, consulting your physician (infections, thyroid disorders, etc)
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You be a lucky one, first you need to identify where you would like the weight and when you figure that out, you need to find a exercise program to build up the muscle there.  It will entail some of the diet, but I do not recommend you just eating junk food to gain weight, it will go where you do not want it and then it will refuse to leave.  Do it intelligently and be thankfull you have that ability.\n\nJohn B.
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I'm 17 also, and I gained a bunch of weight by drinking ensure. make sure you don't replace food by it, use it as a supplement. drink one every night and you'll gain weight. temporarily avoid rigorous exercise. another thing you can try in addition to ensure is carnation instant breakfast. drink it with your breakfast and with your lunch, and an ensure with your supper. feel free to email me about it and good luck!
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go to a doctor to prescripe to you the suitable kind of amino protiens that as i think works well in gaining weight
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There is a healthy way to gain weight.  If you want to gain weight increase you're carb intake.  A favorite of mine is to eat just whole grain bread with a lot of peanut butter on it.  It contains a lot of carbs and protein, and not a lot of fat.  Also you could eat any number of carbs, make sure they are whole grains, like brown rice of whole wheat bread and such.  Don't be concerned with getting fat, but if you work out and haven't increased your calorie intake that could be thinning you out.  Take in like 3000-3500 calories per day if you are trying to gain weight.  Cottage cheese is a good source of protien and good fat.  Tuna fish is loaded with protein and essential fatty acids.  You would do well with red meat like beef that has a lot of protein and fat.  Lean meats that are high in protein are chicken breast and turkey.  Either one will help with lean mass.  Stay away from empty carbs like potato chips or candy because you'll be on here asking how to lose weight in a few months.  All in all thought load up on protein, not fat.  I personally take in one gram or protein per pound of body weight.  It is tough to achieve unless you take some sort of protein supplement which are relatively cheap and 100% safe.  The is no such thing as too much protein.
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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. C