How do I gain good weight? .. or do I even need to gain weight?
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I have no clue what you *should* weigh. I personally think that many standards doctors set are chunky. But,. that is MY opinion. I say, eat a good diet...veggies and meats and everything. Be happy with you. I'm not sure I'd say lose weight, but hey...you be happy with you. But be healthy too. I DO struggle with anorexia, and there is a point where this could very well overpower you. Drink Ensure. That adds calories. If it tastes bad, make a milkshake with it and some icecream. Carnation instant breakfast. Protein powders mixed into your mashed potatoes adns uch....lots of ways to add a few calories. Just be careful and be healthy.
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The most important answer to this question is another question.  What type of weight are you trying to gain?  If the answer you want is any as long as the scale goes up.  Your answer is all of the above or what ever you can get and keep down.  If you are strictly trying to put on muscle, the only good answer is proper nutrition and time.  Sorry\nJohn G\nExercise Physiologist
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I hope this is a question to gain a couple pounds to be able to squeeze into a certain weight class or to meet a limit. There's weight gain powders/drinks at certain stores if you need extreme results but I would just say to increase the portions of your meals until you've reached the weight that you wish to be at.
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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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Even when you want to gain weight, your calories should come from foods that are good for you.\n\n- Cut out empty calorie foods such as sugary snacks and white flour foods. Breads, pastas and cereals should come from whole grains.\n- Good sources of protein include organic meats, fish, and organic poultry.\n- Drink protein-rich beverages (e.g. milk-based fruit shakes).\n- Have fruit juices between meals.\n- Munch on nuts and seeds, which are high in calories and many other nutrients.\n- Increase the number of meals per day to 5 or 6 small balanced meals.\n\nProtein powders and shakes can be added as meals. Some are flavored and only need added water and some others can blended with water or your choice of juices to improve the taste. It would be a plus to add a small amount of flax seed oil and some psillium powder to add some healthy fiber. \n\nYou may find these sites helpful:\nhttp://www.mckinley.uiuc.edu/Handouts/pdfs/gaining_weight.pdf\nhttp://www.suplimednutrients.com/articles/healthy-weight-gain.php\n\nGood luck...
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There are healthier ways than eating as much Burger King and McDonald's as you can. There are products made spcifically for gaining weight that you can find at most health food store, which help you gain weight safely and effectively.\n\nCarbo Gain from Now Foods is a good product that's relatively inexpensive that you may consider.
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If you are underweight, and need to gain to a healthy weight, I can understand this question. If you are a healthy weight, Why would you want to risk your health to gain un-needed fat.! \nIf you are underweight, my advice would be to find out WHY. Make sure you dont have an underlying medical condition, causing weight loss. \nIf this is not a concern, and you just need to add a few pounds, please do it sensibly. Eat larger portions. Add more good carbs, whole wheat breads, brown rice, sweet potatoes, whole wheat pastas, legumes (pino beans, navy beans,etc) as well as lots of nuts, (cashews,peanuts,walnuts, pecans, macadameas,almonds etc.) and olives and peanut butter. (Smart Omega Peanut Butter brand is good and healthy) \nAlso add your calcium rich foods. Ice creams,yogurts,cream cheese,cottage cheese,milk,regular  cheeses such as cheddar/swiss etc.  Many people use to drink milkshakes to gain weight. \nBananas are a high fat fruit that may help. Good source of potassium too. Try to stay away from the high sugar foods. This is NOT a healthy way to gain NEEDED pounds. \nRemember, your overall health should be your focus. NOT body image.
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To gain weight in a healthy manner there are a few options:\n\n1.) You can eat more. There are some weight gainer formula shakes which can be taken daily.\n\n2.) You can exercise more.\n\n3.) a combonation of both. \n\nFrom personal experience I recommend #3. I used to weigh only 140 at 5'11" and now weight 185. If your wife is excercising regularly make sure she is not doing too much cardio. Cardio is the ultimate weight reducer. Even one cardio session can have a lasting effect on how energy gets metabolized. Muscle is denser than fat so the goal is to keep and build as much muscle as possible. (without looking like a freak of nature). Couple that with some extra protien foods like eggs and shakes and you have a good combo at hand.
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OK here is the diet u need to follow to gain weight..It worked for me but it takes time and patients! everymoring get up early and have a sandwich with peanut butter and make a milk shake using 1 banana and put some ENSURE powder into it. the eat something small at around 10:00 am like a chocolate bar. then at 12 have your lunch including pasta and red meat if you eat it. at around 2 eat something small again..then at 6 have your dinner and before you go to bed drink another milk shake using banana and ensure powder. also drink Vitamins,( good for appetite too)....they help alot! Hope this helped!
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Protein and carbohydrates! Vegetables! Eat three good meals a day, and two to three healthy snacks. Don't skip. And exercise. Muscle weighs more than fat, so if you can get on a good regimen of lifting light weights, you can put on muscle and gain the weight. (Even if you just get 2 lb. dumbbells and work out your arms, you'll see a difference in a couple of weeks.)
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find a good protein drink and work out with weights to gain muscle mass. muscle is heavier than fat.
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Obviously, you want to gain muscle. In order to do that, you must train them using heavy resistance. The rule of thumb is, in order to gain weight, you must eat more calories than you burn. I'm willing to wager that you're a tall skinny guy, correct? So your metabolism is probably very fast and you have a hard time gaining weight. I recommend doing barbell curls and/or close-grip chin-ups (palms facing your face). Your goal is to do 3 sets of each exercise, with a weight you can handle for no more than 10 repetitions. If you can do more than 10 repetitions, add more weight. Using barbells or dumbells may be easier for you to use, in the beginning, opposed to body weight exercises like the chin-up. However, you should still try to implement the chin-up. It develops good biceps strength and size as well as good upper back stength and size. The most efficient way to gain weight, is to incorporate the squat, deadlift, and bench press. These are movements refered to as, compound movements. The reason is, they stimulate multiple muscle groups when you perform them. The more muscle you stimulate, the more growth potential you have. So eat a lot of good quality food like: rice, potatoes, green vegetables, fruit, eggs, lean meat, and nuts. Learn to read food labels to know how much energy/calories are in the foods you eat. Start eating about 3000 calories a day for the first week. If you're gaining weight, keep the calories the same until you stop. If you're not gaining weight, add 500 more calories. It's reasonable to add 1-2 lbs/.5kg-1kg per week, of body weight. Good luck!
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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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first thing i would like to say is to make sure there is a good reason to gain weight.  i also thought i was too skinny, then talked to my doctor once, and she said, no!  you are the perfect weight for your size!  and i think i am super skinny, and i hate that i can see my ribs.  but my doctor says im healthy.  a lot of people in this world/nation hate that they are overweight, don't become one of them because you think you are underweight.  get a professional opinion first!
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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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Lucky you! Are you healthy? Do you feel good? If you answer yes to these, stay the way you are. If you don't feel good about the way you look and you want put on a few pounds, get together with a nutritionist or dietitian to help you figure out a good weight gaining diet. Talk with your regular doc first. Have a complete physical to rule out any underlying health problems. You can also work with a peronal trainer to help add muscle mass for better sculpting of what you already have. Hope this helps.
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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.