tips on gaining weight?

I've always been underweight and normally my weight stands around 125-130, which isn't much for a 6'0" man, but didn't seem unhealthy considering I always ate a lot. In the past week two people have asked me if I've gotten thinner, which I brushed off as kind of ludicrous, considering myself not to have any signifigant weight to lose. Out of curiosity I just stepped on a damn scale and found out I only currently weigh 118, which kind of scares me. There's no good reason I should be losing weight. Anyway, I really want to put weight on, which is a very difficult thing for me to do. Extra calories just make me hyperactive or keep me up at night. Does anyone have any experience with intentionally gaining weight or tips on how to do so?

I'll happily loan you some of mine.

That's not much help, really.

118! girrrl... you need some burgers i think, with like, cheese and bacon

and FRIES

(w/ chipotle mayo dip)

sorry i don't think you can gain weight without eating more calories!

maybe try to biggie-size your breakfast and eat constantly all day instead of in bursts so you don't get all highs and lows. i don't need to lose or gain weight but i have to do that (eat all day, not eat huge breakfast) or i feel like i will pass out all the time.

i like the phrase "biggie-size"

way xpost to Rev: sorry, if I eat a single french fry, I gain 10 lbs, so I have the opposite problem. If "extra calories keep you up at night," you might be in a bit of a conundrum, b/c I can't really envision a way to load up on fat without consuming lots o' calories.

Oh, and there's the added stipulation that I need to do this in starving student w/ no job (prob. how I ended up so thin in the first place) stylee. I know that doesn't make it easy.

xxp: I often run out of the house with no breakfast. I am so bad. :/

yeah breakfast would help, and maybe the rest of your calories wouldn't make you hyperactive if you ate it more often. also eggs are cheap esp. if you buy them like 18 at a time!

i believe in you, you can do this

I forget what Jared Leto did to put all that weight on to play Mark David Chapman, but it was very effective. I'll look for it & report back.

he drank microwave-melted pints of haagen-dazs iirc

having no money actually helps you gain weight cuz you're forced to eat JUNK

My main problem w/ breakfast is that I have to catch a bus at just past 7. And even getting up at 6:20 I feel mad rushed. Maybe I should set my alarm all the way back to 6:00.

xp: the prob is I don't even have money for JUNK tbh

find out whether your thyroid is overactive. serious advice.

Will do.

Eggs, I should def eat more eggs tho. PROTEINZ.

here's a tip. FUCK YOU ASSHOLE

seriously i hate you

also potatoes, they can make you fat and are mega cheap

AFAIK the "becoming a target of obscene verbal attacks" theory of weight gain is a myth

lift weights

According to this, Jared Leto gained 67 pounds to play Chapman by drinking microwaved pints of ice cream mixed with soy sauce and olive oil every night.

yeurgh

interesting, pretty sure that would cause me to lose weight after i vomit up the contents of my stomach

once you've got your thyroid checked out, maybe you should try some weight training and plenty of protein.

<3 u too, musically

Okay. BIG breakfast. Eat all day. (I kinda do that one anyway) Eggs. Potatoes.

Ugh, I tried lifting weights recently and even with tiny little weakling weights it kicked my ass. I should get into the habit of doing it tho.

Maybe you could get some ideas here.

there's weight-gain stuff at your local Fred Meyer or whatever but seriously thyroid workup.

you know i'm jk rev, only love in this club

but seriously fml

rev i have this same problem - i've weighed 115-120 lb from high school until now, and only until the past 6 months have i started gaining anything (i'm 26 now). now i'm about 125 lb. i think having a beer or two every night has played some role in my recent subtle weight gain.

yea, u basically do have to start eating more calories, b/c, uh, that's literally the only way that you gain weight. eating more calories than u burn = u gain weight. eating fewer calories than u burn = u lose weight.

basically just eat a lot more proten, carbs, fats - and none of these means u have to eat lots of junk food. eggs, avocadoes, nuts, whole grains. lots of all these things

OK the Jared Leto ice cream thing is revolting.

u prob show the skinniness more than i do tho - ur 6'0? i'm only 5'7''. still i rarely meet dudes thinner than i am

can I just say though that I weighed 120-130 from the time I was 18 until I was 34 or so and if it's not a thyroid problem then my advice to you sir about your skinniness is ENJOY THAT SHIT BECAUSE IT WILL NOT LAST FOREVER.

yea that's prob otm^

Yeah, I'm trying to go about this smartly. Mark's list looks awesome. Proteins and carbs = good. Fats, not so much. I have made effort to eat healthier in the past year or so, but that was more about excising junk food from my diet than trying to do anything with my weight. I have felt a lot more energetic since I stopped being all fast food and coca-cola.

here's a tip: fuck you

mark cl is otm here---just eat more and better calories

develop a drinking problem

u will be biggie-sized in no time

def don't eat constantly all day. a huge meal once a day would be ideal.

lol i didnt even see this before i posted:

here's a tip. FUCK YOU ASSHOLE

― lil waynes babymama (musically), Thursday, May 7, 2009 10:04 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

why u want to gain the weight rev just to be more handsome or

i wish u ill

jho: Because I feel uncomfortable with the fact that I was losing weight from my already underweight usual state. Really, I'd just like to get back up to my usual weight of about 128. Maybe if I put on some muscle, up to 135.

cank: musically had more flair tbh

I'm 28, 5'8" and been about 115-120 since I was 18. I eat terribly and often, do not exercise and have a healthy drinking problem. My thyroid checkups have returned normal. So if you figure something out, lemme know.

I agree with John D.'s thyroid check rec - it can't hurt.

I can't even begin to imagine how different my life would be if I had this "prob". Guess body image weight issues can fuck you up in some may not matter which end of the spectrum you fall on.

I say let's move forward with the Attempt to Gain Weight 2009 competition. Although I humbly request that we get at least 3 participants before beginning. That way at the end we can photoshop the winners' heads onto the SNES Mario Kart awards ceremony platform.

― Leif. (Z S), Friday, May 8, 2009

seriously, let's fucking do this. only in 2012.

my eating capacity has changed over time - after a period of eating smaller portions regularly, it felt really gross and bad to all of a sudden eat a big burger

and vice versa - after regularly eating big portions, I felt hungry after eating small portions

i forgot about some trail mix i ate earlier today (270 cals). so now i only need 3 beers to get to 3000.

can i just say that i love my running+eating.xls?

your mid-30s selves will be all kinda lol but mostly sad if they ever re-visit this thread

anytime i look back 5 years i'm deeply embarrassed, so whatever

i see some gaunt ass 30 year olds and i'm like "i do NOT want to look like that in 8 years"

the skinny 45 year old dude at punk shows is nagl

the way i got fat was drinking a bunch and eating nothing but delivery, so i recommend that

oh also pints of ice cream

I drank a lot of sugary drinks (uncarbonated)

http://www.juscocityhk.com/ShareLibrary/product_image/002834984/002834984-1.jpg

There are some gaunt middle-aged people, but that isn't the norm.

Also, lol at 30 being the "future"

Also, get yourselves an immersion blender -- it's easier to clean than a regular blender and you can just pile frozen fruits + protein powder + flax seed + kefir + juice into a delicious smoothie and zoop it up in ~ 3 min max. I have done this every day for as long as I can remember -- like since 1998 or so? The only annoying thing about it is the shopping and making sure to always have individually portioned frozen bananas.

The one I have is Kitchenaid and comes with a plastic vessel to blend in. Much easier to clean than a trad blender.

I've been wanting an immersion blender for a while — mostly so I could make leek and potato soup.

theyre p handy

protip get one w/a whisk attachment

how cheap can you get those

I gained weight by eating a lot of cream cheese frosting straight from the can.

protip get one w/a whisk attachment

― lag∞n, Thursday, March 22, 2012 7:52 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

how cheap can you get those

― iatee

$30 at costco, think maybe about the same on amazon

zs i will bake and send you some of specialty high-calorie cookies, they are delish and i guarantee you can eat about 1000 cals of them in one sitting.

Oh man, YES

email me your latest address, i'm baking some for 2 other people this weekend anyways. do you have any allergies? you okay with nuts?

This one is $36 http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=kitchenaid+immersion+blender&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=5396116353962178188&sa=X&ei=nPBrT76hOMXkggeIoo3MBg&ved=0CLYBEPICMAU

My problem with this thread is most of the solutions sound insane to me. The idea of consuming protein powder makes me gag.

You would not gag if you ate it all blended up with some mango, banana, yogurt (for your digestive needs), and juice of your choice. You wouldn't even know it was there, almost guaranteed. (I say almost because I don't know how sensitive your palate is, but it would take a p sensitive palate to get past mango banana yum)

hey nice - other people are trying to pack on weight too! how have i never seen this thread before?!

strike that last comment. i now remember posting earlier...

so, as an update... i've put on another 12 or so since May!

i enjoy smoothies w/a splash of OJ, carrot juice, coconut milk, blackberries, bananas, kale, some protein powder, and ground flax. you blend it long enough and it turns into a nice drinkable shake.

This thread is very strange to me.

I play 5-a-side football 2-3 times a week lately, road cycle between 50-100 miles a week, drink only about a bottle and a half of wine or equivalent each week (even on a night out at a casino in London at the weekend I only drank a few glasses over several hours, despite friends quaffing a bottle or more each), and I still weigh just over 12 and 1/2 stone at 5'8" tall (I've been exercising like this for about a year now, and weight about 13st 4lbs previously - admittedly I've turned quite a bit of fat into muscle, but I've still got a gut).

I pretty much never eat crisps or chips (chips or fries to you Americans), cook pretty much every meal I do eat at home myself so exercise a decent amount of control over what I eat, but I do have a weakness for cake, biscuits, chocolate, etc etc, as well as big portions. However, I'm pretty good these days at not indulging anywhere near the amount I used to. I love food.

The idea of desperately trying to gain weight seems pretty alien. At university I put on a stone a year by drinking a fuck-tonne of Guinness and red wine, and existing off extravagent pasta dishes and chillis, and didn't really do any exercise other than walking for a couple of years. I'd recommend this approach!

nick .. i hear you re the never ending battle re the spread.
did you catch the recent horizon re 'the truth about exercise' ?
apparently all you need is one minute of intense exercise ..
i've been doing this myself in recent weeks and cut down food intake (just fruit @ lunch as opposed to a doorstop sandwich), and it seems to be working.
the outcome all depends on whether your bodysystem is a responder to exercise
to summarise : if you are in the responsive sector, then all you need is 1 minute, and if not, then doing 60 minutes will make little difference at all.
the scientist who presented the docu was very negative towards the research to start with, but succumbed once the stats etc were looked into.
fascinating stuff.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-17177251

um nick i think they mean putting on weight as in muscle, not a paunch

kind of feel "looking in the mirror" will always be a better guide to your progress in exercise than weighing yourself though

(i have no tips, i started exercising properly - cardio & resistance - when i went freelance, just took it very gradually and not mega-seriously, but the results are satisfying. i have a vaguely regular exercise regime but no real diet regime beyond "eat kinda healthily w/r/t proteins and green stuff")

This thread is not strange to me.

I am 6ft1", don't drink much (let's say a bottle wine a week, a couple beers and that's it on a big week), exercise is going to work and back, walking into t'town and around on a weekend, am around 12stone. When I was 21 I was 8stone thanks to intestinal problems which got operated on, so it'a full-time job eating to keep up my weight. I know in that sense I am fortunate about being a 'healthy but light' weight, it gets no sympathy from various people I know, but hey.

I was certainly prompted to eat more red meat/guinness etc, but what if you don't like that stuff? I think red meat made me more ill anyway. Anyways, it was all about the "Build-Up" 'just-add-milk' drinks back then. I don't kow if it helped much, but I do OK now.

Still, love pastas, chillimeals, thai stuff, so.

oh and protein shakes post-workout but i don't obsess about them

that's all i really do in the shake dept.
i live on my own and work keeps me super busy - so if i keep fresh fruit/veggies around the majority will spoil.
what i've been doing lately is snacking on cottage cheese. up until 6 months ago, i couldn't tell you when the last time was i had bought any now i'm going through about a tub a week.

i live on my own and work keeps me super busy - so if i keep fresh fruit/veggies around the majority will spoil.

no excuse, pal! frozen fruit is better anyway.

i do do that sometimes. not crazy about fruit out of the freezer tho when it comes to smoothies, and the bananas will always wind up as banana bread!

I guess I like what frozen fruit does to the consistency of a smoothie -- it's thicker, feels more substantial. And if you have leftovers you can freeze them for a late night snack. Or at least that's what I do.

question: how long is too long for fruit (bananas esp) to sit in the freezer for?

I usually go through ~ 6 bananas a week, so they never last that long. I've run out and dug around for/found/used old ones and I can't say I noticed the difference tbh. I would say indefinitely?

Also a chunky monkey smoothie (double banana, chocolate sauce, nutella, almond/peanut butter/protein powder) is a super idea for weight gain/covering up the flavor of gross protein powder.

If that sounds a little revolting, it's because it's basically a milkshake.

ARE YOU CALLING MILKSHAKES REVOLTING?!

This thread is very strange to me.

haha i was reading this thread dripping w/ envy

not to be johnny gym teacher here but you folx should be lifting weights! few repetitions/highish weight too.

I've been doing several sets of pushups (going by the 100 pushups site), pull-ups and crunches, with a bit of weight exercises for shoulders. I can't really work out my legs as I inherited bad knees, though I do bike pretty much every day.

goole - this IS what i'm doing!

i didn't play ultimate or ride my bike at all this winter either.

ok jeez i was just saying generally