I need help gaining 10 pounds?!
Question: I need some help gaining weight. I know increasing calories by 1,000 everday will get you a pound a week but I don't have a lot of food in my house to work with so that's a bit hard. I'm guessing I eat about 500-1,000 a day and feeling satisfied. Also I tend to lose weight easily. Currently I'm 110lbs., 22 y-o and 5'3.5" tall. my frame size is tiny. What is an easy and healthy way to gain about 10 lbs? (I also exercise 3 days a week for 15 mins, general toning and cardio)
Answers: I need some help gaining weight. I know increasing calories by 1,000 everday will get you a pound a week but I don't have a lot of food in my house to work with so that's a bit hard. I'm guessing I eat about 500-1,000 a day and feeling satisfied. Also I tend to lose weight easily. Currently I'm 110lbs., 22 y-o and 5'3.5" tall. my frame size is tiny. What is an easy and healthy way to gain about 10 lbs? (I also exercise 3 days a week for 15 mins, general toning and cardio)
Our bodies use two things as fuel each day: fat and carbs. It uses the carbs first, then it moves on to the fat, then it moves on further the stored fat in our bodies. One reason you're so skini-mini is that your metabolism blasts through the carbs AND fat you're giving it, and it munches on the little bit of fat you do have on your body; a slow burn for all-day energy. Ideally, this should be happening in all of us, but clearly it doesn't. It's true that protein is a reasonable place to start to try and gain weight, but injesting so much will make you sick, make you poop a lot, and you will not feel very energetic at all - since high protein foods are usually low in carbs or fat and void of the other. However, diet and exercise is ALWAYS the best answer for any weight change - gaining or losing. Go ahead, increase your intake of protein, balance out your calories, increase your carbs some, watch the fat, and do muscle building exercises, not cardio. Do push ups, some sit ups, reverse sit-ups, butterflies, some dips, find a few leg exercises, and forget the damn crunches - that's a finishing exercise, not a training exercise.
Any other way of gaining weight, that is, any way that doesn't build muscle, is a waste of your time because it will render you unhealthy. Excess fat stores, on any frame, is unhealthy.
hmm... eat more food more protein
eat lots of meat
Go to a vitamin shop and talk to the vitamin guru. There are alot of supplements out there that help you pack on lean weight fast.
I hope your looking for lean weight.
stop exercising. eat lots of butter and whole milk and muffins and cakes and burgers and cheese.
eat eat eat
i wish i could give you ten of mine
Go have some fun at Dunk'n Donuts buddy!
why do you need to gain? That is a healthy size
I think you don't need to gain any weight at all!
I'm 5'5 and 105 pounds, so you must be good where you're at right now.
try protein shakes when you exercise change to bulk up exercises instead of toning wift weights ect.
you can but weight gain products but their price is high!
Hun,
There is no healthy way to gain weight
Okay, here is a couple things you can do.
If you eat before you go to bed at night your body will metabolize the food slower and you can gain weight that way.
Increasing your protein ( eggs, meat, chicken, fish, protein drinks, etc) intake will cause you to gain weight also. Your body does not store extra protein, it stores what you don't need as fat.
If you have seeds+nuts available, they are easy to snack on and high in calories. sunflower seeds, almonds and peanuts are especially good for you.
Note: If having more shape to your figure is what you want doing some weight lifting will help you look healthier. You can use cans of food or milk jugs with water in them if you don't have weights. Hold them when you do leg lunges too!
Try mashed potatoes with plenty of butter. Easy to eat, very good for gaining weight.
Bread is also good. If you bake, make a loaf of bread and eat it while it's hot, with butter and honey.
Pancakes/waffles.
I currently share the same dietary goal. you need to count how many calories you intake daily, then add 100 a day for a week then after that eat an additional 220 per week. so if you eat 1000 cals a day in one week you should consume 1700 the next. then 1920 the next week and so on so forth. eat high protein foods, potatoes butter biscuits meat pancakes. you also need to start turning the additional weight into muscle. to gain size as opposed to toning work on heavier weight and fewer reps at the gym. remember muscle weighs more than fat. good luck.
keep up the exercise and eat plenty of pasta. Eat carbs before a workout and protein afterwards. Good luck.