The difficulty of GAINING weight: discussion

[thirddan]

i think the biggest factor for people like you is that you have no idea what you are eating on a regular basis, its likely not very much...keep a food log for a week and see where you are with your cals...

if you are actually eating a lot like 3-5k calories per day then you will likely have to start force feeding yourself...you will have to eat even if you aren't hungry, something most people can't/won't do...oil/nuts/peanut butter are all cal dense food that don't have provide a lot of satiety so you can eat a ton...if you get truly desperate you can go on a more thremp style bulk, fast food, chicken pizza, tons of white rice/pasta etc...

[theAMOG]

I have this same problem, I don't like giving advice normally, because I don't think most people give good advice and I try not to contribute to that. Since I too am a hard gainer though I will.

With every meal I'll eat the clean, lean foods that are always recommended. Like chicken breast, some rice, broccoli or whatever, real clean good food with lots of protein. Then in that same sitting I'll also eat just whatever I can to fill the extra calories my body needs, ice cream usually cause it's so damn good and gets the job done quick, but it can probably be whatever you want.

Just keep increasing your calories this way until you see the desired gains. Always make sure to get enough clean foods though too. And since when I was lifting, I was also playing basketball a lot, this increased the amount I needed to eat even more, then the more you eat the more your metabolism goes up, so I had to eat even more...before I knew it I was eating 6k+calories a day to see the gains I desired. It was tough, eating every 90-180 minutes.

Atleast we can eat more food than the average person's daily diet and still lose weight though whenever we want.

[SeeYouSoon]

What type of lifting should I do? I'm not looking to get ripped...just looking to not look so damn skinny.

[theAMOG]

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What type of lifting should I do? I'm not looking to get ripped...just looking to not look so damn skinny.

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I know much less about this, because what works for me is not what works for most people. I had to try a bunch of different stuff before I found what works for my body, and a bunch of people just told me what works for them thinking it should then work for me, but people's bodies are different.

Basically what I had to change to make it work was less lifting each session, less sessions per week, more rest and more food. One thing I learned is IF someone is either lifting too much or not enough, 99% of the time it is too much. If you want I can PM you to get more in detail about what I do, but I don't expect what I do by any means to work. There may be a better chance than the average person though seeing as we have a high metabolism and difficulty in gaining weight in common though.

[thirddan]

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