How can I gain waight??????

Hi dear,

follow these guidelines to gain healthy weight

- Eat nutritious foods that are high in calories. Examples are whole-grain breads, vegetables such as avocados and potatoes, kidney beans, lean red meat, poultry and fish.

- Increase the caloric value of your meals. Add powdered milk to casseroles for added calories, add avocados and olives to sandwiches, add wheat germ to your cereal, add chopped meat to your pasta sauce, and so on.

- Avoid skipping meals. Knowing how to gain weight involves consistent eating. Eat three meals a day and at least two snacks.

- Increase your normal portion size. Take a second scoop of pasta, or add two bananas to your oatmeal.

- Choose higher-calorie foods when given a choice. For example, corn is higher in calories than green beans.

- Relax - excessive fidgeting and restlessness can burn up a lot of calories.

-Add weight lifting to your exercise program. It helps build muscle mass.

- Balance your caloric intake with the number of calories you're burning. You need to be taking in more than you use up, and you may need to ease up a little on your exercise program.

good luck

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hi,

good to know that you want to gain weight! look, you can do that in two ways:

1. have fatty and junk foods and gain a paunch

2. or eat healthy and yes lovely good ol' home made food & exercise and gain muscles weight

by the way, i think 125 is the perfect weight for 5'3" and you should feel good about yourself

Try nutritional supplements definatly, along with consumeing more dense foods!

- Ensure Plus/ Boost Plus are great nutritional weight- gain supplements and are healthy with the benefit of probiotics/ omega 3's/ 8+ essential nutrients/ a source of calcium and protein!

Consume either Ensure Plus, or Boost Plus twice per day, ontop of dailey regimes/ eatting- do not decrease.

(Chocolate flavours taste best heated in a mug in the microwave- tastes like hot chocolate, other flavours taste best chille)

Also try these dense food's!

Whole dairy

- 3%- Whole milk

- Cottage cheese

- Greek/ full fat yoghurts

- Added Cheese (sliced/ grated/ shredded/ diced) - crackers, sandwhiches, salads, cassaroles, homemade meals, pastas, etc ..

- Added powdered milk to cassaroles/ oatmeals/ mashed potatoes

- Cream based soups/ sauces instead of broth/ vegetable based

Complex wholegrains

- Wholewheat pasta (with pesto/ cream sauce, added cheese/ extra vegetables/ optional lean protein- turkey/ lean beef- soy meatballs, chicken, shrimp/ scallops, ground lean turkey/ beef, etc ..)

- Brown/ long grain rice

- Couscous/ quinoa

- Thick- cut wholewheat bread/ bagels/ wraps/ pitas/ english muffins/ waffles/ flatbread

- Bran muffins

- Wholegrain crackers/ flatbread crackers (with cheese, hummus, peanut butter, or canned white tuna)

- Granola/ musili

- Wholegrain/ fiber granola bars (Nature Valley)

- Oat/ hot oatmeal made with milk/ added natural crunchy peanut butter stirred in

- Yams/ potatoes (mashed/ roasted/ baked) with olive oil/ margerine, milks/ cheeses, sour creams, herbs, cinnamain/ nutmegs, etc ..)

- Added whreatgerm/ bran to cereals/ oatmeals

- Added margerine/ olive oils to cooked vegetables/ startches/ pastas/ breads

Dense fruits/ vegetables

- Dried fruits (added to yoghurts, cereals, oatmeals, salads, trail mix, etc ..)

- Canned fruits in syrups/ added custard on fruits

- Fruit juices (Odwalla juices)

- Bananas/ avacados

- Apples/ celery/ bananas with crunchy/ smooth natural peanut butter

- Steamed/ cooked vegetables with added margerine/ olive oil/ grated- melted cream cheese)

- Canned vegetables (added margerine/ olive oil)

- Regular salad dressings

- Vegetable juice

- Crunchy vegetables and hummus/ bean dip

- Black olives

Lean meats/ meat alternatives

- Salmon/ fish- seafoods

- Canned white albacore tuna (in olive oil)

- Breaded chicken/ turkey breasts- fillets, halibit/ cod/ etc..

- Lean steak/ pork tenderlions - Lean beef/ pork pot roasts

- Ham steaks

- Lean ground turkey/ beef

- Nuts/ seeds

- Natural smooth/ crunchy peanut butters (sandwhiches, oatmeals, crackers, fruits- vegetables, milkshakes, etc..)

- Egg's

- Quorn/ tofu/ soy

- Baked beans/ refried beans

- Chickpeas/ hummus

- Lentils

- Olives

- Red wine/ coolers/ beers/ alcohols

- Dark chocolates

- Chocolate bars: "ie: MARS Bar"

- Gatoraides/ poweraids (instead of water- to refuel in sports)

- Etc ..

Fast foods/ dessert based foods (chocolates/ icecreams/ donuts- cakes/ etc ..) wouldn't hurt in the weight- gain process.

Hope i'v helped, goodluck!