You can pack a silly amount of calories into milk shakes and they will taste great
Lift, eat, and gear.
Don’t forget to tren hard
The trick that worked for me whenever underweight (and mentally healthy enough to want to gain) was to buy a box of Triscuits crackers and a tub of hummus each week and eat it in addition to my normal diet. Somehow that was the food that provided calories, not too unhealthy but not so filling that it displaced lunch & supper.
People who can’t keep weight on often don’t realize how many meals they are skipping. You eat something, it makes you full all day, so you wait until the next day to eat, and don’t notice you didn’t eat supper! Nowadays it happens a lot because of Adderall too.
I was always very skinny until recently. Financially I couldn’t afford to eat more than a meal a day at best, so skipping meals was kind of the point.
A few years ago my situation got better and without even realizing it I jumped from 115 to 145 in a matter of a few months just from eating 3 relatively healthy meals a day.
My problem now is I can’t stop eating all the time.
That’s funny, I was about 115 (5’9" female) after recovering and the first time I had someone feeding me thrice a day was at school in England during a year abroad when I was about 20. I did balloon to a healthy 140ish (ten stone, as they put it) which kinda panicked me but then dropped back in my 20s because poor, and never had extra food. It never bothered me being skinny at all, I preferred it for looks but it wrecked my bone mass. Now I am mid 50s and 150lb - that is with eating what I want, and working out heavier, and even though it’s a healthy size and I’m so much stronger and technically more conventionally beautiful proportions, it bothers me, still feel attached to being skinny. Oh well. I guess nobody is entirely satisfied with their body.
The amount of crap fat people eat that skinny people don’t realise is insane.
You see some fat person it a salad with loads of calories in the dressing then go much on some crisps. Then some skinny guy will eat chicken and rice and the fat person will say “I wish I could eat like you”.
Also mobility is a huge factor. So many skinny people walk or move around somehow and do far more than overweight people.
One thing I’ve noticed is quantity eaten and why. Skinny people only seem to eat loads when they haven’t eaten much across the week or if they just done a load of exercise. The calories in calories out is far more balanced.
Skinny people are also more likely to passively fidget or move around even when sitting in a chair.
All my friends who complain about their weight have an inability to skip the designated mealtimes their parents raised them on.
They will get hostile at even the mention of skipping breakfast or lunch. They say if they skip a meal it will trick their body into getting fat.
If only it were that simple
Isn’t it? I was underweight from (American units incoming) elementary school until college, BMI under 17.5. At some point I got serious about packing calories and exercising and I gained a ton of weight. Back on Reddit there was a sub called gainit where longtime underweight people, well, gained it.
Now look, I don’t actually know if it was worth it. I don’t feel any different physically, despite being multiple times stronger than I was, nor do I feel healthier. I prefer the way I look now, but I actually hadn’t really noticed I was underweight until shortly before I started and I don’t spend too much time looking at myself. Almost no one commented on my thinness, and literally only one person ever did in a negative manner (saying I looked malnourished). Plus it was absolute misery packing bulk calories— when I finally got to cut the excess fat, it was delightful to return to a caloric deficit.
But for me, and a lot of others, it really was that simple. Not easy, but simple.
I also want to note that I have a lot of food allergies, making it difficult to eat high calorie fast food. To make matters worse I prefer lower calorie foods, almost 100% of the time I’ll take a no-protein salad over high calorie pasta or high protein chicken dishes. And finally I had to rely on small amounts of THC to block nausea while eating because I have a tiny stomach. The odds were stacked against me and I still don’t enjoy the amount of eating I have to do.
Anyone underweight reading this who wants to gain weight, it will probably be easier for you. Start now and you can put on >30lb in the first year. I was under 100lb when I started and gained over 1/3 of my body weight. Track every single thing you eat— trust me, on the 3000th calorie you will be grateful for the 15 calorie vitamins you had earlier— watching for calories per day and protein. Try for 1g protein per pound of weight, but you can get away with less. Copy a gym routine from a friend or the internet, 3-5 days a week, aiming for ~5hr every seven days. Drink your calories if and when you can’t eat them, there are mass gainer powders. The gains will come.
And if you don’t want it, well, having done it I don’t blame you. It didn’t change much besides how I felt about my appearance. Self love would probably give you the same thing without having to add a spoon of olive oil into everything you eat.
Eat a lot and just don’t move around.
I’ve basically tried that for a few years and haven’t put on weight.
All my family is pretty much overweight, but I can eat kebabs, spaghetti and chocolate all day, drink beer and soda (until I was literally fed up of all of it, felt the mountain of food in my throat pretty much) and not move a muscle and I still actually lost some weight.
However I do think there’s some actual malabsorption or something behind it as well, just can’t get the public doctors to pay any fking attention no matter the evidence I have.
So yeah it should be as simple as that, and for most people, it definitely is. But someone who actually makes a post about the subject might be more likely to have some sort of aberration.
Personally I’m trying gluten free rn. I have been tested for celiacs in the past, but either I got false negatives or it’s NCGS, which would explain a lot, as it’s not as violent as celiac usually and wouldn’t show up on tests.
Age might be a factor. Are you 30 yet? My metabolism slowed down in my 30s.
Mid-thirties yeah.
The point is if it was just normal high metabolism, then why does no-one else in my family have anything even remotely like it, as they’re all overweight? (And I used to be a bit round at one point as a kid)
And I know my brother’s are my brother’s with the same certainty the Mario Bro’s do, so it’s not like I have completely different genes.
I do have a kidney thing and it caused high BP for some reason. And since the adrenals are located quite close to where the problem is and where they operated on, idk, might have something to do with that as well.
Stress, diet, all that. Hard to science out by myself though. The public doctors here suck. And not in a good way.
You know when you’re not hungry? Eat an ice cream or 2.
Anyone can gain weight.
Are you specifically trying to just gain muscle? If so, eat lots of steak and potatoes and lift weights.
Skinny people stay skinny because they don’t eat.
Previously underweight person here, it really is that simple. Just eat more, consistently, pay attention to it. I gained 35lbs and am now a healthy weight.
Eat food but also smash whiskey and sugar soda all day. Extra 2000 calories, easy!
The beer belly definitely did not start to manifest in me until I reached my 30s.
