Difficulty gaining weight

rebeccausmanova

Hi basically my story of it is quite different.
I was a normal 52kg and putting on weight when eating wasn't exactly a big thing for me. If I ate loads I would gain weight like usual etc
But I started losing weight because I stopped eating as much and did lots of cardio which resulted in me losing about 7kg in about 3/4 months. When I finally snapped back and realised that this wasn't the body I wanted I tried to regain it all. Now I find that when I eat as I normally would before I lost weight I still can't put the weight back on.
Pls help !

1400732

Eat dense calories food such as peanut butter , whole milk , pasta , rice , olive oil , banana , fish and do more research

peaceout_aly

High protein, high calorie foods! Supplement with protein powder and bars. Never skip a meal and snack often.

bruhaha007

I am what they call a "hardgainer" as well. It used to take a lot of effort for me to eat enough but I have found a few tricks that have helped.
1) I consume 2 meal replacement shakes with high protein content (36 grams each)
2) I consume 2-3 healthy, clean eating meals
3) I hit the gym 3-4 days a week and do low sets/low reps weight lifting
4) I take a few key supplements that really have increased my strength

The weight I am now gaining is lean muscle while I am still able to shred the fat and avoid the unhealthy pounds.

Hope that helps. Feel free to add me as a friend

CodyQuinlan

Most likely due to an increased metabolism from the intensive cardio you did. Look up the 0 sum game in regards to muscle, increased cardio will cause your muscles to adapt by increasing the number of mitochondria per muscle cell and decreasing the amount of myofibrils resulting in a decrease of strength but an increase in energy production over extended periods of time. The fast way to reverse your muscles adaptation is to force it to adapt to something else such as training in low rep ranges with high weight this will cause the muscle cells to decrease mitochondrial content and increase myofibrils this end result will decrease your basal metabolic rate which is dependent on mitochondrial density bio major lol

psuLemon

http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10326769/are-you-a-hard-gainer-please-read#latest


It sounds like you probably also changed your eating habits. If you want to gain weight, you need to eat enough calories to do so. Most "hard gainers" are people who just don't eat enough calories or the right types of food to get them to the point of gaining. Check out the thread above as it has a lot of foods that can help you reach your calorie goal.

psuLemon

bruhaha007 wrote: »

I am what they call a "hardgainer" as well. It used to take a lot of effort for me to eat enough but I have found a few tricks that have helped.
1) I consume 2 meal replacement shakes with high protein content (36 grams each)
2) I consume 2-3 healthy, clean eating meals
3) I hit the gym 3-4 days a week and do low sets/low reps weight lifting
4) I take a few key supplements that really have increased my strength

The weight I am now gaining is lean muscle while I am still able to shred the fat and avoid the unhealthy pounds.

Hope that helps. Feel free to add me as a friend

The bold is one of the reasons you struggle to gain. You don't eat overly too frequent, which can effect the amount of calories you can eat, but you also have a limitation on the foods based on some definition of clean. The types of foods will determine health but it won't determine your ability to minimize fat gains. Your fat/muscle growth ratio is based on training volume, macros, surplus and genetics.