gain wieght

kelmccurdy

quick question, is there any way i can have my plan set to gain more than a pound a week?

AnnPT77

You can add to your calorie goal manually. Five hundred more calories per day would be roughly another pound per week.

If you do that, there's increasing probability that what you gain will be mostly fat. Most people trying to gain seem to want to add mostly muscle, which involves adding at least some body fat if shooting for faster muscle gains. If that's your goal, and you're following a good strength program, getting good overall nutrition (especially but not exclusively ample protein), then faster gain in the form of body fat wouldn't further improve your body composition or health, in most cases.

kelmccurdy

so your saying to just eat more than it says till your calories hit about 500?

AnnPT77

If you told MFP you want to gain a pound a week, the goal already includes 500 above what MFP thinks you'd need to hold steady in weight. It can take several weeks - 4 to 6, say - to get a clear trend on the scale to know whether that's working.