Getting enough calories into meals

louisekerry86

Hey everyone

I just wondered if I could please get some advice on getting more calories into my meals. At the moment I'm on 1,800-2,000 a day depending on workouts etc. I work out 6 days a week. For breakfast I'm usually coming to 200-300 calories, then for lunch I'm having 200-400, then 300-400 for dinner. (Though my dinner a few nights ago only came to 245) I'm eating Low Gi too, and have PCOS and Insulin resistance, so I try to stay away from sauces and dressings with high sugar content etc.

I'm not very good with big portion sizes, so by late afternoon/early evening I have quite a lot of calories left over and I end up snacking a lot to make it up (nothing terrible, just fruit or a little dark chocolate or nuts or wholegrain toast or natural yoghurt.) and even then I'm still a couple hundred under my goal. I'm just not sure how to get more calories into my meals without having to eat much bigger portions, which I don't feel able to do.

Any advice?

AJ_G

Just start working in really calorie dense foods to your meals (peanut butter, whole milk, butter, cheeses, high fat ground beef, etc etc)

RodaRose

Add foods with more fat -- creamy salad dressings, walnuts on your salads, avocados, sardines, salmon, flax and chia seeds . . . add heavy cream to your coffee, . . .