Ways to gain weight besides just more food.

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  • Isobelle40
    Isobelle40 Posts: 12
    Hi,

    I wouldn't recommend going mad and eating lots of high cal junk food, you'll just put on pure fat and some of that could go on round the middle (not good for health reasons). Just increase your daily intake by a few hundred calories per day (around 2800) and maintain your activity level. There's no point in reducing your fitness levels as long as you are not overdoing it. Eat lots of nutrient rich/natural foods with healthy snacks in between meals. In the mean time, I don't think it would be a bad thing to see your doctor now, just to make sure that you are not nutritionally deficient and/or any other health condition that would increase weight loss. I have a feeling that you are holding on to your diet habits and thinking you are actually eating more than you are? While that's fantastic you managed to lose the weight and were obviously very disciplined, you'll need a bit more of that to just very slowly put on the excessive weight that you lost but I wouldn't rush it.
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  • JoRocka
    JoRocka Posts: 17,525 Member
    Hi,

    I wouldn't recommend going mad and eating lots of high cal junk food, you'll just put on pure fat and some of that could go on round the middle (not good for health reasons). Just increase your daily intake by a few hundred calories per day (around 2800) and maintain your activity level

    while I agree with the rest of your post- the first part isn't correct. as long as you hit your' macros' in general- you'll be fine to eat the rest of it in terms of high calorie " junk" food.

    Slices of cheese cake take up a good chunk of suprlus when you cant' fit another chicken breast in there.

    ti's not going to turn straight to fat though- that's just NOT how this works.
  • deksgrl
    deksgrl Posts: 7,237 Member
    For the first time i'm over a year, today I ate just over 4,000 calories!

    I havent eaten nearly as near this much in one in over 1 year, I was probably up to 2,000 by lunch time, I just ate until I couldn't eat anymore, I actually stopped feeling cold, and actually felt too hot for the first time in many many months, I ate a lot more than I planned today which was suppose to be 3,000, but even that I ended a lot over, I'm not that worried, as I was long overdue to give myself a cheat day.

    I try 2,700 - 3,000 tommorow, to do that I have to log immediately after everything I touch, it crazy how far you can over when you stop logging, but this was a day I just needed, I wonder what the scale will read tommorow...

    Think of it like this, the difference between 2300 and 3000 is 700 calories. That is two extra 350 calorie snacks. A big handful of almonds and big glass of milk. There are a lot of ways you can get those calories in without it being a big volume of food.
  • Spiderkeys
    Spiderkeys Posts: 338 Member
    Well, I actually just ate a lot more of the healthy foods I usually eat to get to 4,000, but yeah I have to slow down too, in 24hrs I only gained 1kg, I guess thats only the weight of the food I consumed and extra sodium levels, tommorow i'm planning on eat a lot of nuts, and this time drink non-diet soda.

    I prefer to consume high calorie foods that don't take too much room in my stomach, hopefully I weigh even more tommorow.

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