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I want to start by saying I'm not a dietician or a nutritional specialist, and, from looking at your food diary, you may want to get in touch with a Dr. who has that backround. Having said that, though, here's my two cents.

While you're looking to take in high-calorie food, I think you want to be fairly balanced in your approach. Yes, high-fat and high-sugar foods are a surefire way to gain weight, but they're not the healthiest way to do so. Granted, eating some ice-cream, fried foods and candy, even on a daily basis will not hurt you in your situation, but I would reccomend eating real food. Breakfast, for example, can be an egg or two, scrambled or pan-fried, with bacon or sausage, and/or whole wheat toast. Drink whole milk, rather than skim or 1%. Lunch can be a PBJ sandwich on whole wheat bread, or a bagel sandwich- another commenter mentioned avacado- phenomenal idea that works great on all sorts of sandwiches. Dinner can be a burger with all the fixings, or homemade mac n cheese, Grilled Chix BLT pasta….

As others said- you're not going to be able to eat 2000-3000 calories right off the bat, your stomach is too small… but, as you eat more (say, smaller meals more frequently) your stomach will expand. As mentioned in another post on a different topic- try planning out your meals; figure 6 small meals a day, and plan them out, at regimented times, if necessary. it will help you stay on target, and also help you get in the calories you need.

one last thing- I know a commenter reccomended soda, but I would suggest, if you want to drink your calories, try 100% fruit juice, like V-fusion, Bolthouse farms smoothies, etc… you get the sweet and the calories, plus nutrients.

Good Luck! And, if you'd like some great recipes, please feel free to message me!

Eat natural peanut butter sandwiches every day and you'll soon hit your goal. Very fat (good fats) and its also calorie dense.

Please listen to your doctor and follow the plan he/she provided if there is one. The long term health effects from ED are serious. Use MFP for support but follow the plan.

All of the advice you have received on here, besides from the people referring you to a doctor or specialist, is absurd. the recovery part of an ED can be the most dangerous (refeeding syndrome is a real risk) and you should be CLOSELY medically supervised. An online forum is not the place to get this kind of advise. Please find a good team that includes a doctor, an RD, and a therapist and don't listen to a bunch of strangers on MFP telling you to drink soda and eat peanut butter.

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Best advice so far!! ED is not to be taken lightly, remember Karen Carpenter??? PLEASE see a specialist ASAP and follow their plan instead of a bunch of well-intentioned but misinformed posters.

I would suggest a Registered Dietician, ED support group and a doctor to monitor your progress so they can get you to an ideal weight with back up support from MFP as a sounding board. :flowerforyou:

Good Luck.

Look at a mass gainer shake if you continue to struggle to eat enough food - they're sold in all the same stores as your usual protein shakes and pack a helluva lot of calories into an easy to drink form.

Hayley I was there at 19, now at 40 I'm trying to get back DOWN to my healthy weight. Get a nutritionist or a dietician to help you. There are groups on here of people who are trying to GAIN weight, people with medical issues and eating disorders and people who like you and I, had stressful situations. For me it was my ex-husband and a roller coaster with his mental illness. Food just turned in my stomache making me fill physically ill after eating so I ate very little. I'm big boned so 100 pounds on my 5'8" frame made me look like a drug addict or anorexic. I wound up being hospitalized for a week due to stress and anxiety and that is when I finally realized there was a problem. It was a slow process gaining back 35 pounds, took me over a year and we didn't have the internet and MFP back then to help. Don't load up on a bunch of junk, you can eat healthy food and it may take a while to build up to that 2000 calories a day. Start slow and work your way up a couple hundred extra calories at a time. You can do this. If you can stomache it try things like Muscle Milk which has nutrition but a boat load of calories. My husband used to be a body builder and he drank that stuff every morning. I didn't find it very filling so you might be able to drink a few of those or something similar to help put some weight back on without feeling bloated and yucky. Good luck & hit me up if you need to.

Liquid calories such as pepsi, milk, and orange juice
Also look at calorie dense foods such as peanut butter, snickers, and lots of butter

What a silly suggestion group of food (if you can call it that) sugar & fat? Really? Not to mention the sodium in the pepsi, snickers & butter.

- what is wrong with fat and sugar? Especially when someone needs to get their calories up?
- there is not a lot of sodium in soda at all

Eating some high calorie junk food will not hurt you, I'm sure. Please don't make that all of what you eat in an attempt to just get to calorie goal. For ED'rs, refeeding really IS a serious issue and it can have dire consequences.

Your organs have been damaged. Your liver, stomach, kidneys, heart. These things will NOT react well to shock-treatment through large amounts of fast weight gain through junk food. Your body needs to be eased back into gaining weight. Be kind to yourself here - getting back up to a certain weight is important, but so is making sure that your organs are not being overwhelmed with suddenly having to process huge amounts of unhealthy food.

Please, please find a new doctor, or get a second opinion, or talk to the nurse when the Doctor steps out of the room. He is making an egregious mistake by not giving you a real plan to help gain your health back. Please.

I am so grateful to hear that you are in recovery. Believe me, that is not an easy thing. You are brave and you are strong. You can do this. You really can.

Liquid calories such as pepsi, milk, and orange juice
Also look at calorie dense foods such as peanut butter, snickers, and lots of butter

What a silly suggestion group of food (if you can call it that) sugar & fat? Really? Not to mention the sodium in the pepsi, snickers & butter.

- what is wrong with fat and sugar? Especially when someone needs to get their calories up?
- there is not a lot of sodium in soda at all

I was going to ask exactly the same thing - surely gaining some weight is more important at the moment than worrying how much sodium you are eating