skinny mom!

I'm the same, I've been tracking what I eat, trying to eat over 2500 cal/day. I still eat pretty healthy and I've gained over 5lbs. I eat lots of meats, dense carbs, and eat more often. Because my stomach was so tiny, I had to stretch it. Just track what you eat and Google foods to gain weight.

Google homemade mass-gainer shakes. Easy way to slam down large amounts of cals. Whole milk, pb, bananas, etc are some of the ingredients you can whack in there to crank the volume up to 11.

Why are you not able to get over 1500 most days? Are you physically full or will you just not let yourself eat more? Have you ever been diagnosed with an eating disorder? I'm just asking because most of us have no trouble getting in 1500+ calories (I could easily do that in a meal, let alone an entire day). I have to wonder if it's a physical thing or a mental thing.

If it's mental, I'd see a doctor about it. If it's physical, I'd say you're just going to have to push through it and eat even when you're not hungry. Replace low calorie foods you eat with high calorie foods. Try mass gainer shakes. You don't necessarily need to eat more food in order to eat more calories.

Eat something like this:

I am having a hard time hitting my target calories too. I am going to try some shakes with whole milk and peanut butter in them. I also have alarms set to remind me to eat. I find myself reaching for fresh veggies - I'll add some ranch dressing or soft cheese with them!

I use Ensure Plus and Clif bars to help reach my calorie intake goal.

Wish I had your problem, but I'm sure you hear that rubbish all the time so I'll get to it.

My friend is just like this, and being super skinny has ruined her self esteem. She spent years stuffing herself with junk food and sweets and takeaway hoping it'd make her get bigger, but sadly no.

She found that when she avoided fatty food and instead went for big hearty, homemade dinners (with lots of meat, potatoes, tonnes of veg etc) she put on. She switched chocolate spread in her sandwiches for peanut butter, changed waffles in the morning for chunky brown toast and scrambled egg. Stuff like that. I don't know what that means in terms of her metabolism. Apparently she's still finding it hard to put on anything, but the scales do go up when she goes for stodge instead of fat. Not sure if that will help you at all?

What tends to happen to me when I up my calories is that I feel stuffed for about a week, then it's like my appetite catches up and I'll be starving for another week on that same intake. If you can ride out the first week (when it seems like there's no way you can eat that much) without caving and dropping your intake, it'll get much easier

I have trouble hitting my goal too. 1500 does seem difficult honestly, and that's from feeling full. Thanks for posting this OP, the responses were helpful.