i need help gaining weight
phillygirlswag12
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How many calories should i consume to gain weight im 5'2 96 lbs
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Hey, how much weight to you want to gain? I'm the same height as you but I'm 1050
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set MFP to .5 or one pound per week gain and eat to that number.0
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At least 2,000 ~ 3,000 a day . . Drink Ensure Plus wit ever meal , make sure u grab da ensure dat says helps gain and maintain weight. Also tryin dis syrup call Apetamin it's helps u gain weight . . I been on my weight gain journey a week well tomorrow makes 7 days and so far I have gain 6 pounds-1
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littlemisslosthermind wrote: »Hey, how much weight to you want to gain? I'm the same height as you but I'm 105
I want to gain at least 10 pounds0 -
alisiabutler906 wrote: »At least 2,000 ~ 3,000 a day . . Drink Ensure Plus wit ever meal , make sure u grab da ensure dat says helps gain and maintain weight. Also tryin dis syrup call Apetamin it's helps u gain weight . . I been on my weight gain journey a week well tomorrow makes 7 days and so far I have gain 6 pounds
No, this isn't helpful, sorry. 2000 to 3000 is a huge range of calories, and you certaily don't need to drink Ensure Plus or take Apetamin. This is just bad advice.
OP to find your requirements you can do it one of two ways. As NDJ indicates you can do it by adjusting your MFP target or you can go to a site like IIFYM.com or Scoobie's workshop and using the TDEE calculator and adding about 5-10% to your TDEE. If you want to gain muscle as well as fat then make sure you have a good lifting program.
Good luck to you.0 -
alisiabutler906 wrote: »At least 2,000 ~ 3,000 a day . . Drink Ensure Plus wit ever meal , make sure u grab da ensure dat says helps gain and maintain weight. Also tryin dis syrup call Apetamin it's helps u gain weight . . I been on my weight gain journey a week well tomorrow makes 7 days and so far I have gain 6 pounds
^^Ignore all this.set MFP to .5 or one pound per week gain and eat to that number.
^^ Do this and track your progress over a couple months. If you're not hitting your goals (too fast of gain or not fast enough) adjust a couple hundred calories as necessary and try again.Wheelhouse15 wrote: »OP to find your requirements you can do it one of two ways. As NDJ indicates you can do it by adjusting your MFP target or you can go to a site like IIFYM.com or Scoobie's workshop and using the TDEE calculator and adding about 5-10% to your TDEE. If you want to gain muscle as well as fat then make sure you have a good lifting program.
Good luck to you.
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Wheelhouse15 wrote: »alisiabutler906 wrote: »At least 2,000 ~ 3,000 a day . . Drink Ensure Plus wit ever meal , make sure u grab da ensure dat says helps gain and maintain weight. Also tryin dis syrup call Apetamin it's helps u gain weight . . I been on my weight gain journey a week well tomorrow makes 7 days and so far I have gain 6 pounds
No, this isn't helpful, sorry. 2000 to 3000 is a huge range of calories, and you certaily don't need to drink Ensure Plus or take Apetamin. This is just bad advice.
OP to find your requirements you can do it one of two ways. As NDJ indicates you can do it by adjusting your MFP target or you can go to a site like IIFYM.com or Scoobie's workshop and using the TDEE calculator and adding about 5-10% to your TDEE. If you want to gain muscle as well as fat then make sure you have a good lifting program.
Good luck to you.
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Thanksphillygirlswag12 wrote: »Wheelhouse15 wrote: »alisiabutler906 wrote: »At least 2,000 ~ 3,000 a day . . Drink Ensure Plus wit ever meal , make sure u grab da ensure dat says helps gain and maintain weight. Also tryin dis syrup call Apetamin it's helps u gain weight . . I been on my weight gain journey a week well tomorrow makes 7 days and so far I have gain 6 pounds
No, this isn't helpful, sorry. 2000 to 3000 is a huge range of calories, and you certaily don't need to drink Ensure Plus or take Apetamin. This is just bad advice.
OP to find your requirements you can do it one of two ways. As NDJ indicates you can do it by adjusting your MFP target or you can go to a site like IIFYM.com or Scoobie's workshop and using the TDEE calculator and adding about 5-10% to your TDEE. If you want to gain muscle as well as fat then make sure you have a good lifting program.
Good luck to you.
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Start at 2000, track your weight for a few weeks, add 200 cal and do the same. Make sure they are fairly clean calories or you'll gain a lot of fat but at 96lbs that's not such a big deal. Nuts, red meat, seafood, milk, cheese, bananas, avocado... All great foods high in good calories. Weight training could help too but make sure to further increase your calories to compensate. Good luck, you can do it!0
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Start at 2000, track your weight for a few weeks, add 200 cal and do the same. Make sure they are fairly clean calories or you'll gain a lot of fat but at 96lbs that's not such a big deal. Nuts, red meat, seafood, milk, cheese, bananas, avocado... All great foods high in good calories. Weight training could help too but make sure to further increase your calories to compensate. Good luck, you can do it!
what are "clean calories"??
and where did you get 2000 from?
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Start at 2000, track your weight for a few weeks, add 200 cal and do the same. Make sure they are fairly clean calories or you'll gain a lot of fat but at 96lbs that's not such a big deal. Nuts, red meat, seafood, milk, cheese, bananas, avocado... All great foods high in good calories. Weight training could help too but make sure to further increase your calories to compensate. Good luck, you can do it!
Sorry but this is not true at all0 -
Start at 2000, track your weight for a few weeks, add 200 cal and do the same. Make sure they are fairly clean calories or you'll gain a lot of fat but at 96lbs that's not such a big deal. Nuts, red meat, seafood, milk, cheese, bananas, avocado... All great foods high in good calories. Weight training could help too but make sure to further increase your calories to compensate. Good luck, you can do it!
Why give advice? Why? This is all inaccurate and foggy.
OP are you recovering from an eating disorder?If you are then you are in the wrong place to get advice.
If you aren't, then you need to figure out your basic calorie needs first, try Scooby's calculator and test the number you get to see if you maintain.
Then follow a lifting program and add 250 cals a day, which should give you a half a pound a week gain, hopefully a good half of that should be muscle. Your diet should be .8 G protein per pound of body weight, the rest varied fats and all carbs. Include your favourite foods and lots of colorful vegetables. Take a multi vit and omega 3.
Do keep us posted as it's always useful for everyone to know your progress!
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Haters gonna hate...
Everybody's calories should be clean and it always makes sense to start from an average baseline and track your progress from there... You'll learn how your body reacts. You'll do great!
For the above posters, clean calories are calories from healthy sources which would include complex carbs, vegetable protein, lean meats, fibre, healthy fats etc. (try adding calories in cake and soda and see where that gets you...) Keep saturated fats and simple carbs ( especially sugars) nice and low. As for 2000 calories this is a general starting point for maintenance calories for a female (assumed from the user name). At 96lbs its safe to assume to OP is under eating, 2000 calories is as good a place as any.0 -
Haters gonna hate...
Everybody's calories should be clean and it always makes sense to start from an average baseline and track your progress from there... You'll learn how your body reacts. You'll do great!
For the above posters, clean calories are calories from healthy sources which would include complex carbs, vegetable protein, lean meats, fibre, healthy fats etc. (try adding calories in cake and soda and see where that gets you...) Keep saturated fats and simple carbs ( especially sugars) nice and low.[/b] As for 2000 calories this is a general starting point for maintenance calories for a female (assumed from the user name). At 96lbs its safe to assume to OP is under eating, 2000 calories is as good a place as any.
the bro science is strong in this one.
so riddle me this..
if I eat eggs, a bagel, cream cheese, turkey, whole wheat bread, cottage cheese, chicken, vegetables, rice, cookies, and ice cream and I hit my calorie/micro/macro targets does that mean my bulk is "bad/unhealthy" because not "clean"..
I gained ten pounds over the winter doing it the not clean way and I had no issues putting the weight on and have already dropped five pounds on my cut...
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Haters gonna hate...
Everybody's calories should be clean and it always makes sense to start from an average baseline and track your progress from there... You'll learn how your body reacts. You'll do great!
For the above posters, clean calories are calories from healthy sources which would include complex carbs, vegetable protein, lean meats, fibre, healthy fats etc. (try adding calories in cake and soda and see where that gets you...) Keep saturated fats and simple carbs ( especially sugars) nice and low. As for 2000 calories this is a general starting point for maintenance calories for a female (assumed from the user name). At 96lbs its safe to assume to OP is under eating, 2000 calories is as good a place as any.
What do you mean by that?
Listen OP. You can bulk eating whatever you want. I don't think anyone here is advocating a diet of strictly cake and soda. But in the end.. if you don't keep up your surplus you will not gain. I was bulking at 3200.. I would eat enough complex carbs, veggies, lean meats, legumes to fill the majority of my cals, then things like cake and ice cream helped me get into surplus at the end of the day.0 -
Look guys, have been doing the fitness and diet thing for years, used to be a competitive athlete who had to control weight for weight classifications. In my early 20s I put on 25lbs of lean mass through proper eating and training, I know how to do this right. Just offering my advice and support to someone who asked for it. Not looking to get into an internet argument. Peace out.0
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Look guys, have been doing the fitness and diet thing for years, used to be a competitive athlete who had to control weight for weight classifications. In my early 20s I put on 25lbs of lean mass through proper eating and training, I know how to do this right. Just offering my advice and support to someone who asked for it. Not looking to get into an internet argument. Peace out.
so you are not going to answer anyone's questions?
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Look guys, have been doing the fitness and diet thing for years, used to be a competitive athlete who had to control weight for weight classifications. In my early 20s I put on 25lbs of lean mass through proper eating and training, I know how to do this right. Just offering my advice and support to someone who asked for it. Not looking to get into an internet argument. Peace out.
So what? I was a competive athete in several sports for over 20 years. Doesn't mean I knew why I should eat a certain way just because I had a trainer's meal plan. I had to actually learn through a lot of study how the body works.
Appeals to false authority carry so little weight when you are dealing with those with science backgrounds.0 -
I'm 5'7 and weigh 104 I eat about 2700 calories a day but can't seem to gain any weight I want to be 135 pounds! Adviceeee!0
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insiderbffaf wrote: »I'm 5'7 and weigh 104 I eat about 2700 calories a day but can't seem to gain any weight I want to be 135 pounds! Adviceeee!
If that's really what you eat, then you'll have to move less! If it is, then eat more. Are you weighing everything and logging it?
Why 135lb, that's a lot of weight on. I'm 5'7" and 127lb is plenty. I barely fit in my jeans.
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^^ agree ^^ 30lbs is a lot of weight to gain for a female of your height.0
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