How to Gain Weight

emmastewen123
emmastewen123 Posts: 6 Member
edited November 17 in Goal: Gaining Weight and Body Building
Hello everyone,

I am new here trying to be fit. I am maintaining my diet for a month and have gained weight of 2 kg only. I want to gain 1 kg every week. Can anyone help who has gained weight quickly?

Here is my daily diet:

Morning:
Banana milk shake (1 banana, 1/2 cup soy milk, 1/2 cup prema milk, 5 dates, 3 almonds)
1/2 paratha with beans/chicken

Snacks:
Bread, jam, 1 tablspoon puck cream cheese

Lunch:
Naan Roti, Chicken/Daal/Sabzi

Dinner:
Fried samosa/Rice/Noodles/Daal Roti

Tea: 2 times a day

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  • livingleanlivingclean
    livingleanlivingclean Posts: 11,751 Member
    Being "fit" to me implies having a lean, but muscular physique - for many this would require putting on muscle, not weight. It also implies having a level of cardio fitness, which isn't necessarily weight related either.

    If this is your goal, I wouldn't recommend trying to put weight on faster as you're likely to get fat! As well as eating in a caloric surplus, if you're trying to grow muscle, are you also doing a progressive lifting program?
  • trigden1991
    trigden1991 Posts: 4,658 Member
    2kg in a month is enough. 1kg per week is going to be lots of additional bodyfat I'm afraid.
  • psuLemon
    psuLemon Posts: 38,427 MFP Moderator
    The only thing quick weight gain will do is make you fat. If you want to be fit, have a small surplus and a good progressive overload lifting program. And after you gain a certain amount of weight, you will probably need to cycle between bulk back to cut and repeat as necessary.
  • blackcomaro
    blackcomaro Posts: 796 Member
    Everyone wants it quick and easy.... it aint easy nor quick! Its a lifestyle. Nothing easy is worth or will give you the satisfaction of what you can achieve..... dig deep and enjoy your journey!
  • emmastewen123
    emmastewen123 Posts: 6 Member
    Thanks guys! It was helpful. I am doing work out at home. I'll start a good progressive overload lifting program too. I don't want to be fat either so i won't worry about quick weight gain from now on.

    Thanks buddies :smiley:
  • ejsilvi
    ejsilvi Posts: 205 Member
    If u want to gain weight u need to eat a lot more than that hard boiled eggs are easy and give u a lot of protein eat 4 to 6 eggs 2 to 3xs a day oatmeal is really good to and rice chicken n beef like 3 to 4xs a day home made protein shakes like 2 cups of whole milk a cup of powder milk half cup of oatmeal 2 to 4 raw eggs or egg whites honey peanut butter 2 table spoons add flax oil a table spoon mix all up add ice too drink shake 2 to 3 times a day n right after workouts .
  • emmastewen123
    emmastewen123 Posts: 6 Member
    ejsilvi wrote: »
    If u want to gain weight u need to eat a lot more than that hard boiled eggs are easy and give u a lot of protein eat 4 to 6 eggs 2 to 3xs a day oatmeal is really good to and rice chicken n beef like 3 to 4xs a day home made protein shakes like 2 cups of whole milk a cup of powder milk half cup of oatmeal 2 to 4 raw eggs or egg whites honey peanut butter 2 table spoons add flax oil a table spoon mix all up add ice too drink shake 2 to 3 times a day n right after workouts .

    Thanks alot ! it was helpful.
  • gearhead426hemi
    gearhead426hemi Posts: 919 Member
    You have to eat big to be big. Eat 6-8 meals a day with lean meat.
  • jseams1234
    jseams1234 Posts: 1,219 Member
    Heheh. I've gained 20# since January. Ten of those pounds have been in the last month and a half. I just took my relatively normal diet of about 3K calories and added protien shakes + bulking shakes to my daily consumption. What a lot of these people aren't mentioning is that for some people - me for example - to get to a meaningful surplus I end up eating/drinking so much that I'm never hungry and that every "meal" is an exercise in willpower. Eating when you feel full all the time gets old. So.... be sure that whatever you eat is as tasty as you can make it. Spice it up! ... and don't feel shy about using supplements - either commercial or homemade to boost your caloric intake.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    1 kg per week is just going to be a whole lot of fat...

    Putting on lean mass is a slow process, it doesn't happen overnight.
  • psuLemon
    psuLemon Posts: 38,427 MFP Moderator
    jseams1234 wrote: »
    Heheh. I've gained 20# since January. Ten of those pounds have been in the last month and a half. I just took my relatively normal diet of about 3K calories and added protien shakes + bulking shakes to my daily consumption. What a lot of these people aren't mentioning is that for some people - me for example - to get to a meaningful surplus I end up eating/drinking so much that I'm never hungry and that every "meal" is an exercise in willpower. Eating when you feel full all the time gets old. So.... be sure that whatever you eat is as tasty as you can make it. Spice it up! ... and don't feel shy about using supplements - either commercial or homemade to boost your caloric intake.

    If you gained that much weight, that fast, you over extended your surplus, which is why it was probably hard and increase the amount of at gained.
  • jseams1234
    jseams1234 Posts: 1,219 Member
    psuLemon wrote: »
    jseams1234 wrote: »
    Heheh. I've gained 20# since January. Ten of those pounds have been in the last month and a half. I just took my relatively normal diet of about 3K calories and added protien shakes + bulking shakes to my daily consumption. What a lot of these people aren't mentioning is that for some people - me for example - to get to a meaningful surplus I end up eating/drinking so much that I'm never hungry and that every "meal" is an exercise in willpower. Eating when you feel full all the time gets old. So.... be sure that whatever you eat is as tasty as you can make it. Spice it up! ... and don't feel shy about using supplements - either commercial or homemade to boost your caloric intake.

    If you gained that much weight, that fast, you over extended your surplus, which is why it was probably hard and increase the amount of at gained.

    Since Jan 1, 2017 my weight gain is approximately 1 pound a week. I don't think that is excessive. Still the same waist size, lol. Part of my recent fast gains are predominantly because of creatine loading. Once I was past the loading stage and into maintenance I've only gained about a pound a week.
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