Do I need to gain weight?

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  • ppomoberry
    ppomoberry Posts: 21 Member
    Current physic update seems about the same? I’m not sure how much I currently weigh till Saturday but hopefully the numbers went up.

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  • erickirb
    erickirb Posts: 12,294 Member
    edited April 2019
    When I was 12 and 5'2" I weighed about what you do now (116lbs) and considered myself thin at the time.

    So yes gain weight, eat 3,000 plus cals a day and follow a structured lifting program so that most of your gain can be muscle. Gain until you are 12% BF% then re-evaluate
  • ppomoberry
    ppomoberry Posts: 21 Member
    edited April 2019
    Okay, you’re dropping into the 3-5% essential body fat level for a male, below which essential functions of the body start to be affected and if you keep losing weight you die. Please stop whatever you are doing right this instant and go talk to your parents about this.
    ahimes39 wrote: »
    Not to scare you (well, maybe a little), but my younger brother is your height and weighs about 140 lbs. His doctor told him he needed to put on weight immediately or risk his internal organs shutting down. Please talk to your parents and a counselor asap.
    You might be having trouble moving and staying warmed up because your body weight and fat is so low that it is trying to conserve energy. Please eat more and take a break from the exercises until your weight has normalized.
    PAV8888 wrote: »
    FFS man.

    You need to add several LBS. Consistently. Over weeks and months.

    The oz you are playing with is just playing with daily fluctuations.

    If you're already eating volume you need to densify the calories in your volume.

    Which part of adding weight do you not understand involves extra Calories that result in added weight? As someone mentioned above: eat and drink anything and everything.

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    If you are finding yourself unable to do it... does this not tell you that it is time to ask for help in real life?
    I am a mom. My middle son, who is a slim, muscular, 5’ 8” 15 year old weighs 140-150lbs. Please eat! Please talk to a counselor or your parents. Make up a good protein shake with some pb, or go to the nearest ice cream place and start getting a large shake daily! Everyone who has posted here has shown concern for you, at your height and growing rate you are severely limiting bodily functions. Please don’t. You need your body to grow and work optimally!
    I'm the same height as you. You're the same weight I was when I was anorexic but I'm a girl. I'm currently just over 150. Your sister has an eating disorder, but I am about 99.9% certain you do too. Please talk to your parents. See if you can see a nutritionist, a psychologist, both.

    If eating more calories is proving challenging to you, go buy you some Ensure. That's what I did. Not as a replacement to meals. In addition to meals. You need to be eating much more than this. Peanut butter. Olive or coconut oil.

    Once your weight is back up you can start doing weights, but at this weight it's doing you more harm than good, I'd say.

    You're not going to hear anyone else on this thread say anything different. Will you consider listening to us?
    jdog022 wrote: »
    These posts continue to be a cry for help. Your not answering anyone’s questions or seemingly taking any advice to eat significantly more food. Once more how many calories a day do you eat?

    My guess is your barely eating and what you are eating is strictly volume foods without any caloric density. You are doing significant damage to yourself by under-fueling and I’d like to continue to encourage you to eat much more even tho I feel like it’s a wasted effort on me

    I’ve come to realise this is a cry for help you are right. I have always known I was underweight but yet despite knowing I could put on a few pounds I would try to maintain that underweight weight for some reason. I feel it’s due to being chubby in the past and finally slimming down and not wanting to lose the “progress” that took so long to make? I’m not afraid of gaining weight I just don’t want to gain fat which is why I started weight training in order to ensure only muscle gain but the way I’m going seems to only be hurting my body as it is constantly sore. I have been restricting my food intake lately and I don’t know why I’ve gone to eating less tortillas and on the days I don’t excediste completely skip out on lunch or drink a meal replacement as I don’t want to gain “fat” for not weight training adequately yet on those days still try to get 10,000 steps in no matter what my pain may be. On Saturdays I usually eat a turkey pesto panini but through the months since last year have reduced it I would take off the provolone to make it less calorie dense then I ordered it without pesto and yesterday first time I only eat half of the bread (they cut it in half and I put all the topping in one slice of the bread to still get my protein from the turkey). I know that I’m depriving my body yet I think I feel like not doing anything to improve until it gets to the point where I have too and I don’t know why… I guess it’s since I do my workouts and home and don’t know if I’m doing them adequately enough to be gaining muscle or just waisting my time… at this point I don’t know anymore.

    Thank you all for the support really it may seem like I’m being ungrateful but I’m just confused now. Never thought I would get to this point.

    I weighed in yesterday and it turns out my weight may be 5’ 10” to 5’ 11” so my bmi and weight is a tad less worse I guess…

    Besides the weight everything else it’s my age and height and stuff so due to being between 5’ 10 and 5’ 11 may be a tad bit different

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  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    I hope you speak to your doctor and get some support.
  • manowarrule2003
    manowarrule2003 Posts: 118 Member
    Youre making it too complicated. These numbers are pointless. You dont need them too see that you need to add weight. Eat more calories, lift some heavy things 3 times a week hitting every major muscle group with compound movements, and spend the remainder of the time chillin and patting yourself on the back for a job well done.....orrr, do none of the above and remain exactly as you are.
  • manowarrule2003
    manowarrule2003 Posts: 118 Member
    Yeah its all true. Just trying help from a different angle. We've done sympathetic, get to a dr.....which by the way i highly recommend rather than asking for help on the Internet kind of approach. If the tough love approach did not work then hey, i tried my best. That being said, maybe my opinion has not helped, i was just frustrated at the original posters plight, and i want him to get help. Im sure if we all work together he will read these posts and take actio from them...
  • ppomoberry
    ppomoberry Posts: 21 Member
    I will try and have told my parents however I am curious if I should take a week off from lifting eat more and then commence next week with lifting again or can I (should I) continue this week as well?
  • rheddmobile
    rheddmobile Posts: 6,840 Member
    edited April 2019
    ppomoberry wrote: »
    I will try and have told my parents however I am curious if I should take a week off from lifting eat more and then commence next week with lifting again or can I (should I) continue this week as well?

    What you have been describing with fatigue and your muscles having trouble warming up makes me think you need to focus all your efforts on eating more and stop exercising for right now. A week off won’t hurt you in any way, while exercise when you are very underweight could hurt you.

    What does your doctor say about what you should do?
  • jdog022
    jdog022 Posts: 693 Member
    Doesn’t really matter . Think big picture. Lift don’t lift. Lifting doesn’t really burn many calories. The only thing and i repeat the only thing that matters right now is upping your calories 5 fold. Adding POUNDS per week.

    Even if you gained ten pounds of pure fat ( which you won’t) you would still be shredded body fat levels. My picture here is about 12-13 % body fat. That’s about 25 pounds of fat on me. Way more then you and I wouldn’t consider that “fat”. You want and need to gain some fat
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