Need help GAINING weight

I am sorry I do not know much about diabetes, so some foods I suggest may not be feasible..

If he likes peanut butter, you can also find almond butter, hazlenut butter and sunflower seed butter to give him a variety so he doesn't get tired of it.

Add olive oil or canola oil to vegetables you cook him.

Pasta dishes tend to be high in calories.

Full fat dairy (whole milk, cheese, etc.)


ETA: I know you said he doesn't like Boost shakes, but have you tried making your own protein shakes? Add in some peanut butter and whole milk they can be very calorie dense and nutritious.

Good luck with everything!

Thanks! I'll for sure check that out.

I told him I'd start fixing eggs and bacon and toast in the AM for breakfast and he now says he doesn't like eggs, they didn't agree with him once so he won't eat them.

My husband is the worlds most picky eater!!

That sounds like my husband, but he only likes the unhealthy stuff.

Rice and beans are both pretty calorie dense as well.

Tell your husband to man up and start forcing himself to eat more. People eat upwards of 5k calories a day to gain muscle.

I'm not sure what is and isn't allowed for diabetics but I would recommend potatoes, milk with whey protein, any meat with some fat, like steak, chicken thighs, ribs, etc.

If he just needs to gain weight short term, eat junk food.

At this point I think he needs to grow up and eat the foods he needs whether he likes them or not.

My little boy was very underweight at one point, he has had some real issues with food and the dr advised me to give him lots of whole milk to drink and add small amounts of cream to some meals, ie/ i made soup for the whole familly and i added cream to his portion. It isnt a lot at a time but small and often should help with the weight and it is easy to avoicd adding the extra calories to your portion.

Macaroni cheese is a good one as well and if he has access to a microwave at work can be reheated, you could have smaller portions with a salad. Salad dressings for adding extra calories.

Good luck to you both

He needs to eat a lot of fat. SImple as that. The good thing is that it's easy to add fat to things.

1. Olive oil is amazing when it comes to adding calories to a meal.

2. Take chicken, cut it into strips, wrap bacon around it, grill it, then put cheese on top. You've just doubled the calories for your chicken meal, and it tastes awesome too.

3. Add cheese to everything, cook everything in oil, and put natural peanut butter on everything you eat that can have peanut butter on it.

4. Whole milk! Some lifters use a diet called GOMAD to gain weight. That stands for Gallon Of Milk A Day. Drink whole milk at every meal while your eating your bacon wrapped steak grilled in butter.

5. Heavy whipping cream is PACKED with calories. 1tbsp has 50 calories. Use it in your coffee instead of creamer or milk. Also, you can get protein powder and make protein shakes with heavy cream and olive oil.

Weight-gain protein shake-
2 scoops chocolate protein powder
4 tbsp heavy cream
2 raw eggs
1 tbsp EVOO
2 servings natural peanut butter

The peanut butter and protein powder mask the taste of the oil and eggs almost completely, and this shake totals out to over 700 calories, all while fitting in a normal size glass. 2 of these a day added to his normal intake will put on some pounds.

Can he have some kind of sugar free protein drink or something along those lines? You can try doing something like Muscle milk or something, those will make him gain weight pretty fast.