Saturday, May 24, 2008

Weight gain problem, can you help me?

OK,
classes will be starting early June.
I'm so skinny and I want to get rid of it at the end of the month.

What else can I do to gain fat?
Does working out worsens the situation or it helps?

Please, Help me.
Muscle actually weighs more than fat, so try to do some heavy lifting. Do not
try to run, or do sprints of any kind. You will lose weight that way, so try and
keep it strictly to the weight room.

Also, weight gainers are very helpful. Try and pick some up if you have the
cash. I recommend Mass XXX but that goes for around $50 at GNC.com. If your on a
tighter budget, buy Cyto Gainer at Massnutrition.com. It is cheap on that site.

Also, Peanut Butter can help you gain weight. It has a lot of protein in it, and
if you eat it with bread, you can put on some serious weight.

Best of luck!
Eat healthy stuffs. My brother is super skinny too. He always drinks freshly
squeezed orange juice. I think it helps a lot, putting a lot of vitamin C in
your body. Don't stay up late, sleeping early helps you get fat. I would
recommend Appeton milk. Its a weight gain milk. It come in two flavors i think
vanilla and chocolate. Its available at a drugstore. When school starts always
eat a healthy breakfast , don't skip meals! Exercising helps but you should have
a trainer to get the right exercise you need.
Get a BodyTech Tech X mass weight gainer it is really cheap $13 for 3.5 pound
container and $28 for 7.5 container. with 7.5 container you could gain 14 pounds
lean muscle with exercise and with added meals 20 pounds of lean mass in a
month!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sold at vitaminshoppe
eat, eat, eat!!! and be lazyy if failing at that, gain mucle. if you gain mucle
you will be bulkyer and have no risk on getting overweight~ plus you'll be less
likley to get fat, or really scronny!
Stay thin.
Eat protein bars or drink shakes!! watever you do...don't eat a tub of LARd
First of all you probably don't want to gain "fat." The safest way to gain
weight is to increase your calories slowly. You have to figure out how many
calories you're burning each day and increase that amount of calories in some
way to gain weight. (Keep exercising, it'll keep you overall more healthy,
you'll just have to take that into account when calculating your
metabolic/caloric needs).

Try to increase those calories with HEALTHY calories vs. saturated ones and that
will help you out in life. Once you gain fat cells you can NEVER get rid of
them, you can only make them smaller. To get more fat cells your original fat
cells have to become in a sense bloated with fat and cannot hold anymore and so
your body makes more fat cells.

To estimate your "energy" (kcalorie) needs, you take your body weight in pounds,
and convert it to kilograms. (Divide your weight in pounds by 2.2 to get your
weight in kgs). Then you need to figure out how much it takes to SUSTAIN your
metabolic needs. MEN need about 1kcal per kg of body weight per hour, WOMEN need
about 0.9kcal per kg of body weight per hours. Then you need to multiply that by
24 (as in how many hours in a day). That is the amount of kcalories you need per
day.
FYI, kcalories are what food labels list as "calories" - so don't get confused.

Then you need to determine your activity level :
Very Light = 1.3 (men) 1.3 (women)
standing, sitting, driving, typing, sewing, cooking, playing cards or a musical
instrument

Light = 1.6 (men) 1.5 (women)
walking on a level surface at 2.5-3.0mph, carpentry, childcare, golf, sailing,
table tennis

Moderate = 1.7 (men) 1.6 (women)
walking 3.5-4.0mph, gardening, carrying a load, cycling, skiing, tennis, dancing

Heavy = 2.1 (men) 1.8 (women)
walking uphill carrying a load, digging by hand, playing basketball, football,
or soccer, climbing

Exceptionally Heavy = 2.4 (men) (2.2) women
athletic training or participation in a professional or work-class events

(Note: these are just guidelines, you'll need to adjust them for your own
personal activity levels).

So you take the calories to maintain your weight (from before) and multiply them
by your physical activity level. And that should be the amount of calories
needed for physical activity. To also take into account the Thermic Effect of
Food (TEF) you'll need to multiply the calories you've just reached by (.10) and
add that number to your previous answer.

Another way to figure it out is using the BMR (basal metabolic rate):
Men: BMR= 655 + (13.7 x wt in kg) + (5 x ht in cm) - (6.8 x
age in year) x (activity factor)

Women: BMR= 655 + (9.6 x wt in kg) + (1.8 x ht in cm) - (4.7 x age in year) x
(activity factor)

(convert inches to cm by multiplying 1inch by 2.54cm)

Remember that one pound of body weight is worth 3,500 calories. So to gain one
pound you'll need to eat an extra 3,500 calories that you do not use in some
way.
Also: don't try to do it all in one day, it won't work. You should probably
increase your eating gradually by a few hundred extra calories a day, not a few
thousand.

Examples of foods you could add to your diet to increase calories: banana,
apple, yogurt, baked potato, an extra waffle or pancake, etc. Don't go out and
eat milkshakes and ice cream and french fries. These will make you gain weight
but will also have negative effects on your health. Eat what you already are (if
it's healthy) and just try to increase whatever you eat by a bit - eat a
half-cup more spaghetti than you normally do, add a salad with vegetables on it,
eat more raw vegetables as a snack. Eat a peanut-butter and jelly sandwich as an
extra snack. (Any sandwich would do - just add more vegetables to it and try to
cut out or down on the mayo!) Eat more fruit! Most people don't get enough of
the proper foods they need anyway, so by eating an extra apple a day and a cup
of raw/cooked vegetables a day won't likely hurt you and can help to increase
your caloric intake in a safe, healthy way, which can help you to increase your
weight if that is what you wish to do.

I also want to add that you sound like a kid, so you need to be really careful
because these are recommendations for adults and you should probably also talk
to a license dietitian and/or nutritionist who are legally capable of counseling
you on this.

Disclaimer: I am NOT a nutritionist or dietitian - I have taken nutrition
classes however and this in information provided to our class. Always check with
your doctor first before you take on anything like gaining or losing weight, to
make sure that it is safe and that you can do it SAFELY!

Edit: People are telling you to lift weights - yes that will help, but they are
also telling you to eat more protein! Most Americans get about 2-2.5 times as
much protein as they need, yes, even athletes! Athletes think they need SO MUCH
more protein than the rest of us and in reality they don't. Protein DOES NOT
build muscle, it just helps to repair muscle. It is useful, but can be VERY
harmful. To figure out how much protein you need you take your body weight in
lbs, divide it by 2.2 to get your weight in kgs, and then you multiply that by
(0.8) to get the amount of protein you need in grams. The protein content of
foods is listed on labels just so you can check. Yes, athletes need more, but
not a lot more, maybe an extra 10-40grams a day. Depends on your size and
individual protein needs. Which you'd need to talk to a nutritionist about if
you want an accurate amount). You can get protein from mixing non-meat/dairy
products as well such as in rice and beans is a complete protein. Pasta and
beans is too, and you don't have to have complementary proteins all in one meal!
Just preferably in the same day.

Also know that supplements can be VERY dangerous, and are NOT regulated by the
FDA. People trying to sell them to you are probably trying to make a commission,
so stay away. Mostly you can get all you need from eating foods, except in
special conditions when you have a health problem or a medication interferring
with absorption. Toxicity is more of a problem in this country than
deficiency!

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