Decent meals to put on weight?
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The opposite of what people normally ask but I've been quite ill this year which means I've lost lots of weight and according to my BMI, I'm underweight. I've promised my girlfriend I'll try and get back to 11 stone but I'm quite lost on what meals/food to make which gains weight but in a healthy manner.
Although I love food, I'm not one for cooking. Any ideas or recipes would be great.
Although I love food, I'm not one for cooking. Any ideas or recipes would be great.
The golden rule of gym: fat people think it's their diet, and skinny people think it's their training. Fat people need to move more and skinny people need to eat more and the rest will take care of itself.
Just fkin eat! 6 bread rolls, butter them and fill them with peanut butter. Eat them as as a snack on top of what you normally eat, washed down with 2 pints of whole mik. A tub of cottage cheese in a blender, a splash of milk, a nana and some frozen berries. Drink it.
No more complicated than that.
Just fkin eat! 6 bread rolls, butter them and fill them with peanut butter. Eat them as as a snack on top of what you normally eat, washed down with 2 pints of whole mik. A tub of cottage cheese in a blender, a splash of milk, a nana and some frozen berries. Drink it.
No more complicated than that.
Graze on food all day long. Nuts are a decent snack to eat at work in between meals.
Unsure of your build but i have to consume approx 6000 calories a day to begin putting on weight.
Body building warehouse also do a shake that is around 1000 calories per serving.
Unsure of your build but i have to consume approx 6000 calories a day to begin putting on weight.
Body building warehouse also do a shake that is around 1000 calories per serving.
Edited by Christmassss on Monday 7th November 16:05
Petrolhead95 said:
I'm guessing my current intake of about 2,000 calories a day is nowhere near enough? Not sure how to increase that... I struggle to eat anymore.
See you're learning already! In that one post you've diagnosed the problem, proposed a valid solution and identified a potential obstacle.Now get on with it for two weeks and report back!
PBDirector said:
The golden rule of gym: fat people think it's their diet, and skinny people think it's their training. Fat people need to move more and skinny people need to eat more and the rest will take care of itself.
Only up to a point, at least when working hard and naturally skinny. I remember my first trip to the Alps, when I was 20. I weighed about 9st4, which was healthy if the lower end of where I wanted to be with a BMI about 21.Off we went for a fortnight of yomping up hills, carrying a bag and trailing a rope. I ate to the point of physical pain every night. I held the record for the "biggest breakfast without dying" (6 bowls of birchermuesli, followed by a salami sandwich, for the record). Sandwich at lunchtime. Snacks here and there, on the hill. Big dinner at night. When I got home my mum failed to recognise me on the railway platform, as I was so thin I needed to walk round in the shower to get wet. Weight 8st 11. I was falling apart. BMI about 20. This is supposed to be "healthy", it wasn't. My knees were falling apart as there just wasn't enough flesh holding them together. I just couldn't find enough food to keep me going.
I still lose weight when I'm charging up and down hills, fortunately I now have some spare flesh and with a BMI around 26 I could afford to lose a bit. I do a good deal of exercise anyway, but nothing like 7 or 8 hours carrying a bag. No longer can I afford to eat what I like.
Edited by battered on Monday 7th November 16:40
Robert De Niro – ‘Raging Bull’
Instead of wearing a fat suit, the method actor piled on 60lbs (over 4 stone) in four months in order to play the older, fatter Jake La Motta. He credits a food tour of Europe for his impressive weight gain, where he binged on 3 large meals a day including lots of pasta, butter, and ice cream.
Instead of wearing a fat suit, the method actor piled on 60lbs (over 4 stone) in four months in order to play the older, fatter Jake La Motta. He credits a food tour of Europe for his impressive weight gain, where he binged on 3 large meals a day including lots of pasta, butter, and ice cream.
PBDirector said:
Battered I'm not sure that anything you wrote disagrees with what I wrote or even meant 
But I should really make it more specific with regards to INTENT; that advice applies to skinny people who want to bulk up and fat people who want to lose weight.
Cheers!
Probably not, to be fair, reading back the anecdote again! I'm just pointing out that when you are young and doing sport it may be physically impossible to keep up with food demands. At 20 I wanted to be 10st so I had a few reserves. Now at nearly 12, I'd like to be 11st. I *could* put the time in and grind it out, but I'd have to be very disciplined with what I eat, and having experienced that in getting from ~13st to just under 12 a couple of years ago, a target of 11 (the healthy BMI max for my size)is more trouble than it's worth given that the "mirror test" doesn't show me to be unhealthy at all.But I should really make it more specific with regards to INTENT; that advice applies to skinny people who want to bulk up and fat people who want to lose weight.
Cheers!
UberMeister said:
battered said:
Wow. That's not a milkshake. It's a dinner. Must be about 600 or 700 cals
More like 2000...There isn't an easier way to consume a lot of calories i don't reckon - it doesn't even fill you up so you can always have some additional biscuits/crisps/chocolate on the side.
Plus it's really, really nice.
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