Advice on how to gain weight

[GlasgowCelt]

Yeah trying to lose weight I would imagine to be hard for those who are over weight, but what I need is the exact opposite.

Although my body has a really good shape with little to no exercise I am underweight and weigh just over 10.5 stone. I am 5'10/11 and I would imagine most of my weight resides in my thighs!!

Because my metabolism is as crazy as it is, I lost a stone and a half in 8 days when I had the mumps in summer 2005. Today I am just over 10 stone and and trying to gain weight despite eating plenty. I eat at 5-7 times a day involving one large breakfast, lunch, and dinner a day. I seldom eat red meat and basically live off water, fruit, vegtables, fish, wholemeal bread.

Any advice on how to gain weight?

I do enjoy walking and recently felt I have lost too much weight I feel, my size 32's are falling down to my ankles If I dont wear a belt or walk with my legs slightly further apart, but this would give people the impression that I need to do a ****!

Any advice would be much appreciated, all the best!

TheCelt

 

[Harie]

Any advice on how to gain weight?

Eat more than you're eating currently and cut your cardio in 1/2 (if you're doing it right now). That's as simple as it gets. If you eat 2000 calories/day, eat 2500 calories/day and judge your weight after a week. If you haven't gained anything, increase to 3,000 calories/day and reassess in a week.

Keep track of how many calories/day you consume for an entire week. I'll bet you eat less calories than you think you do.

 

[Hans Gruber]

you sound the same as me,im 6 ft and 157lbs or so

i have to eat loads to gain weight,just pile on the jacket potatoes and never skip the opportunity to eat!

im aiming to hit 168lbs or 12 stone and its tough getting there! i got to 167 once but then lost 6 or 7 lbs,my metabolism is just damn fast

 

[CCS]

I love my metabolism. Not too fast, not too slow. 5'8", 150 pounds, 2500 calories to maintain, 3000 to build muscle, and cutting is not hard. May take a month to get optimal results though.

 

[GlasgowCelt]

I undertand your position libertine - I went from a 32 to a 30 (Waist) quite quickly which I got a bit worried about.

Going to try and find some sort of regular eating, exercise regime so that I'm not burning too much. I'm already quite athletic which probably plays a role in rapid weightloss

Metabolism can be a curse at times!