Need to gain weight!

Bonesy.

Really need to put on some weight, but it dosn't matter if I eat loads, I have a very high matablism, so anybody know how I can gain weight? I was thinking about whey gain powder etc?

ray jay

Dave Tate wrote:

There was a time at the Old Westside gym where I couldn't gain weight to save my f_cking life.

There was this dude who trained there who could just put on weight like f_cking magic. He'd go from 198 to 308 and then to 275 and back down to 198. And he was never fat. It was amazing.

I finally asked him one day how he did it.

"You mean I never told you the secret to gaining weight? Come outside and I'll fill you in."

Now remember, we're at Westside Barbell. And this guy wants to go outside to talk so no one else can hear. Think about that for a minute. What the hell is he going to tell me? This must be some serious sh-t if we have to go outside, I thought.

So we get outside and he starts talking.

"For breakfast you need to eat four of those breakfast sandwiches from McDonalds. I don't care which ones you get, but make sure to get four. Order four hash browns, too. Now grab two packs of mayonnaise and put them on the hash browns and then slip them into the sandwiches. Squish that sh-t down and eat. That's your breakfast."

At this point I'm thinking this guy is nuts. But he's completely serious.

"For lunch you're gonna eat Chinese food. Now I don't want you eating that crappy stuff. You wanna get the stuff with MSG. None of that non-MSG BS. I don't care what you eat but you have to sit down and eat for at least 45 minutes straight. You can't let go of the fork. Eat until your eyes swell up and become slits and you start to look like the woman behind the counter."

"For dinner you're gonna order an extra-large pizza with everything on it. Literally everything. If you don't like sardines, don't put 'em on, but anything else that you like you have to load it on there. After you pay the delivery guy, I want you to take the pie to your coffee table, open that f_ucker up, and grab a bottle of oil. It can be olive oil, canola oil, whatever. Anything but motor oil. And I want you to pour that sh-t over the pie until half of the bottle is gone. Just soak the sh-t out of it."

"Now before you lay into it, I want you to sit on your couch and just stare at that f_ucker. I want you to understand that that pizza right there is keeping you from your goals."

This guy is in a zen-like state when he's talking about this.

"Now you're on the clock," he continues. "After 20 minutes your brain is going to tell you you're full. Don't listen to that sh-t. You have to try and eat as much of the pizza as you can before that 20-minute mark. Double up pieces if you have to. I'm telling you now, you're going to get three or four pieces in and you're gonna want to quit. You f_cking can't quit. You have to sit on that couch until every piece is done.

And if you can't finish it, don't you ever come back to me and tell me you can't gain weight. 'Cause I'm gonna tell you that you don't give a f_ck about getting bigger and you don't care how much you lift!"

Did I do it? Hell yeah. Started the next day and did it for two months. Went from 260 pounds to 297 pounds. And I didn't get much fatter. One of the hardest things I've ever done in my life, though.

Eat more.

Mauricmo

ray jay wrote: »

Eat more.

This.
Then repeat. Also drink milk. Like cowfulls of milk.

Bonesy.

I'm not even joking, I wouldn't be able to afford that much food, I could eat it, but not afford it

Mellor

You need to eat a lot to eat weight. That simple costs more. There is no magic bullet.
McDonalds isn't that expensive way to get in 1000 calories.

Your metabolism isn't so fast that you can't gain weight, if at all.

ray jay

Bonesy. wrote: »

I'm not even joking, I wouldn't be able to afford that much food, I could eat it, but not afford it

It doesn't have to be take away.

Doctor_Socks

Eat more!! Milk, nuts and cheese are great things for easy calories, could easily polish off 200g of cashews, some chicken and then a liter of milk for lunch. I'm intolerant to gluten so I had to cut out a lot of things that help with weight gain! I still manage it though.

For breakfast I find a great gainer is 4 eggs, some fruit (I cycle to work so like having some carbs in me!) a protein shake and one of the paleo bars that Transform posted here a while ago, if you search for it you'll find it. Also, if I know i'm goin to be in a rush the next morning I make a massive dinner the night before and microwave the leftovers in the morning.

I also make pizza with a cauliflower base that I load with meat and veg, convenient, doesn't contain gluten and with the right ingredients can be about 800 calories. Incredibly easy to eat and has no gluten in it either!

When you're buying food, look at how many calories the food contains and go for the higher options! You may experience some fat gain but with good exercise (which I assume you're partaking in) will reduce it, with proper compound exercises (squats, deadlifts, bench, shoulder press and chinups among others) most of the excess calories will go into muscle gain and repair.

As mellor said above, McDonalds is a great way for cheap calories, before I found out about my gluten intolerance I used to put away about 4 double cheese burgers after a heavy squat session, 2000 delicious calories for 8 euro, oh yes! I really miss those days

metamorphosis

butter, oils, cheese, coconut oil and milk, dried fruit, nuts and seeds, nut butters

Shop smart and you can get nearly all of the above cheaply. If you really want it, you will find a way to make it work.

Nuts are about 600kcal per 100gms and easy eat LOTS of them
litre of milk 600kcals + and easy drink lots
Oils and butters as a spread

metamorphosis

oh and tescos have 200gms of 50% choc for 90c (1000 cals right there)

They also have 100gms 74% cocoa for .69c - 500kcals there

billyhead

Agree with all the above posters. The only way to get big is to eat big. Peanut butter and milk (very cheap) is what I consistently ate over a few months to put on nearly 3 stones. Eat evry 2.5 to 3 hours. Always feel full and when your stuffed ear a little more. Its great when your underweight or trying to put it on. You can feast like a king and not worry about it:D

Zamboni

Make friends with a butcher.

Brian?

Zamboni wrote: »

Make friends with a butcher.

You know you're doing something right when your butcher is concerned about your meat intake.

Brian?

Bonesy. wrote: »

Really need to put on some weight, but it dosn't matter if I eat loads, I have a very high matablism, so anybody know how I can gain weight? I was thinking about whey gain powder etc?

I bet you don't eat anywhere near as much as you think you do. Skinny guys nearly always over estimate their calorie intake.

Log your food in fitday.com , tell us the results.

InTheTrees

I'm the same way. Miss a meal and I drop ten pounds. Its like a constant battle to keep my weight up.

And one doesnt get any sympathy from the over weight crowd.

The best long term solution I've found is working out and staying fit, that seems to give me a raging appetite and I dont have to pay much attention to my weight, it just seems to naturally stabilize.

A couple of days without working out though and i start to miss meals and get lazy.