Thread: Weight gain - the right way?

Nuh. I need help, please, someone? I'm now 44.7 kg and my bodyfat percentage is 17.6.

Whole grain carbs. i.e. whole wheat bread, beans, oat meal

Medium fat meats - i.e. salmon, leaner beef cuts.

Healthy fats. - i.e. olive oil, peanut oil. Avoid hydrogenated anything.

Fruits and vegetables.

Calcium. Milk, yogurt, cheese.

Eat regularly. Keep your metabolism fed. Exercise regularly. Keep your metabolism moving.

What is your diet like now and how many calories a day do you eat roughly? How often and how hard do you exercise?

Getting your period doesn't mean you're healthy- you don't really want to find out how close you are to that borderline, do you? If it's serious then yes, they will prefer you to gain weight by any means necessary. If it's all fat, then that's better than starvation. They probably figure they can worry about giving you muscle and leanness when you actually have something there to work with again.

At any rate, I got the impression you think your body fat percentage is too high, which it isn't. 14-20% is healthy for athletes, which you are not if you're that skinny. Healthy for a normally fit woman is between 21-24%. You have a ways to go. I wouldn't worry about it too much, I'd worry about weight first and muscle later. I don't see how you have the strength to do any sort of weight training right now anyway. It could weaken you- with no fat, you have no energy stores to burn once your last meal is gone. Dangerous road.

I didn't think my body fat % is too high, I was wondering if it's high enough.

I don't really exercise, just walk around my town & bike to school, but that's it. Occasionally dance at clubs. BUT I have this friend who's like a fitness freak, who's promised to become my personal trainer

Originally Posted by Bloody Carablea

BUT I have this friend who's like a fitness freak, who's promised to become my personal trainer

Whether that's a good thing or not depends entirely on what you mean by a fitness freak.

Update:
Well, I gained my weight back. I dunno how I managed to do it without going back to my original size, cuz my jeans size is still only 26 inches. But I gained like 12 kg. Everybody's been telling me that I look great nowadays compared to the walking skeleton I was back then. So yeah, all's good now - thanks for the advice!

Edit add:
I would also like to inform you lovely people that due to having been extremely underweight, I don't think that I'll EVER have an eating disorder again. Being a skeleton taught me that being really skinny just isn't fun. w00t. I'm proud of this. I'm proud that I managed to gain weight, I'm proud that I will never have an eating disorder again, I'm proud to be happy with my body the way it is.

That's good to hear.

The funny thing is, the whole episode changed my body type!!! I used to have a pear body, but now that I live in a city, my ass just won't grow back to being as big as it was. The weight has gone around my whole body, so now I rock an hourglass figure, which I'm very happy with

What was your diet plan to increase weight, because I too have the same weight 45kg, I like to increase my weight but I won't like to ear oil foods, Gee, butter, I like to eat healthy foods mostly fruits, and eat sea foods weekly once. Any advice for me to increase weight without oil foods.

Sorry, buddy, can't help ya. I just ate whatever the fuck I wanted, how much I wanted and didn't exercise. But I do have a taste for greasy, sugary, unhealthy, some might even say, junk foods. Chocolate and ice cream don't help much tho. They were what I ate when I lost the weight.