Any ideas on how to gain weight?

[SapphireDragon13]

Well, basically, I'm almost 16, I'm 5'7", and I weigh about 95 pounds due to a fast metabolism. Does anyone have any ideas of how I could gain weight IN A HEALTHY WAY? Thanks!

~Jenelle

[MidnightHorizon]

this should probably be in general hospital...but just increase your food intake pretty much, but keep it to healthy foods, not junk

[SapphireDragon13]

Basically, I eat quite a bit, and most of it is really healthy, but yeahhh... Nomatter what I eat, my weight stays exactly the same. :S

[MidnightHorizon]

well, you can't really help that, you can't really gain weight if your body won't accept fat lol...you never know, you might hit a growth spurt. Theres nothing much you can do...Try focusing on adding more carbohydrates to your diet, just try not to get off balance.

The best thing would be to just accept that your light. If you're body is in proportion, then you probably are just waiting to grow.

The last thing you wanna do, is get desperate and overload with carbs and fats resulting in you becoming overweight...or unhealthy.

[SapphireDragon13]

My legs are fairly longer than average compared to the rest of my body, would that mean that I'm out of proportion? Lol.

~Jenelle

[MidnightHorizon]

lol your fine, just what im saying is you probably have growing to do

[AllThatIsLeft]

you dont exactly want weight, you want muscle. therefore you need exercise. to built muscle, you need to exercise it.

[SapphireDragon13]

I play lots of sports like soccer, indoor track in the winter, and outdoor track during the regular season.

~Jenelle

[Oblivion]

this should probably be in general hospital...but just increase your food intake pretty much, but keep it to healthy foods, not junk

Thanks, it should be. Next time though, just use the report button ^_^
Moved.


As for gaining weight- if you eat healthily, and you are still naturally skinny, I don't think it's a *huge* deal.
If you are extremely skinny (which it sounds like, at 95 lbs at 5' 7"), I would consult a doctor or nutritionist.

[Malsector]

I have the same problem, I am 6,2 and i weigh 150.
If you want to build muscle there is right ways to do this and wrong ways.
If you want to build muscle fast you might want to do the following...

First get your hands on protein shake or some other high protein product.
Consume a small amount of your high protein food or shake (30mins prior)
Do whatever workout you have in mind (just try to avoid cardio).
When you start to "feel the burn" stop exercising!
Consume your high protein food or shake and relax.
If you do this daily you will probably gain weight.

If you need more information Pm me or you could google search weight gain methods.

Another thing that is unlikely but should not be ruled out, you could have some form of worms that creates an inability to gain weight.

This can be a major concern and if you don't dislike doctors for whatever reason you should get checked out!


Best of luck Malsector

[SapphireDragon13]

I don't really want to avoid cardio stuff because it helps alot for track, and its one of the only ways to stay conditioned for it. As for the worms, I know that I don't have any, because both of my parents were really thin when they were my age, and for the most part my mom still is. Could genetics have anything to do with this? On top of that, yes I want to gain muscle, but not completely because I have a really low percentage of body fat. About 10 or 11%, when average is about 15 to 22%...

~Jenelle

[INFERNO]

Try building more muscle, mainly through weightlifting. Muscle weighs more than fat, and tends to cause fewer health problems than lots of fat does, although excess of both can be harmful either way.

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this (or if you did, I didn't see it): if you exercise, your rate of digestion will increase, and last like that for a few days, assuming you don't re-exercise again.

Some disorders can result in an increased metabolism (i.e. hyperthyroidism, as increased body heat occurs by increased rate of digestion), although I'm not saying you have hyperthyroidism).

As for genetics, this is hard to say. Seeing as how you do exercise a fair bit, it makes the idea of having an inherited sub-threshold disorder (fancy way of saying something that isn't completely a certain disorder but can cause some of the symptoms) rather hard to figure out. It also begs upon the exact foods you are eating, how much and how often. You are also at an age where the body is growing and it will need more nutrients. For these basic reasons, I'm not going to say it's something genetic. Both of your parents can be lightweight for completely different reasons that have nothing to do with each other, and neither are heritable. So to answer the issue of genetics having a factor, it's inconclusive.

The average person doesn't exercise as much as you may, hence, lower body fat for you. Also, when you work out to gain muscle, you are going to sweat and lose some body fat. This shouldn't prevent you from working out to gain muscles via weightlifting.

When you age, your physiology changes and you'll lose muscle mass, bone mass and some fat. If you stay healthy at a young age and keep it up, you may be more healthy than the average senior when it comes that time for you. If you want some sources for this, I'll be more than happy to flip open my adult development & aging, 2nd year uni. psych textbook and list the study reference for this.

[SapphireDragon13]

Hmm... I don't think that I have hyperthyroidism, because I naturally have a slighlty lower body temperature, I think, Because I get cold really easily. I just naturally have a fast metabolism, I think? ... As for "average people", most of the people play just as many, or more, sports than I do and have a higher fat percentage. Is this normal?

~Jenelle

[WEO]

yeah man me too. I am 6 3' 154lbs. I can really eat all I want as much as I want but I wont gain any weight. The only place I really have fat is my body(stomach - chest) so I dont look as skinny when I take my shirt off like you would expect when you only see my arms and legs coz They are really skinny and nothing really helps for me. Bleh :/.

[AllThatIsLeft]

EAT HEALTHY... one thing goes with the other.

weightlifting will increase your muscles. but to stay healthy you need to eat constantly (every 2 hours or so) but dont eat like full meals, just snacks.

weightlifitng will built muscle, as you dont want to be like body builder or anything i recommend to do light weights for longer sets.

you dont need to stay away from cardio.

Also, pushups, situps, leg rises, crounches, are another way to do it.

[INFERNO]

Hmm... I don't think that I have hyperthyroidism, because I naturally have a slighlty lower body temperature, I think, Because I get cold really easily. I just naturally have a fast metabolism, I think? ... As for "average people", most of the people play just as many, or more, sports than I do and have a higher fat percentage. Is this normal?

~Jenelle

Hyperthyroidism was an example of a disorder that causes increased metabolism, I never said you have it.

Well.. this is rather curious. When you have a faster metabolism, there are more chemical reactions. These lovely reactions produce heat, so usually the person would be warmer. I cant think of anything of a single disorder that causes low body temperature with high metabolism.

Yes, it is normal. There is an immense diversity of humans and their various characteristics.

[SapphireDragon13]

Lol, maybe I'm just a freak of nature. :P It kinda sucks sometimes though, cuz I get harassed all the time for it...

~Jenelle

[INFERNO]

Well, I looked back at this thread and wondered, after reading a bit about a molecule called apoC-III (which has nothing to do with this) but anyways, I wondered, is it really a fast metabolism? Perhaps you aren't eating enough, since you are growing and playing sports, you will need even more nourishment and perhaps you just aren't getting that. You may be eating enough if you were to not play sports, or maybe not even enough for that. That would explain the issue of fast metabolism (due to the sports and growth), and also explain why you're not unusually warm. Or, there's some other syndromes out there that i haven't heard of which you may have.

[SapphireDragon13]

I don't think that it's me not eating enough, because most of the people I know say that I eat a ton of stuff. On top of that, I think it IS a fast metabolism, because nomatter how much I eat [most of which is healthy], I don't gain any weight at all. I don't really think it's normal, but I know that it isn't really affecting me that much, because if it was, I would probably be tired all the time or something like that, right?

~Jenelle

[adam dockery]

well you cant build muscel and run alot, it doesnt work out, running alot, like for cross country, makes you loos the muscle u put on

[Skeln]

Ok, this is rare. About 1 in 30 kids grow this way. I think the way you grow is that you stretch out, then your weight catches up. Most people get a little chubby, then they stretch out. Your normal. If you want to gain weight then eat alot of high calorie foods and do alot of exercises. Try push ups, sit ups, things like that. Even fat calkories can be turned into muscles, so don't be afraid to eat fat either.

[INFERNO]

1 in 30 isn't rare.