I probably need to gain at LEAST 5 lbs to be healthy. but I want to gain them in a healthy way. I'm still recovering from my eating disorder. After I gain, how can I maintain? Right now I just keep losing.
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If you want to put on weight, you should work out, to insure that youput on muscle and not fat. Healthy weight gain, just like healthyweight loss, takes time and requires a conscious effort to apply goodhabits.Recommended Ways to Gain WeightHave meals with the right balance of proteins, carbohydrates, and theright kinds of fat (such as unsaturated and monounsaturated fats,olive oil, canola oil, pistachios, almonds and walnuts). Heinemannsuggests the following ratio: 60%-70% carbohydrates, 10%-15% protein,and a small amount of fat.Eat foods higher in calories, vitamins, and minerals, as opposedto higher in fat or sugar. Pack more nutritious calories in eachserving. For example, you may add grated cooked eggs to mashedpotatoes, ground chicken to soups and gravies, cheese in casseroles,eggs, and soups, and nonfat dried milk in soups, shakes, milk, andmashed potatoes.If you get too full too fast, try having more high-calorie foods orslices of foods as opposed to consuming the whole thing (raisinsversus grapes, granola and Grape Nuts versus corn flakes, mango slicesversus the whole mango).Limit drinking beverages to a half-hour before and after a meal.Drink mixed juices (apple/berry, peach/orange/banana as opposed to onejuice beverages) for a higher calorie intake. With moderation, you mayadd in good fat sources to meals such as nuts, avocado, olives, andfatty fish (salmon and mackerel).Snack in between meals. Nuts, dried fruits, and yogurtare good options, but it's also important to find nutritious foodsthat you will enjoy. Have a nutritious snack before bedtime, such as apeanut butter sandwich.Other Answers:
- Now this I can help with. Take your meal plan (the one most treatment centers give out) and add an ensure and a carnation instant breakfast. Once you gain the weigh pick one of them to continue on.
- Believe it or not, Slim-Fast and Carnation Instant Breakfast (almost the same as Ensure but not so crazily expensive). If you read the ingredients, you will discover that weight-loss foods and weight-gain supplements are mostly the same things. The difference is that you have the foods ALONG WITH meals when gaining weight and INSTEAD OF meals when losing weight. Adding a few calories to each meal will do it in no time. But don't go over!
- gaining weight doesn't mean eating lots of junk food or eating like a pig for 1 day then eating normally again.if you wanna gain weight you must eat lots of protein and carbs such as milk,eggs,bread,chicken,biscuits,nuts,oatmeal,rice,potatoes,pasta, and drink lots of water and sleep enough, keep this up to gain weight in a very healthy way.and you can add up how much calories you should eat everyday to reach your goal
- In order to gain weight, you should eat more healthy fats like nuts, olive oil, etc. You should also up your caloric intake and eat more calories. Eat snacks throughout the day, and make sure you are eating enough. Seeing a nutritionist would be very helpful bc they could help you out with what foods to eat, etc. My best friend was recovering from an ED and in order to gain weight she began seeing a nutritionist and it really helped her. In order to maintain, just eat as much as you burn daily. Good luck! Hope I helped:)
