What are the Challenges in Gaining Weight?
Have you treid a weight gain diet before? Gaining weight is more difficult than losing it. You are not alone. Either
the lack of appetite makes it very difficult to force down extra food. Or
alternatively filling up on 'fast food' only generates fat and not muscle fibre.
How have you tried to gain weight before through consuming fast food and sugary
Foods? And if you do gain weight its just around the stomach? And your body fat
% is more that of an overweight person? So the aim to put on muscle fibre not
fat.
What about Negative nutrition? Rate yourself on a scale of 1-10 on negative
nutrition Smoking, alcohol, coffee, stress, fast food, processed food,
prescription medication all make it more difficult to absorb the nutrients from
food. Are you getting a balanced diet? A balance of complex carbohydrates,
proteins, dietary fibre, minerals and vitamins? Have you taken shakes in cows
milk and felt bloated, lethargic and then lost your appetite? Lactose
intolerance is a common problem
Walked into a high street store and they've are recommended shakes designed for
bodybuilders, yet you're not doing any work with weights? Or you have bought a
shake sold on the high street? Check labels for ingredients i.e. do they contain
water/sugar/corn syrup and maltodextrin (one major brand)? So these are sugar
drinks promoted as balanced nutrition!
Been to the gym for weight training and now your lighter than when you started?
Playing lots of sports? Burning more fuel than consuming? Exercising with
weights will help you if are already "eating lots of food and not putting on
weight"as apposed to having a poor appetite. However, exercise burns up fuel, so
important to follow fuelling and refuelling routines.
Exercise also drains nutrients. Is your body getting enough of the essential
nutrients (minerals and vitamins) to utilise its fuel supply. Relying on your
supermarket to supply fresh fruit & vegetables crammed with nutrients. Early
harvest, agri-chemicals, long storage, processing and over cooking all deplete
the natural content of fresh produce. Are you taking a quality vitamin and
mineral supplement from a specialist supplier i.e. not from the high street?
You need to regularly take in more calories than you burn to
gain weight. Set
yourself realistic target weights, and aim to gain gradually. To put on a lb per
week you need to plan in an extra 500 nutritious calories or so to your usual
daily intake. It's best to do this as part of a balanced diet, rather than
simply eating more fried foods or unhealthy snacks.
Changing eating habits is a long process of 90 days + and is the crucial factor
for success in gaining and maintaining weight. It takes tens of years to develop
eating habits and you shouldn't 't think that 1 month is enough to change this
reality. You need to follow a weight gain programme for the body to 'for-get
'the old weight and 'get used ' to the new one.
More information on a
weight gain diet
By Alan Woodward
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