Not everybody wants to lose weight

Believe it or not there are an awful lot of people out there who are actually underweight and desperate to bring their weight up to healthy levels!

These are the “skinny” people who have struggled with their weight all their lives and no matter what they seem to eat they just can’t add a single ounce!

Now to all the overweight folks out there you might be wondering what the heck they have to complain about as you’d kill your own grandmother not to gain weight but to them it’s just as traumatic and depressing as you feeling and being overweight.

The first thing to is to stop panicking!

Like everything else there is always a solution and in my years working as a personal trainer I worked with many under weight individuals, ladies and gents who simply wanted to gain solid, healthy weight.

The first thing to start doing is to obviously up your caloric intake, now before you start jumping up and down shouting “Woohoo” there is a catch!

This is not an excuse to go out there and eat every piece of junk food you can shove down your throat as you would certainly gain weight that way but it would be generally added fat and you wouldn’t be doing your heart and arteries any good either.

If anything is going to be successful and you have the desire and determination then you need to have to plan.

Fail to plan and you plan to fail!

Plan to eat a minimum of four meals a day and a maximum of six.

Try to eat delicious calorie dense foods such as potatoes, bread and pasta and drink semi skimmed milk if you don’t have lactose intolerance.

Eat meat, fish and poultry and try to plan your meals with a little of everything on your plate, meat, potatoes, vegetables.

This works out to protein, carbs and fats and as long as you’re not taking in too many saturated fats from fatty meat and chicken skin don’t get hung up on it.

This is how it should break down, a good breakfast consisting of either porridge or a good quality cereal and if possible try to add some protein in the form of a couple of scrambled eggs or perhaps a nice commercially bought protein shake.

Mid morning snack should be a half of a sandwich, either tuna salad or chicken with mayo or if you can’t face it, have a glass of milk or some nuts or seeds.

Lunch; try a baked potato and tuna or a baked potato and cheese and beans or even more pasta.

Mid afternoon snack the other half of your mid morning sandwich or again if you can’t face it, have a glass of milk or some nuts or seeds..

Evening meal around 7pm vegetables and chicken, meat or fish and before you go to bed at night a nice glass of milk.

In another article on weight gain I’ll cover the best exercises that will help you in your quest for gaining weight healthily.

Remember, food is not your enemy, it’s your ally!

If you‘d like any further or more in depth information on this subject let me know and I’d be delighted to help?