Posted on Mar 20, 2016
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Does anyone have any weight gaining and maintaining weight tips?
I am 25 and workout regularly, I have tried protein shakes, but honestly cannot stand the taste of them. Is there any alternatives, diet plans, workout plans that may help me gain weight? I weight around 119 and want to get back up to 132. After I had my son three years ago I have constantly struggled to keep weight on.
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MSG Michael Jackson
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First of all what are doing to gain weight. If you are training to maintain a healthy body, don't just eat a lot of fattening foods to gain weight. As someone else mentioned eat a lot of peanut butter incorporated with a good workout plan to build muscle instead of fat. Milk is also a good source of intake for weight gain.
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PO3 Allen White
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A1C Melissa Jackson
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I reccomend eating a bunch of unhealthy processed food. That was the route I took for many years, And I have found that getting it to go away is quite a struggle! The key to LOOSING weight is to eat at least 75 grams of protein (or more) every day- those shakes are pretty gross, so get your grams fron other sources- meat, fish, edamame, eggs- etc. then focus on the fats- those usually come right along with your protein. If you are hungry have some dairy or something. THEN have a carb or two. I have found that if I am going to eat something I look at the label, and if there are more than 4grams of sugar- I leave it alone.

I would think that such a diet would probably increase your muscle building ability since you work out, and I can say that after my doctor gave me this diet to follow I started to feel FAR more energetic and the excess weight for the most part just fell right off. I wonder if this method might give you a boost to build more muscle, and thus more weight?
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Weight gaining? Hell, just follow me around my kitchen. I grill year-round, too!!!
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SSG Richard Reilly
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Peanut butter. As are regular snack...however you need to watch it. I use to run marathons and once I got hurt my metabolism got crushed. I gained 60+lbs.
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MSG Mechanic 2nd
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keep up the work outs increase the diet, breakfast , mid morning snack, lunch, mid afrtnoon snack, dinner, maybe light snsack before bed, blend yor intake with protien, carbs and fat, to gain you must increase intake vs output but do it right
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SGT David Townsend
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I PT daily, what I have found out is an increase in protein with a calorie increase.
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How tall are you
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That's not a bad combination. Trust me as you get older the weight will come. I am 5 8 205. I graduated high school 5 6 116. As you get older you thicken up a bit. Keep lifting as you grow the weight most gain as fat you will gain as muscle
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