HOW DO YOU GET FAT?!!!

[Annwyn]

Grrr.

I've determined the only way I'll ever really be able to get hips is to put on some fat.  But that's not seeming to want to happen.  No matter how hard I try, I'm still losing weight.  Most of which is muscle weight, but I've gone from 130 to 115 in a few months and I'm still dropping, it's like the more I eat the more my ribs are defined!

I'm basicly putting canola oil into everything I eat.  I'm eating tons of chocolate for saturated fats.  And nothing works.  Basicly my diet is as follows.

Breakfast:
Some high sugar cereal, half milk and half canola oil.

Lunch: depending on the day, it's either a protein bar(during the week) or on the weekend it's a large serving of carbs like chili mac, with a lot of cheese and ranch and diced sausage added along with a lot of canola oil poured into it to add to my fat intake.

Supper: more carb loading with the same principle of finding any way to add more calories.

I snack on chocolates and junk food all day.

So my total calorie intake is exceeding 3000 calories a day.  I eat until I have to resist the urge to throw up for about an hour.  And then I study until I take a nap.

I'm barely working out too, about 1-2 times in the gym a week, barely any cardio, just hypertrophy of the legs using various machines and free weight exercises.

And I'm losing weight still.

Any tips on how to get fat?  Like seriously, it's bothering me, that I'm eating such a calorie excess(3000-5000 calories/day) and I'm still LOSING weight, when all I want is a few inches of fat around my hips and thighs to better my body shape and all that's happening is I'm becoming more of a stick.

HELP!

[Lachlann]

Eating junk food will not automatically make you fatter or help you to gain more weight. There are other factors into that.

When someone has a high metabolism or difficulty gaining weight, it doesn't work in the same way. Besides, you want to gain weight in a healthy way and not through putting crap in your body.

You actually will lose that mass and fat if you don't work out because its not going to any use. Its why a lot of people with high metabolisms can sit around and not gain a pound... they aren't putting that fat to use and therefore its underdeveloped.

Look at a healthy diet of carbs and proteins. Stay away from the junk food.

[Flan Princess]

I wish I could help but I'm in the same boat.
Right now I weigh 53kg (about 115lbs) soaking wet.
My mum jokes about giving me 10 kilo of fat and I find that annoying. 

Breakfast:
Some high sugar cereal, half milk and half canola oil.

That sounds nasty 
Not to throw a shameless plug, but have you tried Carnation Instant Breakfast?

[Pica Pica]

i tend to eat and sleep. works for me.
i don't even eat unhealthily... i wouldn't do waht you do though, eat until you feel sick, sounds very unhealthy and could cause illness and depression. If I were you I'd eat lots of pasta and rice, like an athlete does  - or have the wartime diet of potatoes. In WWII the people here were healthier but chunkier because of a high potato and vegetable diet.

[Nero]

i tend to eat and sleep. works for me

I'll say. 


Annwyn honey, are you still on E? You also still prolly have a ton of muscle mass that's preventing it.

[tekla]

Box of doughnuts, few cases of beer, a TV and a couch - works for most Americans.

[lisagurl]

Box of doughnuts, few cases of beer, a TV and a couch - works for most Americans.

And fast food.

[tekla]

Yeah lots of fast food, that way you get a bad heart too.

[annajasmine]

Chinese food buffet, take out fried rice, sweettarts, KFC, Spam, and any other canned type meat. I agree with Pica sleep about 12+ hours and start doing a lot computer stuff. This might help also to get really depressed about life. I gained 148 pounds using this method.

Anna

[tekla]

I lost weight with depression, so that might not be the route, not like beer is.

[Kaitlyn]

Lots and lots of carbs - fats, even saturated fats, don't work so well.    Most fatties are the way they are because of their carb intake (myself included).  White bread, pasta, starchy sauces, turkey stuffing... the list goes on.  Starches are better than sucrose, which is better than fructose.  You're looking for things with a high glycemic index.

I find that potatoes have the biggest impact on my blood sugar, followed by pasta with dairy-based sauce.  Glycemic index charts tend to agree.

Of course, there's always the nuclear option:

Pecan Pie

Posted on: September 07, 2008, 07:33:25 PMOf course, I could give you some of mine, if you want.  >

[Keira]

If you've got a good muscle mass initially, there is a good chance that if you continue your normal activity your weight will slowly drop as muscle mass goes down
and fat gets burned up by this muscle. Eventually, it should reach an equilibrium and your activity and T will sustain the muscle you have
and you're weight will either stay the same or start tipping up.

You off course can make it tip up now also but it will require more food than later when you're base metabolism will be lower.

I don't recommend eating fatty food (fast food or otherwise)
to gain weight, it will disrupt you're fat storage
metabolism and you may gain most of your weight in the middle, not a good thing.
If you want to gain weight slowly but in a better place, pile on the long digesting carbs (whole wheat bread for example).

Don't go overboard, 300 calories a day excess of what you eat now,
gives you 3.5 pounds gain per month. For a frame like yours, you probably
only need about 12 pounds of well distributed fat to look quite fine, so 4 months
should be enough.

Once you reach your weight, you can then cut back the intake. You can also get
the 300 calorie excess by cutting exercise, but It not as healthy.

[Annwyn]

By junk food I primarily meant, Dove Chocolate.  Other than that everything is natural and healthy.  And no, I'm not looking for sarcastic remarks of, "load my body up with transfats" and all that.  Yes I'm still on E, which is why I'm hoping putting on some fat would go to my hips instead of the waist.
I can't really be a couch potato because I'm just a busy person.  FUlltime college and running around a pharmacy 30 hours a week stop me from being that.
But it's just like I said, no matter how much I eat and no matter how much I deliberately load up with carbs and fats it just doesn't seem to work.
That and I'm even taking multivitamins a lot to make sure I'm getting the full nutrient base, since all I can afford to fit in my stomach in this mission are really fattening foods or foods high in protein to help my hair grow faster.

[Nero]

Well eventually E should make it easier to put on weight. Hon, I think your body is just still too strong. I mean you're a freaking athlete. prolly take a lot of time to lose all that muscle and fitness.

[tekla]

Outside of the belly or the head, its hard to put fat on to just one location and one location only.

[Annwyn]

Well eventually E should make it easier to put on weight. Hon, I think your body is just still too strong. I mean you're a freaking athlete. prolly take a lot of time to lose all that muscle and fitness.

My upper body has lost over half of it's musculature.
My legs are still insane muscular, and I'm sure I could qualifiy on any college track team in a zap, but I don't see how that would effect fat grown when I'm literally eating soooo much.

[Janet_Girl]

A friend of mine was required to put on weight for some health reason or other.  And she used the milk shake diet.  A milk shake three times a day, morning, noon and night.

She put on twenty pounds in two months and she now hate milk shakes. 

Janet

[Annwyn]

A friend of mine was required to put on weight for some health reason or other.  And she used the milk shake diet.  A milk shake three times a day, morning, noon and night.

She put on twenty pounds in two months and she now hate milk shakes. 

Janet

Mind finding out what kind of milk shakes?  there's a lot you can buy, or you can make them at home, or you can get them at Sonic lol.

[Lachlann]

That sounds familiar, Janet.

When I lost a lot of weight, the doctor told me to get those breakfast milkshakes and drink them. I did end up getting sick of them for a while... but I'd imagine it might help. It didn't do much for me, but it was because my weight loss was depression related.

[Annwyn]

That sounds familiar, Janet.

When I lost a lot of weight, the doctor told me to get those breakfast milkshakes and drink them. I did end up getting sick of them for a while... but I'd imagine it might help. It didn't do much for me, but it was because my weight loss was depression related.

Well I guess I'll start chugging those glucose energy drinks or whatever they're called.  I'll report back.  I'm hoping this exploit results in fat on the hips predominantly, if it all goes to the waste then I'm stopping it, just like that.