does anyone know how a skinny guy can gain weight
 

i have had a fast metabolism sense i was a kid and have always had a hard time gaining weight. does anyone know the best way and fastest way to gain weight when you have a fast metabolizm

Continue to eat healthy food, but more dense in calories. Muscle is healthier, heavier, and looks nicer than fat. Working out increases appetite too.

No matter how fast metabolism you have, if you intake more calories than you spend then you'll gain wait.

I wish I was like you.I've spent my whole life trying to stay slim.The only way I know how to gain weight is to eat more.

Eat more quality food plus lift weights several times per week.

When I was younger I had a very fast metabolism too and had the same problem

Then I became a competitive power-lifter and had to eat at least 30 calories per pound of body weight to gain weight.

And of those 30 calories per pound of body weight.....I needed about 1 gram of protein per pound of body weight...

1 gram of protein is 4 calories.
1 gram of carbs is 4 calories.
1 gram of fat is 9 calories.

So lets say you weight 150 lbs and are lifting heavy in the gym to build muscle....that's 150 X 30.....you'll at least 4,500 calories per day with
at least 150 grams of protein @ 4 calories per gram......that's 600 calories or more from protein........about 15 to 20% calories from protein......the rest healthy carbs and healthy fats.

This worked for me but of course you will have to experiment with it for yourself.

Gem has expertise in this also....I expect he'll chime in with good info too

Hi James. Lucky 1 nailed it and gaining weight happens when you eat more calories than you expend, but when gaining weight we need to specific that fat-free mass, or lean mass is gained, which means muscle mass. Lifting weights and having the appropriate diet is the way to do it.



This means you have consume more calories than you do currently, and those calories should come from nutrient dense food, as opposed to 'empty calories'.


Calories come from protein, carbs and fat. The first step is to get enough protein, which for muscle gain would be around 1g per pound of body-weight (considering you have a low body fat percentage). The rest of your calories have to come from carbs and fat, but it doesn't matter much if you eat high fat/low-carb or high-carb/low fat, as long as the total protein+carbs+fat has more calories than you burn.


If you eat the protein quota and consume 250-500 calories in excess of what you burn, and lift weights, you will gain weight and that gain will mainly be muscle mass.


In short, eat a lot and lift heavy things.

Gain weight
 

I'm the same way. I work out and eat like a bodybuilder.

This is what some if not many folks may not understand: the factors involved that come with being skinny or unable to gain weight. It is not just the tubby and fubsy who tend to suffer from body image issues, but in some cases the scrawny and gangling, as well.

I know of underweight chaps who complain of their clothes never fitting properly, of their having to wear belts and suspenders to keep their pants up. One fellow even joked with me that when he watches tv, he has to hang on to the recliner’s armrests for dear life lest he should slide off.

Me, I stand just over six feet and am considered by others to be thin. People sometimes tell me I ought to put on a few more pounds, but I don’t mind. I have no desire, whatsoever, to bulk up or to see to flabby underarms. I personally prefer the trim or the slim look. If anything, I would like to be more sinewy in the lean, athletic sense but I accept my body for what it is and consider this a part of healthy self-acceptance.

When I was a teenager, I was very self-conscious about my then skinny appearance. My chums at the time got into weight-lifting, in large part I think to impress the high-school girls. Whereas I was totally not interested in the putting on of muscle. I just wanted to fill out and no matter how much I ate – all the second portions and desserts – it did nothing to enlarge my arms and legs, or even tummy for that matter.

That was over twenty years ago. I have since grown into a solid and personally accepting thinness. No longer am I a string bean. The putting on of weight, eventually over time, came naturally.

Why now, at my age, would I ever want to put on more weight, now that I have gained what I consider to be a balanced and rather toned physique? It wouldn’t make any sense to me.

Women have told me that the sight of a man with too much muscle turns them right off. That squeezing a thewy bicep is overrated and short-lived. So long as the man, they tell me, isn’t slobbishly stout, that they could care less whether he looks like a (conceited?) body-builder.

In fact, some he-man types, upon reaching middle-age, often begin to shed the pounds and take up the slimming process. I’m not sure why this is done exactly, but it might be nothing more than their being sick and tired of looking at themselves in the mirror.

Eat fruit at regular intervals between meals, that's the only thing that worked for me. If I add sour cream or butter to my lunch and dinner, and then eat 3 dates every hour between those meals, my body would burn the fruit for fuel instead of the fatty meals. In other words, don't let your body burn away your big meals. Eat fruit at 90 minute intervals between meals. Berries are best, but grapes and pomegranates are also safe fruits to binge on. If 90 minutes is too spread out, switch to 60 but no more than 60. Make sense? Your body will be forced to store your oily lunches and dinners.

There is only one way, eat more calories than you burn = gain weight. There are several ways of doing it, such as frequent snacking as suggested in the previous post. Fruit is a good option as it is micronutrient dense, high in fiber and contains calories from carbohydrates. However, in terms of building lean mass, consuming excessive carbs would mean a low fat diet because you need quite a high protein diet (along with sufficient resistance exercise) for building lean mass.



I don't speak of lean mass for the sake of 'body building'. I speak of lean mass because you want your weight gain to be muscle rather than fat. This is important for posture, general function and injury prevention, and will become critically important later in life when age related muscle loss (sarcopenia) begins to take effect. I'm also thinking on a life-span timescale.

Fruits are high in sugar, hence unhealthy except in very moderate quantities. You'll get diabetes and all other kind of degenerative diseases. That's a very bad option.