How do i gain weight? ?

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The thing is i am very athletic and energetic but i cant gain weight because I'm becoming a vegetarian.

Answer 1

For a teenage male, it is very hard to gain weight. Like my cousins boyfriend is so skinny, but he needs about 4500 calories a day just to maintain his weight. I suggest eating a lot of protein and and carbohydrates. if you are not vegan eat a couple of eggs for breakfast with cheese and for lunch mayabe have a big burger and for dinner eat like half a pound of pasta. And I do suggest drinking BOOST or ENSURE it is a high calorie drink that you can find in any drug store. After my mom's radiation therapy she lost a lot of weight like 20 pounds and she wasn't even overweight to begin with, but she gained it back in like 3 months.

Answer 2

Eat **** like chocolate and cake.

Answer 3

It is often said that you cannot be a successful bodybuilder and vegetarian. Well, I know lots of folk who build great physiques on a vegetarian diet, it just takes a little more consideration, especially in regard to protein quality. Now, here I am talking about proper vegetarians, i.e. lacto-ovo vegetarians, not those folk who eat tuna and still claim to eat a vegetarian diet!

Generally, vegetable proteins are of poorer quality than animal proteins. Milk and egg proteins can be eaten, so you may still take advantage of HBV proteins. The key to obtaining good protein quality lies in combining different protein sources.

True vegans will avoid all products of animal origin, so an adequate bodybuilding diet is really difficult. For a vegan bodybuilder, a strict regimen will need to be followed, especially to ensure that a varied diet is still consumed. Remember also that many quality supplements are derived from animal products, for example creatine, whey protein and meal replacement powders (MRPs), so you will have to avoid these. If you are in doubt about any product, check with the manufacturer. As there are so many exclusions in the vegan diet, I strongly feel that isolated soya protein is an absolute must for the vegan bodybuilder.

Other great protein sources which vegetarians and vegans can enjoy are mixed beans, baked beans, hummus, tofu, quorn, textured vegetable protein (TVP), soya, coconut, oat and rice milk, and many more. Often these products do have a reasonable carbohydrate content too, useful for gaining weight, and are low in fat. Vegans would be wise to include seaweed or a vitamin B12 supplement daily, as without animal products their diets may be insufficient in vitamin B12.

Answer 4

Eat protein shakes every morning.  Adding protein powder (You can find this at most grocery stores) will make you gain weight, but in a healthy way. (Muscle) Chocolate will just make you fat. :D  Kellogs K2O protein water will also help you gain weight in a healthy way!

Answer 5

You can gain weight becoming vegetarian. Simply consume more calories than you burn. Lets assume you burn around 3000 calories a day. Eat 3500 to 4000 and you will gain about 1-2 pounds a week. its that simple. If you can't eat that much, try weight gainer 1000 calorie shakes that you can buy at health food stores.  

Answer 6

Protein shakes are the easiest way to gain weight (short of eating "junk food"), but a lot of the good ones have whey protein in them, a by-product of cheese making.   So, how are you defining vegetarian in your particular case?  Do you mean that you're just not going to eat meat, or that you're truly not going to eat any product that directly or indirectly comes from an animal or animal by-product?

The only way to gain weight (other than increasing your muscle mass, which you're probably already doing if you indeed are athletic) is to consume more calories than your body can use daily.  Examples of healthy fats which are not animal sources would be flax and walnuts. Nuts are also good sources of protein, as are seeds and legumes.  Fruit juices are laden with calories, and are healthier for you than soda.

Try using a free online program (example is Calorie Count Plus) to monitor your caloric intake, your exercise and your weight. Calorie Count Plus provides nutrition information for a wide variety of foods.

If you truly stick to your plan to become a vegetarian, I admire you.  I've tried to limit my intake of animal foods and by-products, and have virtually eliminated my consumption of meat.   However, I don't have the willpower to totally eliminate those types of food from my diet.

  

Answer 7

Heat a lot of protein foods, and drink a lot of high calorie energy drinks. You do not have to eat meat just to gain weight. Beans, are a good protein for you,

Answer 8

lucky you to have this problem when so many people have the opposite! haha, but obviously you want to gain weight in a healthy way and still look good. the best way would be to eat more than you burn and do some type of muscle building exercise because muscle weighs more than fat! thus equaling...weight gain!

Answer 9

eat peanut butter with everything...

toast, apples, waffles, ect