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Original Post by wistfulxthinking:

The only thing I can think of it either your losing muscle mass, your scale is broken, or you're having the oddest, most drawn out episode of overall water retention.. which usually.. doesn't happen.

I'd have to go with the losing muscle mass. Muscle is heavier then fat.

Age: 17

Height:6'1

CW: 135

GW: 175

Well unlike most people I'm looking to gain weight. Anybody looking to do the same is welcome to be a friend. :)

Original Post by keeweeliz:

Hey I'm new to this too, to reach my goal of gaining 4 kilos in a month and half I apparently have to eat around 4000 calories. This is a lot for me, today I managed 3,500 calories.

You eat that many calories then the theory goes that yes you will gain weight. You could try weightlifting as well -it will build muscle which weighs more than fat, but you probably already know all that. Every one is different the only real way to know if something will work for you is to just give it ago.

Also, 1500 calories for breakfast is impressive! What did you eat?!

Misundastood, I sometimes get what you describe after I go to sleep after eating something that is difficult to digest (I also have other unrelated digestive problems as well though) anything too greasy and too sugary (like ice cream) just seems to sit in my stomach overnight if I go to bed too soon after eating. If I get hungry at night -I always do, I just have a couple of pieces of toast and a glass of milk, it seems to be easier to digest. Maybe you could try to get the bulk of you calorie intake earlier in the day and stick to light and easy to digest foods at night?

Yeah I plan to just do three 30 minute workouts a week, free weights mostly. I hope that will be enough to make me gain more muscle then fat, but I'm not sure.

As for breakfast, I ate a bagel with both halves smothered in PB, 2 cartons of high cal yogurt, about 16 dried apricots, a banana with PB and orange juice. It totals to 1500 when I added it all up. :)

I really can't eat much at one time, and I found that not drinking until the end of the meal really helps.