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2500+ calories only: Weight Gainers-What Did YOU Eat Today? - January 7th until January 21st
RULES:
- Do not post here if you are not reaching 2500+ calories (3000+ for adult men). We strongly recommend 3000+ to gain.
- Teens must reach 3000 a day minimum
- REMEMBER TO EITHER POST THE CALORIE TALLIES OR THE PORTION SIZES!
- Also remember I do not support you using alcohol as a calorie substitute. So if you reach 2500+ with alcohol in your diet, eat a little more to make up for it.
- If you are struggling to reach the necessary amount (and everyone has at some point) then please post a separate thread w/ questions.
- Do not post links to your personal blog.
- No partial meal plans. Only post complete daily intakes.
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This thread is for those of you looking to actively gain weight for whatever reason.
Requirements- If you are a male you need to eat at least 3000 calories, females must eat 2500-this is so that your body can begin to now only gain weight, but also for your internal organs to begin to recover, this takes fuel/calories.
It is NOT suggested that you excercise while underweight. Excercsie is often an addicition seen with those with eating disorders. Try to stop cold turkey, IF you excercise, 2500/3000 is NOT enough. You are only harming yourself+prolonging the illness by excercising.
If you are struggling to reach the necessary amount, and we all did, then please post a seperate thread w/ questions. It is harmful for ppl to see posts that are under the food reuirement amount. There are suggestions on this forum regarding higher calorie+denser foods that should be incorporated to aid in reaching calorie goals.
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WOO HOO! I finished my first day of day-treatment and it was really intense! I was somewhat rejected by the group at first, but they slowly warmed up to me a little. I got me meal plan!!! It's in "exchanges" instead of calories, and it's actually been really cool to do it that way so far. :)
Today's Meal Plan:
B: 2x Instant Oatmeal, 1c Soymilk, 1TBS Chunky-PB, 1c Raspberries
S: Blueberry Nutrigrain Bar
L: 2c Turkey/Bean Chili, 2TBS Sour Cream, 2TBS Shredded Cheese, Corn-Bread
Dessert: LARGE Chocolate Chip Cookie, 1c Soymilk
S: 6 Triscuts, 1c Strawberries
D: Amy's Teryaki Tofu Veggie Bowl, 1c Almond Milk, 1 Orange
Dessert: 1c Vanilla Ice-cream, 1 Kashi Blackberry-Graham Cereal Bar
Total: ALL my exchanges! They said it was based on a meal plan 'about' 3000cal. That means that depending on my choices (lower or higher calorie exchanges) it can vary. :)
Ugh... Today I was feeling very ED-ish. For some reason, I just kept resorting to bulky, low-fat "safe" foods like apples and oatmeal and nonfat yogurt. BUT I still managed to get the calories in, and that's what's most important.
Tomorrow, I will make myself eat more calorie-dense foods, because my abdomen feels like it's going to explode. Why do I do this to myself? Right now, my figure resembles... a snowman. Big bloated belly with little stick arms attached. At least I'm not freezing cold like a snowman anymore. :p
Today:
Breakfast: 2 med. apples (140); 6 oz. nonfat yogurt (110); 1 packet 'OatFit' oatmeal (100); 1 c. hazelnut milk (110)
Snack: Clif 'PBJ Dipped' bar (230); 5 slices Tofurkey (100)
Lunch: 1 c. acorn squash soup (90); GIANT apple (100); salad made with 2 c. spinach (20), 1 c. cucumbers (16), 1 Tbs. wheat germ (25), 6 oz. diced tofu (120), and 1/2 c. chickpeas (143)
Snack: 1/4 c. (dry volume) oats (75) cooked with 1/2 c. mashed banana (100) and topped with 1 Tbs. wheat germ (25); 1 c. vanilla soymilk (110); 1 oz. 91% dark chocolate (140)
Dinner: Wrap made with 1 Tbs. pumpkin butter (35), 2.5 c. spinach (25), and 1/2 c. applesauce (50) in a large ww tortilla (210); 2 med. apples (140); 6 oz. nonfat yogurt (110)
Snack: 1/4 c. (dry volume) oat bran, cooked (60); 1 c. mashed pumpkin (100) topped with 1 Tbs. wheat germ (25)
Total: 2509
B- 2x instant oatmeal, peach yogurt, 3/4c berries
S-orange+coffee
S-1.5c choc milk(180cal/cup), 1/2c pumpkin seeds, 1/2c goldfish
L-2x rye bread(130cal each) with 30g cheddar cheese, large container(2.5c) raw veggies +1/2can salmon
S-banana
D- 2c bean chili+ added rd and yellow peppers +1.5c gr.beans + stiryfry steak strips, 10baby carrots
S-2x apple cinnamon cookies
B 'Bircher muesli' - 50g oats, 100g plain greek yoghurt, 80ml milk, 25g almonds (mixed and left overnight) - in the morning added 1 grated apple. (500)
S 1 banana, 1 peanut and oat Trek bar (350)
L 2 thick slices seeded bread with 100g roast chicken, 1 tbsp mayonnaise, 1 tbsp mixed seeds, arugula (rocket) and sliced onion and cucumber.
Carrot sticks
3 tbsp hummus
25g cashews (675)
S 4 crackers with 1.5 oz stilton cheese, sliced apple (350)
D Oven baked smoked haddock, large grilled sweet potato, steamed broccoli and carrots with 2 tsp butter, ketchup to dip (500)
S 2 slices thick seeded toast with 1 tbsp almond and 1 tbsp peanut butter, 2 tsp strawberry fruit spread (450)
muchlinkski- GREAT JOB! I wonder why they didn't accept you at first? Most of the places I've been the girls/boys have been sooo kind and supportive from the beginning. but Im glad they warmed up :). And WOW?! you get amys meals at your program, im so jealous ;)!
adriene- Good job getting the cals in despite the low cal picks. That is very hard to do, I know I used to always fill up in low cal food and then say "oh theres no way I can make my cals" because I would just feel SO full. But then when I started haing more cal dense food I just felt so much better. I was comfortably full and not feeling like I would explode lol.
mashed- May I ask what is stilton? I saw it on your meal the other day and had no clue. Is it some kind of meat or tofu?
Got my braces off yesterday :D. I LOVE IT, I feel like I have so much more room in my mouth lol. My teeth were really hurting yesterday, so I stuck to very boring foods. Hopefully today they will be better.
B: 2 Egg sandwiches (ezek english muffin, 2eggs, feta, salsa, spinach, onions, hot sauce), steamed broccoli, 1c orange juice, 3/4c kashi honey sunshine with 1/2c soymilk, coffee with almond milk and whipp (1000)
S:(stopped at starbucks:) Grande cinnamon dolce latte with soy, chocolate covered expresso beans, and one of these weird pure fruit squeezes (500)
L:(after they got off) 1c oatmeal, 2tbsp almond butter, 6 dates(cooked in, they get all warm and soft, amazing!), 2tbsp flax, 2tbsp honey, 1 chopped banana, 1c soymilk (1000)
D: Lots of chicken noodle soup, 16 kashi crackers crumbled in the soups, and a shake (1c soymilk, flax, banana, 2tbsp cashew butter) (1000)
S: 2 deuce de louche (sp?) puddings, 1c pumpkin, 2tbsp honey all mixed together (this was sooo satisfying), and 1c orange juice (500)
carrotcakelove - Stilton is very strong blue cheese - it's absolutely delicious (in my opinion) - I might have stolen the block of it from home before I went back to uni, still waiting for a text from my parents saying 'GIVE BACK OUR CHEESE!' ;)
Original Post by carrotcakelove:
muchlinkski- GREAT JOB! I wonder why they didn't accept you at first? Most of the places I've been the girls/boys have been sooo kind and supportive from the beginning. but Im glad they warmed up :). And WOW?! you get amys meals at your program, im so jealous ;)!
gosh this reminded me of when I went to IP the first time - I walked in and was greeted by the filthiest looks - in hindsight it was because I was so thin - it was anorexic competition. I found myself doing the same thing whenever 'new girls' arrived - shameful as it is to admit it now. The freeze off never lasted long though - we were all good friends within days :)
So excited to be able to post here! Feel free to point out if you think I've not gotten enough, as I'm on exchanges, but I do believe I've FINALLY gotten to my required intake.
B: 1 1/2 cereal, 1 cup milk, 1 oz. almonds, 1/4 cup dried fruit
S: Larabar, sheet of graham cracker w/ peanut butter
L: Amy's organic black bean burrito, 1 cup berries, 1 cup milk
S: 6 oz. 2% greek yogurt w/ jam and berries, clementine
D: Grilled cheese sandwich w/ 2 cups mixed veggies, 1 cup milk
S: 1 cup frozen yogurt
mashed_tatties I saw a bunch of police reports on the news today,
headline was:
WANTED: CHEESE AT LARGE: We are looking for a block of Stilton , suspect is being treated as armed and cheesy. Any news please contact us asap.
kt_ohno congrats on making your cals!!
Carrot_cake just think of all the even moreeee yummy eats you can have without the braces! Yippee! Muchlinski, glad you managed to settle in, thinking of you and sending best wishes across the pond!!
Struggling so much with ED head causing me to swap food choices but chugging on:
B: Krave cereal with greek yoghurt, whole meal wrap, melon
S: 115g Brussels quorn pate with carrots, cassava crisps and pineapple
L: 50g granola and 100ml milk, mixed in raisins and sugar puff bar, melon 200g
s: Apple slices, O bar pomegrante flavour, [55g] 1 hard boiled sweet
Goin to have
D: Pasta with cheese and tuna, vanilla yoghurt and oatcake
S Aero ice cream Bigggggggggg pot full yum yummy yum
Have a good evening everyone!
Snack: an apple
Lunch: two big slices of bread (125 cal each) with 40g hummus, four slices of quorn ham and spinach, pack of mini cookies, a satsuma
Snack: slice of strawberry and champagne cake, glass of innocent smoothie
Dinner: 1/2 pack of spinach and ricotta filled pasta with 30g of pesto and 2tb Parmesan
Pudding: apple rice pudding with a large cut up apple in it
Snack: small pot of yep valley full fat rhubarb yoghurt and two brownie mini bites
Can anyone inspire me with nice vegetarian sandwich and bagel fillings that are portable to take to school? I get stuck for ideas (I hate Mayo btw)
onesunnyday: I'm veggie and hate mayo too and I have things like cream cheese and roasted vegetables, mashed falafels and vegetables (these are both my fav!), quorn pate, grilled tofu and veg..you could try mozzarella/feta with salad, a flavoured hummus, sour cream and chive and cucumber, pesto and veg is YUM
hope they give you a few ideas..
onesunnyday for veggie portable sandwich fillings, my fave is falafel and hummus - it is an amazing combination and I mean AMAZING as in omg how have I gone all my life without this!!? Evwn nicer in a wrap though with some tomatos or cucumber as well. PB and apple, cream cheese and tomato slices or avocado, tomato and mashed chickpeas are some others.
B: 1/2 a cup of oats made with milk, one tbs of PB and a chopped apple
S: an apple
L: M&S chicken sweetcorn sandwich and parsnip crisps, large FF cappucino
S: massive frozen yogurt with chocolate buttons (yoomoo in the uk - anyone heard of this? It is new apparently and they do chocolate fro yo and strawb and natural...holy cow its good! Now im obv. not gonna be eating this instead of icecream all the time (£3.80 for a tub hello!!?) but its good to know there are just as tasty alternatives for our ice cream cravings once we are done gaining and all ;)
D: A whole avocado sliced on top of a salmon fillet, tin of sweetcorn in tomato herb sauce and a slice of bread and 'real' butter
S: A big chewy granola bar crumbled as cereal with milk in a bowl
Mapledreams; where is yoomoo? I've never heard of it before. And good sandwich choice :-)
Today was full of commuting, working, fear foods, therapy, late tubes, long queues, mad dashes and some tears at the end. I am so tired, and not looking forward to the amount of work I have to do tomorrow (& haven't finished today); I'm a theoretical physicist, why must I do labs?!! Fingers crossed...
Breakfast; 2% Greek Yoghurt with Honey*, Peach Actimel^, T
Snack: BUTTERED* Malt Loaf*, Clementine Juice^
Lunch; Pasta and Honey Mustard Chicken with a Honey and Wholegrain Mustard Mayonnaise Dressing*, Banana^,T
Snack; FF Cappuccino, Fruit Salad
Dinner (grabbed in 30secs before boarding train, not what I would get normally, Really good though!); Roast Summer Vegetable (courgette, aubergine, peppers...) and Hummus WW Sandwich
Dessert (10pm, at final station); Chocolate Mousse Pot with Muffin Chunks, Chocolate Custard and Chocolate grated on top*[!]{cannot even compute I had this, Wow me. Not brilliant, but still, I chose and ate it!!!!}
Pre-Bed Snack-&-a-half-ett; 375ml Chocolate Milk****** Crumpet^ with unmeasured Marmalade
I'm too tired for ED to even feel guilty. Oh, and can I add, Chocolate Milk is AWESOME.
Original Post by onesunnyday:
Can anyone inspire me with nice vegetarian sandwich and bagel fillings that are portable to take to school? I get stuck for ideas (I hate Mayo btw)
I'm a veggie too, and I love making creative sandwiches! And I also hate mayo! It stems back to getting food poisoning from eggs as a child...
Anyway, some of my favorite sandwiches are:
- Nutbutter or sunbutter, chopped walnuts, coconut flakes, and craisins on Ezekiel raisin bread (had this for lunch today)
- Mashed up tofu mixed with nut butter and/or chopped nuts and mashed avocado in a wrap or between two slices of ww bread
- Nutbutter or sunbutter, golden raisins, and sliced banana between two slices of ww bread
- Hummus, sliced avocado, and wheat germ between two slices of ww bread or on a toasted English muffin
- Wheat germ, golden raisins, mashed avocado, pumpkin butter, and chopped walnuts wrapped up in a tortilla
- Tofurkey sandwich with cucumber, lettuce, and tomatoes on ww bread OR, tofurkey and peanut butter (if you want it more caloric)
- Do you have a microwave to heat your food up? If so, a garden burger and peanut butter on a toasted English muffin tastes good.
- Do you have pumpkin butter where you live? If PB&J gets boring, you might try PB&pumpkin butter sandwiches.
Carrotcakelove: Woo-hoo for getting the braces off! :D I know that braces are no fun. Now you get the joy of learning to talk with a retainer. :p
I'll post my eats later today...
So my dieticians decided today that my meal plan exchanges should be mostly concentrated early in the day so I get better sleep and to help with digestion. They're WRONG!!! I got so sick today early-on because of the 'shift' in eating times. I usually eat most of my food for dinner and night-snack, but over half of my calories came from breakfast, A.M. snack, and lunch. Ugh, my belly wasn't too happy with that.
Today's Eats:
B: Egg Sandwich (English Muffin, Egg, American Cheese), 1c Strawberries+Melon, 1c Soymilk
S: S'mores Luna Bar, Butterscotch Pudding (I'd never had that, it was good!)
L: Turkey/Mayo/Cheese/Veggie Wrap, 1oz Cheddar Sour-Cream Chips, 1c Soymilk, HUGE Snickerdoodle Cookie
S: Honey Nut Cheerios "Milk n' Cereal" Bar
D: 1c Steamed Veggies, 1TBS Olive-Oil, 3oz Chicken Breast, 1c Berry Boost Smoothie
S: 1c Strawberry-Cheesecake Ice-Cream, 1 Kashi Blackberry-Graham Cereal Bar
Total: Well, I'm really full and I met all my exchanges. :)
I thought I hated mayo, but then I tried this kind thats like chipotle flavored or something, it tastes really good actually!
perhaps you could try avocado?
todaaay, had a rough afternoon, I got held up at wal-mart trying to get photos printed, supposedly instant, but they took a WHOLE FRIKEN HOUR!!! I was seriously thinking about stealing some food I needed to eat so badly, but my morals won and I waited, but seriously, there is a big difference between instant and an hour.
b- 1/2 c. oatmeal, 1 c. milk, 1/4 c. sliced almonds, 1 tbs brown sugar (550)
s- 6 oz strawberry yogurt (150), X2 Pb granola bars (200),
l- ham on ritz crackers (300), apple w/PB yogurt dip (200), baby carrots (50)
s(really late snack thanks to wal-mart)- slice of milk&honey bread(eaten dry while I figured out what I really wanted to eat)(100), 2 slice WW toast w/ 1/2 c. cottage cheese, 1/2 c. berries (350),
d- leftover fish goulash & brown rice (400), huge ice cream cone (500)
s- orange (100), 2 c. almond milk (150), 1/2 glazed donut (serious fear) (100)
im' not vegetarian but i love slices of cheddar cheese with mustard on a sandwich.
biggerpicture: YES! another choc. milk fan! I love it, could drink a litre a day!
Today, was so pissed off at ED for letting my body get like this that I didn't even care what i ate or that i wasn't hungry when i ate.
B-2x instant oatmeal packs, 1.5tb pb, .75c blue/blackberries, 1c oasis yellow juice, 3/4c pineapple
S-coffee, 1/2c pumpkin seeds, 1c grapes
L-2xrybe bread with swiss cheese, 1/2c hummus with 2,5c raw veggies ontop spinach, 2x nature valley pb granola bar
S-1.5c milk+choc. myoplex, banana, bunch of goldfish
D-chicken breast, 1.5c sweet potato+1c grbeans, +cut up red pepper +italian dressing + 8baby carrots, 1.5c vanilla soy milk
pre bed snack-2x apple cinnamon cookies, lots of goldfish crackers, aero choc. bar, 1c vanilla soy milk
If this doesn't help me gain i'm going to start blending eveything into smoothies.. yes, even hamburgers and pasta. lol, jk...i would miss my 'crunchiness'.
Today:
Breakfast: Breakfast sandwich made with 3 slices of Tofurkey (60) and 1 Tbs. pumpkin butter (35) on a toasted ww English muffin (120); 1/2 c. mashed pumpkin mixed with 1/2 c. applesauce (100); 0.75 c. hazelnut milk (83); 1 packet 'OatFit' oatmeal (100)
Snack: 1 med. apple (70); 1/2 c. 'Larry & Lunas' Coconut milk ice cream :) (210) topped with 1 Tbs. wheat germ (25)
Lunch: Yummy sandwich made with 1 Tbs. each of sunbutter (100), craisins (24), chopped walnuts (50), and coconut flakes (35) on two slices of Ezekiel raisin bread (160); 1 med. apple (70)
Snack: 6 oz. nonfat blueberry yogurt (110); 1 med. apple (70); Clif 'C' bar (130); salad made with 2 c. spinach (20), 1 Tbs. wheat germ (25), 1/2 c. black beans (100), and 1/2 c. cherry tomatoes (16)
Dinner: 1 c. pumpkin-hazelnut milk soup (105); Fruit & nut 'Kind' bar (180); sandwich made with 1 Tbs. hummus (25) and 1 Tbs. pumpkin butter (35) on two slices of Ezekiel bread (160) (weirdly yummy combination... but then, I'll eat pumpkin with anything)
Snack: 1 med. apple (70); 3 Tbs. (dry volume) oat bran, cooked (45); 11 oz. coconut water (60) (looked interesting, but I didn't much like the taste); 1 oz. Theo 'Bread & Chocolate' 70% dark chocolate bar (130) :)
Total: 2523
Woo-hoo, lots of coconut! I was going to try Nutella (fear food), but the grocery store was out of it! :( But tomorrow, I plan to conquer another fear food, honey, and eat a childhood comfort food for lunch: PB-honey-banana sandwich.
breakfast - 2 cups cherry vanilla granola, fage 2%, large sliced banana, dried bing cherries all mixed together with 2tbsp coconut butter on top! 1050
lunch - asiago cheese bagel & a cup of tomato basil bisque, salad of romaine, spinach & butter lettuce w/black olives, baby bella mushrooms, shredded carrot, artichokes, kidney beans & snap peas & 1.5 tbsp goddess dressing! a honeycrisp apple on the side, too. 950
snack - banana w/2tbsp almond butter w/flax & 8 squares of ritter marizpan dark chocolate! a bit later i had a glass of carrot mango juice & brown rice crackers w/3 bean hummus 900
dinner - huge buttermilk belgian waffle w/powdered sugar & real butter! side of fruit salad (cherries, strawberries, sliced peach, banana) and a vanilla greek yogurt! also had a glass of vanilla coconut milk! 1150 greatest dinner ever! breakfast for dinner = favourite!
night snack - cinnamon bun ben & jerrys & skim milk! i always have to drink milk with ice cream? lol 500
4500+ im trying to go for more low volume foods, liquid calories, etc --at this amount though i'm bound to be pretty full though -- any ideas?
WOW every ones eats look delicious!! Had a good day today after two bad days of not making 3000 and even had a cadbury dairy milk bubbly bar sooooo yummy especially since eating chocolate has been a fear!
Clairedeterre: OMG your breakfast for dinner sounds SOOOOO YUM!
Adrienne: Honey and peanut butter sandwiches use to be one of my childhood comfort foods to!
B- 2x toast with raspberry jam (250), milky coffee (80) & 1 cup of milo cereal with milk (250)
S- Apple (80), yoghurt (108) and choc nut and fruit bar (165)
L- two pieces of grainy toast with greenseas sweet chilli tuna on top (345)
S- Banana Up & Go (191), 4 sesame ryvita crackers (154), one packet of bassets jelly babies (140) and a Carmens Muslei Bar (193)
D- 3x chicken tenders on pita pocket w/ tomato relish and lots of vege's (650)
S- 400mls of milk (178) and Cadbury Bubbly Dairy milk bar (215)
T- 3004
