What 10 foods would you eat to GAIN weight quickly?
I just found a little-used site called http://www.fitnesscontrarian.com which has some interesting articles on it. One of them is about weight loss.
The fitness coach is often asked by his clients why they just can't seem to lose weight. So now he asks them what 10 foods they would eat if they needed to gain weight quickly.
Chances are that they are your favourite foods and they're preventing you from losing or maintaining your weight. Its an interesting exercise.
What would you choose?
this is an evil wishlist of sorts HAHA
ice cream
cake
pie
pizza
mcdonalds
i hop waffles w/ toppings
bagels & bagel sandwiches
sugary cereals
donuts
chicken parmesean w/ lots of mozzarella and linguini!
cheese cake
lOTS of bready foods, heavy, dense, high calorie breads
Trail mix. Loads of fat and calories with the nuts, and plenty of carbs with the dried fruits, there's like 600 calories in a cup of the kind I make. But it's a good kind of fat, with plenty of fiber, and so that's what I'd choose.
Hey, if I'm gonna aim to gain weight why wouldn't I do it in a more healthy way? AND it wouldn't make me sick as a dog eating 3000 calories of it a day like cheesecake or pizza or ice cream would, wouldn't fill me up so much that I couldn't think of eating like pasta and breads would, so I could keep it up day after day after day until I'd gotten as big as I wanted.
Oh... is this one of those things where we aren't supposed to actually solve the problem, but instead we're supposed to learn some valuable lesson about ourselves? Too late for me, I'm an engineer, and the valuable lesson about myself is that we solve problems. 
Bagels with cream cheese
Pizza with EXTRA cheese
Peanut butter on just about everything
tons and tons of trail mix
nuts without counting out stupid ounces
Candy (peanut m&m's, reese's pieces, twix bars, snickers, peanut butter cups, sour patch kids, etc.)
Donuts
Block Cheeses with crackers
Cake
Cookies
Italian Dishes with lots of cheese in them (lasagna with garlic bread, cheese stuffed ravioli, etc.)
I'm sure there are others. Of course there would be more healthy ways to gain weight and I would definitely be in a sugar coma or "bound" up by all of that cheese...Lmao.
Yes jp5074139. Chances are the reason some of us aren't losing as much weight as we'd like is because we won't or can't stop eating the calorie-rich foods that sabotage our diet. Flirting with ice-cream, potato chips, doughnuts et al - all high carb, high fat foods. So is trail mix. Delicious, densely caloric and moreish. Mmmm.
Original Post by wiltshirelass:
Yes jp5074139. Chances are the reason some of us aren't losing as much weight as we'd like is because we won't or can't stop eating the calorie-rich foods that sabotage our diet. Flirting with ice-cream, potato chips, doughnuts et al - all high carb, high fat foods. So is trail mix. Delicious, densely caloric and moreish. Mmmm.
I apologize if I caused any offense. I'm challenged by the bad stuff just like everyone else, I've got pictures of myself at 95lbs heavier to prove it, and I didn't mean to imply any differently.
But given a problem I have to consider how best to solve it, and trail mix (high in calories and fat and carbs, but also high in fiber and protein) would answer the question "what would you eat to gain weight quickly". I have to assume I have some good reason I want to gain weight quickly, so I looked for something not just calorie dense but also nutrient dense.
And I could indeed gain weight on that a lot faster than if I tried it with ice cream and pizza, because I really like trail mix and could eat it all day, where just the thought of eating two whole pizzas or bowl after bowl of ice cream every day is hard to entertain. The first day it'd be great, the second not so much. We're all tempted by different things differently.
These foods aren't preventing anything but they're my top 10 finalist for what I eat on rare occasion b/c they'll make me gain weight lol...
Pizza
Bread
Pasta
Ice cream
Beer
potato chips
bacon egg and cheese sandwiches
As stated above.. peanut butter on anything
Cold cuts
Cheese
1. Nachos
2. Hot dogs
3. Potato chips/French fries
4. Macaroni and cheese
5. Pizza
6. Cheeseburgers
7. Bagels and cream cheese
8. Fried chicken
9. Egg rolls
10. Wine
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
I apologize if I caused any offense. I'm challenged by the bad stuff just like everyone else, I've got pictures of myself at 95lbs heavier to prove it, and I didn't mean to imply any differently.
No offence received here jp5074139, believe me.
We all have our demons. Mine is probably bread in all its forms. My special demon is hot buttered toast so I trained myself to eat bread without butter yonks ago (I use mayo or hummus if I must have something to glue a sandwich together). I can eat a baked potato without butter (to the astonishment of my friends). However after a trip to Tuscany a few years ago I discovered that good bread dipped in good olive oil with rock salt and coarse pepper is just as delicious as butter and you probably get to eat even more fat that way. Sigh.
Personally, if I have a binge, I reach for bread every time. I really can't be bothered to wait for a pizza to cook - I'm not in a delivery area.
Fanfare! Well done on the 95lb loss - that's stunning!
at the same time it should be kept in mind on that list is also probably some of your very favorites. when you deprive yourself of your very favorites for long periods of time it's likely you'll end up binging eventually so it'd be smart to allow yourself some of the foods on such a list.
1. 1 stick of butter with 3 slices of toast (1100 calories)
2. several cups of sugary juice or soda
3. chocolate bars
4. pasta with butter (instead of meat sauce)
5.donuts
6.cake
7.cookies
8.pina coladas
9.milkshakes
10. mcdonalds
1. chocolate
2. chocolate chip cookies
3. brownies
4. cheesecake
5. chocolate cake
6. pizza
7. popcorn
8. pancakes/waffles
9. whipped cream
10. banana bread
Bonbons and butter.
cheesecake
brownies
fudge
full fat loaded ice cream
lemon poppyseed muffins with honey butter
pizza
bagels with cinnamon sugar cream cheese, and a lot of it
fettucine alfredo with broccoli
steak fries with tons of ketchup
hot cheetos with nacho cheese sauce
I would go back to drinking fruit punch and non-diet soda. I suspect I probably used to drink a good 600+ calories/day in sugar when I was younger.
Bagels with cream cheese and jam
Toast with almond butter and honey
Tortilla chips with guacamole
Mashed potatoes made with milk, goat cheese, and roasted garlic
Schwartz's classic meal (smoked meat, rye bread, mustard, steak fries, ketchup, half-sour pickle, cherry soda)
Oatmeal with almond butter and strawberry jam
My father's cooking in general
French fries dipped in a milkshake
Fine cheeses with artisan bread and butter
Dried fruits and nuts
LOL! I would choose what I've been choosing: fruits and vegetables and grains in a HUGE amount! I'm a weight gainer (now trying to enter into mantainance) and I would want to gain on junk food. That food isn't my favourite food either. My addictions are rather fruit and things like bread and so :P I eat way too much fruit every day. I also love chocolate, cheesecake and ice cream, but I couldn't eat large amounts of it every day (well... maybe cheesecake yes lool!).
Greek Pizza - double cheese
French Fries
Yorkshire puddings
Chocolate - all types
Jelly beans
White Bread
Pasta
More french fries
More pizza
Bananas
alot of nuts and nut butter.
oatmeal+cooked in milk+1 oz of nuts or more. 2 fruits(banana+2-3 Tbsp of raisins? and 1 Tbsp or more of honey)
high cal dense fruits like dried fruits etc.
oil
chocolate
ice cream
cookies
full fat high cal dairys
higher cal starches like bagels or wraps or pita bread
protein bars or protein drinks or protein powder.
cheese
