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Weight GAINERS- what did YOU eat today? August 19 to September 2nd

I am taking the liberty of starting a new thread.  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 ontop regarding higher calorie+denser foods that should be incorporated to aid in reaching calorie goals.

A new thread will be started every two weeks, anyone can start the thread when the time comes.  Please start the thread by copying the initial post or two.

(copied from previous thread)-I am copying the many times copied thread, "What did you eat today?" in hopes of helping some of those who are just starting to gain and have no clue what to eat. I know that when I began weight recovery, I was eating tons of low-cal foods just because that's what I was used to. I learned the hard way that dense foods are essential to weight gain when you have high caloric requirements (at one point I needed 4500 cal to maintain my weight on BEDREST). Perhaps newbies can get some ideas if we post our weight gain meal plans! Even if you're not gaining anymore, grab an old one and post it!:]
Please note that every body is different and some will need more or less calories than others to gain. This thread is just so that you can get an idea of what you need.
Oh, and yes, I'm breaking the "no calories, no portions" rule, since it is pretty helpful in this case. If you want to post cals/portions you can. I just ask that you don't post if you're not eating enough, though as this is a weight gain thread, I would hope none of you are undereating.;]
I'll start....
Breakfast (875 cal)*

• 1/2 cup oatmeal (150) cooked with
• 1 cup evaporated whole milk (300)
• 1 mashed banana (100)
• 2 tbsp peanut butter (200)
• 1 tbsp ground flaxseed and cinnamon to taste (50) 
• 1 hard-boiled egg (75 cal)

Morning Snack (300 cal)*

• 1/4 cup mixed nuts (200)
• 1/4 cup dried apricots (100)

Lunch (660 cal)*

• 1/4 cup rice cooked in 1 cup chicken stock (300) and
• 1/2 cup canned or cooked chickpeas (145) and
• 1/3 cup shredded cheese (150) and
• 1/4 cup each onion, peppers, and tomato (30) cooked with
• 1 tbsp olive oil and curry powder to taste (120)

Afternoon snack (390 cal)*

• 1 serving baby carrots (35)
• 1/4 cup hummus (155)
• 1/4 cup mixed nuts (200)

Dinner (875 cal)*

• 1 cup of my insane Mac & Cheese recipe (515)
• 2 cups tossed salad (45)
• 2 tbsp rasins (60)
• 2 tbsp sunflower seeds (105)
• 2 tbsp dressing (150)

Evening snack (480)*

• 1 cup plain whole milk yogurt (180)
• 1/2 cup homemade granola (300)

About 3600 calories :]

ahh awesome yeah flaxseed oil's a great idea. I didn't know you could have it in smoothies. will look that up along with coconut milk smoothies. lol actually now you mentioned PB I am so tempted to try and make PB flavoured milk. well, when I get home and have a blender anyway (am on holiday atm)

thanks for the ideas :)

PB is a deff for smoothies, w/ milk+chocolate syrup, u could add ice cream as well.

best of luck!

^perhaps almond milk? Never tried it but I hear it's good.

Breakfast

1/3 cup of raw porridge with milk, honey & 2tsp LSA

Morning Tea

1 choc chip muesli bar

Lunch

Wholemeal long roll with chicken, avocado and salad

Afternoon Tea

Large bowl of fruit salad and yoghurt and pumpkin seeds

Dinner

2 thick pieces of grain toast with margarine

2 scrambled eggs with spinach, ham, tomato

Supper

1 white chocolate lindt ball

August 19th:

Breakfast - 1/2c oatmeal cooked with 1/2 a banana and topped with raisins & cinnamon, 1/2c chocolate soy milk

Snack - (was a mix of things, kind of like a trail mix) - Annie's honey bunny grahams, raisins, banana chips and almonds

Lunch - Ezekiel tortilla with left-over honey garlic chicken breast, spinach, tomato, onions, etc., orange slices, 1/2c mango-orange juice

Snack - Oatmeal Raisin Walnut Clif bar (yum-o!)

Dinner - Meatpie, roasted potatoes, corn

Dessert - Chocolate soya pudding

Snack (will be) - A banana smoothie.. maybe chocolate banana

I have felt really good today. I woke up with a brand new positive attitude (yesterday was a bit tough for me). I also managed to eat some yummy meals aswell. I really enjoyed my breakfast, lunch and afternoon snack. I hope that tomorrow will go just as well as today did!

Petite- congrats on the new attitude, keep it up!  maybe write down in a journal how ur feeling, some motivation for another time maybe!

do u know what ur total calories r?  thats great that u enjoyed ur food today, it is OK to like food, i know thats something that i forget while suffering from anorexia.

B: Bagel w/PB+J, yogurt, hard boiled egg, apple, trail mix~700

S: cereal w/ milk+trail mix~350

L: 2 slices WW, 2 slices of cheese, avocado, fage 2%, plum, Ruffles potato chips, carrots~700

S: PB+J, a peach~250

D: veg salad w/ almond butter+trail mix, fish sticks, corn on the cob~450

S: PB+J, apple, yogurt~430

Total-2880

Breakfast - Blueberry pancakes with almond butter, an egg white omlette, and fresh strawberries.

Snack - A pink lady apple with peanut butter, cottage cheese mixed with plain yogurt, and some pita bread.

Lunch - Southwestern chicken sauteed in olive oil, refried black beans, peas, green beans, corn chips with salsa, and a bell pepper.

Snack - A Lemon Bar Lara Bar, a slice of Ezekiel bread, and a Siggi's plain Icelandic yogurt. Very similar to Greek!

Dinner - Chicken parmesean (chicken breaded with WHOLE egg, seasoned breadcrumbs and cheese, then cooked with olive oil and topped off with more parmesean) served over whole wheat pasta with tomato-basil sauce; and I had some green beans, peas, kidney beans, and a bell pepper.

Snack (will be) - Plain yogurt mixed with cottage cheese and flaxseeds, a small banana, and some almonds.

Gotta go pack lunch for tomorrow! It's my second day of school and I will have a lot to do! I already had to write a two-page creative writing entry in a single day.

Breakfast: Raisin bran, hemp seed granola and blueberries in milk; a kiwi; a banana with PB

Lunch: Large wheat wrap with chipotle chicken breast, salsa, ranch, cheddar and veg;  A clif Builder's bar.

Snacks: Nature Valley PB crunchy bar; Trail mix; triscuits with red pepper hummus

Dinner: Same as lunch... yes, I felt creative today 

Snacks: Peanut butter Ben & Jerry's; tostitos with salsa; PB and crackers

Great menus everyone!  i see many of you are quite young, do you prepare your own meals, parents, school meals?

also, could you please post portions and/or calories, it is hard to estimate.  it will also keep you accountable that you are in fact meeting your calorie goals.

Just a note to say this thread will only be active until September 2nd and we will start a new thread then. Agruskin, can you add the dates August 19 to September 2nd to the thread title? Thxx.

Sure altho still wondering how moderation, if any, will be done to ensure that this thread does not become a place for starvation diets and promotion.

I or another mod will read every post, does it need anymore moderation than that? Also, if there is a violation PM me or hit the "report violation" button and I will review it.

got it, saw ur previous post, thanks so much for your great work, it is greatly appreciated i know!

• [B]

• Oatmeal
• Peanut butter
• Sliced almonds
• Banana
• Milk

[S]

• English Muffin
• Egg
• Slice of Cheese

[L]

• A whole bunch of spaghetti !!!

[S]

• Banana Smoothie

[D]

• Lemon Flavored Chicken Breast
• Boca Burger
• Rice
• Trop 50 Juice
• Broccoli

[S]

• lol ended up having a hotdog.

Breakfast- greek yogurt, baby carrots, 2 egg whites, toast

Snack- pear freeze dried fruit crisps, apricot

snack 2- nature valley granola bar, pria bar

Lunch- vanilla pudding with cup of kix. 2 kashi chocolate cookies. One chocolate pepperpridge farm cookie

snack-vanilla pudding with half cup of cheerios

Dinner- 2 yoplait yogurt, 2 cups of cheerios, one whole loaf of ciabetta bread

snack- 2 kudos bars, apple crisps

Meal after dinner- big plate of garbanzo beans, rice, corn, mushrooms, veggie "sausage" and "beef".

Snack- bag of sunchips

i want the old thread.... anyway

meal plan upped yet again, ugh slow down metabolism! Today:

Breakfast - usual berries, 1 cup of muesli with a tub of vanilla yoghurt. glass of juice

Morning Snack - Carmen's muesli bar, banana

Lunch - Rye sandwich with roast chicken cheese and lettuce, bowl of strawberries, big anzac biscuit

Afternoon Snack - 8 crackers with cream cheese, glass of juice, ensure

Dinner - tonight will either be a chicken rice stirfry or baked beans and egg on toast:)

After dinner - gotta fit in 2 ensure and an icecream bar. i stay up late so it'll be pretty easy

Just booked my flights to for a small holiday the other day to Darwin (you probably never heard of it lol) to visit family....wonder how ill go over there where i may be put out of my comfort zone?? we shall see! totally going to the flo rida concert while over there haha random. i dont go till sept anyway so gots time to prepare myself:)

Hey guys, feeling pretty bad today,just after lunch, but ill podt yesterday and todays so far. Sorry I canpost calories, cause Im on hols at moment.

Yesterday

B:2 spoons of museli, but it was rank!, so got 2 mini brown croissants, bowl of fruit, jam, olive oil, figs and soya milk, glass of oj

S; Milky fruit smoothie

L: 2 vegetable potato cakes with salad and seeds and dressing

S: 2 callipos and handful of seeds

S: kiwi

D¨Whole avocado, filled with marie rose sauce adn bacon strips,small brown seed roll, fied tomatoes wfilled with parmesan adn handful of chopped walnuts with lotsa evoo

D: 1 chuppachup, small bowl of coffee and walnut mousse, tea

Today:

Bowl of soya milk, evoo, honey, 2tbsp linwoods flaxseed mix, and papaya, glass of oj, 2 mini brown croissants with evoo and jam, tea with honey

Soya choco milkshake

1 piece of rye bread, 2/3 avocado, loads of evoo, half a tomato, 2 tbsp parmesan cheese, taste of sardines (neg)

Its after this that I feel terrible becuse I dunno if ive had enough. I didnt go to lunch with my family because they go to same place every day and the food there is uber low in cals, I decided to buy some stuff in shops and make stuff myself. But a-doing this made me feel weird and highlightes the fact i need to gain weight and b-i didnt know what to make to get enough cals. I am working on low vol high cal theory. I usually aim for 800 a meal, is there a range i could work from, like a minimum e.g-600 to 1000?

New thread - new me! I've been wanting to post in the  "weight gainers what did you eat today" thread for so long now, but couldn't because I wasn't consuming enough calories.. but after a LONG discussion with my nutritionist on Tuesday, she upped my meal plan to 2500+ calories! Yesterday was my first day on it, and I haven't eaten this much in almost a year now! And it WAS hard, VERY hard, but I did it! And it doesn't feel as bad as I thought!

Anywho.. here's what I ate, the most I have in a LONGGGGGG time!::

B- 1slice WW toast, 2 tbsp cream cheese, smoothie with 1c skim milk, a handful of raspberries, CIB,  a tbsp of almond butter.

L- veggie burger, a whole WW English muffin, 1 slice cheddar cheese, 1 tsp my grandmas homemade pesto sauce, mustard, lettuce and tomato,  1/4 cup 1% cottage cheese

S- Smoothie with CIB, 1c skim milk, 1 peach,  1/2 WW english muffin, 1 tbsp peanut butter

D- 1c veggies, in olive oil, 6 shrimp, about 2 tbsps ginger soy sauce

Dessert- single scoop ice cream from baskin robbins

S- 1c cucumber, CIB pudding, 1/2 cup cottage cheese

I still didn't do so great, with saving up food until night, but hey! At least I got it all in; right!? :)

yesterday:

Breakfast: oatmeal w/ milk and banana, and blueberries

Lunch: salad w/ italian dressing, apple, english muffin w/ slice chz

Snack: clif bar

Dinner: 2 wheat tortillas w/ beans, tomatos, chz, sour cream, salsa and lettuce, bowl of peas, greenbeans and mixed veggies

Snack: bowl of grapes and a kiwi

Snack: cinnamon raisin bagel

hi everyone

im back after what seems like a long time since my last post on the old thread.. but i guess i should take the oppurtunity to embrace this new one.. and the new me that is about to fashion

my nutritionist is making me DOUBLE my meal plan.. something i knew was going to happen but now is scaring me. my parents have been given a little bit more control which im also scared about but i guess its for the best.

i managed to do alright yesterday despite being on tenderhooks with the new info. i'll redo my stats so you's are aware of just how massive my recovery is going to have to be;

lw 35.6 kg
cw; 36.6 kg
height 174 cm ( 5'8 / 5"9)
age 17

thursday 20th's eats

b; rice porridge w dried fruit

s;  apple, yoghurt

l; large toasted ham  cheese tomato spinach sandwhich

s; chocolate protein shake

d; creamy homemade pumpkin soup + dinner roll

s; huge yummy ice cream with chocolate, honeycomb and mint ice magic

i know it doesnt look alot but like others i have refeeding issues too and this is just the beginning of my basic mp. i know this is going to be hard.. its put so much fear into me i hope i can get as much support as i can

thanks for listening guys. any tips/ inspiration is welcomed

kayla