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Weight Gainers: What did YOU eat today?

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 :]

Hi Agruskin! This is just a starting plan. I'm suppose to eat this plan for one week and then I go back to here to adjust. I think it's somewhere around 1200 calories give or take.

 

She wants me to gain a pound a week if I could. Is that crazy? I'm just so sick of this ED controlling my life!!!!! But eating all this food is kinda difficult, but we can all do it :)

 

Hope everyone has a happy, healthy day :)

 

Hugs,

Ash

Saw the nutritionist today. Meal plan got bumped up :S. So here's what I ate (and plan to eat) today :

Breakfast: 1 slice whole wheat toast, 1tbsp natural peanut butter, 1 orange

AM Snack: 30g honeycombs, 1 cup vanilla soy milk

Lunch: 1/2 cup steamed vegetables, 175g ff yogurt, 1 kashi chewy cherry chocolate granola bar.

PM Snack: 1 peach

Dinner: Chicken Sandwich; 2 slices whole wheat bread, 32g deli chicken, 50g light cheddar cheese, 1/2 cup lettuce. 1/2 an apple

HS Snack: 1 orange

 

It is only 2:30 and I have just finished my lunch. But I am SO bloated, I feel like i'm going to throw up any second. My meal plan didn't increase by that much, so i don't know why i'd feel this way..?

Any suggestions? If this doesn't get better soon, I don't think i'm going to be able to have my snacks/dinner.

hi everyone!

JEANIE-sometimes what happens w me is ill eat something, get full, and then be hungry again so i can eat, so i know this is a bit after your post but maybe for next time, wait a bit, and youll be hingry again later!

ENIA-yea, i dont actually measure anything except for cereal so everything is a guestimate but baiscally i know how much im eating give or take, your idea is what i was thinking and what i think i will do.

ive never had a cliff bar or luna or any of those.  do you eat them before an activity, afterwaards to replenish?  do you reccommend any?

tues-

BFAST-1.5 cups cereal, milk, dried currants, 1/2 chopped up apple

LUNCH-tuna sandwich, fage yogurt, celery w. PB+trail mix

SNACK-protein shake, vitamuffin, fruit salad

DINNER-cheese+turkey+dried fruit+apple butter sandwich, salad w/trail mix

SNACK-apple yogurt

ok, so im getting ancy thinking about all the foods i can eat.  any favorite meals, foods, wahtever, taht i could make?  i want to make dinenr for my family friday night i think.

thanks!!!

Finally upped my cals to 2,000.. incredibly scarey.

M1: Cranberry oatmeal with little bit or almond milk, tsp marg and little bit of orange marmalade

M2: Blueberry bagel with tiny amount of butter and cream cheese

M3: California roll with soysauce

M4: Slice of rhubard strawberry pie with frozen yogurt

M5: Protein pudding with small amount of coolwhip, mini banana, cheerios and almond milk

M6: Whole grain roll with tuna and cheese, small bag of sundried tomato crisps

ARG!!!! I went to the clinic yesterday for a weight check. I've gained 1 pound since Friday. That makes me feel massively huge and fat, but apparently it's not enough for my doctors! They wanted me to gain back all of the pound and a half I lost in 3 days. So now I have to eat MORE! AGAIN! And I'm not allowed to exercise either, and exercise keeps me sane. This is really not improving my attitudes towards food.

Breakfast- 4 choc. chip mini waffle spread with soynut butter and chocolate soynut butter, oatmeal made w/ almond milk, orange, egg, almond milk

Snack- Pizza flavored potato sticks (random and unhealthy, I know), berries

Lunch- Grilled cheese on whole wheat w/ 2 slices provolone, Stonyfield w.m. yogurt, Kashi TLC cherry chocolate bar, carrots

Snack- Yoplait, carrots, pudding, Boost smoothie

Dinner- Whole wheat spaghetti w. pesto sauce, slice of ciatbatta bread, strawberry cheesecake cupcake

Snack- Almonds, nectarine, TLC cherry choc. bar, Boost plus, 1 c. soy cookies and cream ice cream

 

Hi everyone :) Hope you're all having good days :) Yesterday was kind of rough for me..it was the first day on meal plan and I didn't exactly do great

Breakfast: Suppose to be 3/4 cup of Kashi 1 cup 1% milk and banana

Actually: 1/2 cup Kashi and 1/2 cup skim milk

Snack: Suppose: Granola Bar

Actually: Granola Bar :)

Lunch: Suppose to: Whole Wheat Wrap with six slices turkey with cheese

Actually: Half of whole wheat wrap, no cheese and 3 pieces of turkey

Snack: Suppose to: 20 pretzels

Actually: 10 pretzels

Dinner: Suppose to: 4 oz chicken 1/2 cup veggies 1/2 rice

Actually: Maybe 2 oz chicken 4 baby carrots

Snack: Suppose to: 1 cup Special K w/ 1/2 cup 1%

Actually: 1 cup Special K with 1/2 cup skim milk

 

So needless to say I fell a little short. I was determined to start today better but still didn't have the full serving of cereal, used skim milk and didn't eat the banana! what is wrong with me? I feel so full already because I'm not use to eating so much. i go to nutritionist tomorrow for a follow up, hopefully I haven't lost weight since Monday!

 

Any ideas?

hi everyone, ill come back later to post more, but, now that im eating more, i dont seem to have anymore energy, maybe even less than before, and im hungrier than before, any ideas why this could be and what you do?

thanks!

AGRU: Ahh, I know how you mean. I started lacking in energy as my calories went up initially, but when I was breaking 1600 or so I started to get it back again. (: Seriously, all I had to do was eat a bit more. I've lapsed back and am making my way back up (and oh, can I feel it >_<) so will hopefully have my energy back in the coming week. I don't know how it was/is for others, though. :o

hmm, i think part of the reaon i may feel a lack in energy, although ive always done it w/my ED and nothing is different, is that i wait too long btwn meals.  no matter how many times i pre-plan my meals and make sure that im fitting in my calorie range or wahtever, i tend to get scared that ill run out if calories by dinner or something.  so i dont eat often enough during the day, its just a thought but not sure because ive always done it and now im at least eating mroe.  maybe im just not a morning or day person bc i have more energy in the evening sometiems, i dunno, lol

Hi! I am new here although I know aquaev from another website. Here is a brief history of me :) I developed my eating disorder in the end of the sixth grade. Not until about the middle to late part of my seventh grade year did I finally accept that I did not want to live this way anymore. I started out upping my cals to 2500 b/c this is what I pretty much maintain on.(give or take) I did this for a few weeks until I was "ready" to start the weight gain process. My nutritionist has helped my so much. I started eating around 3000 net calories. (I say net because I am an avid exerciser and all throughout my recovery I have worked out and just made sure and eaten back the cals) After I was comfortable with that, I pretty much just ate A LOT. That being said, I estimate around 4000 calories. I have gotten all the way up from 88.5(NEVER GOING BACK!) to 107!!! I am feeling great and no longer count calories. I have only a few pounds to go. My nutritionist has my healthy weight range as 108-113. So as you can see, not much longer! I eat extremely healthy. I love organic and all natural foods. I love exercise and I have finally gotten my life back. I met with my counselor yesterday and she thinks I am doing great! She says that I am almost over this crap and I only have a little bit of anxiety. I deal with my anxiety and worrying by trying to control something. When I am anxious/worried I start counting cals, weighing myself, or taking a little more control with exercise. I guess that those are my "red flags" that something is not right. I could write a lot more, but I am going to stop. Basically I am here to gain these last stubborn pounds and continue to grow b/c I am a growing teen who needs to give herself what she needs so she can grow big(TALL! I WANT TO BE TALL[bball player]) and strong! I need to also continue to listen to my body. Thanks in advance!

<3 jess

hi everyone!

so im feeling really good-mentally.  im really determined to kick this and be healthy by Sept.  i want more energy.  question for everyone-on friday i wil be cooking a meal for my family and myself, invloving rice-a scarey food, and the only thing im wondering is how do you judge how much to take, how to portion it??  just eyeball a cup serving or wahtever?  thanks!

JESS-welcome, sounds like youre doing great!

deff ate more today, TRYING to space it throughout the day but im hungry all the time now!-

wed-

BFAST- PB+J. apple

SNACK-cottage cheese, 1/2 homemade muffin, celery

LUNCH-cheese sandwich, fage yogurt, 1/2 orange, celery

SNACK-protein shake, vanilla yogurt w/crushed oreo mixed in frozen like ice cream, peach

DINNER-tuna melt sandwich, salad w/trail mix

SNACK-apple, yogurt

breakfast: rolled oats made with rice milk and melted peanut butter, activia yogurt with kashi honey almond flax cereal

snack: apple and almond butter, mocha yogurt

lunch: heritage o's and vanilla shreddies

dinner: salad with croutons, tomatoes, cucumbers, green peppers and honey mustard dressing, whole wheat kaiser bun with tuna and mustard

snack: alpha bits, lucky charms, 8 mini freezies :)

snack 2: mocha yogurt, activia yogurt with more honey almond flax

AGRU: I personally eat less during the day out of habit. I don't know what it is, but most of my calories seem to come later in the day! And I don't mean that in a bingey way, but rather that the denser food tends to be what I eat come the evening. I suppose that I feel more comfortable with denser stuff later on because I am ultimately less likely to go out most evenings (active more in the day, probably also contributes) and so don't feel so self conscious if I bloat more come the nighttime. (:

Don't worry too much about waiting a little while between meals unless you're waiting over 3 hours. I start to get a bit shakey after three! @__@ But if you condemn yourself to a set time, you might get anxious if you aren't "on time" afterwards. I know I got really moody if I didn't get to eat at what I thought was the "right time" at first, before realising the right time is when my belly says "eat!" (: Honestly, you shouldn't worry too much about running out of calories because you need all the cals you can get at the moment. :D

Ooh, cooking for people! I wish my parents would trust my cooking ability more to let me cook for them. \: I always got boggled by rice and quantities. A decent sized portion for anyone is about 70g of uncooked rice - it roughly doubles in weight when you cook it. However! I realise you're ideally not after weights, here, so I would eyeball it the best you can. Or, if you prefer and if you think you'll be able to resist temptation to take far less than a good portion, just cook up a large batch of rice appropriate for how many you're cooking for and put it in the middle of the table or dish it out when the time comes. That way, people can take as little or as much as they want - but like I said, only go that way if you think you can trust yourself to take a good amount for yourself, too! I know I sometimes still get the urge to cheat, but it's just not worth in the end. What're you making for them, out of curiousity? :D

Today is a crappy day.

Breakfast- Oatmeal made w/ skim with soynut butter and dark chocolate mixed in, banana, egg, almond milk

Snack- Cheddar bunnies and frozen lemonade pop

Lunch- Soynut butter and marshmallow fluff on whole wheat, chocolate mousse yogurt, Kashi PB TLC bar, strawberries

Snack- Berries, carrots, Yoplait, Boost smoothie, pudding

Dinner- Crust-less carrot quiche, slice of ciabatta bread, cheesecake cupcake

Snack- Almonds, apple pie Lara, apple, Boost plus

Extra 300 cals- Ben & Jerry's, Clif Twisted fruit bar

I am sorry Caroline! Hope our day gets better. If it helps, I am struggling today as well. I seem just very uptight. I want so badly to count calories. I have not counted in a long time. Also I keep getting on the scale. I am not doing what my nutritionist told me to do. I am just physically tired and also mentally tired of this controlling me. I want so badly to go run. I cannot though because I messed up my knee during my worst bouts with anorexia.(over exercising when not getting enough nutrients, there is more but I do not want to write it) Oh how I do regret though running everyday. Anyways, here is what I plan on eating:

Breakfast:(10:00) Whole wheat bagel with natural peanut butter(about a tbsp. on each side) on one half and organic peanut butter on the other half with a small glass of milk.

Lunch:Kashi Pesto frozen meal (yummy kashi!) and fruit...

Post workout/Pre workout: Apple or a banana(not sure but either are organic)

Dinner: I have no idea! :)

Snack: Popcorn, fruit, yogurt? Whatever my body tells me it needs....

hi everyone!

quick post-so today i finally tried oatmeal w/PB, ive been hesitant bc oatmeal tends to constipate me-sorry gross, but fingers crossed that it doesnt!  it was really good and i added captain crunch PB cereal to it also! yum!

LALA-i decided that id make my family arroz con pollo-chicken and rice.  its a dish that my baby sitter used to make for me that i loved but havent had in years bc of the rice and not knowing how to portion it.  ill be making enough for everyone so i suppose that when i bring it to the table and take my portion, ill just take a peice of chicken and try and eyeball about a cup of rice-sound good anyone??

AQUA-hope your day improves!

PSYCHOJO-hi!  when you have a bagel, is it a regualr huge bagel store bagel or the smaller prepackaged supermarket ones?  what workout do you do?

question for everyone-i want to try lunabars, ive heard so many good things about them, any favs?  i was thinking of having it w/an apple and yogurt b4 going to the gym 1 morning to do some weights?

thanks!

I do not go to a bagel place and get my bagel.(although the ones I eat would probably be the same size) I use Thomas 100% whole wheat bagels. They are really big and filling! They have around 270 calories as well. I love them and they are one of those foods that I eat and I know that I am full after I eat it. I try to eat foods that will help me get back in touch with my hunger sensations.(hope that makes sense :))

I love to workout and I have gained my 20 pounds all the while working out. I recently am having knee issues.(runner, running+not enough nutrition during anorexia=pain!, that and I am still growing and my orthopedist said that the constant pounding with running is hard on my growing bones and tendons) I usually would run three days, other thing at the gym the other three days, one day rest.  But now that I am in "healing time" I am cross training. I go to the gym 4 days and I have basketball 2 other days.(I love basketball!!!)I made sure and ate back my calories when I was counting calories at the beginning of recovery. But now that I am not counting calories, I obviously do not. When I go to the gym I workout for about 40-50 minutes.

Hope this helps :)

Hey everyone! I'm doing better today. Last night sucked because for some reason I binged, but oh well. I felt sick, hopefully I'll learn from it and try my best to cut out the night eating to keep me from doing it again.

Welcome Jess! You sound like you've come so far so don't let yourself slip into old habits! I know I sometimes get stressed and start counting again and getting on the scale or exercising compulsively. The exercise is the only thing that seems to relax me a bit, but I do catch myself doing it and the good thing with having experienced an ED is that we can now recognize the signals and try and control it before it controls us. I also eat almost all organic natural foods :) I'm totally ocd about it but I figure if I can be obsessive about my health now it's far better than being obsessive and not eating.

Aqua, I'm sorry you're having a bad day! You're doing really well and your meal plans sound fantastic! do you have a recipe for that cheesecake cupcake btw? that sounds amazing.

Agru- I love cooking! I always cook for my family, though my brothers like to deem my food "healthy crap" and my mom always feels the need to add meat on the side of whatever I make. And don't worry about the portion size of the rice, so what if you go over?? Same goes for worrying about running out of calories at the end of the day. We should only have minimum calorie limits, there is no max because we're trying to gain. I know that's hard for us to imagine, but what's the worst that will happen if you go over? You'll gain weight? That's kind of the point. Sorry if that sounds harsh, it's the exact same tone I have to take with myself daily :)

and finally what I ate yesterday:

breakfast: kashi 7 grain pilaf mixed with oatmeal made with soymilk, with nuts and dried fruit, apple, and yo baby wm yogurt mixed in, plus extra protein powder.

::lifted weights:: yay!! had protien shake.

lunch: black bean salad with walnuts and spinach, olive oil, lemon juice. Went back for second bowl. working out made me hungry! berry juice.

snack: ezekial toast with soynut butter and jam, apple slices with more soynut butter, hot chocolate made with soymilk.

made some coconut cookies and had 2 of them

dinner: big bowl of kashi 7 grain pilaf (probably 2 cups worth) cooked with olive oil, spinach and boiled egg. Apple juice.

snack: banana, peach, dried apricots, big bowl of vanilla ice cream, tea with honey, another bowl of ice cream....another bowl of ice cream with whole milk powder on top(weird?)....reached bottom of ice cream carton, yuck :(

Really bad day nutritionally.. wasn't suposed to be until my plans got ruined and had to change some things up..

Meal 1 - Cranberry orange oatmeal

Meal 2 - Honey grain bagel with stuff on it (sadly, all light..)

Meal 3 - pint of ice cream.. wowww. I am the only one who can easily down a whole pint of ice cream in one sitting?

Meal 4 - Oatmeal made with half an apple

Yeah, so this was basiclly a really bad day..

Jsharshar: It is okay! Everyone has bad days! Just get back on the healthy weight gain wagon tomorrow. :)

ME!

Breakfast: Whole wheat bagel with organic and all natural peanut butter and a small glass of milk

Lunch: Kashi Pesto Pasta Primavera Frozen entree(sp?) and an organic apple

Snack: Organic Banana

Dinner: Omelet made with two eggs(these eggs were something like all natural or free range, i do not remember!) and one egg white and I put onion, tomatoes, and feta cheese inside with organic spinach on the top and two slices whole wheat sugar free toast with organic butter! :) It was yummy, but also pretty on the plate

I am not eating enough for "weight gain" during the day. At least not today because I got on the scale and saw 108.6 and I had to at least be 108......so now I think that I do not eat as much! Ahhh...I am NOT getting on the scale tomorrow!!!! I just need to listen to myself and all will be fine!