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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 everyone!

thanks for all your help guys, i know i ask lots of qs, i really appreciate it!  PSYCHO- spin was deff fun and so very hard, oh man, i would have a cheat meal afterwards bc i would come out dripping.

i am soooooooooooooooo happy and proud of myself right now!  i made a chicken and rice dish that i havent had in years for dinner tonight to have with my parents- and i actually ate it! i THINK i had a normal serving, it was delicious, and yes, i looked a  million times online how many calories the chicken had but ultimately, im really not sure, i guestimated, i mean im not good at that stuff, it was a peice of chicken? whatever!  this is a huge step for me, having rice, and green peas, lol.  i am no where near ready to do that at a restaurant or someone else's cooking, but that i had my own is deff a step. 

tomm is when i weigh myself as ive posted but im thinking of waiting until wed morning instead bc that would givve me 5 days of eating about 1600 cals which is above my bmr of 1500.  does that sound good?  will it make a diff if i do wed when ive been doing sat?  also, how long does it take for weight gain or is it just diff w everyone, ahh, so many qs!  just not sure iif i should weigh tomm, if i should expect an initial huge gain??

BFAST- roll+butter, cottage cheese mixed w/ apple butter, an apple

SNACK- cottage cheese mixed w/some trail mix

LUNCH- cheese sandwich, fage yogurt, an apricot, cut up celery

SNACK- vanilla yogurt, cut up fruit w/ PB and raisins and dried currants

DINNER-arroz con pollo, steamed sliced zuchinni, a very little salad

SNACK-apple and yogurt

ha, so i really dont get enough veggies, any sugestions?  tom im having a PB luna bar as part of my bfast!  woohoo, sometimes i feel like i really am beating this, but sometimes that im eating too much, so many mixed thoughts, also, i would love a ny thoughts on whether to weigh or not, thanks!  keep up the good work!

CANADA all the way.. and yess source yogurt isss amazinggg!! it comes in so many flavours! im addicted to it, that and activia yogurt

Hmmm, I'm stopping in the London airport on my way to Italy this summer.. I will have to try to buy some cool food there! So apparently I've only gained .75 of a pound since June 10th, so I have to push my cals up even more... but I now get to make my own smoothies instead of Boost plus! Yay

Breakfast- Oatmeal made w/ almond milk, two slices whole grain toast with soynut butter, apple, almond milk

Morning snack- String cheese and applesauce

Lunch- Whole wheat english muffin pizza, Kashi TLC PB bar, Stonyfield w.m. yogurt, carrots

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

Dinner- Boca burger on potato roll w/ provolone cheese, lettuce and ketchup; corn on the cob with butter; 2 Sandie's pecan drop cookies

PM snack- Strawberry Blueberry Almond smoothie, orange, Jocolat bar, almonds, Ben & Jerry'

agruskin thankyou!! it feels so great, i knew i was basically at a healthy weight but now its official :)

well today is another busy day, im going to a cencert tonight, leaving at 4 so i have no idea whats going to happen with tea but its not bothering me much (which is good)

anyway heres so far:

breakfast: toffee yogurt with a pear, berries and rhubarb 

snack: 6 marmite biscuits and a bowl of oatmeal

lunch: apple and cottage cheese wholewheat wrap

later....no idea!

yesterday was weird. I felt like I had sort of restricted earlier in the day then freaked out and had a ton of food when I got home at night, but then when I tallied up my day to make sure I was ok it came out to about 3500! I'm a little worried that I now consider anything less to be a "restricting" day :\

breakfast-banana, peach slices, trail mix, almonds, granola, honey and protein powder mixed into whole milk yogurt. Apple juice.

lunch- Salad with walnuts, a cucumber and snap peas, olive oil, lemon juice. Egg, bean and cheese taco. Apple juice.

Snack- Orange and strawberries

snack- bowl of peas

dinner- went out to eat to a burger place, which is I guess what made me feel bad since I could only get the salad bar. Ate lots of greens, mushrooms, chickpeas, edamame, egg, more peas, beets, carrots, poured on lots of olive oil so that was good.

snack- kashi vanilla oatmeal plus more oats added in made with soy milk, 1/3 cup whole milk powder, dried apricots and flaxseed meal. few handfuls of almonds, toast with soynut butter piled on and raspberry jam. More spoonfuls of soynut butter.

I'm up 3 lbs this week!!!!! AAAA I'm throwing away the scale.

I have got to find soynut butter! I have reached my goal range officially! I am so happy! No more stuffing myself at night!(although in a twisted way it was kind of fun) Finally, this weight journey is done with. Thanks so much for everything you all. I now am confident and happy with myself and with life in general. Can't wait to grow even more...lol! Keep on fighting you all!

Although I am done with trying to gain weight, it does not mean I will not grow and gain as I grow. That is what being a teen is all about. We are still growing and I hate to see all those teens in the y.c.c forum eating 1600 calories a day b/c they are "overweight."(Yes, I know, some really do need to loose, but there are very few on there that are actually needing to loose weight!)

Do you all mind if I continue to comment on here and maybe post what I ate?

 

hey everyone-

so i did not weigh myself this morning which is when i normally do my 1/wk check.  i increased to 1600 yesterday which i plan on staying around until tues or so and think that i may wait until tues morning to weigh.  do you think it will make a diff that im weighing on tues and not sat like i have done?   numbers are also a neg trigger 4 me.  i feel like ive gained and i feel like i eat a lot.  how long does it take to show a gain tho?  and im assuming i might gain a lot at first and then it may taper?

PSYCHOJ-post away! lol.  i also kind of like to stuff myself which is another thing that i worry about once i gain weight and no longer need to eat a lot?

GIBBIT-i also tend to restrict when i know that i have an eating occasion at some point during the day.

AQUA-italy is gorgeous, youll love it!

CHARLIE-how do you know that you maintain on 1800  cals?  do you excercise and factor any of that in?

have a great day everyone!

Agruskin- I too have worried about that. I think my way of dealing with that is to try my hardest to not count calories. That way I do not know how much I have eaten therefore I have to just listen to my body. If my body at 10:00 at night wants half a bagel with organic peanut butter, then so be it! I think that trying to get a well balanced diet will help too. I am just going to have to fight the urge. I am sure that that will be easier than stuffing myself though! I do not know that you are going to gain weight. I know that when I was under eating, and then upped my calories, my metabolism sped up and I lost like 3 pounds! How many calories do you eventually plan on getting to, because I bet you want to be able to maintain on more calories than you are eating right now :)

 

Do any of you feel like you have to eat at a certain time? I feel like I have to eat my lunch three hours after bfast. Then I can have a snack like 2 hours after lunch. CRAZY and I know I need to forget about the times b/c I want to be healthy! Anyone else struggle with this?

PSYCHO- I know what you mean! I have a schedule that I HAVE to eat on too. I can't start to eat my breakfast until 9:00. I have my egg and almond milk then. And at 9:15, I have my toast or whatever. At 9:30, I can have my oatmeal and fruit. And then my meals and snacks all have to be a certain amount of time apart too. Also, I have to take a certain amount of time to eat my food. Like, I can't finish my lunch until 12:40. It's a really stupid habit that I need to break! Sometimes I'm not hungry for my 11:00 am snack, but I make myself eat it anyway. And sometimes I'm hungry at 10:00, but I make myself wait an hour! I can't wait to break all these ED rituals.

UMM- I DONT WANT TO JINX MYSELF AND SORRY IF THIS IS GROSS-BUT I THINK I MAY BE GETTING MY PERIOD?  I HAVE BEEN "SOTTING" SINCE THIS MORNING??

so, today I will be brave enough to post my intake dundunduuuuuuuuuun.....ahem.....

Breakfast: Food Doctor Bagel, 3 cauldron falafel, ketchup

Mmorning snack: Strawberries and raspberries XD

Lunch: 'Bugsy' boots sandwich - as in ready made sarnie from Boots - wholemeal bread, hummous, carrot and alfalfa sprouts; 100kcals (ish) dried fruit

Mid pm snack: Trek Cocoa Brownie Bar; satsuma; 150 kcal dried fruit

Dinner: 110g cooked rice; salad - mangetout, red pepper, cucumber, carrot, spinach

Eve Snack: 2 slices ciabatta; pink lady apple (bleeurgh); 150 kcal prunes

 

 

 

woah, that looks like a lot

it scaares me

but I'll keep doing this

it gets it out of my system

so worried about gaining

but i'm determined to get really fit and healthy - be able to work out and stuff

it'd be safer that way - I've gotten into the habit of restricting during the day and compensating after a few days in a MAJOR way so I haven't lost weight when I see my doctor. If it becomes 'okay' to eat loads, as well as get nice and muscley and healthy and lovely, then I think I can stop stressing....

I hope

Note to self: don't eat bread, it makes you feel nasty

Sorry for the ramble

haha aqua I totally eat on a schedule like that. I can't eat breakfast til 9 even if I wake up before, and then I also don't like sleeping past that either. Then I have to take at least 30 minutes or more to finish any meal or snack, and I have to eat every 2 to 3 hours. If I'm hungry before I'll try and hold off and if I'm not hungry I eat anyways. If I have to wait longer than that I get really really nervous and stressed out. I hate this feeling the most! I think I start to get paranoid that I'm going to starve or something really terrible is going to happen if I don't get food. I also don't like being hungry.

that's actually happening right now, I'm really hungry already but I ate lunch about 1 1/2 hours ago so I'm trying to hold off, but now that we're pointing out how stupid this is I'm gonna go have a snack now!

hmm, so i dont have specific times that i need to eat, but i like to take my time for sure and am still rigid in that i try to plan what ill be eating for the day, sometimes it changes but if its not "time" or not enough time has passed btwn meals, then i need to wait.  its like i need to be on a schedule.  i would love to be able to listen to my body.  i can not remember the last time i have done that and sometimes think, well what if for 1 day i just ate what i wanted, but i dont even think that that is possible right now bc i still count the cals or whatever in what im eating and what i think i will be eating throughout the day to ensure that im in my range and dont run out of calories.

Hey everyone.  I've been reading around on these boards for a couple weeks now, and I finally decided I might as well go ahead and introduce myself - I could definitely use a support group right about now!  

So I'm a 20-year-old college student, relatively new to CC but definitely not new to calorie counting...  I've always enjoyed being active - I ran cross country and played lacrosse in high school.  Around 10th grade I started paying very close attention to what I was eating, eliminating a lot of foods and fats from my diet, and as a result, I dropped from a high of 117 lbs to about 108.  I spent the next two years in and out of doctors'/nutritionists'/psychologists' offices, struggling to get my weight back up to at least 115, and even had to captain half of my senior cross country season from the sidelines.

Finally getting to college felt like such a relief, and  I promised my parents that I had my weight/eating issues "under control," but I didn't exactly hold myself to that promise.  I joined a hiking club, the club lacrosse team, started training for a triathlon... all the while continuing to obsess over what I ate.  Of course, these circumstances caused me to lose even more weight, but even I was surprised (and horribly enough, pleased with myself) when I stepped on the scale about 2 months ago and saw that I'd hit an all-time low of 100 lbs.  Needless to say, when my parents saw me at the beginning of the summer, they were concerned and NOT happy with me... and they've basically issued an ultimatum: get my weight up to 115 or no studying abroad next semester.

So I'm living on my own this summer and trying trying trying to put on the pounds... but it's definitely been a major source of stress.  Not to mention I just got my wisdom teeth removed, and even though I'd made some progress weight-wise, I fell back down to 104 and still can't eat solid foods!  I'm 5'6" and I know that I really NEED to gain to be healthy, but I just can't make myself WANT to.  Even today, while trying on some clothes at the mall, I was DISGUSTED by how stickly my arms look... yet I still hate the thought of what's involved in actually making a change, and I don't want to have to give up the activities I love.  I'm finding I need at least 3000 cals/day to see any gain, which is a struggle for me to achieve on a daily basis. 

Sorry for the super-long post... I know my story probably isn't really all that different from most of yours.  But I figure I might as well give this a try. Thanks, guys!

hi everyone, welcome LIKEAR

BFAST-LUNA pb bar (not as good as i hoped) yogurt, apple

SNACK-protein shake

LUNCH-cereal + milk, yogurt, cut up fruit, a ton of raisins

SNACK-yogurt, cheese, celery w/PB

DINNER- a wrap w/cheese, veg salad w/random stuff added in

SNACK-yogurt, apple

not being able to judge my portion of raisins threw me off making me unsure how to continue eating bc i didnt know the cals, so annoying!  not weighing till tues.

Welcome Likear! Hope you find this place as helpful in recovery as I have. I hope that you know that we are here for you! So do not worry about a long post or anything; you are here to get better. Whatever it takes! :)

I did really well today with listening to my body! We went to the farmers market and got all sorts of yummy fruit! Then we went to Earth Fare.(like a Whole Foods) I seriously could live in E.F! I would love to work there. There we got some stuff for dinner tonight and some other food just because we did :)

SO here is my snack in the afternoon and on....(keep in mind I am no longer trying to gain weight, I am just now listening to my body and letting it grow and get stronger on its own! I reached my goal weight!!!)

Snack: random pieces of fruit from the farmers market and a couple organic corn chips and like a tablespoon of all natural salsa(saving room for dinner!)

Dinner: Cheeseburger(Organic ground hamburger meat, organic white hamburger bun, and organic cheddar cheese slice!) with organic asparagus and locally grown small red potatoes(farmers market) DELICIOUS!

Dessert: Cherries(organic) and Peaches(locally grown from farmers market) in a Balsamic Sauce over all natural ice cream(Earth Fare) DELICIOUS!

Late snack: Organic apple!

Today was a good day :)

(I like to put smiles in my posts a lot!)

goood day for me today.. I got to probably 2200 cals and didnt feel full or bloated or anything :)

breakfast: rolled oats with peanut butter and rice milk, source yogurt with honey almond flax granola

snack: apple, almond pudding with maple flakes

lunch: source yogurt, vanilla shreddies, frozen strawberry juice box, potato puffs

snack: watermelon, dried apples, a few soy nuts

dinner: (went to my bfs house so not sure what was in the cooking but i ate it anyway) potatoes with probably butter garlic and onions, roasted red peppers, mushrooms, cherry tomatoes and gren peppers, ceasar salad

snack: about 7 or 8 cups of oil popped popcorn with salt and vinegar dressing, mini marshmellows, orange juice and a bite of a rice krispie square

Breakfast: Oatmeal made with skimmed milk, blueberries, brown sugar, cinnamon, 45g fruit 'n' fibre cereal.

Snack: wholewheat toast with cottage cheese, olives + sliced tomatoes.

Lunch: All bran with live strawberry yoghurt, 2 tablespoons melted soynut butter + sliced banana.
330ml innocent smoothie (superfruits)

Snack: an apple, an orange + a pear, 3 rye crispbakes with soynutella.

Dinner: homemade veggie lasagne (soy mince, soy cheese, tomatoes (in juice) lentils and courgettes)
a side of green beans and mangetout.

Snack: 6 TUC crackers, baby carrots and cherry tomatoes.

Before bed: Cocoa made with skim. milk and 1 tablespoon whipped cream.

hello all, wow im loving this forum atm. everyones making a ton of progress :)

psychoj im trying to doexactly the same at the moment, listen to my body and eat when im hungry...its hard though! im going to a food festival later so hopefully will find lots of healthy yummies :P

agruskin i know i maintain on 1800 because, during my gaining when i ate that much i didnt gain lol its just all trial n error and that doesnt include exercise eithr, ive changed my weights a little bit, added a few more in, so doing that and eating a bit less is how i (hopefully) plan to maintain!!

also, had you lost your period?? this is the big thing for me atm...im longing for it to come back, i get cranky at certain times and get really bad cramps so im hoping its gonna show its face soon :D i have decided to carry on gaining until it comes back so my meal plan hasnt changed atm!

anyway, concert yesterday was an amazing step with food:

dinner: baguette filled with egg mayonnaise and watercress followed by a few glasses of wine :P and a fresh donut :O (the smell was calling to me)

snack (at 2am): hot chocolate and a piece of toast

well, heres today so far:

breakfast: pear and rhubarb compote, oatmeal and a hot choc.

snack: 6 marmite biscuits (haha ive nearly finished them) topped with cream cheese

this afternoon ill be munching on samples at the food festival :D

Breakfast- Oatmeal made w/ almond milk, apple, English muffin with soynut butter, egg, almond milk

Snack- Sugar babies at the movie Theater

Lunch- Soynut butter on wheat, Fage 2% yogurt, Kashi TLC chocolate cherry bar, carrots

Snack- Kashi TLC soft-baked bar (NEW!), rice pudding, almond milk, blueberries, carrots, Boost smoothie

Dinner- 2 crunchy shell tacos filled w/ soy crumbles and cheddar cheese, refried beans

Snack- Soynut butter and banana smoothie, orange, almonds, Luna sunrise bar, Ben & Jerry'