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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 :]

heyy

had a weigh in at the doctors,, gained 1.8 kg over 2 weeks and 2 days. I'm not worried it about gaining :) but isnt that a bit much considerin as over that period i ate averagly 2600/2700? : /

But still gonna go at the same rate, and was mostivated to try sooo many fear foods today :) I've wasted to much of my live sitting in my doctors room tiime to moove on :)

Anyway food

Breakfast-bacon,egg & mushroom breakfast panini from starbucks :) so good 300

Snack-apple & cinnamon muffin from starbucks as well :) scared of the size but soo good!  450

Lunch-cod,chips and beans! brittish comfort food :)  600

Snack-snack a jack mini bites, galaxy ripple  300

Snack-iced donut :)), 3x cookies  600

Dinner(at like 10.30, used to never eat after six :)) -small bowl of pasta w/ tomato sauce, cinnamon swirl,grapes   750

Total 3000 :))

Sorry for not posting in so long - I've been pretty darn busy and I'm "supposobly" grounded right now, but I figured this was important enough to sneak, heheh. It's my only means of support afterall.

Seriously I'm just gonna say it - yesterday sucked. My mom insisted on weighing me YET AGAIN (apparently she wants to every-other-day) and I was down... YET AGAIN! I've been trying so hard, but apparently I'll have to try harder still. This time though, she freaked out (heck, so did I) and as of now, until I reach my goal weight, I'm not allowed to exercise or fix a separate dinner (I WAS vegetarian, by the way). In some ways that's good though - now me, my mom, and my brother are all enjoying choosing recipes to make together for dinner (I'm still allowed to cook) and it's benifiting my family too since they rarely ever made dinner and if they did it was always something horrible for you. Last night we tried out Three Cheese Chicken Florentine from Cooking Light (three cheese - would have been a MAJOR fear food!) and it turned out very well. Sure, I'm not a vegetarian anymore, but I feel good that I'm making my mom feel better about my recovery, and that I'm also helping them to have some better dinners. Me and my little brother have already selected some other recipes to make for next week's dinners, so hopefully they'll turn out well too.

Good thing is, even though I can't make my own dinners (well, only four times a week) I can still make breakfasts, ALL snacks, and lunch. So pretty much all that I lost was four dinners a week. Oh, and my mom found out about my jogging in place and THREW A FIT. She was seriously ticked about that, so now I'm grounded from my basement so that she can make sure that I "don't exercise". x(

Here's today's foodies...

Breakfast

• Oatmeal made with milk, with flaxseed, wheat bran, cinnamon, pumpkin, and a tablespoon of almond butter.
• LARGE plateful of strawberries.
• Egg white omlette with mushrooms, tomatoes, and onions.

Morning Snack

• Homemade bran muffin
• Peanut butter
• Large apple
• Yogurt mixed with cottage cheese

Lunch 

• Green beans
• Peas
• Pinto beans (I boiled a big batch)
• Bell peppers and diced onions
• HUGE homemade falafel patty
• Whole grain pita bread

Afternoon snack

•  Homemade "Lara Bar" (In the food pro' - 1/2 oz. almonds, 1/2 oz. dates, + 1 tbsp walnuts)
• Half a large banana
• Hard boiled egg whites
• Slice of Ezekiel bread, toasted.

Dinner

• Homemade pizza on homemade wheat flatbread crust (garlic tomato sauce, onions, mushrooms, chicken breast, mozzarella and parm, and fire-roasted diced tomatoes - num yummy).
• Green beans
• Black beans
• Peas
• A large orange bell pepper.

Evening snack

• Cup of yogurt mixed with some cottage cheese
• Milled flaxseed mixed in
• The other half of the large banana

Back by popular demand.... 'Food weddings and a food-eral'

B:Blueberry bagel, plain ygurt with pumpkin

L: Large turkey sub on WW roll, BBQ Baked Lays

S: Can of sardines (tresure buried in my pantry), all bran crackers and sugar snap peas.

S2:Apircot Clif Bar

D:2 Poached Eggs, 2 WW Pancakes (one with bananas and one with blueberries)

S: Bowl of yogurt, half cup grape nuts, banana larabar and homemade muffin.

*TOTALLY FORGOT THE CLIF BAR WHEN I WAS LOGGING IN CALORIES FOR THE DAY!!! DEFINITELY HIT OVER 3000 i think i actually hit somewhere in the Neighborhood of 3400. I need to make sure i dont restrict tomorrow. Its a CLIF BAR!!! Its not going to hurt me and there is nothing unhealthy about it. If anything its good to go over, since there is really no 'over for me right now anyway. All the same though, Ed is telling me to restrict to the max tomorrow. F U E D! Im going to have breakfast!!

Zebulancherry: The secret exercise is STILL my beast at the door. And i didn't realize my mum could see the shaddows through my bedroom door to outside. So when i finally came clean(I literally called my Psych and Nutritionist and just went in and blurted it all out..they know i can't stop.) "But to eat my own words" Think how much healthier it is going to be once you pick up the weight. Once your muscle begins to feed off the food again. Once your brain realizes food = good.

This is the first time i've one on one replied.

I like it!!

I can't believe how awesome you guys are, i think about this board when i'm out. "What would the Gainers say?!? THEY'D TELL ME TO SHUT UP AND DO IT!" So for the first time i had a coffee(dad ordered) with my parents at some coffee house in town(Oh.. because apparently if you have an eating disorder and someone see's you eating/drinking.. then you're not sick anymore. Some people are such dunces..) But it was in between a snack and lunch. Which is huge for me.

Here goes:

Breakfast:
- Oats with All Bran mixed with Vanilla Soy(had it in the cupboard for ages.. NEVER THOUGHT OF MIXING IT TILL I READ IT HERE... IT IS HEAVEN IN A BOWL!) Blueberries and Flaked Almonds
- Frozen Banana


Snack:
- Halfa cup of Cottage Cheese with Cinamon.. another heaven
- Nudie Juice

Lunch:
- Latte
- 9 Grain WW Sandwich with Cottage Cheese and a huge mixed salad
- Large Apple

Snack:
- Nudie Juice
- 9 Grain English Muffin with PEANUT BUTTER & BERRY JAM - never have i tried such a strange 'american?' concoction... seriously.. you guys have me testing new waters nearly every single meal!!!

Dinner:
- Chicken Stir Fry ( Marinated Chicken in Kecap Manis/Sweet Chilli Sauce) - All the Veges chucked in there with Olive Oil, Soy Sauce and Stock.)

Snack:
Will be... A Strawberry Yogurt
And a small bag of popcorn that i found today

With my adding skills.. that hits just over 2500.....I am ever so thankful guys..

X

(oh. also. new additions to the pantry; NUTELLA & NATURAL HAZELNUT SPREAD. And i realized. I use to LOVE Macadamia nuts.. like.. obsession worthy.. but i don't know if they're up there with the goodn's.?)

clay- Psh the little mermaid is awesome! It was the first movie I saw in theaters. That is a really good metaphor. Did you cook at denny's? Oh oh oh! Have you tried the new holiday flavors of clif bars?

mashed- I've been trying not to count cals obsessively too. I'm scared though that if I stop counting completely my intake will start to go lower and lower because the ED will tell me it's enough when really it's not. And yay, your metabolism is speeding up! I got hungry eating 3300 cals a day before, and it goes away, trust me. It may take a few months, but you won't always feel ravenous all the time.

zeb- Sorry about your losing weight again. How many cals have you been eating? I think it'll be good for you to have a few meals out of your control.

lady- Haha this board holds me accountable. Every time I'm about to exercise I think of the people here and what they would say to me and change my mind! Good job with the coffee and nutella. Mmm I love macadamias, buy some!

Breakfast: Bagel w/ PB, oatmeal w/ pumpkin, egg, apple

Despite my loss a few days ago, I have been trying REALLY hard and have already seen some improvements. I've gained a little (won't post stats since they might be pretty triggering) and I've definatley improved my ED mentality too. I really feel like I can do this; I'm aiming for 2,800-2,900 cals this next coming week - I've been intaking 2,600-2,700 this week.

My mom wants me to gain .5 pounds a day, which is crazy, but I'm just going to try my best to gain at whatever pace my body may choose (within reason). I'm thinking maybe 1.5-2 pounds a week, or maybe more or less... whatever happens.

Breakfast

• Tall stack of homemade oatmeal pancakes and a tablespoon of almond butter.
• LARGE plateful of strawberries.
• Egg white omlette with mushrooms, tomatoes, and onions.

Morning Snack

• Homemade bran muffin
• Peanut butter
• Large apple
• Yogurt mixed with cottage cheese

Lunch 

• Green beans
• Peas
• Leftover pinto beans
• Bell peppers and diced onions
• Homemade salmon-salad (3 oz. Alaskan salmon, 2 tbsp yogurt, 1/4 cup each of celery and diced onion)
• Ezekiel sprouted pita bread

Afternoon snack

• "Apple Pie" Lara Bar
• Fage Greek yogurt 
• Homemade pumpkin-bran muffin

Dinner

TBD - we might go out to eat, or we might be at home putting up Christmas decorations. ^^

Evening snack

• Cup of yogurt mixed with some cottage cheese
• Milled flaxseed mixed in
• The other half of the large banana
• Maybe some chopped walnuts too (?)

Hey you guys, i totally plan on posting all my food-enings and replies later but there is one reply that i feel cannot wait.

AQUA: The holiday Clif's are friggin amazing!!!!!! I plan on having the apple/pear one soon, but the pumpkin one is a party in my mouth. A party im invited to!!!!

*im craving a sangwich today.

Lady: Macadamias are lovely and healthy. You can also get them in nut butter form, and they go fabulously with cranberries. And it's good we help you be accountable but remember to do this for you, too! :]

Clay: Never heard of a sangwich, but if you want a sandwich, go for it! ;P

lala am i going crazy or was a post of mine on the weight gain board just deleted? i didn't think there was anything wrong with it.. :-/

*edit* aagh blindo the bat strikes again - i see it has moved! my mistake ;-)

Mashed: Yay, you found it. Sorry! It does email you to tell you you've had a thread edit, though. :] But yeah. There are lots of posts that get posted in Weight Gain that really belong in H+S. Usually rants, comments or similar that don't relate to weight gain, but instead recovery and recovery struggles (unless the struggle IS weight gain). So I do move those. I'll PM you in the future to let you know if I move anything else of yours, though.

hello everybody

i just thought id come on here to like see how you were all doing and what dya know, i found clay looking for me! lol!

it seems everybody is doing really really well :D

things have been a bit wierd for me- after my little relapse things a couple of weeks back i went to my weekly appt last week and she sent me straight to hospital because my heartrate and blooddpressure were so low she said i was at risk of a cardiac arrest- :(. they let me go home after a few hours but ive been on bedrest ever since and its still not stable so im stuck in bed for another week! arrgh!
however, since the hospital trip, ive been beginning to do a little better again. Ive told my mum that shes just gota take charge because im not always able to make the right choice so yeah ... im starting to eat stuff again and yeah its scary and yeah im nowhere near doing as well as everyone here but im tryin because i feel like crap, and i dont want repeated trips to hospital, feeling like this all the time etc. my back is so boney it aches whenever i sit or lie so im having to lie on my sides which is making my hips hurt and so on. any help for this guys?

today is a bit of a mile stone ive managed to eat quite a bit this evening in dessert and snacks but im SO full now & worried about how i'll feel in the morning but yeah .. :) Ive hit about 1800-2000 today which is more than ive eaten in weeks ive been scared to go over 1500 for a while now but after talking with my mam i just kinda did it and to hell with the consequences for now if i can get bits in here and there it'll add up in the end right?
im not ready to increase any mroe at the minute although i probably will have to at some point but hwile im on bedrest etc its hard a stuffs but yeah- things are getting better :)

enough of my rambling on! how is everybody?
hello to new people who've joined here while ive not been on!

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Grr. I have to go to a stupid ballet with my father tonight. I really hate him. I don't have a reason for it especially, it was like I woke up one morning and realized that I can't stand to be with him. So I supposed he thinks some father-daughter time will improve our relationship, and it'll probably just make things worse. I know it's going to be awkward, I have nothing to say to him. The only thing he ever asks me is why I used measuring spoons to measure my peanut butter. And he wants me to go backstage after the show and meet the dancers. I don't want to be a dancer when I grow up, so my conversation with the dancers will go: Hi! Um.. hi. How are you? Um.. good. So do you want to be a ballerina when you grow up? Um.. no.

And plus I have to eat a super early dinner tonight and will be starving by the time I get home at 9 or whatever. And plus I have to take the metro to get there. Arg.

clay- Misspelling sandwich is fun. I call them sammiches or sammies! And oh, I had the gingerbread clif and it was awesome!

Aqua: I feel you on the whole father-daughter relationship thing. Me and my dad are the same. There is just something about him that extremly irritates me and i just dont like him. I cant explain how or why and i feel like a b***** sometimes for it but thats just the way it is. Probably always will be since i want to move to Italy. I dont think the fact i only see him about twice a week helps but i dont even really want to spend time with him. Its soooo akward and stuff. Like yours he thinks 'quality time' will help but mostly it dosent.

Luna Bars and Clif bars: Is there anyway i can get my hands on these in the uk or something similar??

Butterfly: Eat Natural bars. Food Doctor seed and fruit bars. Luna bars can sometimes be found in Sainsburys. You can get them in the Whole Foods in London if you have access to that.

seriously? i spent about 20 minutes in the london wholefoods looking for luna bars but they only had larabars.. which i love anyway, don't get me wrong, but i'm soo eager to try lunas... poo. though i have a fresh and wild really near my house and today i brought:

trek bars (these are gooooooood for energy), like larabars but bit more texture?

wallaby bars (bit like eat natural - thought i'd try 'em!)

and village bakery brownies! brownies = FF extravaganza but i thought maybe it could be something to work towards having this week.

mwaha.

ooh i also bought seitan - but it's weird, it's in a jar! does anyone know what to do with it (i might ask on the veggie board too)

 ... oh, oops. I thought that said Larabars.

larabars are yummy anyway though. especially now that i'm letting myself eat the flavours other than apple pie (which is good, but it's no banana cookie or cinammon swiss roll! or the cherry.. aah)

UK alternatives -->

clif bar // trek bar

luna bar // lara bar

clif bar // nak'd bar (these are good!)

other good choices -->

eat natural

wallaby

oskri

9

dorset cereals

at least three of these should be available in any holland and barratts or other health food shop.

hmm. i'm going to ask my dad to bring me back some luna bars from america (he's there now, lucky sod!)

edited to post final foods for the day -->

breakfast - 1 cup all bran, 1 banana, skim milk, grapefruit juice (500)

snack - pear, 2 oatcakes, almond butter (280)

lunch - lavash wrap, babaganoush, tzatziki, big salad, pickle (400)
dessert - peaches, blob of yoghurt (100)

snack - fage yoghurt, applesauce, nuts (150)

dinner - leftovers from last night (bulghar wheat, feta with squash, salad) (500?)
pudding - peaches, blob of yoghurt (100)

snack - porridge with brown sugar (200)

around 2300. not sure how i feel about that. higher than i've ever really been before at home.

HELLO HELLO HELLO!!! I'm back from NY! Finally! I've missed you all so much! I couldn't log onto cc while I was there, but thankfully CLAY is my new facebook bestest friend ever and got me through! :) I guess it was good practice for me, though I still estimated calories, and got nowhere near as much as i have been getting :\ it was really hard with work honestly, and I still had to overcome my fear of eating a lot of crappy hotel catered food and going out to restaurants I didn't want to go to. I didn't restrict though and was able to talk to my mom more so that was nice. I'm feeling a little bit better, at least not wallowing in depression anymore, but am really going to need to start focusing on getting emotionally and mentally better, in addition to the physical part of this.

New York is so COLD!!!! I don't know how you northerners or UK ladies do it, I'm glad to be back to my 70 degrees. I know I have a zillion pages to read through to catch up here, but it's really late already so I'll have to do it tomorrow.

Hope everyone is doing well!
Much love to all!!

Inspired, is an understatement.
BUT GIBBIT THAT IS SO ROMANTIC!! I want that.. i want that so bad it's not funny. And i hope that feeling stays with you.. that taste of REAL life!! It's there!! It's back for you!

Today has been weird.
I knew we were having a Homemade Lasagna.
Both my parents are considered Morbidly Obese. Mum has the Lap band and recently got it tightened But often leaves the table as she gets food stuck. Dad doesn't care, he';s just Scottish and Happy and eats. My sister is all muscle, and eats everyhting and anything. So .. i knew this was going to be hard. I got to make it with Mum. For some reason, if i prepare it.. i'll eat it.

So it'll be ready in 20 minutes.

Breakfast - Oats & Bran with Vanilla Soy and Blueberries -
Strawberry Yogurt -

Snack - 9 Grain muffin.. WITH NUTELLA AND A BIT OF THE HAZLENUT SPREAD!!
- Frozen Banana

Lunch - Huge Scrambeled eggs with olives, onion, garlic and spices tossed through a huge salad from my vege garden.
- Large Apple

Snack - LEDA BAR APRICOT... OH... MY .. GOD.. Thank you again guys.
- Nudie Juice

Dinner - Lasagna (4 cheese/meaty meaty/white pasta sheets... so.. d*** nervous......)
Salad

Snack - Half a blueberry bagel
- Vanilla Yogurt

2500.. plus the rest

X

I need more ideas for protein and snacks.. and lunches.. and ideas in general.. you guys have already given me the strength to start ticking off the FF's.. at LEAST once a day.. today was the first time i'd eaten Chocolate in over a year.

Next.. Bueno Bar

X

Mehh. The ballet was okay. Actually, it was more of a series of modern dances. I like all of them except one where the dancers were wearing strings of soda bottles and were dancing to whale music! Might go see the new james bond movie today :]

And psssssssst! UK people who crave luna bars- They aren't that great! To me they taste like really sweet rice krispies with fake tasting frosting. But clif bars are good.

butterfly- It's good to know that someone can relate about the father-daughter thing. I know fixing my relationship with my dad is probably essential to my recovery, but I can't imagine having a normal relationship with him.

gibbit- Hi! Glad you're back. Great that you managed to get over your fear of eating out and that you have so much support from your mom.

lady- Amazing job with all the fear foods! For my snacks, I aim for a protein, fat, and starch. Soo it's something like crackers with peanut butter, an apple, and string cheese/ yogurt.