gain 20 lbs.

I am 5’0” and about 125-130lbs. I am strong for someone of my stature but I used to weigh 145lbs when I was working as a dock loader at Wal-Mart. I lost a lot of my muscle and am looking to get it back plus some. I want to get to 150lbs at least, maybe more. Currently I am on a barbell workout with some cardio on off days. What kinds of workout routines and nutrition diets are ya’ll on?

please help i want to gain weight

This is not the ideal, you should not be jealous. We as a culture have a very skewed view of the ideal human shape. I probably benefit a bit from that but I also feel kind of bad reinforcing the stereotype. People need muscles and fat. (Because seriously, it’s cold.) Real people have very complex and beautiful organic systems that require mobility structures, insulation, padding, calluses, muscles, energy storage, room for circulation, all sorts of stuff. Real bodies have lovely shapes, all sorts of shapes. Like singing voices, they are not meant to all be the same. They should be natural. What is this striving to look like mannequins or typecast the ”’ina” character opera singers or perfect the pointe so that we all look the same? Skeletal is not pretty. It’s kind of weird looking. There’s literally more to life.

Kids can be cruel. They attack the unhealthy, the weak, the shy, people who appear different from them, etc. How they learned this I’m not sure, as I reasonably believe that they are not born with this predilection. So it was a bad day when we learned about eating disorders in the 6th grade. Or was it the 5th? Because it seems like the taunting of “anorexic” lasted quite some time. Eating disorders are scary business, and it’s really too bad that was all they got out of it. I wonder what we might have missed in classmates who might have had an easier time had the disease not become a punchline. I don’t recall any actual concern, just the use of the word as a mean name. Actual anorexia would have been unthinkable around that situation and I can only hope that none of my peers had to deal with it privately while their struggle was belittled. (See also: “retard”, “ADD”, “that’s so gay”) Seriously.

I was never obsessed with food or with losing weight. I’ve always been slim and aware of it. (I’m really supposed to say “slim” instead of “too skinny”.) And man, I loved me some food. Loved to eat. I was told that all of a sudden to beware age 20, at 25, at 30, watch out because it’ll hit you and you’ll gain a ton of weight (never happened, sorry ladies). And you know what? I’m okay with that. I’m tall but little. Not destructible (it turns out), but delicate. Like I said, all sorts of shapes, this one’s mine.

But I know my body and I know the difference between healthy and unhealthy. Most people do; and that is where your weight-worries should come from, not from some imagined ideal which is easily skewed in the interpretation. I’m at unhealthy and don’t dig it. Getting healthier should help me gain weight just as getting healthier would help other types to lose it.

I’m just emerging from a long, slow, nasty battle of sick, and I just realized that particularly in the last year I have lost around a tenth of my body weight. I’m not that great at math, but the most recent trip to the doc I put it together: If I have lost around 15lbs this year, and weigh considerably less than 150lbs, that’s, um, bad. Not just the usual struggle-to-get-near-130 bad, but wake-up-and-smell-the-butter bad.

So here’s the goal: 132 lbs. I’m not sure I can quite get there, I’m not actually sure I’ve ever been there. But obsession with weight is unhealthy, right? So the real plan is to concentrate on regular workout and muscle building through martial arts. I bet I can gain a bunch of it in muscle as slowly get back into Tae Kwon Do, an art I studied years ago through an orange belt (and ready for the green test!) when my school changed hands and I lost my grip/discipline/routine. (Oh! There’s another goal.) Currently eating pride and restarting because it’s the right thing to do.

Also, for someone who used to love eating and food so damn much, I haven’t been very faithful. The medication I have to take now (meh I sound like such a whiny sick person, I’m not! I’m not! I’m better!) Anyway the meds have killed my appetite, and juggling side effects means eating is not always pleasant anymore. And in the past as a spacey-head, hunger functioned as a reminder when I would forget to eat. Bad combo, man. So if I can be a lot more disciplined and intentional about meals, regular breaks, and balanced nutrients I can probably do a lot.

So there we are. Don’t hate me because I’m Skeletor.
And don’t tease other kids or I’ll come at you with my red stripe skills at 135lbs, seen?

I welcome advice and ideas and recipes of course!
To your health.

Well, I’ve been off the gym for a month now since laser eye surgery and I’ve decided now that I want to gain 20 lbs again.

I guess at the moment that I’m about 210 lbs (I can’t verify this at the moment though).

I’ll be back at the gym in a few days after my next appointment with the eye docs to check my eyes..
After that I’ll be eating like a horse again and doing my level best to gain as much weight as I can as fast as I can.

I know in the past month I’ve lost a little muscle tone, I know I can put that back within a month, but what I’d like to do is add to that even further so instead of just putting back the muscle I’ve lost I want to put on another 10 lbs.. I am not really bothered if it’s all muscle or muscle and some fat.. I would like to get to about 230 lbs though.. My final sort of goal is 233.

Wish me luck!
And any tips for packing on weight/muscle as fast as possible would be great, cos after all, I don’t want it all to be fat, I want MOST of it to be muscle.

and i’m going to keep trying. and by ‘trying’ i mean actually try, instead of just sitting around hoping it will happen.

i wish rich and fatty foods didnt give me horrible intestinal distress. Too many emergency visits to the toilet doesnt help one gain weight.

and i’ve lost weight.

fuck it.

how this is my anti goal and it is someone’s goal….cada cabeza es un mundo….

Saw a new doctor today since my current one is nuts..this guy is awesome and feels the way i do about healthcare..using complementary stuff first and THEN resorting to medicine and he very much wants to get me back on track with my weight gain…maybe this is the start of truly getting/feeling/being healthy again :)

I have been avoiding some health things for awhile, so, the next two weeks..I’m cleaning house. Got an appointment with a new hopefully not so nutty doctor to find out why my dramatic weight loss of 30 lbs has not started to pack on again. ( I lost an unintentional 30 lbs before I finally found out I had to have my gallbladder removed..not by the help of my nutty doctor who thought I looked great at 92 lbs..I WAS a healthy 120 lbs). Saw the eye doctor today and am getting new glasses and sunglasses..after not seeing one for almost 9 years! (Luckily everything is healthy and not TOO much change in my prescription).(Geez, I forgot how much I HATE those drops that make your pupils dilate for like 5 hours and any smear of light blinds you)! But feeling good about possibly working towards a solution for my extreme weight loss and why I am not putting it back on..of course, I’m not trying as hard as I should, either.

My husband (of 3 months) give me a belly rub every night. I noticed i gained a couple of pounds and some flab on my belly. So im going to gain some more, and see how he takes it and find out how he tells me ive gained weight. so i am. I have gone up a size, and i have gained 7 pounds. its not much for 3 weeks. but i think hes noticing. cuz when he gave me my belly rub last week, he stared at my belly for a sec, befre starting.