If you are eating lots and not gaining weight you are either:
- not eating as much as you think you are.
- choosing low energy density high volume foods.
- quite simply not eating a sufficient calorie surplus to gain weight
- have not accounted for your total daily energy expenditure (TDEE) in your calorie consumption calculation
- are seriously ill (see a doctor)
- a genetic anomaly (see a doctor)
If you eat a sustained surplus of energy, your body WILL store it.
A genetic Anomaly sounds about right for me. haha
But yeah I'm sure if I sat down and went through it properly or got advise from someone clued up on all this stuff then there would be a rational explanation.
Most of my diet consists of Pasta, Rice, White Meat, Fruit, Veg, Nuts and Eggs - with Fish once a week.
I used to only be around 65kg - very underweight but adding a lot more Veg into my diet put me up 10kg within a short time. Clearly I just wasn't getting the nutrients.
Will have more free time in a few months so can focus on it more from there as more than like I just haven't put enough time/effort into it for long enough. I had to go in stages - my diet was pathetic for first 23 years of my life!!
My main reason is to get better at Squash as I lose games due to fitness levels which result in a loss of focus and poor technique towards the end of matches.
Funny you mention illness though - the doctors twice diagnosed me with a lifelong disease a few years back due to stomach pains I had and when I told them what I ate and that I actually lost weight they thought I had a disease. lol.
Idiots made my pains worse from stress - turns out it was nothing at all. Just a combination of diet change, stress with doing too much at once in my life and developing a slight intolerance to Whiskey (maybe).
Just thought it was funny they thought that - so much so that 2 of them diagnosed me wrongly and forced me to have loads of intrusive tests, scans, mri's etc - what a waste of NHS time and money.
