Underweight?

PiKe

PiKe

PiKe

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I'm 5ft 10 and I weigh 10 stone, this puts me 1 stone under my recommended weight.

How can I add weight without eating unhealthily? I'm not fully sure whether being underweight is causing any ill effects but I do find I get tired quite quickly.
 
Raikiri said:
Eat larger portions of what you already eat, you don't have to ram McDonalds down your gullet to gain weight.
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I already eat large portions, example last night I had pie, chips and 2 slices of bread.
 
If you can look at your diet and - subject to a number of caveats - add up its calorie content to around 2-5k a day, then your body is probably happy.

Technically speaking, I'm overweight for my height but that's what happens when going to the gym. ;)

I suspect at least half the lifters on this forum are technically overweight, but I don't think any of them are worried.

If you're concerned enough about it, you'll restructure your lifestyle to do some more of the following:

- sleep;
- eat;
- exercise.

Personally, however, I wouldn't worry about 1 stone underweight... I'd be more concerned about what the content of your diet actually is...

EDIT: Just seen your follow-up post... you had pie, chips and bread in one sitting? Would you like some extra carbs with that? :D In all seriousness, aside from being curiously unbalanced (in isolation - I have no idea what the rest of your diet is like), the spread of food like that posted above is almost irrelevant: was it a full dinner plate of food piled high? Or was it a Pukka Pie with a chipshop special?
 
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Same height and I weighed 9.5 stone for most of my adult life, creeping up to 10 stone in my late 20's. I've only recently put any weight on and it's through running and cycling. Gym work never really worked for me.
 
My diet is probably quite high in carbs, often having sandwiches for lunch too. Lot of bread products in general really.

The pie was home made and the chips were cut from potatoes, not from a chippy.
 
There's no need to add weight if you don't really feel you need to, everyone's different and recommended weights are a catch all.
Your tiredness may be down to what you eat rather than the amount of it.
 
I worked with body builders and took their diet up i still didnt put on weight. im now 25 6ft 1ish and just started putting the weight on without trying. i weigh just over 11 stone now.

I was at one point clearing 15000 calories a day too!
 
cwhitehead said:
I worked with body builders and took their diet up i still didnt put on weight. im now 25 6ft 1ish and just started putting the weight on without trying. i weigh just over 11 stone now.

I was at one point clearing 15000 calories a day too!
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Typical Week:

Breakfast: Crumpets/Toast, very occasionally a sausage roll.
Lunch: cold meat sandwiches and a packet of crisps, steak and kidney pie once a week, hot bageutte or small pizza
Dinner: Chicken/Fish/Sausage, with potatoes or chips, vegetables. Beans on toast with a fried egg if feeling lazy.
Supper/Snack: more often than not, bowl of cornflakes with whole milk.
 
cwhitehead said:
I worked with body builders and took their diet up i still didnt put on weight. im now 25 6ft 1ish and just started putting the weight on without trying. i weigh just over 11 stone now.

I was at one point clearing 15000 calories a day too!
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This is clearly BS. Sorry but it is.

1. It would be VERY difficult to consume 15000, I mean c'mon 15000 calories a day? Seriously?

2. You WOULD gain weight unless some how you were burning off 13000 calories a day!
 
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