How to gain weight???

[condit2013]

Does anyone have any idea's or food's to help me gain weight?i've tried ensure but that upsets my stomach oo:

 

[Write2bheard]

Oreos worked for me.


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[UnXmas]

You might need to address the cause of your weight difficulties first. Are you lacking an appetite? Are malabsorption issues causing you to lose weight even though you're consuming what should be enough calories to make you gain?

There aren't particular foods that will make you gain weight - it's the number of calories your entire diet provides. And your diet needs to provide you with all the nutrients you need too, so while any high calorie food will allow you to consume more calories through a lower volume of food than a low calorie option, you'll still need to include low-calorie foods like fruit and veg in your diet.

Besides Ensure, do you know of anything else that you have difficulty tolerating?

If you want idea for high-calorie foods that are classed as healthy, nut butters (e.g. peanut butter) are good - nuts in general are good though a lot of people have trouble digesting them. Olive oil, avocados, and full fat milk are also healthy high-calorie foods which usually aren't too hard on the stomach.

If you're not worried about adding more supposedly unhealthy foods into your diet to help you gain, white bread and butter, biscuits, plain cakes and anything sugary are usually easy to digest. Getting calories in liquid form can help too - drink fruit juices, milk-shakes, hot chocolate, etc. rather than water or other low-calorie drinks.

 

[rygon]

I would try and get crohns under control first. Are you working out too intensively (I had to give up kickboxing for a yr to get better)

Also is your current diet causing problems. healthy food like salad, tomatoes, onions, nuts, seed (anything hard to digest) plus alcohol and caffeine can cause a very bad stomach.

I've tried USN hyperbolic mass shakes that was fine on my stomach and also built me up well (actually too well, I've got a right gut on me now lol)

 

[condit2013]

Im not working out at all I stopped mma training because it was to much for me the only exercise is walking my dog.
Regarding what food I eat im pretty fussy and only eat bland food and never eat ruffage or junk food I try to eat clean and ive not had alcohol for two years now but was never a heavy drinker before my crohns anyway.
Im about 11.5 lbs at the moment and was given ensure to take but it didn't agree with me so im supposed to be getting something else to help me gain weight.
Ive still been eating decent amounts even though I have a flare up at the moment and I feel hungry I tend to snack a lot through the day.

My meds..
mercaptopurine 25mg
vit b12 injection
adcal
multi vit
loperamide
prednisolone 30mg and reducing 5mg every three days
diazepam for my anxiety which gets bad when feeling ill
right hemicolectomy op in 2007

 

[hugh]

You have to get the disease under control to gain weight.
I went from eating alot and loosing weight to eating less and gaining weight.
Playing around with paleo/SCD is when i started winning.
I gave up processed foods, wheat, sugar, vegetable oil, all grains except rice, and everything else i could so i will never know exactly what made the biggest difference,
Then as my digestion improved i added things back in (trying to do it one at a time) and kept the things that worked and ditched the things that gave me grief.
The things i kept (typical, not exhaustive)
-meat, fat (mainly mono and saturated), vegetable, nuts, cheese, eggs, tubers, coffee (took a while before i could tolerate that), some fruit, pro-biotic foods,

things i ditched (typical, not exhaustive)
-processed foods, all grains except rice, soy, milk, vegetable oils, sugar

 

[UnXmas]

Ive still been eating decent amounts even though I have a flare up at the moment and I feel hungry I tend to snack a lot through the day.

If this is the case, you might not be absorbing everything properly. Maybe you should try keeping track of how many calories you consume for a few days. Work out your average typical daily calorie intake, and if it should be enough to get you gaining weight, see a doctor as it would indicate your disease needs to be gotten under control before you'll be able to really gain. But you might find you're not eating as much as you think.

Regarding what food I eat im pretty fussy and only eat bland food and never eat ruffage or junk food I try to eat clean and ive not had alcohol for two years now but was never a heavy drinker before my crohns anyway.

While quitting alcohol is great and you should avoid roughage if it makes your symptoms worse, a restrictive diet can make it harder to eat enough. Look at what foods you can add in as well as what you can cut out. Also make sure a good deal of what you eat is tasty food that you really like. While it's important to put health before taste and enjoyment of food, when you need to gain weight it's much easier to do so if you like what you're eating and aren't just forcing things down, and gaining weight can be important to your overall health just as much as getting in all the vitamins you need and avoiding excesses of unhealthy foods.

 

[mccindy]

Coconut oil is another good addition - it's a healthy saturated fat and can add calories to quite a few things. Use it to cook with, as a butter substitute on food, or in baking. If Ensure doesn't agree with you, there are some other options like Boost or Glucerna, and also some protein type powders you can order and add to your drinks to get some calories as well.

Peanut butter - banana smoothies are pretty yummy and can add some calories, if you tolerate.

 

[wild_one353]

dietary fat contains lots of calories per gram. make sure you are getting at least 25% of your daily caloric intake from fat.walnuts, peanut butter, olives avocados, etc.
thats going to help a bit.

dont fall for the myth that you need slots and lots of protein to gain weight. protein is really easy to get and more wont help unless you are a professional bodybuilder, other wise the averave intake is fine like 45-55 grams daily is roughly where you should be for normal sized adult.

if your disease is active, it may be hard to gain weight tho.

 

[ayalisseblayze]

I would suggest if you want to gain weight then eat the food that has fiber and calories.