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Right now, I have no specific diet. No schedule. I eat when I'm not lazy. I drink 5 Mt. Dews a day. I seriously have a carbonation addiction. I can go without caffiene, as long as I have Sprite.

But I need to cut down on the pop. I don't know what I should drink though. I fell in love with a friend's protein drink but that stuff is expensive.

What sort of drinks should I start drinking?

I typically eat nothing. I mean that with very little exaggeration. I would go with about 1 meal a day, with small snacks in between, like pretzels. I've also been known for a collection of Ramen.

As you can see, I'm very unhealthy.

I've been reading some of the threads trying to carve a diet out. Tomorrow I'm going shopping for chicken and fish. I've got my watch set for three alarms every 3 hours to eat a meal.

I'm 123 lbs. So gaining weight is also important to me, but I have a very fast metabolism. I'm the cliche case of "I can eat, and eat, and eat, and never gain weight."
 
I'd put money on you not being that case. Seeing as you eat one unhealthy meal a day, saying that you eat and eat and eat without gaining, is hardly believable. You just need to set a schedule, develop good habits, and stick with it.

As far as the drinks go, water will provide you with all of the liquid your body needs throughout the day. Figure replacing each of those Mt. Dews with water. Seriously, you just need to do it. Once you do it, it will be easier and easier to go without the soda.

Figure 6-8 meals a day, each containing an equal, good amount of protein. Figure out your daily caloric needs and up it 500 calories at a time. Get a weight training routine down and you're set to start gaining some weight. Have a look around the stickies and read up a bit, you'll learn a lot :)
 
prodigymytch said:
I'm 123 lbs. So gaining weight is also important to me, but I have a very fast metabolism. I'm the cliche case of "I can eat, and eat, and eat, and never gain weight."
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Not only did you admit to eating only one meal a day but you go and list how you eat,eat,eat. Quite a contradiction there, don't you think? You don't gain weight because you don't eat enough. The "I have a fast metabolism" Is an absolute myth for near all the worlds population.
My advise? Eat, eat more, eat right.
 
Well, no, not exactly. I've been living solo for about a year or so now, and since then I haven't ate much. Before when I lived with my parents and went to school, I was on about 4-5 meals a day and sneaking food throughout my classes.
 
Add up all of those calories and I'll bet it's not even hitting maintenance caloric intake. Figure 3k+ calories, I can't really say for sure without all of your body statistics and not knowing all of the activities that you do, but you need to eat more bro.
 
I agree with silent.

You must be the quiet-riot in your diet.

One must be meticulous.

If gaining wgt is your goal, and this is not occuring, you have to adjust, by consuming more, logical no?! Until you do.

Anyone healthy, can gain wgt, on average, just by eating enough, bottom line.
 
So I need 3k+ calories? I have no knowledge of how this works, so on this forum, I'm asking a lot of seemingly ignorant questions.

To be more specific, this is my general routine:

I wake up around noon. I watch a young man with Down Syndrome. Because he is well-behaved, this generally means I sit on my ass all day at the computer reading. Recently, I picked up some free weights though so I'm going to put that into my oh so busy schedule. Like I said before, I don't eat much. I did however register on FitDay to help me keep track.

Simply put, I know what I want, but I don't know to what standard I have to do certain things to get what I want. For instance, I want to gain weight but until that post, I had no idea that 3k+ calories is what I should aim for.

Thanks for your guys' input.
 
Age,hight,weight,sex,activity level, and any common metabolic related disorders such as hypothyroidism.
List the above so we can give a more accurate estimation on your calorie needs.
 
Age: 20
Height: 5'7
Weight: 123
Sex: Male
Activity level: Low-moderate at the moment.

I have no disorders of any kind. Any form of a "weight problem" is my own fault, I would assume from an unhealthy lifestyle and not from anything that I might have genetically gotten. I have not been to a doctor since I was 17 for a flu.

I just had my second meal of the day just now. I'm up to 825 calories, according to FitDay. Is this an okay pace?
 
Sounds about right, 3k was just a number that I threw out there without having any specifics. Make sure that they are not just empty calories, choose some foods from LV's grocery list and go from there.
 
OK, first of all, you should never increase your daily calories by more than 500. According to the statistics you gave, the amount of calories you should consume to MAINTAIN your weight is around 2225 calories a day (based on low activity). In order to GAIN weight, you should eat on average 2725 calories a day (that means that if you eat 2500 calories one day, you need to eat 3000 the next day to make up for the previous day). Now, if you increase your activity level, you need to be consuming even more calories (depending on how many additional calories you burned).

Now that you know how many calories you need, let me give you some suggestions on your diet. You should not be drinking soda all day because they are empty calories (they provide nothing nutritious such as vitamins and minerals). My husband used to drink soda all the time and he found it very difficult to switch directly to water. In order to gain weight, you should consider switching to fruit juices. When purchasing juice, you should always look at the label and make sure it says 100% juice. You can also drink things like Gatorade, but they don't provide the same nutrition as regular juice. When my brother was trying to gain weight, he also went to smoothie places and got the smoothies all of the fat people want to drink (such as peanut butter cup smoothies). They provide some dairy, lots of protein, and usually some fruit. They are also packed with calories. This would be a good substitute for a meal. Another high calorie thing that is very nutritious is nuts. Nuts are high in protein and the good kinds of fat. Dairy is also a healthy method used to add calories to a person's diet. Cottage cheese is full of calcium and calories. If you add some berries to it, you have made it very nutritious. As far as your meals, focus on LEAN meats (chicken, fish, pork tenderloin, lean beef). You do not want to eat too much fat. Also make sure you are eating plenty of vegetables. Try to think of some vegetables that you enjoy and consider adding them to your meals. Ideally, you want to emphasize the dark leafy and orange vegetables, not so much potatoes and corn. If you can't live without ramen noodles, you can make it healthier by adding lean meat and vegetables. Make sure you eat as many meals as possible in a day (up to 6 small meals or 3 meals and 3 snacks). It doesn't have to be a full out meal. It can be a protein bar, a smoothie, some cereal with milk (make sure the cereal contains lots of fiber and not too much sugar), etc. Try to avoid snacking on things that are empty calories (like candy or potato chips). Good snacks would be carrot sticks, fruit, cottage cheese, yogurt, nuts, etc.

Lastly, your activity is important, but remember that whatever activity you do you need to compensate for it in your diet. You can look up how many calories you burned doing various activities on the internet. Make sure you work out all of your body parts and not just one particular muscle. You can't spot train. You don't want to have a strong upper body and chicken legs (trust me...my brother did this and it just looked funny).
I hope this helps! Do not give up...it won't happen overnight. If you really want to look better, feel better, and live longer, you have to stick with it for awhile.
 
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