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Some of the best weight gain foods are: lots of protein. I can't stress that enough! Chicken, eggs, beans, fish, Ham, turkey, lean red meat, ect. Also bananas, mango, pineapple, papaya, avacados, oatmeal, whole wheat bread, granola, whole milk, chocolate milk, cream, 1/2 and 1/2, ice cream, oils (like olive oil, flaxseed oil, sweet almond oil, etc), nuts, grains & brown rice, pasta, potatoes, natural nut butters (peanut butter, almond butter, etc), cheese, cottage cheese, yogurt, legumes, sunflower seeds (or oil), pumpkin seeds.


You can make your own weight gainer at home that's a hell of a lot healthier than store bought weight gainers. You can google "make your own weight gain shake" to find different recipes. But this is generally what I mix together: vanilla whey protein ISOLATE (isolate so you don't bloat), 1/2 banana, some honey, whole milk, throw some frozen or fresh mixed berries in there & some frozen or fresh kale or spinach, a tablespoon of olive oil (or similar), some ground almonds (almond meal), some dry rolled oats or ground up Quinoa, ground flax (flaxseed meal), maybe throw some alfalfa sprouts in there or 1/2 a little packet of those "perfect food raw green super food" packets & I just started adding brown rice flour (finely ground whole grain brown rice). Maybe add some chocolate syrup if I don't throw veggies in there. All of those can be found at Whole Foods, Sprouts, and even Kroger and Target started selling the flaxseed meal & almond meal and most of everything I use.

Right that's great ideas. I have my fitness pal on my new phone but never knew what it was about. Yes great idea about tracking what I eat calorie wise. I'l get onto that.

I am just that - eating heaps but wondering why its taking so long to gain weight so maybe I too am just "maintaining but not gaining"

Il look into the whey isolate too. I love whey but was worried it would irritate my gut and also slightly worried about the source of whey but here in NZ its pretty clean.

The smoothies is a good idea too cause I'm lazy and would rather just throw something together.