How to gain weight healthily?

**Subotan** · 01-24-2011, 23:52

I'm 6ft1 and weigh 8 stone, or 112lb. My BMI is a ridiculous 14.8. I know girls who are a foot smaller than me and weigh the same as me. I don't feel at all unhealthy, but am I too (as in dangerously) skinny?

**Rhyfelwyr** · 01-25-2011, 00:15

Originally Posted by Subotan

I'm 6ft1 and weigh 8 stone, or 112lb. My BMI is a ridiculous 14.8. I know girls who are a foot smaller than me and weigh the same as me. I don't feel at all unhealthy, but am I too (as in dangerously) skinny?

I think frame has a lot to do with it. I don't really have a small frame, not sure what it counts as exactly, but that is why I can look so unhealthy at a not particularly low weight.

Even if you do have a very small frame, I still don't know how you're alive...

**Subotan** · 01-25-2011, 00:26

I feel fine. I eat loads, I cycle two miles a day and yet I'm skinny as hell. I just don't get it. It should be noted that I have a lot of muscle in my legs; I'm built as a runner.

**Rhyfelwyr** · 01-25-2011, 00:32

You probably don't eat loads. I used to think I ate a lot and wondered why I was skinny... I just needed a dose of reality. When I was in school people used to joke about how I could not be fat, because all I ate was rubbish. For about two years literally all I ate wa fast food and sweets/crisps. But then when I think about it... all I ate in an entire day was a bag of crisps at lunch and one takeaway at dinner... that's not a lot of food.

**Subotan** · 01-25-2011, 00:36

Well I'm not starving myself if that's what you're thinking.

Breakfast will usually be:

Porridge, two slices of toast with nutella, tea

Lunch is either two cheese sandwiches or a proper meal like pasta.

Dinner will be a main meal. Usually a rice/potatoes/chips with two veg and something meaty.

I eat a lot of biscuits, usually without chocolate, and will generally have an additional two cups of tea and maybe a little can of tonic water as a treat, or for when I'm working.

**Moros** · 01-25-2011, 03:30

Originally Posted by Subotan

Well I'm not starving myself if that's what you're thinking.

Breakfast will usually be:

Porridge, two slices of toast with nutella, tea

Lunch is either two cheese sandwiches or a proper meal like pasta.

Dinner will be a main meal. Usually a rice/potatoes/chips with two veg and something meaty.

I eat a lot of biscuits, usually without chocolate, and will generally have an additional two cups of tea and maybe a little can of tonic water as a treat, or for when I'm working.

Well two cheese sandwiches at noon and two slices of toast at breakfast really is not enough. Breakfast is a very important meal. While I may eat overly much at times, 2 sandwiches is barely enough for a kiddo. Also chocolatebars doesn't really count as food.