How can you gain weight when you are 5' 9 and weigh 107 pounds?

The difference between healthy weight and just fat is that healthy weight is mostly muscle. If you are underweight ,or just want to add a few pounds ,than you could eat whole grains, fruits, veggies, lots of protein, and exercise a lot. Weight training can help you add muscle to specific parts of your body if you think specific areas need a little more help than others. GAINING WEIGHT-it takes around 3000 calories ,just to gain a pound, so it seems difficult to most people.It is a matter of taking in more than you burn off, and eating good snacks between meals. Bread, rice, bagels, biscuits, corn bread are some of the dense calorific foods. Minestrone soup, chilli beans, beef barley (cream soups and chowders in moderation) are too. Adding mayonnaise and dressings, plus cheese or avocado to Sandwiches gives it a calorie boost. Pecans, peanut butter, dried fruit, canned fruit in syrup, bananas, Pears avocados are rich in nutrients and calories. Olive and canola oil are good and starchy foods like pasta and potatoes, squash, corn and beets. Taking one thing from each section will balance your calories, you can check further on the web as their are many sites (healthy foods to gain weight-search) A: In order to gain weight, you need to increase your calorie intake to over the subsistence level (where you neither gain nor lose weight). The subsistence level is hard to determine without a lot more information, in that it involves metabolic rate, amount of activity, your weight and fat percentage, and even the climate of the region you live in (workers in the Arctic often burn up to 5000 calories per day). As weight gain is a function of calorie loads, the following nutrients carry calories, in order from most to least: # Fats # Alcohol # Carbohydrates # Proteins As such, if you wish to gain weight, you need to stack up on higher calorie food while still maintaining a good nutritional balance which includes other foods that help you function well. And as my friend above notes, you'll need to increase exercise in order to not simply store the excess calories as fat. Foods high in fat are meats, especially red meat, and some dairy products (e.g. butter). Foods high in carbs include sugars and grains, including bread, pasta, pastries, rice, etc. Foods high in protein also include meat and dairy, as well as fish. Alcohol, while calorific, is not the best way to gain weight due to the dangerous side effects of chronic alcohol consumption. intelligently speaking, DON'T!