To preface, I kind of know the answer to this. I’ve put on weight before but I was hoping to get advice on how to go about better/more efficiently. I guess my question is really: what are healthy high calorie foods I can use to put on weight?

I’ve been underweight pretty much my entire life. I don’t think I have a chronic eating disorder, but there are times where I just don’t want to eat. I believe, however, that’s actually not my largest issue.

I’m potentially too health conscious. I’m vegetarian by accident (So I dated this girl right…) mostly, and as a result I eat a lot of nutrient-dense but calorically-low foods. I’m currently sitting just under 56kg (125 lbs) at 180cm (5’11ish). My plan currently is to just eat more often, and slowly ramp up how much I eat at each meal. About 6 years back I managed to hit 77kg by eating 4/5 large meals per day but then lost it all over the years by being sedentary and losing my appetite.

  • Skua@kbin.earth
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    3 days ago

    You could get into baking bread! It doesn’t require much effort or money, it’s interesting (to me, at least, your mileage may vary on this point), fresh bread is absolutely delicious, and bread also happens to have a heap of calories in it. Wheat didn’t get to be one of humanity’s two all time top sources of calories by being weightwatchers-approved

    • JustAnotherKay@lemmy.worldOP
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      3 days ago

      Bread is great! I also do pastas a lot for the same reasons. Thankfully, my sister loves to bake and maintains a batch of sourdough which I’ll definitely be trying to steal off of periodically.

      I just moved into my new place and haven’t had time or tools to test my oven yet. I also am still adjusting to a new schedule, and my partner is going to need to adjust to a new schedule soon so we’ll see how much baking we manage to do in our household. Store bought bread will have to make due in the case of a lack of baking

      • Skua@kbin.earth
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        3 days ago

        Good luck on settling into the new place and schedule!

        My sister is a keen baker as well, but it works out quite nicely for us — she’s excellent at doing sweet things, and I like to do bread, so we’ve got a good exchange situation going on. But yeah, absolutely nothing wrong with buying it when the time and/or effort is needed elsewhere first