Foods to Gain Weight Fast

Here are some nutritional tips to help head you in the right direction.

Make sure you have protein with every meal. Good protein sources for weight gain are eggs, milk, lean meats, Peanuts and Peanut Butter, cottage cheese, any lo-fat cheese (Swiss Cheese is naturally lower in fat) yogurt, Whey Powder . Go easy on the fatty meats as you want to gain weight but not by adding allot of fat to your Diet.

Avoid trans fats, and limit saturated fats.

You will need a Calorie counting book relatively inexpensive usually 2 or 3 dollars. Write down everything you eat, and how much for a week. Add up your daily caloric intake. Now start off adding at least 500-600 calories to your usual daily caloric intake by eating healthy foods you like to your diet.

You will have to up your caloric intake, the more calories you burn the more carbs you will need.

Eat Good carbs like whole meal breads, potatos, brown rice, fresh and dried fruit. Don't worry so much about limiting your carbs if you are trying to gain weight.

Olive oil, Sunflower oil, Safflower oil, the oils found in fish and nuts. All healthy oils you need in your diet to help keep your heart healthy.

You are probably going to want to work up to 3,000-3,300 cals pretty quickly to gain weight. And try to keep the daily caloric intake consistent . If you have a blender you can make your own lo-fat high protein shakes. Use lower fat milk, a banana, some yogurt if you like or just lo-fat milk and a banana is good. You can change up your protein shakes by adding some blueberries, strawberries, and raspberrys.

Eat protein between meals to up your gains

High protein snack food- boneless skinless chicken breasts sliced thinly, then grilled will cook in just a few minutes. (overcooking will make chicken breast dry and chewy) Adding some lo-fat cheese makes a tasty high protein snack on whole grain breads. Also you can add a little BBQ sauce or mustard, lettuce and/or tomato. (It's your sandwich you know what you like)

Tuna salad sandwiches are delicious low-fat high protein. Another great way to eat tuna is drain the tuna and set aside. (in oil or water-your choice) Wash off a few nice fresh lettuce leaves. Arrange the lettuce leaves on a salad plate. Then put 1 cup of cottage cheese in the center of the lettuce, cut a medium size tomato up into bite size slices and add that to your salad. Top all this off with the can of tuna that you drained. This makes a pretty big snack so you can scale it up or down to suit your self. Have a few multi-grain crackers to give this salad some extra crunch.

Ground Round is also good grill food for weight gain it's good lean red meat. Ground round also tends to be dry if you over cook it. You can cook either of these meats in a pan, just spray lightly with Olive oil. Cook over medium low heat till done.