Gaining

Don't do it by eating or drinking alot of sugar. That will lead you to get diabetes which I have and it wasn't fun getting my sugar down to feel better. I wish I had taken the route of eating a bunch of penuts, avacados and dressing drenched salads. Way healthier way and gives you a calorie dense option that is as fattening as sugary drinks and treats. Keep your sugar intake within the daily value range.

Your welcome. As a diabetic limiting carbs is essential. Now the amount you have depends on where you are at in your journey. I can now have more since I limited myself for a little over a year. Every carb you have turns to sugar. I think I have gotten the sugar in my blood down enough and have given my beta cells enough rest to tolerate more. If you want to gain weight while also improving your condition, I would focus on a low carb diet (150 grams) a day and focus on high fat foods. You can also consider talking to a Nutritionist about this too as I am not one. I know it's not typical to ask medical professionals ways to gain weight while being obese and I am also a bit reserved to ask my Nutritionist the same question but I feel like both of us would be better off asking a health care professional so we could get better guidance as to how to do the weight gain healthily.

Maltodextrin powder will likely be stored as visceral fat. That is my experience. Blending olive oil and chickpeas along with walnuts is a very healthy way to ingest huge calories with almost zero flavor. You can add it to water and it still tastes like water.

drinking half milk/half cream helped me gain quite a bit so far

I get addicted..

It is fat that develops around your organs in your stomach or thoracic cavity. If your stomach is large and you can't pinch any fat you have visceral fat it is also called hard fat because it is under your stomach muscles.

Be careful consuming large quantities of dairy, I did and developed full-blown diabetes in less than a year. I stopped drinking cream and it is totally gone now.

I posted a weight gain recipe in the gainer shake area and that has been super effective and even pretty healthy.