Lifestyle tips

Have you tried drinking heavy cream or cooking oil?

Yes, try the heavy cream. Believe me, I gained quite a bit of weight with it.

Stuffing yourself does no good if you can't actually digest it all, so we'll give you the same tips we give everyone else.

1. The people saying "drink cooking oil/heavy cream" are explicitly the people you don't listen to. Fats like these *will* need to be incorporated, but without any carbs to bind to they just pass through with little affect other than upset stomach. Use these items to augment things you eat, do not just drink them.

2. Chew your food more. Easier to digest this way.

C. Take good care of your gut fauna! You can't get a higher digestive throughput without them. Yoghurt, specifically Kefir, is really good for getting a healthy gut fauna.

$. This one will sound counterintuitive, but quitting alcohol helps a ton! Why? Because alcohol can kill bacteria, and is an expense that can be spent on more food. Also, quitting alcohol lowers the overall sugars in your diet and can help stave off diabetes for longer. Quitting drinking is a hard sell, we know, but it does effect your gains. A lot of people will say alcohol helped them gain, and it does initially, but it plateaus you quickly.

I totally get the struggle! Sometimes it’s about small, consistent wins. By the way, I’ve been playing Wacky Flip, a casual mobile game where you flip characters through tricky levels—it’s silly but really addictive, like practicing patience step by step.

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Some really solid advice here. I totally agree that gut health and digestion are game-changers,it’s not just about how much you stuff, but how much actually sticks!

my best tip is to focus on calorie density that you actually enjoy. I’ve found that incorporating heavy cream into meals (not just drinking it straight) makes a massive difference without making the struggle feel like a chore.

Honestly, the 'payoff' is what keeps me going. so, stick with it! Once those gains start showing and your clothes start screaming, you won’t want to stop.

Try eating a big meal right before bed. The body doesn't have time to use the food and just stores it as fat.

I would slowly work up to a big meal before bedtime... After a home style meal at an Amish restaurant, a couple people in my group had too much too quickly and had to flee to the bathroom because they were sick. I had been used to eating more than most, so I wasn't sick. I just felt like I had a brick strapped to my belly. Three hours later, I went to bed and tossed and turned, each time feeling like the brick was still there.

my experience in getting fat and gaining is that it doesn't really matter what you eat - it's most important that you eat things you actually enjoy.

the thing that will make you gain weight is consistency of changing your behaviour. stuffing now and then won't make much of a difference, you will just burn those calories off on a busier-than-normal day. you need to increase the amount you eat every meal, every day.

push yourself, increase your portion sizes. eat past the point of feeling full at every meal. this will stretch out your stomach over time, which increases how much you can eat at one sitting before feeling full. it also will lead to you feeling hungrier sooner, between feedings.

most importantly, enjoy!

If you study math once in a while, you won't do well in math. If you overeat once in a while, it won't matter.

It is far easier to overeat something that you like to eat, than it is to overeat something you can't stand.

If you don't want to push yourself, week 1, take an extra bite or two. Week 2 add another bite or two. Don't eat until you feel like the food is going to come back up, or it may actually come up. (probably) will.

One day, you end up half afraid but half curious to do an all day eating challenge because you don't know how much food that will involve.