Gaining

Big John:
I mean, you could try to eat more at meal times in front of them. But drinking stuff like milk (lots of milk) and stuff like that can definitely help. If you can go out and eat at other places, I would recommend stuffing yourself outside of the house at a restaurant and eating more at home too. Another thing thing that worked for me is soda, I drank 2 liters of mtn dew a day for a week and a half and gained 5 pounds. Just be careful with the soda because it can cause ulcers. Best recommendation is eating more overall and eating out more too, unless you can't, then I am sorry. If you you can reply then I can help you of you can't do any of these things. Good luck!

doublefrosted:
keeping a stash of snacks in your room that your family doesn't see is good. means you can have late night snacks without them seeing.

if you like heavy/thickened cream and don't mind drinking it unchilled you can get the little long life packs of it to keep in your room too.

debela2810:
i agree on olive oil! i gained so much weight with it tbh. just soaking it up with bread. best food ever tbh 👌

debela2810:
i agree on olive oil! i gained so much weight with it tbh. just soaking it up with bread. best food ever tbh 👌

Ullthrox:
Good to know thanks. Btw do you think I'm having enough olive oil? I hope so because otherwise it'll start getting suspicious if I have more.

debela2810:
To me it does sound way too little... I'd pour at least 4-5 big spoons onto the plate and mop it up with bread. Sometimes 2 or 3 servings. Maybe buy your own bottle of olive oil? You can always hide it somewhere in the kitchen.

Photofatty:
As someone who has gained a good amount of weight living at home through college my best strategy was to not think about it super hard.

You presumably don't want to get caught double fisting burgers into your mouth with a big distended stomach. So keep the idea in the back of your mind, a little bit here, a little bit extra there.

Slowly increase your appetite, and since you are living at home they won't have as much shock when you have put on 30 or 50 pounds since they saw it happen in front of them.

Then if you get the chance to run an errand and want to stop at a fast food joint, that is when you order those two double Cheeseburgers and double fist them into your mouth.

Ullthrox:
I've been overcomplicating things which lead to demotivation so I'll try your approach thanks.

jvnko:
A friend and I used to be in the exact same scenario, I feel like the absolute best advice you can get is just to stop caring. The more time you spend obsessing over results or what to eat and how much to have the harder it is to gain. You’ll hold yourself back initially and when results don’t come quickly, since gaining is gradual and needs consistency, you start to lose all the drive you had as it seems hopeless.

Just changing your habits gradually, keeping gaining in the back of your mind, and not even thinking about it or caring what others think works wonders. You may feel incredible anxiety about what someone will think when you put heavy cream into a breakfast smoothie or order ‘too much’ food but really most people won’t bat an eye much less confront you about it. If it were so hard to get fat you think there’d be less big people around.