Gaining

I just started a few days ago to eat more and either drink a melted carton of ice cream or eat a lot of peanut butter before bed on top of 3 meals a day.

Can some people give me tips on what foods and drinks I should eat/drink everyday to blow up my belly?

Will send pics of results if you have a good one!

You should focus on calories and macronutrients more than foods. It's more sustainable.

The peanut butter should be fun, but that melted icecream is going to bite you in the ass. All that sugar is going to do a number on your teeth and pancreas if you do it too much.

Yea your right about the ice cream. I’ll just stick to the pb

I read in an article that peanut butter is more harmful than any other butter.

I also add that ideally you should stay full all day, or every few hours. Large meals are more fattening than any other single food (and tastier).

That said, add to your diet:

- Oil to almost anything you eat, you can cook with it or put it in bread and there you have some extra calories.
- Bacon: fried is a calorie bomb and you can add it to all meals (sandwiches, pasta, snacks, etc).
- Ice cream: I think you do very well with ice cream.
- Avocado: it is a very caloric food that can be combined with everything.
- Nuts: for 100 grams of nuts you have 600 calories.

I can attest that nuts and their butters are very fattening because I can't control myself around them and in the last months I had to upsize my whole wardrobe from XS-S to M-L.

Costco sells the best unsalted mixed nuts (cashews, almonds, pistachios and pecans) and I always keep a bag in my pantry. Most days, whenever I walk past it I'll grab a large handful and mindlessly snack on them while doing something else.

Same for the nut butters I buy from Bulk Barn. They never last for long as I can't help but eat spoonful after spoonful right from the jar.

Thanks to these habits, stress (a breakup, 2 deaths and a move) and a change in my medication that caused me to wake up at night to eat, I blew up in 2024.

Same with quality chocolate hazelnut spreads... but I feel a lot more guilty when I eat them because the anorexic part of me considers them a forbidden food.

I should have known better than getting some from the Lindt store because I ended up bingeing on it one night after smoking weed. What a waste of money...

I felt so ashamed I threw the empty container in the trash instead of washing and recycling it because I didn't want my boyfriend to know what a pig I am.

When he asked where is that jar of fancy Nutella, I lied that it must be at my place, hoping he'll forget about it before we sleep there again (our apartments are in the same building but we usually stay at his place).

What did you mean by "peanut butter is more harmful than any other butter"? Is it more fattening or bad for the health?