Gaining

After many years of interest in watching people gain weight over a short period of time, I finally decided it was something I wanted to do myself.

For context, I am 6’1 and and 76.2kg as of last Monday (the day I started my gainer journey). I have always been very skinny and lean and do have quite a fast metabolism, as I very rarely work out, so I never throught gaining weight myself would be an option.

I began by eating breakfast, 3 crumpets with butter (I very rarely ate breakfast previously? and then I was adding 150ml of double cream to my diet. Taking my daily calorie intake to around 3000 a day. By day 4 this didnt feel like enough because the feeling of being so full and stuffed felt so good. I then began melting 100g of lindt chocolate into 300ml of cream and drinking it in one sitting, I would then have 30g of Highly Branched Cyclic Dextrin straight away to raise my insulin levels and ‘trap the fat’ . For the past 5 days I have really upped my food consumption and my daily calorie intake has been between 4000-5000 calories a day.

I decided not to weigh myself until day 8, which is today. I climbed on the scale this morning, after having a wee and prior to eating anything to make sure I could see my actual weight increase. My weight was 75.9kg, I was so so disappointed and disheartened. I felt a never level of confidence when my stomach was so full and bloated that I really thought it would have made a difference. Did anyone else have this problem when they started their weight gain journey? And does anyone have any suggestions on what I could do to really push through this demotivating outcome. Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

In the beginning your body will ramp up your metabolism in order to counteract the extra calories in order to maintain your set weight. Over time you can gain and reset your body’s set weight and it will try to maintain you there. It can take a while, everyone is different.
My advice is one cup of heavy cream right before bed, every single night. Don’t skip a night. Flavor with chocolate or something if you can’t handle the taste. You won’t see anything for 3-6 weeks, then all of a sudden you will explode with soft, squishy jiggle fat that won’t ever go away, even if you lose weight. You may feel hot the first few nights as your body tries to burn off the extra calories but eventually it will give up and store them. Your existing fat cells will expand but eventually they won’t be enough and you’ll have to make more and then when they fill up you’ll need new pants, and even if you lose weight they will stay, ready to fill up again. Trust me heavy cream works. Just overeat and do all the normal things as well and you’ll be in plus sizes permanently.

Ah yes, thanks for your response, that is super helpful. Since my original post, I continued drinking the double cream daily, first upping to 300ml a day and then over the past 4 days I was having 600ml a day, aiming for around 4000+ calories a day.

Yesterday was my week 2 weigh in and I had gained 5.5lbs/2.5kg in a week. I haven’t seen a high difference physically yet, other than a very tiny jiggle on my stomach, but that increase on the scale really got me excited so im going to continue!