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I don't like being skinny. I've been skinny my entire life. Last year, I was 6'0 and 135 pounds. I started working out and eating more. I'm up to 160 and look a lot better. I don't look like I'm starving, I fit in my shirts a lot better, etc.

If you want to gain weight and are interested in a food hack, buy lots of milk. Over here it's about $1/1000 calories. You can't beat that. I drink half a gallon a day and it's done wonders for me. You probably want to be weight lifting if you do this though.



Being skinny definitely has its downsides. I've only recently begun weight lifting 3 times a week and running for half an hour 3 times a week. Walking into a gym for the first time is a very intimidating experience. It seems like every man in the entire place could crush my skull just by flexing their pectorals. I'm pretty tall too, and I feel like a friggin' grasshopper among all the manly men. It's all but impossible for me to increase my weight. One advantage I guess is that I can already do 3 sets of 8 pullups.


135 lbs. at 6'0"? Wow. I’m 6', and when my weight got down to 140lbs, it was obviously unhealthy. Didn’t have enough in me to keep me going, really. Currently at 165, and ok there. Trying to get to ~180.


could also eat lots of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches


Peanut butter and jelly is horrible for you. Peanut butter just has a bunch of sugar in it.


That may be true for some brands. Smuckers (the kind in my fridge) contains only peanuts and salt.


As it is the brand in mine but a lot of people eat that trash, Jiffy, or Skip for example, and you might as well just each a candy bar at that point.


You keep saying this, but if you browse the Peanut Butter's here http://caloriecount.about.com/calories-j-m-creamy-natural-pe...

You'll find that most commercial peanut butters only have 2g or so more of sugar per serving then their natural counterparts.


The serving size for peanut butter is also around 2T (~30g) so that 2g of sugar is basically going to double the sugar content of the serving...


Yeah but 3g is < 10% of the 40g of recommended sugar in a day and way less then the 50g in a Snickers bar.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_daily_recommended_inta...


My guilty snack - peanut butter and nutella sandwiched between two tortillas.

I call it the Tortilla Abomination.


A very interesting typo-- Jif or Skippy, I think you mean.


I'd be more worried about the partially hydrogenated soybean oil isn't so great.


Don't forget the rule of moderation esp. with milk.




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