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@Thunder @Bru:

I'm 6ft 3 and weight under 11 stone (usually 10.5, but never reaching 11)

I've been trying to gain weight for ages now. I changed my diets, full of proteins and carbohydrates, made sure I always consumed more energy than I lost. But no matter what I've done, I never gain any weight. If anything I just lose what little muscle mass I do have (last christmas I lost 1/2 a stone >.<)

Diet is important, but for me it does nothing. Don't really know what will >.<

 

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PS: What type of food doesn't actually matter, as long as you consume more energy than you lose you should put it in as fat, which is how the excess energy is stored. Working off said energy gives muscle I think.

 

[Bruenin]

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Thats kinda weird
Have you tried moving to America?

 

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@Bru: Went to Florida once (the year Katrina hit, that was bad timing). THe portions are ridiculous. Went to an iHop. Ordered breakfast, bluberry pancakes. They were nice. The plate was huge and the pancakes filled it. There were 3 of them too. Probably about the circumference of a steering wheel of a small car, and about 1-1.5 centimeters thick each.

Only managed about half of that.

And it's not weird, it's biology (Or at least the little bit of it I remember before dropping that subject) =P

 

[Bruenin]

PS: What type of food doesn't actually matter, as long as you consume more energy than you lose you should put it in as fat, which is how the excess energy is stored. Working off said energy gives muscle I think.

Usually people who are overweight are sensitive to insulin. When you eat carbohydrates your body makes insulin, the extra sensitivity to it causes kind of a hunger spike and they eat more than they need and gain weight. It repeats and everyones fat.

Btw I'm talking out of memory, of something I read from a cracked article so you might not want to take all that too seriously

 

[Bruenin]

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Okay so its not weird, i'm sowwy

 

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PS: What type of food doesn't actually matter, as long as you consume more energy than you lose you should put it in as fat, which is how the excess energy is stored. Working off said energy gives muscle I think.

Usually people who are overweight are sensitive to insulin. When you eat carbohydrates your body makes insulin, the extra sensitivity to it causes kind of a hunger spike and they eat more than they need and gain weight. It repeats and everyones fat.

Btw I'm talking out of memory, of something I read from a cracked article so you might not want to take all that too seriously

You're probably right, albeit missing a few things. Don't know enough about Insulin to correct you at all though.

I do know that fat itself causes you to be fat. Learnt it in psychology not long ago. I can't remember the chemical, but when you gain abdominal fat, a chemical is produced that then travels to the brain. It them stimulates part of the brain responsible for eating. Probably the Lateral Hypothalomus or the VMH (Ventromedial Hypothalomus or something like that XP). That then causes you to eat more, producing more fat cells, stimulating your brain, causing eating, etc etc. I know a few other psychological reasons for eating, specifically leading to obesity.

 

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@Bru: Oh hell yes! The food over there just made me feel sick tbh >.< There was no joy in eating it, just... eww
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I liked your pancakes though... >.>

@Besto: Apparently i'm about 8.5 stone, and i'm 5'11, and apart from being born twice the average weight I have been very thin for all of my life :3 Not something i've ever really thought of as a problem though, I figured that since wveryone elsse in my family seems to blow up when they're 30 I probably will too...

 

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@Thunder: I was an extremely fat baby!

And I wouldn't say being thin is a problem, more just extremely annoying for me. I bruise easily, veins stick out of my hands/arms, I'm not all that comfortable and stick limbs just seem to be everywhere.

It's just annoying enough for me to want to change it. But even if I stay this way I'm fine.

 

[Bruenin]

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All i eat is that processed stuff, I feel like my tastes are getting numbed down, had a salad and the lettuce was kinda mush, fries arn't crispy only mushy, toast isn't really toasted only mushy..

No one here cooks,and the pizza place gave us a pie for thanksgiving we show up so often
[small]Its starting to ruin pizza for me when I have to eat it 4 times a week[/small]

 

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@Bru:

But you got to eat your vegeatables XD

Even if it is 4 times a week XD!

 

[Bruenin]

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lol
[small][sub]Not really laughing out loud[/sub][/small]

I love veggies, just not the pizza kind
[small]mushy, oily, no flavor pizza[/small]

 

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@Bru: I still can't get over you over in Americaland have classed pizza as a vegeatable now XD

And you know, you could probably make home made pizza. It's really easy to do, and (can be) quite a lot healthier too. And food you make yourself always tastes better in my opinion.

 

[Thundero13]

@Besto: Yeah, that's pretty much how I am too
@Bru: Oh really? Well...
[HEADING=1]THATS WHY YOU SHOULD MOVE TO IRELAND! =D[/HEADING]
If ya do i'll make you big tasty 6 course meal... spread over a day

 

[Thundero13]

@Bru: I still can't get over you over in Americaland have classed pizza as a vegeatable now XD

And you know, you could probably make home made pizza. It's really easy to do, and (can be) quite a lot healthier too. And food you make yourself always tastes better in my opinion.

YOU JUST SAID HOMEMADE PIZZA IS EASY TO DO! I DEMAND THAT YOU TELL ME HOW THE FUCK TO MAKE PIZZA DOUGH! TELL ME NOW!

 

[Bruenin]

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It'd probally take me a bit to cook it by myself and ingrediants will be difficult to get

 

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@Bru: I still can't get over you over in Americaland have classed pizza as a vegeatable now XD

And you know, you could probably make home made pizza. It's really easy to do, and (can be) quite a lot healthier too. And food you make yourself always tastes better in my opinion.

YOU JUST SAID HOMEMADE PIZZA IS EASY TO DO! I DEMAND THAT YOU TELL ME HOW THE FUCK TO MAKE PIZZA DOUGH! TELL ME NOW!

STICK FLOUR AND SHIZZ INTO BREAD MACHINE, SET TO PIZZA BASE SETTING, LET IT GO NUTS, DONE!

(Helps to have a bread maker with pizza dough setting )

Or you could just go to a super market and get a premade base. I do that when I'm lazy =P

 

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It'd probally take me a bit to cook it by myself and ingrediants will be difficult to get

Ingredients? Nah

Cheese, ham, pineapple, tomato puré. Hawiian pizza.

bell pepers, mushrooms and gherkins optional but lush :3

 

[Bruenin]

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Yeah but I can't really get to a store, my parents don't want to leave the house when they get in it. I'm still trying to get them to take me clothes shopping, i've been on the waiting list for over half a month

 

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@Besto:
Don't have a bread machine, can't see myself investing in one, buying a pizza base ruins the point
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And what about the tomato part? You can't really use puree because there ain't enough of it and passata makes it too sweet, as does chopped tomatoes...