How to slow down your metabolism?!
How to slow down your metabolism?
I am trying to gain weight. I eat 3 times a day, a lot of protein, drink protein shakes and shakes with lots of calories. I am wondering if there is any other way I can put on a few pounds.
Answers:
Try not only protein and calories, but look for carbohydrates too! Bread, Rice, Pasta; many sources for our starchy friend! Good luck!
eat late at night and eat plenty of fried foods. also eat lots of bread and potatoes.
If you eat so much proten, take advantage of it and start lifting weight so that protein could build some muscle, it will not do that without exercise.
Add more complex carbs to your diet too so they could be used for energy while protein is used to build the muscle otherwise that protein is broken down and used for energy instead. You have to balance your diet
better.
well, to put it easily, you remember the food pyramid? Well, take the food pyramid and make the smallest part bigger and the big parts smaller. That will be the pyramid you go by. Actually, screw that. Just eat, eat, eat! Screw wasting time seeing how unhealthy. While you read about it, the food already in you is being metabolised. So eat and forget anything else. Also, let me suggest the following, they seem to work the fastest:
Pizza
Beer
Cake
Pie
Candy
Red Meat <================ Fastest weight gainer
pretty much anything chocolate
Pepsi
Dr. Pepper<================ Best Drink
Vault
Chips
Cookies
And anything else you can find
My aunt has the same problem as you. they told her to drink Ensure and eat a tablespoon of peanut butter with each meal. she gained almost 10 pounds in 1 month. (she also ate a lot of fudge round lunch cakes)
Eating 3 times a day is fine but it would be even better if you ate 6 times a day, so you can eat more calories throughout the day. Just space everything out throughout the day so you can have room to eat all of it. Increase your portion sizes. If you want to have a good body and put on a few pounds, you should also try weight lifting. If you can build up some lean muscle mass, it can add weight without the fat.
I don't suggest you eat a lot of protein or drink the shakes. Believe it or not but it's a myth that eating protein and drinking those shakes will help you bulk up muscle wise. The only scientifcally proven way to build lean muscle is to exercise and do weight lifting. When you lift weights, you're actually tearing muscule tissue so new muscle tissue must replace it, therefore you build muscle. People think that taking protein supplements and eating protein will help because it's actually a mental thing or like a placebo effect. What happens is that a lot of body builders will take protein supplements thinking it will help...at the same time, they aren't realizing that it's not the protein that's making them bulk up. It's the extra hours they spend at the gym. They will spend say 3-4 hours at the gym lifting weights while the average person will only spend an hour or two there.
My recommendation (well, it's set by the RDA) for protein is to eat 0.8 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight. (1 kilogram is equal to 2.2 pounds). So, for example if you weigh 130 pounds, divide that by 2.2 and you get about 59 pounds. Multiply that by 0.8. This number (about 47) is the number of grams of protein you should eat a day. If you're an athelete, you should be eating 1.2-1.5 grams of protein a day.
I don't suggest you eating more of what's recommended or that you should drink protein shakes. I mean it's not bad to drink the shakes but it's just that drinking them and eating protein will probably give you more protien than you need. Your body can only use so much protein. The excess that it can't use will just go through a process called Deamination, where it basically just gets filtered out through the kidneys and you just pee it out. So, if you're consuming more protein than your body can use, you're just wasting your money on buying it. Also you should be careful because eating way too much protein can lead to calcium exertion...that means you could get osteoporosis or kidney/liver disease.
Food reccomendations for protein- The best protein I'd say comes from egg whites. You can also eat lean meats such as chicken breasts, turkey, or fish. If you don't eat meat, you can get your protein from soy products (example- tofu) or beans. Just watch what you eat because even though you want to gain weight, you don't want to gain a lot of it in fat. I suggest you eating about 50% of your diet in carbs, 30% protein, and 20% fat. Don't be afraid of carbs. Your body actually prefers carbs over protein and fat as its source of energy. For your carbs, it's best to stick to whole grains for the many benefits it has such as for fiber (good for the digestive system) and it's heart healthy. I've mentioned protein already. For your fats, avoid trans fat (the worst of all fats) and saturated fats (those coming from animal products or tropical oils). Aim for the unsaturated fats. Monounsaturated fats are heart healthy. The best known example of this is olive oil. Polyunsaturated fats are fine too. They just don't benefit you like monounsaturated fats but they will not harm you either, as long as you're not over eating it.
It may also help if you calculate your BMR. Based on that number you can increase your calories you consume, so you have a better idea of how much you should be eating. A quick and easy way to calculate your basic energy needs is to take your body weight (in pounds) and divide it by 2.2 (this converts your weight to kilograms. Take this number and multiply it by 24 if you're male or 22 if you're female. This tells you how many calories you should eat a day to maintain your weight. Since you want to gain weight, add about 200-300 more calories to it.
Another good tip would be to drink your fluids between meals, not with them, so that you can save room for higher calorie foods. So, to gain weight, you should basically do the opposite of what someone would do to lose weight. Just keep in mind that your fats should be unsaturated. Fats have 9 calories per gram, whereas carbs and protein only have 4 calories per gram. With that being said, fats won't fill you up as quickly as carbs, so you can eat more and gain more calories, whereas carbs fill you up fast with smaller amounts. Do you like to drink socially? Well, alcohol has 7 calories per gram. So, have a glass of wine with dinner or something similar. Just don't over drink yourself! haha Anyway, I hope I helped.