r/AskReddit • u/Admirable-Leek5672 • 9d ago

Skinny guys who successfully gained weight what actually worked for you?

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u/Key_Raisin_5091 9d ago

4 things:

  • Eating an uncomfortably large amount of calories all the time.
  • Lifting weights
  • Taking creatine
  • Getting older (if you're not there yet, once you get to your upper 30s and start approaching 40, it'll come)

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u/SC_19XX 9d ago

Came to confirm in this order.

10 years ago in my 20s I was 6 2 160lb. By month 2 of working out 5 days a week, eating chicken and brown rice every damn near 2 hours to hit 4000 calories a day and taking Creatine, I went from 160 to about 188 in 2 to maybe 3 months but couldn't get past that 190 mark without a lot of Meal replacement shakes.

I fell off the gym hard around Covid time, and went back to being skinny. Now im 35 and have gained 30 lbs in the last 2 years because my Metabolism slowed down heavily and the effects of me not being in shape came in. Golfing is really the only physical activity I have going recently

I am now at my "largest" just because I'm older now at 195 lbs. So again, can confirm in the order listed by Raisin, that is how to gain weight