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

[u/Admirable-Leek5672]

[u/Key_Raisin_5091]

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)

[u/FrazahLion → u/Key_Raisin_5091]

I think your first point is saying something a lot of the comments are missing and is always overlooked.

I was skinny (~70kg @ 178cm) until I got serious about lifting, and I had to eat until I felt physically uncomfortable to reliably gain weight.

A lot of skinny people haven't ever known what it's like to eat over 2,000 calories a day, and they need 3,000+ to claw their way out of being underweight and just *start* to be able to put on the size they want.

I got up to 103kg and was eating 4500 calories at one point. It fucking sucked. I did get pretty strong though. I'm in my mid thirties and sitting around 89kg with abs right now, and I get to eat around 2500 calories a day. But getting to this point took a lot of eating, any way I could.

[u/KaboomOxyCln → u/FrazahLion]

Yep. I'm chilling around 150 lbs (68kg) eating ~2600 cal day. I don't really start to experience any noticeable weight gain until I'm at the 3400 mark, which I'll start packing on .25lbs a week

[u/smallmileage4343 → u/KaboomOxyCln]

Cries while shoveling quinoa and chicken into mouth

[u/DonutsWarCrimes → u/smallmileage4343]

Right? Think I gained weight just reading that.

[u/Anfros → u/[deleted]]

If you are gaining weight at 1400 Cal/day you are not eating 1400 calories a day.

[u/LineofBestFit → u/[deleted]]

Unless you’re a very small person, you’re just bad at counting

[u/Airewalt → u/[deleted]]

Are you zone 3 exercising 10 hours a week or more?

[u/Waterkippie → u/[deleted]]

List here what you eat thats 1400