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Have these friends of yours tried talking to e.g. a powerlifting or bodybuilding coach? It's pretty easy to get on a structured low-effort diet to gain weight,
by avar 10y ago
Have these friends of yours tried talking to e.g. a powerlifting or bodybuilding coach? It's pretty easy to get on a structured low-effort diet to gain weight, and muscle mass with some exercise thrown in.
Getting above 1500 calories isn't some desperate effort of "spend[ing] every waking moment stuffing in high-calorie food". It's a couple of protein shakes a day that take you a couple of minutes to prepare & slurp down.
Eating enough can be a very difficult logistical problem, but not at the 1500 calorie level, but at something like a >5000 calorie level where you're a professional strongman or powerlifter, or someone like Michael Phelps eating 8000 calories a day.
- nxc18 10y agoHe was drinking lots of protein shakes... It wasn't that he was maxing out at 1500, it is that he didn't seem to want much more than that. With the amount of protein shakes and other things he was eating, anyone else would have gained fat at the very least. He lifted, too, but he wasn't that dedicated, so idk.
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- avar 10y agoSounds like your friend went through a half-assed ad-hoc diet & exercise program, which unsurprisingly didn't yield results. Extracting any useful data from "I have friends who..." is impossible. People are notoriously bad at self-evaluating things like their food intake or exercise regiment, and on top of that they're prone to present themselves in a good light. You'll find few people who'll say "Yeah I could have lost/gained weight, but I lack the dedication and impulse control to manage my diet & exercise", even though that may be the description that best explains the situation.
- dekhn 10y agoprotein shakes are the opposite of what you want if you are trying to gain weight.