Effective Weight Gain Tips: Managing Hormones and Medications

Weight gain is frequently influenced by medications like Zoloft and hormonal changes after procedures such as a hysterectomy. Learn tips for gaining weight in specific areas while managing medical side effects.

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The Best Protein Powder for Gaining Muscle

You need extra protein when you're working out to gain muscle. But if you're getting tired of grilled chicken and boiled eggs you might consider taking a protein supplement.

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How to Gain Weight Around the Rib Cage

Visible ribs often make you look very thin, so it's natural to want to beef up this part of your torso when you're trying to gain weight. You can't dictate where your body puts on pounds, however. Healthy weight gain will fill you out proportionally, according to your genetic body shape.

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How to Build an Appetite for Weight Gain Naturally

Eating more is an obvious solution to being underweight, but if you have a weak appetite, it's not an easy one to implement. Certain medications, poor nutrition, food boredom and illness can cause you to lose your appetite.

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How to Gain Weight in the Chest

When you're underweight, your chest may appear slight or delicate, so it's not uncommon to want to build size in this region. Men with large, muscular chests look defined and strong; women with voluptuous breasts fill out a bikini top or a strapless dress.

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How to Gain Weight in a Month for Women

Being underweight can make you vulnerable to illness, contribute to feelings of fatigue and weakness, and upset your normal menstrual cycle. Gaining weight in a healthy way takes time, though. In a month, you can expect to add 2 to 4 pounds to your frame.

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How to Gain Weight in the Face

A slim face can make you look thinner than you'd like, especially if you also have an overly slender body frame. If your doctor has told you that weight gain would improve your health, adopt a healthy approach to adding pounds.

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How to Gain Weight for Teenagers

If being too thin makes you feel self-conscious or interferes with participation in high-school sports like football or hockey, sound strategies can help you gain pounds and achieve a weight that makes you feel better emotionally and physically, especially if your doctor has mentioned that it would benefit your health.

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Can You Gain Weight Just in the Breasts?

Plastic surgeons can let out a sigh of relief -- it's not possible to gain weight just in your breasts. The only way to physically change their shape is through augmentation surgery. You gain weight proportionally all over your body according to your body shape, not just in one area.

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How to Gain Weight but Not Stomach Fat

You can't choose where on your body you'll lose weight, and you can't choose where you'll gain it, either. However, maintaining healthy fats during weight gain can minimize fat gain in general.

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Gaining Weight on a Vegan Diet

When you follow a vegan diet, eggs, dairy, meat, fish and chicken -- as well as processed foods containing these ingredients -- disappear from your menu as you replace them with vegetables, nuts, seeds, beans and fruit.

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Healthy Tips to Gain Body Fat

Although obesity is a nationwide epidemic, some people need to gain weight to reach a healthy size. Weight gain may be required after illness or surgery. An older adult may unintentionally lose weight due to diminished appetite and food intake, subsequently experiencing poor health and frailty.

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Tips for a 14-Year-Old Boy Trying to Gain Weight

A boy's body undergoes enormous changes during his teen years, many of which can start as early as age 14. Boys start to gain weight, particularly muscle mass, and experience a broadening of the shoulders, deepening of the voice and development of facial hair.

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How to Eat to Gain Weight Before Training and Working Out

An active lifestyle helps you gain weight by stoking your appetite and building muscle. Resistance training is especially important in helping you to put on lean mass, which is a far healthier way to gain weight than adding just fat.

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How to Gain Weight in 10 Days

Ten days gives you time to start padding your meals with extra calories and to embark on a regular gym routine, but gaining more than 1 to 2 pounds so quickly is exceptionally challenging and not a smart step toward good health.

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How to Gain Weight in the Right Places

Whether you've lost weight due to an illness or surgery, or you just have a rapid metabolism, gaining weight requires you to consume more calories than you burn. Where that weight goes when you gain isn't entirely up to you.

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How to Gain Fat in Your Arms & Legs

Directing your body to gain fat in a particular area is impossible, because your body has a set pattern for weight gain that's genetically determined. If your arms and legs seem disproportionately thin, fill them out with healthy muscle tissue, rather than fat.

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