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Vegetarian Diet to increase body weight

Hi Mam, I am Prasad. I am a student, I want to increase my body weight with in three months could you please suggest me a vegetarian diet?
(28 Jul 2008)

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Since you have not indicated what is your current weight or the amount of weight you want to increase, it will be difficult to provide a tailor-made diet for you. You have also not indicated your age or your height. These are the factors that help decide how much your weight should be. Also, increasing your weight within just three months is not a healthy option. Increasing weight should be slow and steady process.

However, since you want to increase your weight, here is generic list of the kind of diet you can follow. Increase your intake of foods rich in carbohydrates. Apart from being a rich source of energy, carbohydrates are also the ones that are responsible for making us gain weight. You will therefore need to eat more carbohydrates than normal. This would include foods like bread, rice, potatoes, cookies, bananas, biscuits, beans, lentils, and so on. You will also need to increase you intake of milk and milk products like cheese, butter, yogurt, ice-creams and even pastries. Also, do not forget to include foods rich in proteins, vitamins and minerals. Proteins are the ones that help the body to build muscles. Since you want to gain weight, you will also need to exercise. This is where a healthy intake of proteins will help you. Also make it a point to include a wide variety of nuts such as almonds, pistachio, cashew nuts, walnuts, and pecan to your diet. Have a tall glass of banana milkshake every morning for breakfast. Bananas really help to gain weight.

As mentioned earlier, in order to gain weight, apart from a carbohydrate and protein rich diet, you will also need to exercise. Contrary to popular belief, exercise is not meant for just losing weight. You need to exercise in order to gain weight as well. Exercise helps us to develop our muscles. Our body mass is based on our muscles. An increase in our muscle increases our body mass. Exercise also improves our blood circulation. This in turn improves our appetite. If you start following a rich diet without doing any exercises, you will land up putting on 'unhealthy' weight as opposed to 'healthy' weight.

Your exercise could be in the form of doing weights in the gym, jogging, aerobics, or even some sport that you enjoy. Bottom line is, you need to exercise. Once again, this is a slow and steady process, so do not try to hurry it up.

answered by M S on 28 Jul 2008, 5:22:39

 

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