Petite Gains

Hi everyone

If you’re on this page, that probably means that you, like me, have tried many different things to gain weight. You’ve probably done all the Google searches and probably come to the same conclusion that I have — almost everything online is catered towards how to lose weight, what you’re doing wrong to lose weight, or how to avoid gaining weight. Very rarely do we find information for people who are actually trying to gain weight in a healthy way.

My entire life, I have struggled with weight gain. I have a very fast metabolism, sometimes referred to as hypermetabolism, and I also have a very high level of energy. Because of this, it has always been very difficult for me to gain and maintain a healthy weight. I have tried so many different things over the years, and some things worked, some didn’t, and some only worked temporarily.

So today, I just want to share a few things that I have personally found helpful for me. Keep in mind that everybody’s body is different. Something that works for me may not work for you, and something that works for you may not work for me. My biggest advice is to experiment and find what works best for your body. A lot of this journey really comes down to consistency and intentionality.

One thing that I have learned about myself is that I am not the kind of person who can consume all of my calories in just three meals a day. I cannot just eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner and expect to gain weight. By the time I get to lunch, I am starving, and by the time I get to dinner, I feel like I’m running on empty. So I have learned to split my meals into smaller portions throughout the day and aim for 2500+ calories.

For example, I will eat breakfast, but I will also make sure I have a high-calorie, high-protein snack between breakfast and lunch. Sometimes I will snack two or three times between meals. After lunch, I will also have another snack before dinner. I also make sure that I eat something before I go to bed. This helps prevent me from waking up in the middle of the night extremely hungry and searching the kitchen for something to eat.

One thing that has helped me a lot recently is making sure I always have easy snacks on hand. Some of my go-to snacks are protein bars, nuts, peanut butter, and high-protein meat sticks. I really like the small snack packs because they have enough protein to hold me over between meals, but they are lightweight so I don’t feel like I am eating heavy meals all day long.

Peanut butter is also a really good high-calorie snack. I personally love peanut butter with apples. Some people might think that sounds strange, but I really like it. Protein shakes are also one of the best things you can add to your day if you are trying to gain weight. You can pack a lot of calories and protein into a shake, and since it’s a liquid, you will usually feel hungry again in a few hours.

I will go into more detail in later posts about protein shakes that I like to make, breakfast ideas, and foods that I eat regularly to help me stay healthy and maintain or gain weight. I will also talk later about meal prepping and what I do for food when I am at work so that I can maintain healthy eating habits throughout the day.

But honestly, the biggest key in all of this is consistency. Consistency is really your saving grace when it comes to gaining weight. For me personally, I have noticed that I will gain a little bit of weight and then maintain that weight for a very long time. I cannot gain past that point unless I am extremely intentional and consistent with eating enough calories every single day.

I am a very petite person, and the heaviest I have ever been was around 120 pounds, and I am currently working my way back up to that. That is actually one of the main reasons I started writing this blog. This blog is not only meant to help others, but also to help hold myself accountable and stay consistent with my own goals.

One of the most frustrating things for me has always been trying to find information about gaining weight and seeing everything targeted toward losing weight instead. It can be very discouraging when you are looking for help and everything you find is meant for the opposite problem.

But if you are like me, there is hope. There are things that you can do. It just takes time, patience, and consistency. My goal with this blog is to share my journey, share what works for me, and hopefully help someone else along the way. Even if the end result is not just gaining weight, my ultimate goal for myself and for anyone reading this is simply to become the healthiest version of ourselves that we can be, to be happy in our own skin, and to learn to love ourselves as we are.