My cousin eats normally and does not gain weight…Is his metabolism too fast and what can he do to gain some pounds
dukie
I am 6’4" tall, and I weigh 160lbs. I have been trying to gain weight since I was a teenager.
Has your cousin been to a doctor? That should be his first stop.
(assuming he’s healthy) The only healthy way to do it, in my experience, is to lift weights. Any person, no matter what their metabolism, can gain muscle mass–trying to gain fat is useless and not particularly smart. A good, hard workout regimen concentrated on resistance training (done right, of course–he should get some professional advice) will work.
I have this problem too.
In college, when I was working out religiously 5 days a week and eating like a horse (+ weight gain shakes), I maxed out at 150 lbs. I am 6’ even. I got stronger (benching 230 lbs), but I could never increase in size or weight.
Eventually, I gave up trying, and I am still sitting at my ‘normal’ weight of 145 lbs. Maybe when I turn 30 or 35, I’ll finally gain that ‘manly muscle’ (read: fat) I’ve been trying to gain. Otherwise, I’m open to any suggestions. 
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O p a l C a t
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“I can’t gain weight” is not a legitimate complaint. When I am Galactic Overlord (vote for me in 2000), people who say this will be locked up.
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Now, now, people—we should have a Christian attitude about this. You know: “Hate the thin, but not the thinner.”
I have trouble believing people who complain about this too much.
By the way, how can I get myself less intelligent and devastatingly handsome? No matter what I do it seems I’m just incredibly sexy. It’s such a problem…
Your machine has proved scientifically that there’s an ancient demon locked within her.
Well, here’s how it works. Somewhere out in the world, is a person born at the exact second you were born, who is your weight mate (kind of like a “soul mate”, only different). If you are of “normal” weight, so is your weight mate. If you are thin, you are psionically forcing all that missing weight onto your weight mate. If you are overweight, your weight mate has been forcing his/her extra weight onto you. To lose weight, what you need to do is either discover how to psionically reverse the connection with your weight mate and thus reverse the weight flow between the two of you. Either that, or track that person down and force-feed him/her Twinkies (due to their unique molecular makeup, Twinkie weight cannot be transferred in this way), until he she promises to stop.
I’m with OpalCat. Anybody who has this “problem” is cordially invited to bite me.
-LabRat
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Hey, hey, there, I used to suffer with this problem so lighten up there would ya?
It’s not fun to be under weight. For one thing, people hate you, for another, everybody watches you stuff your face. And God forbid you bump yourself, ouch, huge bruise. Oh yeah, that’s what every woman wants, bits instead of parts! I have been among the stick beings and it’s not pretty.
That said, I returned from an extended visit to Asia, lost that 5lbs needed to keep people from thinking you are anorexic! Assumed both my SO and self would bulk up like always just from eating pizza and cheese, and fries, etc. Well it worked for him but I was still painfully underweight. And sick of being loathed by every normal weight human being. Went to the doctor, asked for steroids, she told me to get lost. My beer bellied friend suggested I try his diet. Every day I met him after work and had a beer, a lite beer. It took six weeks and I put on 7lbs! I’m an abstainer so I really had to choke back the beer some days. They tried to get me to drink stout but I couldn’t stomach it.
I eventually altered my metabolism back to normal by giving up cigarettes. Shocking to think it had this effect on my whole body for over 15yrs!
More shocking still, when I went out amongst my friends I truly expected that I would be praised for my obvious weight gain. After all I had listened to years and years of abuse about my skin and bones. No one said a word. I was astounded. I mean I have actual breasts now and an ass and everything. And I’m not afraid to use them either. I was sooo proud. To be met with nothing but stoney silence. Late into the evening I eventually asked someone why they hadn’t said something. And they all said, “Oh, we noticed you had put on weight - but we didn’t want to say anything!”
I’m sorry, but how sick and twisted is that?
That’s when I knew I couldn’t win the whole weight thing. No one can win the whole weight thing.
Hating people for being thin is no better than hating people for being black, or fat, or ignorant.
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Wow, that’s the wittiest thing I’ve heard in a while (interepting it to mean “hate the thin, but not the merely thinner than you”).
I have the same problem… I’m 5’8" and weigh 115… but I eat a lot…
and I heard stories about people who work out when they’re like me who gain about 5 pounds of muscle mass but then start to lose more weight…
A friend of mine had trouble gaining weight as a teen up too his late 20’s. He ate like a horse and stayed skinny, no amount of weight training helped to build “bulk”.
Later, (after a trip to his Dr. for stomach pain) it was discovered he had a degenerative disease in his intestines. It severly limited the amount of nutrients he could absorb from his food. In essence he starved, no matter how much he ate.
This condition nearly cost him his life. Six months of hospitalisation (not all at once) and a stint wearing a colostomy bag relieved him of most of his life savings. (and a good portion of his intestinal tract) If not for insurance, he would be thousands in debt.
On a more pleasant note, after the docs finished carving him up and sewing the peices together, he is finaly able to bulk up a bit with weight training. Though he has no assurance the condition will not recur.
Moral,
If you have abnormal weight patterns see a Doctor.
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I eat crap. That’s mostly my problem. Coupled with genetics.
I don’t know what I weigh (and we don’t talk in pounds here anyways) but I’m skinny as a rake.
However, I don’t have any desire to gain weight (others desire me to, though - mostly motherly types who like to bake) I just wonder at all these people who are so concerned about theirs. Despite all the crappy things that are in my life, I am grateful for at least not having an overweight problem, because it sure seems to stress a lot of people out!
(Another thing that I wonder: Why do so many people hate comments made about their size, demand that they be treated equally no matter what their weight, then say ‘I wish I was thinner’ and go on a diet?)
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Near as I can tell, it’s probably a combination of factors. BTW, the only experience I’m speaking from is my own. Until my early 20’s, I couldn’t gain weight no matter how much I ate. Now, I’m going to join a gym again to lose 10-15 pounds. 
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Metabolism. A high metabolism will burn off a lot of energy. However, this alone won’t make up all of the difference.
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Does not eat a lot at any one sitting. When I had troubles gaining weight, I wouldn’t eat nearly as much at any one sitting as my friends would. I would try to keep up (especially when there were good desserts out there) but I would simply get filled far too quickly to eat anywhere near the amount of food that my friends ate. I would, however, eat more often - and this gave me the reputation that I was constantly hungry and constantly eating. However, when I did eat, I didn’t eat as much.
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Physical activity. When I was having troubles gaining weight, I was still in high school / college and had to either walk or bike to school. Now, I take the subway to go anywhere…
FWIW, I had mixed results with going to the gym to gain weight. In college, I went almost every day for about a year and gained about 2-3 pounds during that whole time. I was pretty well defined, however.
A year or two after college, I joined the gym again and had a similar experience for the first four months. Then, all of a sudden, I got unbelievably hungry and started eating about 5-6 meals a day. Within a one month period, I gained about 15 pounds.
Since then, I stopped going to the gym and have gained another 20 pounds… I miss the days when it was difficult to gain weight.
Brian
5’11" and hovering around 135lb. Nyah nyah nyah
I really don’t know why I’m so thin. It seems to run in my family, so maybe it’s my metabolism. I eat a lot, though, and I eat unhealthily. And I spend all day sitting in front of this computer. In theory, I should be huge. I’ve always just assumed I had an intestinal parasite or something.
``You’re just an empty cage girl if you kill the bird.’’ – Tori Amos.
There are some medical conditions that cause this. Celiacs, some people with food allergies, lactose intollerant, diabetics, and people with hyper-thyroids will often have trouble gaining or maintaining weight until they have their condition under control. The rest just have a high metabolism I guess.