Monday, August 4, 2008

New Gain Weight Plan

Last night I cried my eyes out because I'm tired of looking like a little boy so I've made a firm decision to revamp my diet so that I can gain weight . Luckly I was at the store the other day and discovered that they have a nutritional drink like Ensure but it is made from soy YeAH! That means I can be a full vegan now. *Applause is needed here* But this is not the only change I am making. After reading a few articles around the net, I've learned that to gain weight healthily I need to eat more period but a bulk of my diet needs to incorporate more greens for nutrition and protein purposes. Adding nuts, seeds, and oil will also help the weight pour on more quickly until I am at a desired weight.


So here's how I've done so far today:



  • 5:45 -I had one of the new soy nutritional drinks. I basically chugged it because I felt thirsty. It has lots of sugar(26g) and my body doesn't react well to sugar so I laid down and went back to sleep.



  • 8:00-Woke up again at around 7 but didn't eat until 8. I had a raw burrito made out of Kale, avocado, dates, walnuts, and shredded coconut. It was delicious! I also drank half of another soy drink.



  • 10:35- Midmorning snack of five cherries and the rest of the soy drink.



  • 1:30-After a little strole to get bananas, I ate a eggless egg salad sandwich with spinach, onion, avocado, a fig I hijacked from a fig tree (they are pictured below) I saw while on my grocery strole (sorry I couldn't resist:)) and surprise! surprise! another soy nutritional drink. As of now though I'm starting to think that drinking so much of the nutritional supplement isn't going to work very well. It makes me jittery so I'm going to stick to two a day from now on.


  • 5:23 -Wasn't very hungry but ate a little snack of 1/4 cup raspberrys and 1/4 cup soyyogurt.


  • 7:30-Yummy salad for dinner with kale, avocado, corn, beets, pear, and more soy nutritional poison(after this one I felt like I was going to be sick)


  • 9:00- A bit late to be eating and wasn't hungry but ate a banana with peanut butter cause I know I need the calories


It was a pretty good day I would say despite the sugar shock caused by the soy drinks. I consumed approximately 1,843 calories according to thedailyplate.com which is off from my goal of 2,271 to gain .5 pounds a week but it is a step forward. Its the most I've eaten in a long time. I guess I should celebrate a bit YEA! I will make it my goal to eat more calories tomorrow.