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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 10728" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>What she needs is to eat a healthy, balanced diet. Junk will put on fat but not in a healthy way. She needs to put on muscle, mainly. Her body will put on its own fat from any excess calories, she doesn't have to eat fat to gain fat.</p><p></p><p>I recommend, to gain weight healthily - increase carbs (complex, not simple sugars). Eat more bread, potatoes, pasta etc. Eat more eggs in various forms (such as whole egg pasta - easy to make yourself, it's just egg and plain flour, no added liquid, until it's like stiff Play-Doh). Gnocchi is a fabulous recipe - cold mashed potato and egg (one egg to about a handful of mash) then flour to make small dumplings. Throw them into boiling water, then let them cook for about 30 seconds after they are floating, scoop them out and serve immediately with butter. This is a quick, easy recipe with carbs and protein. Tastes like junk food and is great comfort food.</p><p>Or risotto - great for the weight gain in a healthy way.</p><p></p><p>Breakfast is important, though. easy child 2/difficult child 2 makes a fruit smoothie or a banana smoothie. The fruit one - no milk at all, but lots of fruit and a raw egg. The banana smoothie - lots of milk, a banana and a raw egg. And a multi-B vitamin pill also works wonders.</p><p></p><p>She doesn't need to gain a lot of weight, just enough to look healthy. Exercise is also very good as it will build muscle, which is heavier than fat. She will also need more protein in her diet to build her working muscles, and carbs to feed them. Fibre and vitamins to help balance her and lots of water to keep everything working well. Don't overdo the salt or processed foods - they make you tired, sometimes too tired to eat properly. And then it all gets difficult again.</p><p></p><p>I hope you can help. We're working on this with difficult child 3 at the moment.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 10728, member: 1991"] What she needs is to eat a healthy, balanced diet. Junk will put on fat but not in a healthy way. She needs to put on muscle, mainly. Her body will put on its own fat from any excess calories, she doesn't have to eat fat to gain fat. I recommend, to gain weight healthily - increase carbs (complex, not simple sugars). Eat more bread, potatoes, pasta etc. Eat more eggs in various forms (such as whole egg pasta - easy to make yourself, it's just egg and plain flour, no added liquid, until it's like stiff Play-Doh). Gnocchi is a fabulous recipe - cold mashed potato and egg (one egg to about a handful of mash) then flour to make small dumplings. Throw them into boiling water, then let them cook for about 30 seconds after they are floating, scoop them out and serve immediately with butter. This is a quick, easy recipe with carbs and protein. Tastes like junk food and is great comfort food. Or risotto - great for the weight gain in a healthy way. Breakfast is important, though. easy child 2/difficult child 2 makes a fruit smoothie or a banana smoothie. The fruit one - no milk at all, but lots of fruit and a raw egg. The banana smoothie - lots of milk, a banana and a raw egg. And a multi-B vitamin pill also works wonders. She doesn't need to gain a lot of weight, just enough to look healthy. Exercise is also very good as it will build muscle, which is heavier than fat. She will also need more protein in her diet to build her working muscles, and carbs to feed them. Fibre and vitamins to help balance her and lots of water to keep everything working well. Don't overdo the salt or processed foods - they make you tired, sometimes too tired to eat properly. And then it all gets difficult again. I hope you can help. We're working on this with difficult child 3 at the moment. Marg [/QUOTE]
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