Carbohydrates: The Power of Food to Help You Gain Weight

In order to ensure you have enough energy to go through the day without feeling fatigued, you should keep your blood sugar level steady. This means you should spike your blood sugar level once a day and that is only done in the morning for breakfast. All your meals should contain carbohydrates, such as bagels, bread, pasta, rice, and potatoes. Having these highly complex carbohydrates ensures your body will have energy for the next three to four hours, which means by then you should be consuming your next meal. The portions of the meal also need to be kept the same throughout the day so that by then you will be able to deliver the next dose of "fuel" for your body. The reason for not eating a big meal is because your body can only absorb so many nutrients at one time; anything more will simply be passed out of your system.

80% of people who go to the gym do not consume a carbohydrate meal after their workout. This causes your muscles to run on an empty tank and that means your body will find fuel from other places, including breaking down other muscles, burning your fat deposits, and also depriving the muscles that worked out from protein by breaking it into energy to be used. This results in a very slightly change in your weight or muscle gains and this makes gaining muscle mass or weight simply too difficult. The habit I developed over my 2 years of trying to gain weight is to drink milk after my workout and head to the nearest food center near my gym and eat a plate of chicken rice. This ensures that the protein is there for my muscles to use for repair, as well as carbohydrates to replace the depleted glycogen storage for my muscles.

It is normal to gain a bit of fat when you are trying to gain weight or muscles. This simply means that your diet could be slightly too much for your body and this results in your body storing it as fat. Having a healthy level of 10-15% of fat in your body for males and 20-30% of fat for females ensures that your immune system is not deprived of the essential vitamins and minerals which use fat as their main transport around your body. Having a lower fat percentage results in a weaker immune system and a higher chance of falling ill, resulting in damaging weight loss.


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