I am really underweight (BMI of 16.8) but I just can't gain weight, what do I do?

Question

I am freakishly skinny, I scare myself, I am like a toothpick...and I'm sick of it. I am way too tired of someone yelling out to me "hey, go eat some fires skinny", "I'm going to snap you in half like a toothpick", or being called anorexic. I eat normally (well, not as healthy as I should) but I eat proper portions...I eat the same as everyone else, sometimes even more. I have tried the eat nothing but junk food diet, I gain just a few pounds, but the minute I stop I loose the weight again. Then when I had appendicitis and had to go to emergency the doctors were pounding me with questions because they though I had an eating disorder. During that hospital stay (about 2 years ago) I lost 15 pounds (SO I WAS LIKE 123 POUNDS [I'm 6'4"])...at that point I looked like I was going to fall over and die I was so skinny. But within a week or two I gained the weight back, but no more then before. I don't know what to try...I'm a teenager, but still WAY skinnier than everyone else.

The doctor said last time I was their I'm perfectly healthy, just extremely skinny.

And in school they are really pushing the exercise to get kids to LOOSE WEIGHT. But I don't need that. The PE program at my school is actually making me loose weight, and to compensate I have to eat more.

Answer 1

send me ur email, i'll send u a pdf of a guy that was supposedly the strongest man in the world and had like a perfect body, in it he explains wat to eat and how to exercise

Answer 2

Sweety all my life i was made fun of cuz of my weight, all i ate was junk food. At 15 had son at 8lbs, 2 weeks later 105lbs. Four yrs later 2weeks b4 daughter born weighed no more then 126lbs. Started hear'n ur so lucky to be thin, not bout thin little did they know. Burrrr at 72* i still felt cold, at 80* it was over i was pass'n out cuz i was fatigue. I was 104lbs a week b4 my thirtyfirst bday, and i heard that ENSURE PLUS a malt like drink had been given to elderly people to help when missing meal amoungst othr things. So i started on my bday this past september, 1 can a day. I now am at 140lbs, but careful i stopped a month or so ago now i cant loss it..... sheesh the dilema lol good luck

Answer 3

I have a BMI of 17- which for a 35 year old woman is freakishly skinny believe me....
I've been trying to put on weight too....
so I take a b complex....it makes me hungry, and thats the only way I can stand too eat enough to put on weight.

Let me ask you this....being that tall and that skinny....when you make a fist does the tip of your thumb extend past the edge of your hand? can you wrap your fingers sround your wrist? Is your wing span (from middle finger tip to middle finger tip with your arms outstretched) wider than you are tall?

If so, ask your doctor if you might have marfans syndrome....
Its rare, and most doctors wouldnt know to look for it, except maybe a rhumatologist, or orthopedic.

Good luck
Oh - and learn to like pie - it has like 300 cals a slice.

Answer 4

You've got really high metabolism. I know a guy who last year ate nothing but a big bowl of some pasta dish and like 10 different appetizers then this dessert for like 6 people all to himself and he's like around your height and really skinny...and he has really high metabolism. As you get older you may loose some of your metabolism. Thats what happend to me.

Answer 5

Maybe you should go to GNC and get some weight gainer. Let the guy at the store know your problem and he'll get you the stuff you need. There are plenty of things you can get there that have a lot of calories and vitamins/nutrients.

Answer 6

let me help your with ur weight problem

i use to be like you when i was 15 i hear something in the gym from a bodybuilder he told me to try eat 6 meals a days your six meal is not rice rice rice n rice try not eat all rice eat meet or slack n other this that full ur body and your last meal shd eat before your sleep

Answer 7

eat McDonald's, potatoes will make you fat too)))