how many calories should a women consume a day to gain weight?

Answer 1

3,500 calories equal a pound
so, around that would be good for weight gain
as long as the foods your are consuming are not all fatty
consuming more calories [or energy] than you need in a day makes your body store those extra calories [or energy]
good luck =]

Answer 2

Im not sure if you should worry about the calories you need to eat, then you will start to get obsessed by calories and not by eating good food.

If your weight has been steady for a while - not going up or down, then just increase the portion size you eat and have a snack during the day. Avoid eating lots of fatty and 'unhealthy' foods, just eat a bit more and the weight will go on.

The actual calories you need is so variable depending on you and your lifestyle, for example, if you ran 3 miles a day then you would need to eat more than a sedentary person, similarly a thinner person would use the least, so best advise I can give is just to eat a little bit more, bigger portions or add an extra meal to your day

Answer 3

You need to work out your resting metabolic rate, the amount of extra energy you require for your activities and that will give you your calorific requirement to maintain your current mass. You then need to increase your calorific intake by the ammount you wish to gain and split it over the time you wish to gain the weight in.

As somebody above mentioned, this will work out at around 3,500 calories per week (500 per day) in order to gain one pound in a week. This is about the upper sensible limit over a prolonged period. You will probably find that the first few weeks elicit the greater response.

If you are very serious about gaining lean muscle mass, see a properly qualified dietician (one with an MSc, not some muppet with a weekend course certificate).

Answer 4

Work out your BMR - this is how many calories your body will burn without you participating in any activities.

Next, add 500 calories to this, this means you will be consuming an extra 3,500 calories a week, which will mean an extra pound on the scales each week.

Go easy on the cardio exercise, and if you must do it, make sure that you make up the calories difference. e.g. (BMR+500)+any burned through exercise.

You can calculate your BMR at http://www.bmi-calculator.net/bmr-calculator/

Good luck!

Answer 5

The answer is easy. If your data above is correct, then you must be burning off less than 2,500 worth of calories. Also, 52kg and 52.9 kg is not much of a difference at all. That could be a difference in the clothes you are wearing from one day to the next, or an error in your scale.

Answer 6

if you are counting calories now the easiest thing to do is to just increase your caloric intake by 10% each week until weight gain occurs. if you aren't counting calories now then start out by determining your BMR and add 500 cals on top of that. if there is no weight gain after a week then increase your caloric intake by 10% each week until weight gain occurs.

Answer 7

The average woman needs around 2000 calories a day.

Answer 8

Are you just sick of the normal diet plans had been right after the diet finish the additional lbs are just coming and coming following finish the diet? Are you knowledge the reality that once your physique will get employed to a diet then this diet program gets to be significantly less effective in excess of time since your body adjusts to compensate?

Answer 9

2000 is considered a normal calorie intake for a woman, so anything over that I guess.