Leporello
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Hi, Randu. I was just browsing through this forum and your title caught my eye, because I am of the same height and used to be of a weight almost as low as yours: I weighed about 130 when I graduated from college, and was down to about 125 when I finally undertook to do something about my skinniness when I was in my thirties. (I had been going in the wrong direction by maintaining a low-fat diet and experimenting with vegetarianism.) The basics were (1) take in more calories and (2) lift weights. Taking in more calories was partly a matter of eating more at meals, but I had to supplement meals with weight-gain shakes in between. Go to a GNC or suchlike shop and check out the weight gainers. There are some that taste nasty, but I find Optimum Nutrition's products to be consistently palatable. If at some point you find that you are putting on fat -- it's not likely to happen initially with someone as thin as you, but it could happen eventually -- then either start replacing some of the weight gainer with protein powder or just have protein shakes. I use a whey protein powder. For the weight training itself, if you are starting from zero, I would say buy a book for beginners, learn some basic exercises, and do three or four workouts a week of 30-40 minutes' duration each. You should see visible gains within weeks. I think I put on two or three pounds a month for a while. I have heard of people making faster gains, but that is already pretty quick progress. Over a period of years, I went from about 125 to 160 pounds.
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