Trying to pick my weight up

[Aerows]

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I've lost a bit, and it isn't something I need to do. I ate pasta salad, but that just seems to make me depressed.

Anyone have any ideas about fruit or recipes that can perk up my mood and slow my metabolism down? I'm completely off caffeine and have never used drugs. I need a perk up that maybe doesn't involve too much sugar.

I can't run right now because I pulled a ligament

Maybe something hellatiously spicy would do the trick. I love spice and drool at the thought of a ghost pepper, even as I fear it, to give you an explanation .

EDIT: I drink I Iced Tea by the gallon, but it is decaffeinated and unsweetened.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. capsasin in hot peppers increases your metabalism

my go-to mood enhancer is Chocolate Brownie Thunder ice cream. Double scoop

[Aerows]

2. It does for me too, but it's a double edged blade

It helps me get amped up

[Aerows]

3. Tabasco, I grew them

and I live for the day I can eat a Bhut Jo

[Aerows]

4. harshest pepper ever

Long for it.

[Aerows]

5. Iced tea, and Milk.

I cook, but cant do much else.

[Aerows]

6. Thanks for taking care of me when I was sitting there getting bitten by drinks.

[Aerows]

7. Didn't mean to make you uncomfortable

[Viva_La_Revolution]

9. I was offline

we're all good

[eridani]

8. Your metabolism is what it is

Skinny folks can benefit a lot from upper body strength work--why not do what your schedule allows? More protein maybe? It need not be from animal sources.

[Aerows]

11. Protein is a necessity

I'm trying to find ways to incorporate protein in my diet, but if I cook, I have to cook for a person that is not allowed red meat . Which I probably need since I have iron deficiencies. I've tried black beans. Not sure where to go from there.

[NEOhiodemocrat]

16. I have an iron deficiency also

I was told to cook in a cast iron skillet, don't know if it works but I am trying it out! Figures it can't hurt.

[Aerows]

26. Does it really help?

I take Iron supplements and I'm a lot better than I was.

I didn't think cooking in an iron skillet did anything. Hell, if it did, my mother's cornbread should cure me

[guardian]

10. Nuts

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Try nuts: almonds, walnuts, pine nuts, pecans, etc. The always give me a nice slow, steady energy boost with no sugar crash.

[Aerows]

12. That's what I need - energy without a sugar crash

Thank you for the suggestion!

[GoCubsGo]

13. Peanut butter is good, too. And, hummus,

Look for the old-fashioned kind, without the sugar. Have it with an apple or banana. Hummus is made with chickpeas, which are loaded with protein and some good minerals. It makes a great dip for veggies, as well as pita bread or chips. You can also roast chickpeas, and eat them like nuts. Just google "roasted chickpeas". There are a ton of recipes out there. They make a nice, less expensive alternative to nuts.

I wish I had your problem. I have the slowest metabolism on the planet. Too bad we can't swap them for a few months.

[Aerows]

25. One is just as bad as the other LOL

I do like hummus, though I have a hard time finding it out here in the sticks. I made a big pot of a cross between chicken gumbo (no okra, so it isn't gumbo - I don't like okra) and paella (no seafood so it isn't paella, love seafood didn't have any), but it has a bunch of chicken, beans and other goodies in it that is eaten over rice.

[noamnety]

14. I would check out "occam's protocol"

One person's experiment with it: http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=131097663&page=1

[Aerows]

27. This isn't some body sculpting experiment

I've just flat lost weight, and it isn't something I need to do. I've been perhaps a bit stressed, so I'm trying to keep my weight up so that I don't lose so much that I get sick or end up in the hospital. (because I weighed 79 lbs. at the doctor's office once, and I'm 5'4" and don't need to get anywhere in that neighborhood, thank you very much - you wear children's size 10 as a grown woman at 5'4" and see how healthy you feel)

I'm sure you didn't mean it that way, but this is a problem that I am reaching out for solutions to. And I don't mean to be harsh, but I AM serious.

[noamnety]

28. Maybe I linked to a bad example.

This is a way to gain - and make sure you are gaining lean mass instead of gaining fat. I know women who are doing this just as a way of getting a healthy lean body. I don't know any women doing it because they're interested in body sculpting competitions.

One woman I know who's doing it is someone who was originally very fit and then mangled in an accident, the doctors said she wouldn't walk again, but she did a ton of rehab and then went through some cycles of deliberately eating to lose fat and gain muscle after being in a wheel chair. It's just part of her plan to be a functioning active person. Not everyone doing that eating program is a body builder or wants to be, I linked it because that just happened to be a convenient online diary that included a very detailed log of the meals the person ate. This woman is about your height, not 79lbs, she's in the 120's, but I guarantee her main concern is just being healthy.

Most of the food suggestions linked in this thread are the same ones in this protocol - whole milk, whey protein, eggs. They seemed to be suggestions you were open to.

[Suich]

15. Here's a post from March that might help you out:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/101621604

Good luck!

[grasswire]

17. how about adding whey protein to greek yogurt?

I used to do that, adding some fruit and a bit of some sweetener, and it tasted just like the most luscious cheesecake. There was no fat, no sugar (except what the fruit contained) and lots of protein.

[Aerows]

18. I could try that :)

Thank you for the suggestion! I have some great strawberries.

[grasswire]

19. I'm assuming, too, that you take a daily multi-vitamin.

Getting enough vitamin D? Most of us have a deficiency, apparently.

[Aerows]

24. Not as regularly as I should

Though I do feel much better when I drink a lot of milk. I've slacked off on my milk drinking, so you may be on to something, and I should be on a multivitamin, too.

[tru]

20. milk shakes

Not exactly healthy, but I remember reading somewhere that milk shakes, heavy on the ice cream, will do it.

[cbayer]

21. When I was a much too skinny adolescent, I used to drink milkshakes with raw eggs.

I know that people are worried about salmonella these days, but I drank them almost every day.

[Aerows]

22. It's worth a try

I'm eating pistachios as we speak.

[Aerows]

23. I'm munching on pistachios as we speak

I'm trying all the suggestions in different ways, a milk shake doesn't sound bad