Diet Advice: How can a skinny woman gain weight?

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My name is Christine Marquette and I'm a Registered and Licensed Dietitian with The Austin Regional

Clinic and I'm going to talk to you about how a skinny woman can gain weight. Now if

you are a very thin woman the first thing to identify is if you have a poor appetite.

If you just don't ever feel like eating and you have a poor appetite the best thing to

do is actually go see your doctor first and find out if there is an actual medical reason

why you have a poor appetite. Sometimes there is some underlying condition. You may be deficient

in different vitamins or minerals or you may be anemic and it is just causing you to not

have much of an appetite for eating so if any of those conditions are in place you have

that treated first and then your appetite will actually increase and you may be able

to eat a more normal level. Now if you are a woman who has a very high metabolism and

you don't have any problem with your appetite and you feel like you are eating on a regular

basis the thing to do is to concentrate on high calorie foods. Now that doesn't necessarily

mean you want to go out and eat a lot of junk food but you do want to eat more of your healthy

fats. For example nuts, seeds, avocados, you want to prepare foods with oils like canola

oil or olive oil so again those are fats in fatty foods but they are very healthy fats,

they are very heart healthy and you don't have to worry about them raising bad cholesterol

levels or raising triglycerides. They are still very healthy for you. You are still

going to be getting a lot of other nutrients and a lot of other vitamins and minerals.

Some other high calorie foods that you can use are full fat yogurts and cheeses. You

may also want to use whole milk. Now even though these items do have some more saturated

fat in them than the other fat sources I was talking about previously, they generally if

you are just using them short term to gain weight will not cause a significant increase

in your cholesterol levels. The thing is just to monitor your intake, monitor your weight

and once you get to the weight that you want to be then you can cut back a little bit on

those high fat dairy products and rely primarily on those plant sources of fats and again the

nuts, the seeds, the avocado and olive oil, canola oil or even olives themselves and then

make sure that you are still eating plenty of your other foods. You still want to include

your fruits and vegetables, you still want to include sources of proteins such as fish,

meats, poultry any of those types of things but make sure you are getting a daily source

of those healthy fats.

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