Liquid Weight Gain Diet

[The_Fly]

Unforunatly, I picked up an infection in my gums, and had 9 mollars removed last week. Fortunatly, because of the advancements in medicine, I'll be sporting new mollars in 10 weeks.

The problem is that I am in the middle of a weight gaining cycle with 10 weeks remaining, and I can't eat hard food. The weight is jumping off my bones!

I have re-entered my weight training today, but nutrition is a problem. My pea sized brain can not think of enough good ways to consume the proper balance of nutrients to satisfy the body. It now seems a simple task when you can eat hard foods, but without them, it is now more complicated.

Does anyone have suggestions to materials on the subject of liquid diets? I can tell you with limited experience, consuming the same amount of protein powder will almost always cause constipation. Its more than just the protein; you have to obtain the carbs and fats, as well as enough fiber.

[longhorn71]

I agree totally about your protein comment. I think most people on the boards eat too much, but that's just my opinion.

Here is a suggestion for you: You can combine the amounts in this to fit your needs but here are some things I would use:

Whey and Casein Powders
Skim Milk (carbs and protein)
Plain Oatmeal (slow carbs and fiber)
Omega 3-6-9 Oil for fat
Bananas (slow carbs and fiber)


For Post Workout replace the oatmeal with Dextrose.

The oatmeal will blend up just fine as long as you use enough milk or you can put some in a plastic bag and crush it up finer with a rolling pin.

And of course there are the Meal Replacement Shakes but I never use more than 1/2 pack at once. The Myoplex Deluxe Shakes have 8 grams of fiber in them.

[growin]

Not sure if you are asking for certain brands of Meal replacement shakes, you can use BSN True Mass, 5g fiber, 630cal, 16g fat, 46g prot, 76g carb,.

You can use oatbran if you don't want to grind up the oats in your shakes.
You can add Pbutter for more fats, or flax oil, which will help with the constipation. Also, taking collodial minerals, 1tb a day will help as well with digestions, eliminating constipation, as well as keeping everything balanced.

[Baited]

as stated oatmeal is good carb source, you can make fruit smoothies and throw in cup or so of oats. you can try cytogainer or musclemilk like products for meal replacements.
Throw in peanut butter into shakes for healthy fats

waxy maize added to your normal portein shake is good too

[Elite Power]

To get some fats you can eat some sorts of cheese, take vitamins, drink milk.
As far as carbs, blend oatmeal (mix w.milk, drink like protein shake), soft bread should be ok, just down it with water. Yougurt is excellent for situations like this, as well as olive oil for extra(but healthy) fats.

[Blindsight]

When you substitute solid food for liquid food, your body may just absorb everything so efficiently that there's nothing left over in the GI tract to make a normal amount of stool. I don't know a really good way of totally avoiding this, but adding undigestable fiber to your shake should help. If, instead, the symptoms are more gas/bloating, it could be lactose intolerance.

If I were you, I'd try mixing whey protein (esp. ones that advertise lactose-free), maltodextrin, dextrose (if you need the simple carbs), flaxseed oil or olive oil, and fiber supplement (unflavored) into water. Don't forget to take multivitamins! I prefer to mix my own ingredients, so that I know exactly what's going in there.

An example would be to mix 60g protein, 50g maltodextrin, 25g dextrose (more post-workout), 2-3 tsp flaxseed or olive oil, and unflavored Metamucil. Then drink about 6 of these a day... obviously you could change the ratio of ingredients or number of shakes per day to meet your pesonal dietary requirements. Also, as stated, you could get fiber more naturally from fruit and oatmeal mixed in, if that floats your boat, and decrease the amount of maltodextrin/dextrose/fiber supplement. Personally, I don't know how much oatmeal I could handle in a shake, but fruit is definitely a good thing.

[Baited]

I grind up oatmeal in a coffee bean grinder or food processor so it's really fine and mix it in the smoothie maker. It does make the smoothie thick but even with a cup of grinded oats in there it's drinkable.

[cdizzle786]

I personnally only drink multiple shakes every day with exception of 1 meal here and there and mine are composed of :

2.5 scoops whey
2 cups oats
2.5 tbs Peanut butter
2 tbs honey
2 cups skim milk

Very drinkable taste like a candy bar, just have to blend oats first by themselves then add everything in.

[lapalco]

Lots of heavy whipping cream in your protein shakes.

[jdjack]

I would definitely get fiber supplement bc I cant do liquid only unless its alot of fiber involved. I'd be 120 instead of 200. Good luck you need it. Fiber + olive oil in shakes (or peanut butter, fish oil capsules, etc.). Lots of good advice here.