I know many women would give their eye teeth to have this problem.I was like that too.I would eat huge amounts of food and never break 100 lbs.Until I hit 30.Then it changed,icould gain weight without trying.That was fine,i needed some extra weight.I'm now 40 and staying the same size is a little more difficult.Not impossible,just a little harder.Be careful with fatty foods,just because you're thin does not mean you can't develop heart disease.Give yourself a few more years,you might not have this problem!Patty

Yes my suggestion is: don't complain about things like that around most women, or one day some fat girl will just sit on you.

I am 25 and weigh 90 pounds. I can't gain weight either. I wish I could gain 10 pounds, I have weighed this since I was a teenager. Just try to build some muscle mass, that's what i'm working on now, using weights and I have gained a couple pounds so far.

Im 94pounds,have been trying to gain weight since june,i gained 11 through weight gain,cal shakes there called 1 a day,got them off my doc ,since stopping the drinks ive shed 4pounds,im trying to gain the weight for ivf treatment to try for a baby,i need togain another 4 pounds ironically,ive always been thin and its never till now possed a problem for me,i know how irritaeing it is trying to gain it,i know as my partner used to do weights that they help and the best type of protien to take is whey protien,u can get from most health food shops,also years ago I got hold of b12 injectables,which I gained a a whole 14pounds from,i originally lost weight through illness and they got me bakc to my original weight,my doc wont giv them to me now as im not ill lol just slim,its just as hard I feel to gain as it is too loose it! Good luck,patsy.

I'm 26 and 90 pounds. I also wish I could gain about 10 pounds which would hopefully give some more shape to my legs. Too lazy for (regular) exercise, though, to muscularize them.

i'm also in the position where I can lose weight a lot quicker than I can gain weight. I've met a bunch of older, slightly larger women who said they once were my size once. That kinda makes me not want to try as hard to put on the pounds.

I am 30 and I am 5"6 and I only weigh 98 pounds and I even tried eating junk food to gain weight I can eat anything I want and not gain any weight. My doctor says it is because my motabolism is very high. Maybe thats why you can't gain any weight.

I'm 15, and I weigh only about 100. I feel kind of odd posting in here since you all are older but weigh less! But I do get "made fun of" at school and such because i'm so skinny. People are always saying I need to gain weight or when I go visit relatives that they're going to fatten me up. I know its just my fast metabolism thats keeping me so skinny.
Its not my stomach that bothers me, but my arms. My wrists and hands are so small, and they make me look like a stick. I love my stomach and my legs though, wouldn't change them for anything! I wish my arms would pump up a notch, though. I thought maybe working out would do the trick?

Hi

i'm 18 and very skinny, my arms look like sticks. I want to gain some muscle on my upper body - chest, arms. Could anyone advise me on what exercise, what intensity, when to do them (before or after a meal) I can do to bulk up a bit? Are push ups or any other home exercises sufficient? (i'm a bit reluctant to go to the gym...) tq

im sorry but I find that very rude we are on here discussing our problems and dont need comments like that being too skinny and too fat are the same problem because it means you feel that you dont fit into sociaty and I always have people still making fun of me and im 22! Just because youre skinny doesnt mean you look like a model men dont find it attractive they think we look like 13 yr old boys. You telling us to not talk about it would be the same if I got on here and started calling people fat.

i dont wanna be unhappy with my body until im 30 and then nothing may happen ive tried eating fatty foods and ive tried eating healthy the same result...Nothing. Im 22 and people still make fun of me

to add to that I want to know if I use weights and exercise to gain weight how will this effect my bust size..I seriously dont need them to get any smaller

I am going to be 30 in july, I am only 5 ft. Tall and I only weigh 96lbs. Plus I have had a child. (he is 9 now).
Even when I was pregnant I didn't gain alot of weight. And what is really bad about my 96lbs is that most of it consist of my breast. They have to weight at least 10 to 15 lbs by them self. So I feel ya. But I will tell you this. I don't let it get to me too much anymore. I have come to accept that I am a small person and this is who I am.
I find it hard to find clothes to fit me to look sexy for my husband. Yet I try very hard not to jump in to the maw maw clothes eigther. Yes my Dr. Told me time and time again that I just have a high metabolism.
I am too lazy to excercise to build muscle, man I work a 40 hr week take care of my husband, and my son, and I have a dog that weighs just as much as I do. I don't have time to excercise.
I really just want to tell you not to worry, being "skinny" isn't the worst thing in the world.
There are alot of women would give anything to look like us. And yet they don't see that we are not happy with ourselves also.
We aren't alone, my sister is the same way, I also have a sister in law who is skinnier than me.
Don't worry about being skinny, it is the way you are suppose to be right now. And if later on in life you are suppose to gain weight then you will.
But for now just be part of the chicken leg club. I am and it is great. No one gets us down.
I hope this makes some sense to you or makes you feel a little better.
See ya

Sounds like many ladies in this situation and no one offering any advice! In either case, the secret to gaining weight is *calories*. (mind you healthy calories, don't go on a mcdonald's diet!) the problem is, you all have smaller stomachs and to eat a lot will likely make you feel nautious and not very healthy. There are alternatives though. A good weight gainer (i.E. Prolab's nlarge2, or interactive nutrition mass) are complete meals, in a pretty tasty milkshake. They pack in around 1000-1200 calories... (2 meals per shake). Supplement your usual eating routine with this to pack in some extra calories. The other thing is, the weight you do put on, you probably don't want it to be soft and mushy.. You want to feel toned too. So combine this with some solid weight lifting (medium weights, medium reps) to pack on the extra size as muscle, not fat. Eat whenever you can, just be healthy about it. Believe me, you will put on weight and it won't look bad.

If it helps any, i'm a certified nutritionist, and certified personal trainer. I am personally 6'2" and was initially 155lb skinny, in around a year I managed to pack on almost 100lb bringing me up to 245lb and muscular, not fat. I had physicals done routinely and bloodwork to ensure I was not moving too fast. But I am an extreme case, i'm sure the majority of you just want another 10-15lb or so... :)

any questions, feel free to ask. I can go into more detail if needed.

Justin

Well my problem is that I was skinny to begin with, but in the past few months i've lost about 5lbs due to anxiety and stress. I now really want to put it back on because seeing my bones and veins are not helping me cope with my anxiety!
Are ensure plus shakes good and will they help with getting where I want without being dependant on them? I read some posts saying they lost the weight after they stop the shakes, but I think i'll be fine as soon as I get back to my regular eating habits. I just really want my weight back asap.

I think the message from poopoopoo was rude also. I grew up the skinniest girl in school and got beat up and chased and bullied for so long. I am now 31 and weigh about 95 to 100 lbs. It fluctuates depending on my anxiety level. Recently, i've had a lot of anxiety in my life and I lost a lot of weight, almost at 90 now. Sometimes I just don't eat because I have no appetite due to stress. Some people eat when they are stressed, others don't. The message from poopoopoo is something many people say if I even attempt to complain. People say oh you should consider yourself lucky or must be nice to have that problem. Message to you poo: this is a health forum with various topics. If this a health issue that you do not face, go away and stay out of this forum string. As for the others, I know one thing that has helped me in the past to gain weight. I drink the ensure plus, not the regular, but the plus. There is 350 calories in each and you can drink 1 to 3 a day. They are not meant to replace a meal but to supplement a meal. For a while I was drinking on average 2 a day and I gained 10 pounds in about a month. I stopped drinking them recently and dropped the weight again, but I plan to drink them again. They're also very good for you. There are generics at most grocery stores also. So, hope that helps.

Crystal

It's very ignorant and rude to tell underweight people that they do not have a problem.. Truth is, it is a problem. web article explains that 47 million americans are underweight.. And 5% of all deaths equate to being underweight... 120,000 people a year die from being underweight. It is just as much of a problem as being over-weight, and while perhaps an overweight person may not understand the issues that come with being underweight, they should be able to be sympathetic of a person with a weight problem.
I am 5'10" inches tall.. And I never had a weight problem of any kind until the past 3 months. I have been ill since the end of august and have had several surgeries which brought me from a healthy weight for my height of 135 lbs.. To 120 lbs. Losing 15 lbs for an overweight person is nothing.. But for an already thin person.. It's severe. Just being underweight for a few months makes me depressed of myself and I can't imagine being this way for a long period of time. I eat everything that I can stomach putting in my mouth.. But I feel like I am always eating. It's exhausting. I have sympathy for people with problems that try to fix them. I have none for overweight people that eat everythng and don't exercise. With that said... I have none for people who starve themselves to be rail thin. It's all relative.. So poopoopoo, before you judge perhaps you should try and understand the sad situation.

Just a thought - I have a friend who suffered from "eat everything and gain nothing" - she was diagnosed with hyperthyroid and the doc gave her a prescription that helped her....

I have the same problem 93 lbs and 19 years old and 5'5". I've been stick skinny since I was born, and my sister, brother, and mother all have the same problem. And it isn't fun at all, i've been made fun of and people would say "you're so skinny, you need to gain weight" but my sister who is 17 and 5"3 1/2 swims on a swimteam and weighs like 10lbs or so more than me. The most my momma has every weighed was 115lbs, and that's when she took sleeping over the counter medication because it dried up her intestines because there is apparently too much secretion in our intestines so it's hard for us to absorb food i'm guessing. Her metabolism was checked and it was normal, not high or anything, and I don't think anything was wrong with her thryoid either. But my momma has a lot of health problems and I believe it's from her having been underweight, and she's 40 and about 105lbs right now, she was in th 90's a few months ago. Being underweight is not a good thing, it's bad for your health just as much as being overweight is. I believe my grandma was just as skinny when she was a lot younger but she started gaining a lot of weight and is overweight now. So my advice is you could try sleeping or allergy medications at your own risk and eat lots of calories and protein and exercise as well since that's what helped my sister gain weight. I wish I could find a name forever problem I have...