City Monkey wrote:

>On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 13:59:19 +0900, Thomas Bridgeland
><[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>
>>I wonder if you don't have the cart before the horse? If you are
>>naturally slim, and sedentary, it will be very hard for you to eat
>>enough food to gain weight. Try increasing your activity first, and see
>>if your appetite does not increase after a while. At least that is the
>>way it is for me. I am slim naturally too, never gain or lose much
>>weight no matter how much I eat or exercise. But when I am training
>>hard my appetite rises to compensate.
>>
>>
>
>Yes, that is smart thinking. I will increase my activity level, but the
>problem isn't just not having an apetite. Even if I had one, I wouldn't be
>able to find enough food to fill it. That's why I was hoping that someone
>who is successfuly eating over 2,500 calories per day would list what they
>eat and how much of it.
>
>For instance, if I eat:
>
>660 - 10 oz of fried steak per day (that's like over a pound when it's raw)
>480 - 4 cups of juice
>523 - 2oz almonds + 1oz pecans
>400 - 4 bananas
> 65 - a couple servings of veggies
>150 - other misc fruits
>
>That's a total of 2,278 calories. That's not enough to support any activity.
>
>People seem to think I eat way too much meat as it is, so I'm not sure how
>much more I could add. I eat a ton of fruit, and I don't know how safe it is
>to eat anymore bananas than around 4. I can eat so many nuts because I blend
>the almonds until they become like a milk and mix in fruit. But I shouldn't
>eat anymore nuts and really should cut down on what I am eating.
>
10 oz. of meat is not much for a good-sized person.  I eat that much
each day and I'm
quite sedentary and a woman well into middle age.  You could easily eat
4-6 oz. each
at 4 meals per day.  How about eggs?

Butter is borderline paleo; olive oil is "paleo" to most of us.
Potatoes are off-limits
to most, but sweet potatoes are in (edible raw).  Winter squash and
pumpkin are
ok, as are carrots, beets, turnips, etc.  Tomatoes fit the "naked with a
sharp stick"
test, though some try to avoid New World foods.

I can't give examples of what I personally eat that is over 2500
calories a day, since that would
be too much for me.  But my suggestion is to eat more meals, a little
more meat, eggs,
twice or three times as many servings of vegetables and have some of them be
the root veggies, add fresh salads with olive oil dressing, skip the
juice altogether,
and eat a variety of fruits instead of just bananas.  If you're doing
heavy exercise
or weightlifting, 5-6 of those meals a day would not be too much.

And I think you're right; if you go to a dietitian they'll have you
eating 11 servings of
grains per day and one serving of meat.  If you don't have insulin
resistance now,
you'll get it after a few years of that diet.

It's better not to obsess too much about calorie count anyway; if your
weight is
where you want it to be, and you're strong in your workouts, that's what
matters.

    Lynnet