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Severely underweight
I am 20 years old and 5'7" height. But my weight is only 40kg. I want to gain weight. Please help me out.
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Things need detailed information about your meal patterns and nutrition requirements. I suggest direct consultation for proper guidance and help to achieve better results.
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Hi, Weight gain is a gradual process & it needs a lot of personalized dietary approaches. Drastic changes, working out excessively will only give short term results. Improving your overall food intake and regularity in physical activity mainly weight-bearing exercises will help you in putting on weight. Patience and compliance are two things that will help and show the results. A personalized diet is strongly recommended as constant modifications are required. Following are the guidelines that will be of help: 1. Do not skip meals & Have balanced meals throughout the day 2. Never workout or exercise on an empty stomach. Have a fruit, preferably banana before exercise       3. Ensure protein in the form of dals, pulses, milk, eggs, chicken, fish, sprouts, paneer etc to be a part of every meal that you take. 4. Ensure 2 fruits throughout the day. 5. Incorporate foods that contain healthy fats & are calorie-dense like almonds, walnuts, peanuts, dried fruits like dates, anjeer, raisins etc during mid-meals as snacks 6. Have calorically dense foods such as milkshakes, lassi, chicken or paneer sandwich/wraps, peanut chikki etc & calorically dense vegetables like potato, sweet potato, yam etc 7. Have a glass of milk during bedtime  8. Strength training exercises will help in improving the muscle and your weight on the scale while decreasing your body fat percentage 9. Avoid sweets, fried foods, fruit juices, junk food as it will increase your body fat even though you may look lean/thin 10. Drink 8-10 glasses of water throughout the day at regular intervals to keep yourself well hydrated
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You need to increase your calorie intake with good amount of protein.
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Hello user See, you will not gain until the cause of underweight is not treated. There are many reason of being underweight . Improper liver functions . Endocrine imbalance ( diabetes/ thyroid) . IBS . Tuberculosis . Improper dietary diet . Vitamins and minerals deficiency .Eating disorders . Improper sleep .Stress . Medication Many more HOW WE TREAT UNDERWEIGHT THRU DIET . Finding and Curing the cause of underweight . Treating the deficiency and symptoms cause due to underweight . Diet to get ideal weight Before prescribing any thing ,we need some health information like Vitals,health parameter, physical activity, family history, occupation, daily routine and any many.so ,if you want to contact ,please contact us thru the link below
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For weight gain diet and exercise both will play an important role.Your digestion is very important.Diet should be rich in carbohydrates proteins and healthy fats.Your stress levels also affects your health.yoyr sleep pattern.To plan a diet I need to take a detailed diet history.
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Do regular exercise 45min Healthy Food choices.
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Body weight is predominantly dependent on your food consumption pattern ,any defeciencies status, stress your Activity levels and genetic background
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provide me with the above mentioned details which will help me plan a customized diet plan to address your issue has through Practo online consult
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Include variety of whole cereals, whole Pulses, vegetables ,fruits, eggs Dairy,nuts lean meat and oily fish regularly in your diet with optimum physical activity.
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You are too underweight with respect to your height. Is that you have issues of indigestion. I also suggest you to check your thyroid , cbc, b12 and d3 to know if there is any deficiency. You need to start a diet which is high in protein , good healthy fats and carbohydrates. Need to work on stress and exercise too to achieve your goals. Consult me on Practo online consultation for a personalized diet plan
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