question about gaining wieght

[lipper]

how do you gain wieght with type 1 on a pump, I eat about 4000 cal a day good cals, but still no luck

[deercotn]

how do you gain wieght with type 1 on a pump, I eat about 4000 cal a day good cals, but still no luck

What are you eating that would be high in calories but low in carbs? Anything?

I'm trying to gain weight too but certainly don't want the carbs.

What meds are you on?

[cwathne]

how are your blood sugar levels?

if they are too high your body will essentially be starved and you will burn fat and muscles for energy.



I'm going to assume that you want is to gain muscle; eat a well balanced diet with enough food and lift weights at least 5 days a week.

If you're new to lifting weights get a trainer. Most people go to the gym and do bicepts, tricepts, bench press and situps thinking they are going to make themselves big and strong, when in fact none of those workouts even begin to work core strength.

[lipper]

how are your blood sugar levels?

if they are too high your body will essentially be starved and you will burn fat and muscles for energy.



I'm going to assume that you want is to gain muscle; eat a well balanced diet with enough food and lift weights at least 5 days a week.

If you're new to lifting weights get a trainer. Most people go to the gym and do bicepts, tricepts, bench press and situps thinking they are going to make themselves big and strong, when in fact none of those workouts even begin to work core strength.

Since I am on the pump my levels are always very good. I check myself often and my doctor and I have the levels right were I need them. I do want to gain muscle, I was diagnosed in May 2006, when I was deployed to Iraq, I got something that attacked my pancreas and shut it down. The doctors could not pin point it out so that was all on that. Any way I spent 15 years in the Army, and was 6 feet and about 195 pounds for pretty much the last 12 years before. I always workout and even have a personal trainers degree, I am pretty good on that part. I lost about 40 pounds and only gained about 20 back, really all I want is my 195 back and that’s it. My diet is four well balanced meals with two protein shakes (before and after workout); these shakes are doctor supplied and are high in protein and low in carbs. But three years of this and still no weight gain. So any ideas would help out a lot

[cwathne]

Since I am on the pump my levels are always very good. I check myself often and my doctor and I have the levels right were I need them. I do want to gain muscle, I was diagnosed in May 2006, when I was deployed to Iraq, I got something that attacked my pancreas and shut it down. The doctors could not pin point it out so that was all on that. Any way I spent 15 years in the Army, and was 6 feet and about 195 pounds for pretty much the last 12 years before. I always workout and even have a personal trainers degree, I am pretty good on that part. I lost about 40 pounds and only gained about 20 back, really all I want is my 195 back and that’s it. My diet is four well balanced meals with two protein shakes (before and after workout); these shakes are doctor supplied and are high in protein and low in carbs. But three years of this and still no weight gain. So any ideas would help out a lot

thank you for your service :)


don't really know what else to say; you know how to work out, you're keeping your blood sugar levels where they should be, and you're eating a good bit of food...

[xMenace]

how do you gain wieght with type 1 on a pump, I eat about 4000 cal a day good cals, but still no luck

Weight is very much a hormonally controlled thing: homeostasis. It's not an easy thing to change either way. Building muscle mass is the safe and healthy way to gain. The unhealthy way would be to add a bunch of refined carbs to your diet.