huntsman53
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I have a cousin who's 5'11" and weighed 160 pounds a few years back. He got tired of being skinny, so he started working out and had a daily regiment of vitamins, creatine, protein shakes and so on. He also started eating everything in sight, especially pasta. After about six months, he weighed 185 and looked really ripped.
He managed to keep up that lifestyle change for a couple of years, but in the end, he went back to a normal diet and cut back on exercising. What happened? You guessed it. He now weighs 160 pounds and looks skinny again!
The moral of the story is that there's no easy fix for permanent weight gain. You may pull it off in the short term, but you'll have to keep at it for the rest of your life or you'll go back to being skinny again. It's up to you to decide if you have the motivation and discipline to work on it for the rest of your life.
Nor weight loss! I was 6', 1" tall and weighed 125 pounds in April 1977 when I quit smoking. By the time we (myself, wife and daughter) left West Germany in August 1977, I weighed 145 pounds. I lost ten pounds down to 135 while on Leave because I was working to make extra money. Got to Fort Sheridan at 135 pounds in September 1977 and due to drinking beer 3 to 4 nights a week and eating regular meals, I weighed 210 pounds by Christmas and had to purchase all new uniforms. Since then, I have tried to get the extra weight off but can't and now some 40 years later, I am 65 years old and weigh 235 pounds. The funny thing, is that I have weighed 235 pounds ever since about 1992 and no matter how much or how little I eat and how much exercise I do, I never gain and never lose a pound.
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