Safe weight gain diet for hardgainers

I've always found it hard to gain weight and am fairly skinny but after a recent bout of food poisoning where I lost a lot of weight I'd really like to put on some weight and gain some muscle but I'm struggling to understand how it is "safe" to do this from a hair perspective! Most of the carbs that I would eat more of seem to be not favoured, e.g. breads & pastas - are baked potatoes and rice ok?

If anybody has a good weight gain diet they could recommend that would be great or any tips!

Would the weight gainer shakes be ok to drink?

Thanks a lot guys!

The basic principle is just eat as much as you can, then eat some more. Life heavy, and keep cardio to a minimum. Most weight gain powders contain maltodextrin, which is a type of sugar. Carbs I eat and would recommend are oats, brown basmati rice, and quinoa, and rye bread. They are all low on the glycemic index, which means you absorb them slowly, keeping your insulin constant. It's important to get enough protein from food mostly. Eggs, chicken, steak, salmon etc. I like to avoid milk, so a good substitute for whey protein for building muscle is a mix of rice protein and pea protein because it has an amino acid profile very similar to whey. Hemp is a good protein for health but no so good for muscle building. Post work out I mix my rice/pea protein in oat milk with a mashed up banana and a load of ground up oats and mixed nuts. Toco-8 is a testosterone booster which somehow is good for hair as well as muscle building.

hellwig wrote:The basic principle is just eat as much as you can, then eat some more. Life heavy, and keep cardio to a minimum. Most weight gain powders contain maltodextrin, which is a type of sugar. Carbs I eat and would recommend are oats, brown basmati rice, and quinoa, and rye bread. They are all low on the glycemic index, which means you absorb them slowly, keeping your insulin constant. It's important to get enough protein from food mostly. Eggs, chicken, steak, salmon etc. I like to avoid milk, so a good substitute for whey protein for building muscle is a mix of rice protein and pea protein because it has an amino acid profile very similar to whey. Hemp is a good protein for health but no so good for muscle building. Post work out I mix my rice/pea protein in oat milk with a mashed up banana and a load of ground up oats and mixed nuts. Toco-8 is a testosterone booster which somehow is good for hair as well as muscle building.

Thanks hellwig great advice, I do try to lift heavy but struggling to get time to get in at the minute, twice a week is best I'm managing with all I've got on, which I know is nowhere near enough! Thats probably my biggest problem. And the cost of constantly eating! I've got both organic whey protein & hemp protein at the minute, I do agree that they hemp doesn't feel like it recovers the muscles as great as the whey. I'll look into the rice & pea proteins! That shake sounds good, could do to add another bit of fruit maybe some rasberry or blackberry to flavour it up a bit though!

Any advice from others greatly appreciated!