My brother wants to go vegan, but needs 2 GAIN weight...

[BlueRose]

Unless he's thinking of veganism as an elimination diet versus restructuring how and what he eats, I don't see how he could lose weight. I actually GAINED weight when I went vegan!

[DB]

Do any of you big guys have a food log or a diet posted? Would be interested to get some ideas. Last time I was really gaining I needed 5000 calories a day. Also Gluten free so no pasta, oats etc!

5000 calories??? How do you eat that much? Even if I eat to the point of puking I don't think I could down that many calories. And then I'd spend the whole day on the can crapping it all back out.

[XkillerX]

Aye, same here.

Some people just have huge gutts (literally) or whatnot.

[barnz2k]

Do any of you big guys have a food log or a diet posted? Would be interested to get some ideas. Last time I was really gaining I needed 5000 calories a day. Also Gluten free so no pasta, oats etc!

5000 calories??? How do you eat that much? Even if I eat to the point of puking I don't think I could down that many calories. And then I'd spend the whole day on the can crapping it all back out.

Im on a bit less now, but weighing less. Was only just over 80kgs when eating 5000!

Scary thing is you get used to eating that much.

There was a show on TV the other day about obese teenagers, one kid was 19 and weighed 800kg. He ate 30-40,000 cals a day. Now THAT is ridiculous. Even if you eat nothing but junk food.

Elvis ate 50K before he died

[powerlifer]

As long as he is eating more calories than hes expending he will gain weight, the type of diet your on is mostly irrelevant to this concept.

Granted it is easier to gain weight on an meat eating SAD diet as alot of the foods are calorie dense, processed full of crap. But like i say take in more calories you will gain weight and on a vegan diet the advantage is that the calories are all coming from health promoting plant foods:).