Have any of you tried the GOMAD plan to gain weight?

[maiez]

I am trying to gain weight but this plan sounds ridiculous and I'd rather not go with it. If any of you have done GOMAD (Drinking a Gallon of Milk A Day) what have you experienced and how did it work out?

Yes - I have tried GOMAD to gain weight.

No, I have not.

[Living-the-ADvenTURe]

Hey, my boyfriend is a fitness instructor He says if you have a diet high in protein you will gain weight. And it's healthier this way too.

Too much of anything is bad for you, and in-taking that much milk each day can't be healthy.

For each meal, make sure the main component is some sort of meat (egg, chicken, beef, pork, etc), Anything dairy, and carbs (bread, pasta etc) are also all great. If you can make a meal out of these things, you are set to be gaining weight. Make sure you also include your green vegetables (need these nutrients) and don't be shy to have some fruit anytime you want.

Over increasing the amount of food you eat will also help you gain weight. Just please, make sure to stay healthy!

Doing weights is great too because you will gain muscle mass. Cardio tends to make you loose weight, also is still important to keep your heart strong and healthy and to help prevent from illnesses.

Hope this helps, and let me know if you have any further questions! :)

[Izzy2102]

Sounds stupid. If you want to gain weight you need to eat more than you burn. How you do it almost doesn't matter.

You probably want to gain muscles not fat, so you need to lift weights additionally

[maiez]

it's actually harder to gain weight than it is to lose. plus muscle builds off fat and I work out often, so that's why I need fat

[stillagoodgirl]

I've never heard of that and I'm trying to gain weight too. I don't think its enough to you need to eat alottoo and maybe work out

[stillagoodgirl]

I found that drinking liquid with calories helps.. Don't drink too much water because it has no calories so replace it with a smoothie or soda if you don't care about being too healthy

[NotJustAnotherGuy]

I've done it. Except I did half a gallon a day. The con is being really gassy all the time. But the pros are amazing. So long as you're lifting regularly, you'll see great gains in strength / muscle size. Again, I went half GOMAD + protein shakes. I didn't get much fat (but I did put on 10-15lbs), but yes GOMAD is a form of dirty bulking. You can go a little more than half a gallon a day and get all the benefits of a full gallon, yet do a clean bulk instead. That's what I'd recommend, especially if your goals are aesthetics.

I know quite a few people do it without working out-- just to go from being extremely skinny to regular sized.. but I wouldn't recommend it. Not because it's unhealthy but because it's a great opportunity, since your body will have a surplus of nutrition, to lift weights.

Hope it helps to hear it from someone with some experience with GOMAD. Good luck.

[ImSoSozzled]

I was thinking about doing it this summer. If you don't mind me asking, what was your height and weight before you started, how long did you do it, and what kind of protein did you use for your shakes?

[ArtistBboy]

Seems like a dull way to build a nutrient dense diet. That is, it seems ineffective of an approach. First you're overloading your system on one nutrient - then hoping the supplemental shakes justify the other needs your muscles need to grow or that your body needs to function. I wouldn't really want to give it a try, to me it seems much easier and much more rewarding to eat a high protein diet and really just spoil the sh*t out of myself. You get what you pay for I guess. Cheers for the concept

[ImSoSozzled]

Well it's not like milk and protein shakes are the ONLY thing you're intaking. You still need to have a good diet otherwise.

[NotJustAnotherGuy]

I went from 135-150lbs (I'm currently bouncing between 160-165lbs) @ 5'7" - 5'8". I think the protein supplement I was taking at the time was cytosports ready to drink muscle milk or their monster milk powder. I've also used, at different times but still with success, MP's combat powder, AMP wheybolic protein, and Optimum's 100% Whey. I did it as a routine for around 2-3 months, while lifting. But ever since whole milk has been a frequent part of my diet, just not half a gallon a day anymore.

[NotJustAnotherGuy]

And yes, my diet wasn't entirely dairy. But it wasn't salads and veggies either. You'll find as you experiment with what works throughout life, that the most important aspects of diet are protein intake, calorie intake, and that what you eat doesn't really matter as long as you're getting the right proportions of those. Micronutrition is just that, micro. It has very small effects and online and in the media it's role is very over exaggerated. But nonetheless if you want the most efficient

[NotJustAnotherGuy]

route possible, I think a multi-vitamin is very beneficial. I don't think people need to slave over WHAT they eat, but just those two proportions and a multivitamin and you're golden. You really just need to put in the gym hours from there. There's no way around the gym. But I eat mostly fast & frozen food (predominately pizza), yet I'm 165lbs and can consistently run a sub 20min 5k, bench 1.5x my weight, squat 2x my weight, etc.. And only a rare amount of my athletic friends eat healthier.

[NotJustAnotherGuy]

We all rely on supplements to allow us to eat our calories according to our tastes and then supplement with a nutrition dense shake and multivitamin. GOMAD is really great for forcing skinny people to get the calories and the protein they need through a very simple to follow routine. No complex diet of getting your 13 amino acids needed for a chain of protein through various veggies. I think it's great for starters who would otherwise struggle on other diets and likely give-up too soon.

[maiez]

great in-depth response. So I take it as a good choice you made, any regrets?

[NotJustAnotherGuy]

Like I said, the only con I really faced was being VERY gassy. Luckily, I invested into a home gym so I didn't have any embarrassing moments there. But overall, I never felt more recovered the next day than when doing half GOMAD. And that was big for me at the moment, cause I was rehabilitating a knee injury from my senior year of cross country / track. I loved the strength gains, the muscle size gains.. can't say there's much to hate about it. It was easy for me to follow atm. I loved it.

[NotJustAnotherGuy]

To get an idea of where I was starting from and why I turned to GOMAD and why I loved the results.. I'll show you one of my senior pics that made me cringe in disgust of how tiny my arms were.. I don't know if the link will work but I'll try.

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My arms are now equally defined, yet 2-3x bigger. I love cross country and I miss the ease of cardio at 130lbs.. but the aesthetics and strength of 160lb is far better.

[NotJustAnotherGuy]

Just figured I'd share my skinny guy story, and tell you that I don't think you'll regret adopting this routine. And I wish you the best of luck in your fitness, health and aesthetic pursuits whichever path you choose.

[maiez]

Thank you very much for your input and time. I appreciate it very much :)

[Anonymous]

I'm trying to lose weight not gain it! This is very rare of someone trying to gain weight

[Anonymous]

its totally ridiculous and the majority of the weight you gain from it will be fat not muscle.

[maiez]

i am roughly 4-6% body fat so its something to think about, plus exercising daily

[Racez]

Never tried it. Though, it's worth a try someday.

[why-makoto-kun]

You'll get calcium stones. Don't do it.

[SamuelB]

I tried it and a sh*t a whole egg.