Hi, I thought I'd post my recipe for a very high calorie shake that has helped me gain weight in the past month. At the hospital they give you all these "scandishakes" or whatever, or recipes for shakes that just DONT have enough calories in them. I mean if you are going to gulp down a whole shake it might as well be worth it. Anyway, I drink two of these a day. At first it was really tough, my stomach had shrunk and I felt SO sick gulping these things down, but gradually it got better. Each shake has between 800-1000 calories in it, depending on how much icecream you use, so two a day can be almost 2000 calories! I gained 10 pounds in 28 days.
1/2 Cup - 1 Cup Haagan Dasz Ice cream (vanilla or chocolate or whatever)- 270-540 cal.
2/3 cup mlk ( i use soymilk to so it is about 50 calories)
2 Tbsp Chocolate syrup = 100 calories
1 Carnation instant breakfast = 130 calories
2 scoops of protein powder (i use egg white powder b/c it has 24 g of protien in each scoop)= 200 calories
So if you use 1 cup of icecream that is 540+50+100+130+200= 1,020 calories! If you use half a cup the shake is not as overwhelming and still has about 800 calories. Plus tons of protien. It is said by bodybuilders that you need twice the amount of protien needed for "health" to gain weight. So I figure my nutritionist at the hospital (what a genius, yah right) told me I need 50 grams so I try to shoot for way over that.
Anyway, hope this helps. Doing this helped so much! Just COUNTING THE CALORIES, every day, and making sure you get them in, every day. There is no way you can EAT 3000 calories a day (well maybe someone could), so the shakes help, to just suck them down. I went from 94 pounds on September 24th to 104.5 pounds today at my dr.'s appt. This is the first time I have ever been so successful. I know some of you might have problems with dairy so you can use soy chocolate icecream or soy chocolate milk both of which taste pretty good.
Caitlin
1/2 Cup - 1 Cup Haagan Dasz Ice cream (vanilla or chocolate or whatever)- 270-540 cal.
2/3 cup mlk ( i use soymilk to so it is about 50 calories)
2 Tbsp Chocolate syrup = 100 calories
1 Carnation instant breakfast = 130 calories
2 scoops of protein powder (i use egg white powder b/c it has 24 g of protien in each scoop)= 200 calories
So if you use 1 cup of icecream that is 540+50+100+130+200= 1,020 calories! If you use half a cup the shake is not as overwhelming and still has about 800 calories. Plus tons of protien. It is said by bodybuilders that you need twice the amount of protien needed for "health" to gain weight. So I figure my nutritionist at the hospital (what a genius, yah right) told me I need 50 grams so I try to shoot for way over that.
Anyway, hope this helps. Doing this helped so much! Just COUNTING THE CALORIES, every day, and making sure you get them in, every day. There is no way you can EAT 3000 calories a day (well maybe someone could), so the shakes help, to just suck them down. I went from 94 pounds on September 24th to 104.5 pounds today at my dr.'s appt. This is the first time I have ever been so successful. I know some of you might have problems with dairy so you can use soy chocolate icecream or soy chocolate milk both of which taste pretty good.
Caitlin