I sincerely wish I could redistribute my surplus weight to you, comrade.

1 cup oats

1 cup unsweetened soy milk

1 tbsp milled flax

2 tbsp peanut butter

1 banana

Grind the oats in a blender, then add everything else to make a shake. Tastes better than a protein shake, pretty healthy, and easily adds seven hundred calories to your daily diet.

I ate a donut at every meal for a while, that helped.

Tracking calories helps.

You can make your own mass gainers: protein powder, peanut butter, cacao, banana, and liquid (water, coconut milk, etc.)

For cheap, calorie dense foods, there's peanut butter, soybean oil (cook everything in oil), peanuts, candy, anything fried (I like making tortilla chips).

I think a big thing is logging your meals and making sure you're actually eating 4 a day and not just one big one.

I'd also dedicate yourself to pull ups and the hardest pushups you can do (archer pushups, psuedo planche, dips on the inside corner of a counter), and maybe pistol squats or shrimp squats 3 sets close to failure 3x a week if you plan to gain weight, that way it'll go to muscle as well as fat and not just fat

Weight gain and loss has little to do with exercise and much more to do with calorie consumption. Excercise is more about muscle development and nerve restructurimg, with a combination of diet and excercise leading to the fat/muscle ratios coveted by athletes, body builders and health nerds.

If you are looking to put on weight but don't care about what kind of weight it is, the fastest way is low excercise with a high carb diet. Pasta is generally the cheapest thing I can can think of, but lots of rice can do the trick too. ("Bread makes you fat?") Sugar is a good way too, but your body tends to burn through it in an average day instead of converting it to fat, unless you are consuming bags of candy on a daily basis, which is expensive, unhealthy and can potentially lead to diabetes. Stick to high carbs, imo.

However, if you are looking to put on muscle, it's a little more tricky as muscle doesn't grow all that fast. But what you should do is focus on high fat proteins such peanut butter, and also just add protein powder to basically everything.

Do you have any food issues? I know I was chronically underweight for years because I didn't like eating since I felt low-level nausea most days. I cut back on dairy and a few other minor things over time and I'm feeling significantly better and eating is less of a chore.

On top of that, I found some level of aerobic exercise crucial to being able to eat enough to gain weight, even just walking. It was like I needed to get my body used to using the energy I put in before it would even start to feel hungry enough to start gaining. I'm still working on it but as someone with a similar height, and at one point similar weight, that's what has worked for me.

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The problem with weight gain shakes, at least when I tried them, was that they somehow taste like garbage even though humans evolved to like things that are high in calories. Because of that, I couldn't make them part of my routine, and the gains were temporary. Maybe they have developed a tasty one by now though?

Eating a lot of peanuts and a more active lifestyle for a while worked for me, but your mileage may vary.

The only thing you actually need to do is eat an excess of calories. Calorie-dense foods make this easier because you will eat more calories before feeling full.

Generally-speaking, fats are very calorie dense. Deep-fried stuff, stuff with butter (gonna plug vegan butter cause it's great) like mashed potatoes, bread and butter. Fried rice with lots of oil, anything with something like an aioli or cream sauce (gonna plug vegan options again, homemade are bomb). Already mentioned bread but it's pretty calorie dense. Pizza ticks all the boxes.

Basically I just recommend eating calorie dense foods. You can even use a calorie tracker to see how you're doing so that there are no surprises.

Also, make sure to exercise as you try to "bulk". This is a great opportunity to use the excess calories to build muscle and exercise will make the process healthier in general.

you don't have to take weight gain shakes if you're wary of them for whatever reason, there's no specific thing you need to be eating. it is just about being consistently in a calorie surplus. eat whatever you prefer.

it's very simple but not necessarily easy for everyone.

-have an honest accounting of what you normally eat when you're not trying to gain weight. use a calorie tracker app for two weeks or something and then find your average calories per day.

-workout 110% of your average & eat that amount every day for two months. track your wake-up weight every day.

-after that period is up reassess and see how much weight you've gained (look at the general trend of your weight rather than a specific day's reading cause it can fluctuate a lot). decide if you need to add more calories or dial it back slightly. gaining 2 or 3lbs per month is a decent amount.

understand it's slow going and requires diligence and consistency but it is absolutely possible for the vast vast majority of people.

I think it's very hard for"hard gainers" to do this without tracking their intake and their weight so I'd just reiterate you really should do that. good luck with it