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Hi gain weight you need to combine a balanced eating pattern with regular physical activity. You should be eating at least 6 small meals a day, rather than sticking to 3 square meals. You could divide it as 3 main meals and 3 snacks. You need to be eating every 2-3 hours. Space out snacks during the day so you don't spoil your appetite. Bread, cereal, rice, whole wheat, dalia and pasta: biscuits, and corn-bread are good sources of carbohydrates. Fruits: dried fruits, fruit nectars, and large qua...more

3 meals per day and healthy snacks twice daily to achieve the best possible result within a short period. Here is a guideline for creating the best vegetarian diet for weight loss. Based on this, you can create your own diet plan as the food choices of each person may vary and the items available to you may be different from what mentioned here.
Early Morning
You can have any of the following items to start your day.
? 1 glass of lukewarm water with lemon juice added to it. This drin...more

Hye, Thanks for the query.
Gaining weight requires you to eat more calories than you burn. Although fried or sugary foods are calorie dense, eating them exclusively won’t provide enough nutrition to keep you energetic and healthy. Eating several meals and snacks throughout the day and including nutritious, calorie-dense food will help you gain weight healthfully.
Weight gain depends primarily on your genetics, age, weight and activity level. To gain weight, you need to eat more calories ...more

Dear patient,
calorie dense food should be incorporated in your diet like dried fruits, potato, sweets, nuts, jam jelly, banana or mango shake, porridge, badam kheer etc. leafy vegetables should be restricted in your diet as they reduce appetite. you should take 3 major meals a day and snacks in between. butter, margarine should be taken. Adequate amount of egg, meat, fish, milk should be taken as it help you for tissue building in your body.try to take 1 boiled egg at every morning. you ...more

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Firstly Wheat Flour and Atta Flour means the same thing. One is English name and other is Hindi.

As per your weight and height your BMI is 35.38 which comes in Obesity Class 2.
You need to take immediate and drastic steps to bring this down and take charge of your health.

1. Start taking 3-4 fruits everyday.
2. Cut out all Colas - Fruit Juices and sugary drinks
3. Eat more vegetables.
4. Take 20 almonds everyday.
5. Eat meals/ small snack every ...more

Here is a sample diet to help you understand the diet. Early Morning: Green tea (sugar less) Breakfast: non fried preparations/ whole wheat bread/ vegetable poha, upma, etc. / idli sambhar etc. Mid-Morning: Fruits (avoid the carbohydrate rich fruits like grapes, banana, custard apple and watermelon) Lunch: 2 dry chapatti + sabji 1 katori + dal or skimmed curd – 1 katori + salad 1 katori Evening Snacks: Tea / Coffee sugarless + high fiber bis. OR Sprouts 1 katori Dinner: 2 chapatti + vegetable 1 ...more

Hi lybrate user to gain weight you need to combine a balanced eating pattern with regular physical activity. You should be eating at least 6 small meals a day, rather than sticking to 3 square meals. You could divide it as 3 main meals and 3 snacks. You need to be eating every 2-3 hours. Space out snacks during the day so you don't spoil your appetite. Bread, cereal, rice, whole wheat, dalia and pasta: biscuits, and corn-bread are good sources of carbohydrates. Fruits: dried fruits, fruit nectar...more

I hope your problem may be solved by managing your food habits and life style along with Yoga and/or exercise.

Hi lybrate-user,
you need to follow a healthy diet along with some strength training exercises to build muscle mass. More the muscle mass, lesser will be your body fat. -also, include foods which are low in glycemic index (rate at which a food or carbohydrate increase your sugar levels post consumption). E.g. Have slow carbs like whole grains- millets like bajra, jowar, nachni, brown rice, and also buckwheat, oats. Have veggies and salads in all your meals, whole fruits as a snack.
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Pizza, burger, french fries, cold drinks chips, biscuits, Indian fried food like samosa, kachori etc and products made of maida are considered as junk food.