[timarie]

One thing I know for a FACT is that stress and depression do zilch for breast growth. This has been a very hard month for me. When I am depressed I don't want to eat and I'm noticing the first thing to go is my breasts. So discouraging. Must eat food, must eat healthy!!

Stress has always been an issue. It's getting better now, however, it's difficult for me to gain weight bc I'm on a gluten free, low glycemic indexed diet for other health reasons. This diet pretty eliminates carbs and therefore I can't increase my weight at all.

Try eating a lot of protein. That should help with the weight gain. Do you do protein shakes? If you don't you should think of drinking those daily!

An increase in protein will only help one gain WEIGHT (not fat, and I am pretty sure that fat is what nsas is talking about when she says "weight" for breast growth) if one uses some form of heavy resistance exercise. This weight gain from protein and exercise is from gaining muscle. For increased fat with a diet that nsas is on, she would just need to eat A LOT more calories... more than is her caloric daily output. Given that most of her foods in her diet are low in calories, she would need to just eat A LOT more in quantity.

Ahhh.....I see! Thank you for the clarification! I wonder what foods she should be eating then since she can't do carbs. Things like avocados & salmon?

YES! And nuts are low in glycemic index and are gluten free (when they are not dry roasted or flavored) and high in good fats, as well as dairy products and legumes. Even if she just ate a lot more in quantity of what she already does eat. She really can gain some fat if she has a higher caloric input than is her caloric output. Carbs increase a person's fat on their body only because the human body does burn fat after it is done burning the carbs we eat. After it burns the carbs (which it will ALWAYS burn instead of fat), it goes straight to burning muscle after that. It skips right over the fat. Now if there are no carbs being eaten, the body will go straight for the fat to burn. So, not only do carbs get deposited as fat after they are eaten and not utilized (if more carbs are being eaten than are needed), but carbs also act essentially as a fat-burn blocker!!! But, one can also gain fat from having too high levels of glucose, which is avoided by nsas's low glycemic index diet. All of her foods minimize the "spiking" of glucose levels, which minimizes the possibility of having more glucose in one's system than one needs (and therefore, do not get to store any as fat! Since glucose is only stored as fat when there is more glucose than the body needs to utilize at the moment in time... just as the left-over carbs are stored as fat as well). Therefore, she will just need to eat A LOT MORE of these kinds of foods in order to increase her caloric intake to be more than what her body needs, so that she can store some of it as fat.

I hope that was helpful and doesn't confuse anyone!