[Charlie_girl]

Just came across this about nutrition for gaining weight & how many pounds you should expect to gain a week, as well as an ideal ratio of carbs/proteins/fats. This site also has a forum if you wanted to look through it. I look through their forum quite a bit.

** Keep in mind, this was written by body building athletes that bulk up/gain a lot for a certain amount of time, and then quickly "cut" before a competition (meaning they shed what fat they have down pretty far to show their muscle definition more). And for those of us here that are trying to gain, I'm just assuming that we typically want to gain muscle as well as a little fat (at least I do), so ignore their cutting techniques unless you want to get into competitions or unless that's just what you want to do.

The first guy states that anything more than 2 pounds gained a week means you're overdoing it & gaining more fat than what is ideal for a bodybuilder. And since the majority of us are not, and the majority of us trying to gain do Want some fat, I think it's perfectly fine to gain 2-3 lb a week as long as you're eating healthy

http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/topicoftheweek25.htm