[Cheffette]

First I must say kudos to you

Secondly, how did you go about gaining weight? Was it just weight training and muscle targeting excercises? I'm also quite skinny, I'm not underweight but I'm literally just on the healthy BMI line =/

Thank you so much, Taelia! I know how feel - that's how I was a few months ago! My weight gain was mostly from eating, since I have only just started working out since a couple weeks ago.

You should first start counting your calories. I joined the website fitday (it's free) to give me an idea of how much calories I was eating per day. You basically list whatever you've eaten that day, and it tells you how many calories it was. The website is actually designed to help people lose weight, but that doesn't matter; just use it for whatever you want/need. (It won't let you set a "wait gain" goal, unfortunately)

I have always had a fast metabolism, and it seems to me that I burn up to 2,200 calories a day without doing much of anything. In order to gain weight, we have to eat more calories than we burn. So I try to eat about 2500-2700 calories a day. I write a list now of what I eat each day, and I add up the calories as I go. If the number is too low at the end of the day, I eat another meal or two to get to where I need to be. I don't use the website anymore now that I have a pretty good idea of how my body works and what foods are good for weight gain.

Oh yeah, that's the other part: Eating a lot of food was really hard at first, so I tried searching for foods that are high in calories but don't fill me up too much. My favorites are:
chocolate milk (there are 300 calories in the bottle I purchase at Subway and I can drink it quickly and then eat more food since it tastes so good)
Jama Juice Peanut Butter Moo'd (the small size is already around 500 calories)
scrambled eggs
chef boyardee
FRESH authentic pasta (Try it; you'll never go back to typical dried pasta again; this stuff is very soft and goes down really easily and quickly when you want to eat something calorie-dense. And it is great if you add in some grape tomatoes, or chicken, that have been sauteed in olive oil

and stuff like that, but I wouldn't reccommend a diet of only chef boyardee and other processed foods every day since there is usually a lot of sodium, not to mention preservatives and stuff. I try to balance it out so I'm not eating all junk/processed foods. And as tempting as it sounds when trying to gain weight, I NEVER eat fast food such as McDonald's. And I've never really liked it anyway so I guess that isn't too big of a deal for me...

The third thing I do is lift weights, especially to gain upper body muscle. I like to work out my arms and my back, but I don't work out my chest because I fear the fat could leave from my boobs. I realize you can't spot-reduce, but whatever! I don't care! I'm not working my chest! I want my boobs to stay there because I worked hard to grow them like this!

I hope this helps! If you have any other questions, let me know.