This is what I ate to put it back on:
Breakfast: 16 weetabix + milk
Lunch: A couple of sandwiches and a couple of bananas.
Supper: A wok full of stir-fried vegetables - meat + a massive bowl of rice.
No snacks.
I was also working on a building site at the time and as my waist size was the same at the end (slightly thinner actually), I was have been putting on muscle and not fat. (actually that was quite obvious).
I'm not sure that this would work for you though because when I had reached a certain weight, I automatically cut down on the amount of food.
Might be the portion sizes, that somebody already mentioned, otherwise the diet looks good. I would have more carbs, a bit of protein, not so much exercising, I would eat more often and more food. But that worked for me.
I move that we start a BMI bank, where BMI points can be freely deposited into a cup, and withdrawn by those in need.
To assist in the process, gastronomical porn will be available in the lobby.
It's only when it went up a bit I realized how much more I like being in my body..The doc might have been subjective, too, it does depend on how you feel. But, upping one's weight after decades of being thin is a major pain.
Or was there a generalised assumption going on in the doctors clinic?
There is a figure for "average" BMI, but different figures for "the normal range of healthy" and there will always be people outside those figures, who are still perfectly healthy - many well-tuned athletes for example (and the reverse of course, of being within those figures, but still not nutritionally healthy.) If you really need to put on weight, then from the list of foods you mentioned, it does seem as if you could easily add more carbohydrates - the complex ones mentioned by other posters. Eeerrr, not sure about the idea of 16 weetbix for breakfast though!!!
In addition, my MIL was told by her doctor that low BMI as you get older isn't optimal because if you get sick you need some extra reserves to help you recover. If you are already thin and you get sick, you can reach dangerous low weight and it can lead to all sorts of other problems.
BMI is not always a good indicator of being a healthy weight. According to the BMI charts my husband is classed as very overweight, he is far from it just very tall with a lot of muscle & little fat. They charts do not take into account body composition at all.
And don't cut out protein your muscles need that too. I think balance is pretty much the goal.
Good luck! Ah cr@p now I feel like I need to do some exercise.
After several weeks of eating bananas and milkshakes I barely managed to add 1 kg. The Army would have rejected me, but Air Force took me in, with remarks in my dossier that otherwise perfectly healthy individual, he will likely put on weight with age. Just that it too me 15 years later to get that weight thanks to the Swiss Alpine air.
But the point was, when I was underweight, I would still kick the asses of 95% of my batch mates in anything physical, and I was among the 5% who came out of the boot camp unscathed. Likewise I know some guys who were more than 15% overweight, but were champion lifters in the gym, never got sick, and could run a mile in 5 mins. That's when I decided ideal BMI is like ideal penis size.
A more atrocious thing (that I as a layman could see, but the Indian medical fraternity hadn't), was that in the 90's, they used to use BMI charts developed in Western world, without calibrating for the fact that Asians are genetically thinner guys. In short, they were using wrong scales and giving thin guys pain. Now they have corrected it.
(I have used breaded fish, molluscs or chicken in place of, or in addition to, bread)
Tom
But that's the reason why I must gain weight.
Thank you so much for the answers
For a thin body, I was completely fine, but the minute my weight shifted a bit from my usual weight, either lower or higher, the hormonal works and chemical balance had a lot of work balancing and getting used to.
I would advise OP to work on gaining slowly, I'd say 5 kilos a year or year and a half. I think that 's the main bitch about low weight, if you put mere 5kilos on, it is a relatively high percentage of your body weight and it can shift other chemical responses in your body. Immunity seems to work better for me, with slightly higher BMI.
I think making a baby is a fine reason to just take a break, eat whatever you fancy and as often you feel like, indulge a tad. Rest, munch on comfort food, moderate exercise (4x a week is quite intense for somebody who needs to fatten up to prepare for a baby, and who already has a low BMI), take it easy.
There is a Czech physiotherapist who found a relation between rotated pelvis of some women and infertility, if you want to check this out.