How to Gain Weight in Your Hips and Thighs for Skinny Girls
Your Hips and Thighs can grow in size, and you can be happy.
Thin, toned legs and slender hips are the envy of many a girl, but it's possible to be too thin. Stick-thin legs with minimal muscle mass don't always look good in skinny jeans, short skirts or booty shorts. Being too thin can make you the subject of ridicule and prevent you from feeling your best. While you can't make weight gain purposefully go to a specific area of your body, you can try to increase your muscle size in your legs and hips to create a fuller, fitter look.
How You Gain Weight
Weight gain happens when you eat more calories than you burn. A daily calorie increase of 250 to 500 calories per day will help you put on weight. You can't decide where that weight goes, however. Just as when people lose weight, your body's weight-gain tendencies depend on your genetics. Your general shape will stay the same -- so if you've got a fuller midsection and thin legs and hips, your proportions will be consistent as your whole body gets larger.
As girls grow up past the age of 8, they start to put on more body fat than boys. In adolescence, the increase in fat cell size in girls is almost twice that of boys. Much of this gain is in the pelvis, buttocks and thighs. You don't need to do anything to gain weight in your lower body if you're a girl who hasn't hit puberty yet; it will most likely happen naturally as a result of hormones.
Eating to Add Weight
To gain weight, aim to eat more calories than you burn daily. Figure out your daily calorie burn using an online calculator that takes into account your age, size and activity level. Add about 500 calories to it to encourage a pound gain per week. Alternatively, speak to a dietitian about a good goal calorie intake for you.
Don't just add calories in the form of more chips, ice cream and junk food. Increase your intake of healthy foods, such as fruits, starchy vegetables -- such as sweet potatoes and corn -- whole grains, unsaturated fats, dairy products and protein.
An extra snack consisting of two slices of whole-wheat bread topped with 2 tablespoons of peanut butter and a cup of sliced bananas supplies about 500 calories. Alternatively, add extra calories to each meal. For example, at breakfast sprinkle an ounce of walnuts on your cereal; at lunch have an 8-ounce container of plain yogurt for dessert; and finish dinner with an 8-ounce glass of low-fat milk to boost your day's intake by 500 calories. The extra calcium in the dairy foods supports your body's growth and bone development, too.
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