How many adults do you know? When I was skinny adults would talk about it to my face all the time. Things like- "Oh you're so skinny! You need to eat more. You don't look well." I even had one woman ask me if I had AIDS. They would never dream of saying things like that to an overweight kid.
These days the only kids I come into contact with are the kids that have been produced by my friends and coworkers. Adults don't generally make comments like that
to other adults. If they do, then you should probably consider finding some adults to associate with who aren't just unbelievably rude. Besides, though, I wouldn't really call having your grandma tell you to eat more "ostracism." That's just what grandmas do.
motulist said:
Drink a couple of cups of oil straight out of the bottle each day, I bet that'll get you heavy in no time. Though too much is probably not too healthy and might give you diarrhea and upset stomach. But there are few food substances that are as calorically dense as oil / fats.
On the contrary, there is a professor at Berkeley with a controversial theory that says practically the opposite. According to the theory, which I am
not endorsing by the way, ingesting 150-300 Calories worth of flavorless but calorie-dense substance, like light olive oil, first thing in the morning, with no other food within an hour on either side, and then again late in the afternoon, confuses your metabolism by making it think quality food is scarce and adjusts the appetite downwards with resulting weight loss. Note this is way less than "a couple of cups." Your "couple of cups" of olive oil contain 3840 Calories. Assuming you could digest all that, it would certainly help you gain weight in the "custom-made casket" sense.
Bottom line as far as I'm concerned, people come in all sorts of natural shapes. Furthermore, beanpole-shaped is extremely common for young men in their teens and early 20s. A lot of guys tend to assume that because they've stopped getting taller, they've stopped growing, and thus imagine they'll be stuck all adolescent and gangly forever. They won't. The body fills in with a more adult shape over time. To second guess nature and try to attain that adult shape prematurely by packing fat and/or muscle in places it isn't yet appearing naturally is as bad an idea as sticking your baby on a treadmill to work off that baby fat. Keep your body healthy and its shape will attend to itself.
Edit: I hit submit prematurely. Meant to follow this up with, once you've hit a steady state and stopped growing,
then consult a nutritionist and/or weight trainer if you still feel it's necessary. There are a couple of exceptions in this thread, but remarkably few guys stay teenager-skinny for life.
