Putting on weight ...
I now have 2 months to take at least
3kg (1/2 stone), in order to have enough stored energy for the
ultra trail. It's quite a challenge ! And hiking the GR54 in the
French Alps between July and August won't help with that matter...
Thanks to you all that offered to give me some of yours, but the
exchange may be a bit complicated
... Let me
say 2 things to the ones that told me or thought I was
underweighted (*):
1. It's not an easy thing to hear. On one hand, overweighted
people are quite protected because nobody dares telling them.
There's a kind of social taboo behind that: overweighted people
already suffer enough, it's not their fault or whatever. You can't
decently tell to somebody he(she)'s
fat. But on the other
hand you can easily make fun of
skinny people. It doesn't
seem to be a real problem, they're not supposed to suffer because
of that. It seems assumed that they could put on weight if they
want. It's just fun...
Can you tell me the real difference between a skinny person that
can't put on weight and a fat one that can't loose any, both being
angry with their scale ?
2. If you believe it's so easy to put on weight, send me
your recipe at
recipe@vosgesrandos.org. I'm already eating
4 meals a day plus snacks. I'm having plates of 250g of pasta with
loads of full-fat cheese and
crême fraîche (32%
fat). But I guess you think it's not enough, don't you ? So let's
make a deal. If your recipe schedule is balanced enough (I don't
want to finish like Morgan Spurlock in "Supersize Me"), I promise
you I'll try it for two weeks. And we'll see ...
(*) I'm not underweighted: at the moment I'm at my minimum
weight and still have a BMI (Body Mass Index) of 20.3 - normal BMI
being between 20 and 25.
