Help any ideas on gaining weight

Bought these today. The start of a new regime. Running with weights. I put them in my backpack on the way home and I could feel my thighs tense up as I had other shopping in there, altogether about 11 kilos.
I plan to carry them in my hands when running.
Anyone here run with weights or weighted vest?

I do try and eat as healthy as possible and do an average amount of exercise I have another GPs app in the morning about it but feel bad as I hate taking there time up for something that's not an emergency I will take all your suggestions on board and today bought full fat milk for the first time in years and will look into the high calorie shakes I'm so stressed about it and people look at me like I'm mad when I moan about it ,but then go onto tell me how gaunt I look , and the whole thing is stressing me out now and im really not a stressy person x

I do think under 7 stones is very underweight though. I think she needs to get weight on asap. She's got no spare if God forbid, she got flu or something. A high calorie diet in her case won't be forever, just until she gets to a healthy weight.

I’ve never weighed much for my height, but like Daisymae I had an overactive thyroid problem a couple of years ago and lost a lot of weight quickly. Now I am back to normal for me. I eat whatever I fancy, much of it very calorific. If I do manage to put on a little weight, it is always in the wrong places, like round my waist. This is very annoying!

I think people often under-estimate how difficult it can be to put weight on. I'm bordering on the underweight category for my height. I don't want to put weight on by eating loads of sugary foods etc, but just need to find extra "good" calories.

I always have porridge in the morning, adding lots of seeds and have an extra spoonful of oats to increase the amount. If I'm going shopping I take a small bag of nuts to nibble on. Bananas are good as I seem to be able to eat them even if I'm not hungry.

My portion sizes have to be slightly bigger than I would naturally take - but again that gives me more calories. I'm not naturally a "snacker" but try to have something to eat every couple of hours.

Look up "calorific foods" on google to give you ideas. Avocados, baked beans, rice, oily fish, etc.

You could speak to your GP about maybe taking a protein supplement but personally I prefer "normal" foods.

Obviously don't cut out fresh fruit and veg or exercise but just load in the calories on top. Take a brisk walk every day but don't go to aerobics or anything. For every bit of exercise, eat chocolate afterwards.

I have a little bit of experience in this, but different circumstances. A friend with MS was losing weight because of difficulty chewing and swallowing (she has a direct feed tube in her stomach now but before she did this is how calories were loaded in). I didn't cook for her but gave her carers really high-calorie recipes.

Add cream and butter to as much as you can. Add the butter to stuff like vegetables on your plate. If you're having potatoes load with cheese and butter. Drink coffee with single cream. Eat high calorie posh ice-cream eg Häagen-Dazs. Eat Mars bars and as much chocolate as you can manage. Ditch skimmed and semi-skimmed milk and go for blue or gold top milk.

If you eat chips don't eat chunky ones, go for thin French fries (bigger overall surface area so they are fattier). Eat crisps. Deep fry things, don't grill. If you like bacon eat streaky as there's more fat.

You can also buy high calorie shakes from the chemist. I think it's called Fresubin. Ask your doctor to prescribe it or a similar high calorie preparation.

The fact that you weren't a skinny person before will help. There is a genetic difference and truly skinny people can't put on weight easily at all whereas some of us seem to gain weight just looking at a doughnut.

Ah yes, doughnuts, cakes, biscuits and fats. sugar and more fats and sugar. Carbs, carbs, carbs with added butter.
Good luck

I had a similar experience a while back, turned out to be my thyroid. I assume that yours has been checked? unexplained weigh loss needs further investigation so I would go back to your GP.