**Weight training is your best friend for gaining weight. Not even funny. Workout 3 times a week only with a day break in between. No cardio right now, only weights. Start off by warming up on a stationary bike or glider or stair master for 3-5 minutes to get your muscles warmed up. Stretch for about 5 min. Then hit the weights. High weight, low reps. But start slow for the first couple of weeks then step it up. Make sure you're using correct form with each exercise (you can find videos online or on bodybuilder.com. So let's say you're doing squats. Make sure to make it heavy enough to where you have to really push yourself to get to 8-10 reps. Any lighter and you're not gaining weight, you're toning your body. Don't do more than 8-10 reps with any exersize & make sure you have enough weight with each exersize. Stretch after. Don't worry, you're not going to look like a muscle builder, don't be scared of weights 
**Protein, food, protein, water and more protein! The BEST thing to do (and easiest way to get in all your calories), is to eat 60% of your daily calories within 2 hours of your workout. So snack, drink a protein shake, workout, eat a bar, then go eat a high calorie meal. Eat 3 high calorie meals a day plus 1-2 protein shakes and/or weight gain shakes and maybe a snack at night. I weigh about 107 lbs and I drink 85-100 ounces of water a day, try to eat 100 oz of protein a day and I take in a LOT of calories. I aim for 3800 calories daily right now since I have a fast metabolism, chase after a 2 year old, workout AND my job has me running around a lot & burning calories. It takes about a week or two to get used to all the food, but it'll get easier. And trust me when I say, meal prep makes your life easier too. So one day a week make a bunch of food and store it in the fridge or freezer so you can just grab and go for the week.
**After 2 weeks of adding 700 more calories to your daily diet, go ahead and bump that 700 up to 900 or 1,000 extra calories and stay there for about 3 weeks. Then if you'd like, or if you're not gaining fast enough, bump it up more.
**You will gain an average of 1-2 lbs a week. I know, that sounds depressing. But it happens faster than you think. And unless you're gaining a bunch of fat, you typically can't gain more than 3 lbs a week.
It is all about dedication & persistence, especially in the beginning. If you bust your butt for 3 weeks then slack for a week, you just set yourself back. But the longer you train & eat surplus calories, the longer it takes to loose gains. So if you do good for 5 months then go on a week vacation, you'll be fine.
Tracking calories sucks, but it does pay off & it makes gaining weight a lot easier. After you get the hang of it, you won't need to count calories anymore. Since I'm trying to gain a little fat as well as muscle, I also just swallow a tablespoon of avacado oil or something similar maybe once or twice a day and throw Ice cream in my shakes sometimes.
Once you get the hang of it, it gets easier You can also check out meal plans and exersize plans for gaining weight on bodybuilder.com. It's not just for bodybuilding, and you can also just do searches on there (and Google) for "women gain weight" or something similar.
**Protein, food, protein, water and more protein! The BEST thing to do (and easiest way to get in all your calories), is to eat 60% of your daily calories within 2 hours of your workout. So snack, drink a protein shake, workout, eat a bar, then go eat a high calorie meal. Eat 3 high calorie meals a day plus 1-2 protein shakes and/or weight gain shakes and maybe a snack at night. I weigh about 107 lbs and I drink 85-100 ounces of water a day, try to eat 100 oz of protein a day and I take in a LOT of calories. I aim for 3800 calories daily right now since I have a fast metabolism, chase after a 2 year old, workout AND my job has me running around a lot & burning calories. It takes about a week or two to get used to all the food, but it'll get easier. And trust me when I say, meal prep makes your life easier too. So one day a week make a bunch of food and store it in the fridge or freezer so you can just grab and go for the week.
**After 2 weeks of adding 700 more calories to your daily diet, go ahead and bump that 700 up to 900 or 1,000 extra calories and stay there for about 3 weeks. Then if you'd like, or if you're not gaining fast enough, bump it up more.
**You will gain an average of 1-2 lbs a week. I know, that sounds depressing. But it happens faster than you think. And unless you're gaining a bunch of fat, you typically can't gain more than 3 lbs a week.
It is all about dedication & persistence, especially in the beginning. If you bust your butt for 3 weeks then slack for a week, you just set yourself back. But the longer you train & eat surplus calories, the longer it takes to loose gains. So if you do good for 5 months then go on a week vacation, you'll be fine.
Tracking calories sucks, but it does pay off & it makes gaining weight a lot easier. After you get the hang of it, you won't need to count calories anymore. Since I'm trying to gain a little fat as well as muscle, I also just swallow a tablespoon of avacado oil or something similar maybe once or twice a day and throw Ice cream in my shakes sometimes.
Once you get the hang of it, it gets easier
You can also check out meal plans and exersize plans for gaining weight on bodybuilder.com. It's not just for bodybuilding, and you can also just do searches on there (and Google) for "women gain weight" or something similar.
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