In the process of trying to gain weight, what supplements are needed? Is it really required to consume a lot of vitamins and nutritional products to aid me to get bigger? These are questions that can be answered differently by different people. This is what my feeling is on supplements for gaining weight.

When you start out as a skinny individual trying to add lots of weight to your frame, you need to focus on increasing your food intake. You should not just eat anytime you think your hungry. You must spread your meals out every 3 hours or so to let your digestive system do what it was meant to do without getting overloaded.

You will be taking on a lot more food than you are accustomed to, and your body will be getting a lot of nutrition. It does not matter if you are eating a lot of low fat food to keep the body fat down or just going for broke and eating what you want, losing weight later. With this much food you will be getting plenty of what you need.

What I see as a benefit to those gaining weight are the meal replacement and weight gain powders. If you reach a point where you just can not eat a meal because you are tired of eating so much, you could mix up one of these supplements to drink. They can be easier to drink than eating a meal at times.

This allows you to keep those extra calories coming in and you do not skip a meal. Also many bodybuilders that are bulking up will get up in the middle of the night and have a meal replacement drink so they can keep the body fueled all through the night. This is kind of serious but it helps add more calories.