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I have a new contract where I’m going up and down tall ladders all day long with a heavy tool belt on. I’m already a fairly lanky person, and the six months I have been doing this I have lost about 15 pounds of my muscle mass. I look scrawny as hell. I started going to the gym again and drinking mass gainer, but I can’t gain a pound because of my activity level at work. Anyone have any good strategies for gaining mass? I have a feeling most people are just going to say eat more but I already eat insane amounts of food it seems. I just have a super high metabolism. Looking for tricks or certain things that may help slow down my metabolism or help me gain faster than I’m losing

I have a new contract where I’m going up and down tall ladders all day long with a heavy tool belt on. I’m already a fairly lanky person, and the six months I have been doing this I have lost about 15 pounds of my muscle mass. I look scrawny as hell. I started going to the gym again and drinking mass gainer, but I can’t gain a pound because of my activity level at work. Anyone have any good strategies for gaining mass? I have a feeling most people are just going to say eat more but I already eat insane amounts of food it seems. I just have a super high metabolism. Looking for tricks or certain things that may help slow down my metabolism or help me gain faster than I’m losing

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If your body is losing weight it's a simple case of burning more calories than you are eating.
That makes the goal simple: consume more calories. There are 3 types of food: carbs, protien and fat. Fat is by far the most calorie dense foods so go eat high fat foods. Consider nut butters, Kind bars, sausage sticks, milk products, and high fat breakfast breads such as biscuits and gravy.

If you want muscle mass, eat high protein instead, but eat an ungodly amount of it and lift weights.

2 high calorie+high protien foods to consider if you need both are Nuts and Cheese

Last note: processed sugary crap is addicting. That is not hyperbole, that's fact. Do NOT go hard on the sweets trying to get calories. This somewhat applies to carbs as well. Do not go hard or you will get addicted.

Lots of great info. A slim hardworking gent can achieve a healthy bmi by following your suggestions; high quality proteins, some fats and ideally medium chain long burning carbs for fuel