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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Combine teen boy appetite with heavy swim workout and trying to gain weight despite a genetic predisposition to be skinny is making my life pretty hard. We are a vegetarian family. Curious if there are others like us and what your daily diet may look like. [/quote]

You have to face reality is my random advice. There is zero chance a growing teenage boy can be competitive athletically as a skinny vegetarian. None. The science isn't there. Either give this boy some animal protein or throw away any chance of being a competitive athlete. [/quote]

This is absolute BS. There are Vegan bodybuilders who do just fine so a vegetarian who eats dairy and maybe fish can figure it out. It just wakes planning and though to get in enough protein and more importantly calories.

OP the reality for kids and even adults who are naturally very thin and active is that they need to be very mindful of what they are eating as they are typically thin because they get full quickly. With that they need to be sure to be eating high calorie foods and even possibly eating past the point of feeling full in order to overconsume calories in order to gain weight.

I listened to a podcast years ago with a guy who was naturally very thing and also had celiac disease. he managed to gain something like 30+lb of muscle and he was honest in that the had to force himself to eat more even when he was not hungry. [/quote]

These vegan body builders are adults, not growing 13 year old boys.

This only affirms my conviction that vegetarianism outside of medical necessity is an eating disorder.[/quote]

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