Chunkylard knows what he's talking about here.

I'm a 17 year old male (turning 18 next month) and I'm really skinny. I lost 5 pounds already from these last few months of changing my diet. I've eliminated dairy, junk food, and as much sugar as possible. I've also switched from white rice to brown rice. Of course once in a while if I'm with friends or family it's unavoidable and I have to eat bad food, but I try my best to have a consistent good diet. I still haven't eliminated wheat yet, I still eat cereal for breakfast with almond milk, and I eat whole wheat bread every day. I'm afraid that if I cut that out I'll lose even more weight, and I'm already really skinny. What are some alternatives to wheat that will give me more calories and keep my weight up? Is there like wheat/gluten free cereal or bread or something like that? And what are the best foods overall that have lots of calories but don't affect acne?

 

Firstly.

Brown rice is overrated. If you go by purely on GI then white rice is actually slightly lower than brown rice. If you like brown rice then stay with it but there is barely any difference in the two.

If you are "skinny" as you say then increase protein and healthy fats such as olive oil and udos oil. Also eat nuts, oily fish like salmon and even saturated fats maybe once a weak is very helpful. Don't be scared of saturates. If you eating healthy then the occasional saturate fat is beneficial, Eat a big juicy steak once a week.

Cutting wheat will change your body. Wheat is loaded with gluten that in it self will make you look less bloated. So compensate with high healthy fats and proteins.

Alternative carb sources, sweet potatoes, Qinuoa, fruit, gluten free pasta, white or brown rice gluten free oats. To name but a few

bump.

I am on the paleo diet and it feels like i can BARELY even get above 1.2-1.4k calories.

For example, this is what i ate today:

breakfast: 4 eggs, cooked in one tablespoon olive oil. One medium sweet potato with 1 tablespoon and half of ghee (Clarified butter which is grass fed).

Lunch: Salmon (typical portion), with cauliflower and romaine lettuce and cucumber and 4 celery sticks

Snacks: about 15-20 macadamia nuts (but i don't even macas all the time, so today these nuts gave me calories... what about on days i do not eat them?)

Dinner: chicken thighs (about 140 grams) with cucumber. One tbspoon of olive oil

How much tablespoons of ghee is okay to eat per day? What about coconut oil? Olive oil?

How many avocados per day?

 

Are you measuring your macro nutrients are you just following a generic plan?