How are you adding more calories?

I am really struggling adding more calories to my daily intake. Yes I know I need to incorporate more full fat foods or add another shake (per my nut). However I seem not to eat as much early in the day (not a morning eater) then after I get home from work I still need to eat about 600-700 calories (1200 per day was recommended). So I'm having to eat something ever hour to get the calories in. By the time I go to bed I am stuffed. Any and all suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!

peanut butter will add calories and you can add it to a shake or eat it off a spoon, adding coconut oil to your food will add calories.

what are you eating during the day til you get home from work?

I usually have a protein shake about 9:00 am for pre-breakfast (197 calories). Then about 10:30 I have a Dannon Light & Fit yogurt (80 calories). Have lunch about 12:00, usually cottage cheese & fruit (120 calories). I have a snack about 3, usually an extra small apple & a string cheese (133 calories). So that is about 530 calories leaving me at 670 calories for the rest of the evening. For dinner I usually have a dense protein (usually steak or ground beef-still cannot do chicken). I eat dinner about 6:30. Since this is really my only really dense protein, I dont eat anything else until about 9:30. I will have a snack of something like 2 string cheese and about 1/2 oz of almonds. So generally I am below 1000 calories per day. I am using the rest of my skim/lowfat products and when I go to the store next I will be buying full fat products to add more calories but am still not sure if I will make 1200 calories but that might do the trick. I'm not a huge fan of peanut butter but maybe a couple of times a week, instead of the yogurt, I will have a whole wheat waffle with a tbsp of peanut butter.

I have a protein shake for breakfast too but I put an extra scoop of protein to get me up to 270 calories. Then on days I work out an am not at the high end of my range, I add a banana and now it's 370 calories.

Then for my mid-morning snack, I have nuts or a protein bar. 170-190 calolries.

So now I'm at 440-560 and I haven't even had lunch yet

i tend to not be a morning eater and found it diffucult to get enough protein in if i didn't get at least some in by 10 am. otherwise i would just drink coffee until noon and then late in the day be short of protein and no way to get it in. So using regular yogurt and dairy is a good start. So what do you do in the morning that you could include something to eat with? Are you at home or at a desk? If you dislike traditional breakfast items, would a piece of cold pizza taste good or some summer sausage? A flavored coffee with some half and half?  Nuts and cheeses are appealing and compact calories. macadamia nuts being killer caloric. i have lost about 5 pounds this past month unintentionally as i was at goal of 135 but it was an unusually active month so i am not going to worry about it. . mainly into toasted almonds or toasted pumpkin seeds  as a calorie source and can carry them around easily but don't want to get into a bad grazing habit.

one thing i learned in pre surgery days of being a night snacker is that late day eating makes you not be hungry in the morning. your guts are still full of last night's items. so you might consider not eating anything except liquids after 7 or 8 pm to create more of a morning appetite. used to leave the house without breakfast all the time and now i just make myself not do that.

and you might get different shakes - the kind for body builders intead of the barriatric kind. they have more calories and carbs. might even taste better. there is a solution out there. gl. d

Peanut butter and nuts work well for me. Also, protein bars if you dont mind the carbs. And maybe using mayo?

I've had to limit my greek yogurt, cottage cheese, and lean meats in order to increase my calories. I find that the easiest way to add calories is through fat.

I do a protein shake or a protein bar. I find the bars good as they are easy to transport and lately I've been on the go alot. I've been eating the power crunch bars they are 205 calories and 14 grams of protein. They are a wafer bar so they aren't heavy.

Great ideas from all. Today was a little better calorie wise as I was up to 1196 & 105 protein so I'm going to give it a try again in the morning. I'm thinking about starting the day with Special K + protein with 1/2 cup 2% milk and eat this before I leave the house. Then maybe mid morning either have a dannon light & fit yougurt or a wholewheat waffle w/peanut butter the see where the day leads me. Maybe I need to concetrate on the protein more early in the day that later. Hmm! Will def have to play with this one.