Eat starch at every meal, like sweet potatoes, potatoes, or winter squash. If you're able to tolerate raw milk (which contains lactase enzymes), drink a lot of that, too, if you can get it.

If you're like me, all the protein and fat in the world will never make you put on weight. I laugh when people suggest eating more butter to put on weight. I went from too skinny to even skinnier eating all the fat and meat in the world. Overweight people cower in fear when they hear the word "insulin," but insulin is an insulin-sensitive skinny person's best friend. Therefore, eat more starch! Added to existing staples of meat, fat, and vegetables, this should balance your meals and increase your calories with ease.

I think the natural suggestion to increase calorie intake would be to eat more carbs, since this will naturally decrease weight loss and will make it easier to eat more calories by stimulating appetite. However you explicitly ask for "good snacks to decrease the hunger." This seems odd- if you're feeling hungry then why not eat more calories? Eating more calories of whatever you're eating now would naturally decrease weight loss.

I think the best source of more calories is more fat, since it's the healthiest metabolically. My main suggestion as to how to do this is to eat a source of fat that isn't coconut. Coconut (being medium chain triglycerides) is notoriously harder to eat in large quantities as it's absorbed differently to other fats and will simply make you nauseous. If you simply need calories then drinking cream or cooking with more butter seem simple solutions. Eating fattier meat is also an easy way to make your meals more filling and more calorific. This would be far easier and healthier if you were eating anything other than chicken though, the fat of which is very omega-6 rich (something to avoid if you're already eating almonds and chia). All of the above are really cheap calories too, and don't require any extra thought on your part.

Is the weight loss you're experiencing largely of lean muscle mass? If not then I wouldn't necessarily worry; you might just be naturally leaning out. Despite our cultural obsession with thinness, as a naturally skinny person myself, I can testify that people will often complain about some-one being dangerously underweight simply for being healthy. If on the other hand you are losing (or simply want to gain) lean muscle mass, then the main driver has to be intense exercise. And by intense I don't just mean hard I mean short and so hard that you couldn't maintain it for a longer period.

Don't have much for ya but if you do a search on pubmed you'll notice that coconut oil (the MCTs specifically) actually tends to result in weight loss compared to controls fed on an equa-caloric basis with oils like olive oil. There are also a lot of anecdotal reports of it killing appetite and I certainly notice that. Might not be the best choice for someone trying to gain weight.

I would say the easiest way to add calories, and thus perhaps provoke a weight gain, is definitely adding fat to everything. Be creative:

• when i eat cold cuts i dip each slice in liquid coconut oil or eat each slice with a pat of butter.
• if i snack on nori or romaine i will do the same
• when i panfry a steak, i make sure that i pour all the fat from the pan on top of the steak
• try adding cream to coffee (though i know you mentioned lactoseintolerance)
• not the best as far as quality of animal but bags of pork rinds from a bodega can get you a nice calorie surge (pure fat too)

I suppose im saying just seriously think before you eat/snack on anything and think of how you can add pretty much butter or coconut oil to it. Also, doing a shot here and there throughout the day of olive oil is a great way. Lots of people in the middle east/mediterranean do this for general health but its also a quick, easy, palatable way to get more dense cals in the game.

It would be interesting to know what your macronutrient numbers are. 1700 calories is on the low side as you have acknowledged and making it up with fat seems to be the go to, but are you even getting enough protein? Although my actual calories from protein are a drop in the bucket, I find that is actually the hardest place to get the calories. It's gotta be a really delicious porterhouse for me to make my way through the whole thing. I am gonna guess you've got very little body fat and since you want to gain we could just treat your goal body weight as all lean mass (and if you stay true to paleo it should be!).

• With your goal of about 135 lbs you are going to want to be eating between 135 and 202 grams of protein a day. That's between 540 and 810 calories a day for protein.
• The rest you'll have to make up in carbs and fat. If you are going with MDA's top range 100 grams of carbs from fruits, veggies and sweet potatoes that's another 400 calories there. So on the upper range we've gotten to 1010 calories.
• So now take every gram of protein and slather it in lard. (For others who can do dairy mix some heavy cream in there.) We are talking another 111 grams of fat or around 1000 cals adjusted up if you still aren't adding weight. If you need to add protein through shakes, mix the shake mix with full fat coconut milk.

I would suggest adding a weight training regimen even if you don't want to 'body build' since if you aren't adding muscle you are adding fat. Believe me, if you are afraid of looking like the incredible hulk, put that fear aside and look at my 'before/after' pic in that thread and know that I've been working out for almost 20 years (granted I was SAD and gluten intolerant all that time...). Getting big is hard, doing a good hard work out is just natural.

Also a good thing to note is your resting metabolism--its probably somewhere between 1300 and 1400 calories a day, so getting more calories than those numbers would probably help with weight gain as well.

Hope my thoughts are helpful, sometimes I wish I had trouble gaining weight, but with Paleo I know all too well how easy it is to kinda waste away if you aren't careful.

P.S. If you just want to gain tons of weight and say to hell with health, I have found in the past that a habit of Ben and Jerry's Chubby Hubby (or Fossil Fuel flavor if you want to stay Paleo of course) every night with a six pack of beer and a bacon (again think paleo) pizza got me the extra 30 lbs I needed to fit in with my peers. Anyway, please don't do that.

Are you female or male? Can't tell from your username. If you are male I think you probably need to gain more than 15 lbs. to be really healthy unless you are a professional rock climber or something. Probably also need to gain more than that for a female as well IMO.

Anyway. My basic advice is to eat a lot and lift heavy things. You can look at this previous weight gain thread, but ignore the advice to eat dairy, obviously.

I have a hard time gaining weight myself. I have had good success with eating around 4000+ calories per day, including a can of coconut milk with a bit of whey protein. I do not like whey protein but I think it is helpful for mass gain. A can of coconut milk is around 700 calories. Start off slow and gradually ramp it up, as too much too fast can lead to digestive issues.

My coach put me on digestive enzymes (NOW Super Enzymes) which may have helped with gaining weight.

Don't know what to say about energy crashes, sorry. =( Post a food log -- it'll help. 1700 calories per day is borderline criminal if you are male, and still pretty small for a female IMO.

I don't like dairy fat because any sort of dairy gives me acne. I find almonds hard on my stomach and don't like the taste of coconut oil. Coconut oil is great for weight loss.

My advice is to consume extra fat by eating grass fed suet. You can cut off chunks, cook them in water and eat them. Or you can render the suet into tallow and cover everything you eat in tallow. Pork fat is okay, but the ratio of omega 6/ omega 3 is too high because they feed pigs corn.

Eating starchy vegetables like parsnips and sweet potatoes will help you up the calories and gain weight. Eating carbs causes insulin release. Insulin causes the body to store fat. The liver takes excess carbs from a meal and turns it into fat. The body then stores the fat.
You can also add salt (or lite salt) to make things taster to eat which will help you eat more.

Nuts are a problem for some people. They contain a lot of omega 6s as well. Basically, they are really large seeds and so perhaps it's a case of they 'just don't want to be eaten' as is often said of other grains.

One way to add calories and fat is start deep frying things in lard or bacon fat. I like to roll chicken in egg and then in coconut flour and then deep fry it. ALways leave skins on the chicken of course. Avocado is another tasty fat source that many enjoy.

There are also some nice baking recipes out there using coconut flour or almond flour. I actually don't eat many straight nuts anymore because I sometimes bake with almond flour and I figure that is already plenty of nut intake for me. It's MUCH easier to eat more food if there is a variety of food in front of you, like maybe some deep fried chicken, a bit of fruit, a bit of veggie and then some banana muffins (made with egg, bananas and almond butter) on the side. If your drink also has calories, all the better! Plus you can make up a giant hoard of the muffins or bakery and freeze em for later or use them for snacks.

If you are hungry an hour later, then snack! I like to keep some cooked bacon around in the fridge for snacking and adding to other foods. Beef jerky is nice for in the car, pemmican also. Have snacks available at all times to make eating easier. Normally I would also say up the carbs, but if you are trying to kill off candida, which lives on sugar, than for you, I would not suggest that you eat more carbs and in fact, try to stick with mostly low carb fruits like berries, at least until you get rid of the candida.

Also consider other important things like getting daily UVB sunlight if possible in order to increase vitamin D. And get plenty of restful sleep and try to keep stress levels down. You will want your immune system functioning properly to fight the candida.

What about cans of coconut milk?

Up the meat intake. Eat ribs, bacon, etc. That kind of stuff.

Drink coconut milk too.