h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

after disappointments with several doctors and clinics, who just told me to eat lots of fatty stuff and rice, i went to my GP, a really great man (he diagnosed my chronic sinus infection ... after 20 years of visiting ERs) and he developed a food plan for me. What you probably can do at home or have your doctor do for you is: he calculated my calorie intake against my daily activites, and tested how much i could eat at one setting. then he calculated the plan to be just slightly higher than calorie usage, so I could actually eat it.
The basic is: eat everything you normally eat, including salads and fruit, just eat about 2 to 4 spoon-full more of each. My mother was loosing weight at the same time, he told her to eat salad before the main meal to fill up her stomach, I was told to eat the salad with my usual very sour souce after the main meal, to encourage digestion.

This made for a very steady and slow increase of weight, i didn't need to use pills to get appetite (allergic) and no hormones, because it had time to settle everywhere.

Problem is, now my stomach is used to the bigger servings