Q: mike, my wife is incredibly skinny, would it be possible for you to design a weight gain program for her? she does eat, but she won't put on weight. please help.

A: The only way for her to gain weight is to simply eat more. If she eats more, but still doesn't gain weight, she needs to eat more still. That's the only way, unfortunately.

Weight training by itself will burn calories and make her actually lose weight. But weight training may wake up her metabolism which would help stimulate her appetite for food, especially if she rarely feels hungry now. But aside from that aspect, weight training in and of itself will NOT help her gain weight. The bottom line is that she absolutely have eat more if she wants to gain weight.