Normally those who have no problem gaining weight from eating everyday food will not understand how difficult it to be a skinny ectomorph who just can't cramp enough food into their small stomachs.

There's always a place for Weight Gainers/Mass Gainers in the life of an Skinny underweight person. They need all the help they can get in addition to their regular food. It provides high calories at inconvenient time and place and also won't overload their stomach too much.

After all they are just food supplements , not replacements. So why shoot them down for taking Mass Gainers.

While at it, why not tell all body builders as well to stop taking Whey Protein and get all their nutrition from regular food.

Mass Gainers have Protein too. Only diff is they have added Carbs to provide the extra calories for Hard Gainers.

If Body Builders can take Whey Protein Supplement to speed up their progress, I don't see why it is any diff than a 'Hard Gainer' taking a Mass Gainer to speed up their progress. Each has it's purpose.

Btw, Good for you that you can eat extra food and put on weight without extra help. Nobody said you can't put on weight without supplements.

But if someone wants extra help from Mass Gainers, no one should shoot them down just because they themselves don't use it.

What's your height, btw. Just giving your weight at 55Kg does not mean much without giving your height

Well, I don't think he exactly said that all he gained was muscle. He acknowledge part of it was fat as well.

There's no harm in gaining some fat especially when starting from a very light body weight. An ectomorph should be able to get rid of the extra fat once they up their exercise routine and stop their Mass Gainer as they reach a certain weight. But of course they must know when to stop the mass gainer by looking at the mirror for feedback.

They can eventually switch to Whey Protein to increase their muscle further and burn the extra fat off.

This post has been edited by Ngto: Aug 30 2014, 12:03 AM

Come on, I can't believe you can misinterpret my statement that way.

When I say burn off the extra fat, of course I don't mean the Whey Protein doing it. Burn off fat meant stop the Mass Gainer at the proper time and burn off the fat through his ongoing exercises.

The switch to Whey Protein is just to maintain or add to his lean muscle not to burn fat.