Typically, women are engaged in weight loss and weight management training program but few are desperately in need to gain weight.

The two basic goals, ladies if you are thin and underweight, are to gain weight and at the same time maintain the prefect body shape. These two goals might be contradicting to each other unless you exercise along with increase in your diet.

Along with the increase in weight there is considerably an increase in body fat in women which makes them look big… obese. Women tend to gain more body fat more easily than men. And body fat content for women is about 20% – 30% which is higher than men.  A BMI (Body Mass Index) of about 16 to 25 is considered to be appropriate for women.

Women are supposed to be less physically active than men and so the weight gain might be a result of accumulated body fat. Slight increase in food intake can result in bulky appearance which is not at all acceptable by most women. Instead women will most appreciate a healthy weight gain through increase in muscle size and increase in bone density instead of looking obese.

Increasing in muscle size for women can be limited to an extend. Men can have large muscle size primarily due to the secretion nature of hormone testosterone. This testeoterone hormone is secreted in less quantity in women which limits their muscle growth.

Exercises can help women to gain healthy weight without looking obeses or bulky. Ladies, if you are reading this articles, let me emphasis on this important point once again. Exercise can improve your muscle size and helps you to reduce your body fat so that you retain your feminine good body shape.

It also help to increase your muscle density which might result in healthy weight gain. Women can also do the intense workouts and weight lifting exercises as men do without any side-effects.

Regualr exercises not only help to lose body fat and gain muscle, but it also reduces the potential risk of breast cancer. Exercises might not cause in increase in breast size as expected by most women. The breast tissue mostly consists of fats and not muscle hence you need to put on more fat to increase your breast size.

However, exercises may definitely help you increase the size of your hip muscle. To gain healthy weight and still maintaining  the perfect look, women should take to regular exercises along with low-fat and high proteins diet.

In conclusion, women will gain more body fat if they just increase their calories intake. Weight gain  from muscles can help to keep body fat within a limit so that you don’t look obese and fat. You can easily gain weight and still maintaining good body shape through regular exercises and well balanced diet.