Nutrition for Female Weight Gain

Question
Hello, there!  
    Ok, I'll try to make this as impersonal as possible and still give you what information I imagine you might need to make wise recommendations.  I am a very fit 25 year-old woman who is wanting (ok, needing) to gain a bit of weight.  I am beginning to cut back on my cardio and am consuming more calories than I previously did.
    I would prefer that the weight I put on go to my chest, hips, and buns rather than anywhere else (specifically my abdomen).  While I realize you can't spot lose, I have not heard about the possibility of spot gaining.  
    Whether or not this is likely, I do wonder about the quality of the nutrients I am adding to my diet.  Since the areas I'm wanting to increase are made up primarily of fat, should I eat more fat as opposed to more carbohydrates or more proteins?  Regardless of the form they come in, are calories just calories and any extra will be stored by the body accordingly?
    What sort of diet would you recommend for a healthy, active young woman looking to become a bit more curvy?
    I really appreciate your help in these matters.  It is very important to me and I thank you for your time and effort in responding!

Answer
Dear Julie,

The same way you cant spot lose, you cant spot-fat-gain unless you want exactly what you in fact don't - gain abdominal fat. To increase the volumes of separated body parts, you can only build more muscle mass on these spots, and this is a highly controllable process.

Now, since you don't want your waistline to expand, you definitely don't need high carbohydrate diet because abdominal fat, called 'insulinometer' by Dr. Diana Schwartzbein (The Schwartzbein Principle) because it's insulin-reacting more than any other fat in the body, is first to go when you reduce carb intake and first to appear when you increase carb consumption.

Muscle building in specific areas requires both specific nutrition and specific exercises. The general rules are simple but the' details are many and important so one better educate herself systematically.

You have to cunsume enough protein for your body mass and activity level and you have to learn how to choose and perform strength training exercises including precise workout timing, weights, and weekly routines. The best manual I am aware of is Tom Venuto's 'Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscles' available at http://bestweight.burnthefat.hop.clickbank.net - it combines the virtues of fundamental but popular information with down-the-Earth step by step instructions.

Hope it helps,

Tanya Zilberter, PhD

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