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I went to MEPS for the first time a little over a month ago. I was 8 lbs underweight and needed a waiver to enlist. I am working on gaining the weight before I leave but gaining weight has never been easy for me. I was told by someone in the medical field that if I did not meet the minimum weight a waiver to ship would be difficult to get and I would lose my advanced rank (will be going in as E-2 for college credits). Is this true?
Go eat McDonalds three times a day.... You'll gain the weight....
Supersquishy
01-28-10, 03:09 PM
....that or take creatine a week before the next weigh-in and drink LOTS of water. Creatine makes the body water retentive.
Phantom Blooper
01-28-10, 03:21 PM
Drink Ensure & Milk....It does the body good!:evilgrin:
NCOPOWER
01-28-10, 04:45 PM
This sounds odd to me maybe the rules have changed but I was underweight when I went in. To this day I am still under the average weight of someone that is 5' 8". I would say to listen to the others I know how to cut weight not gain it.
Rocky C
01-28-10, 06:11 PM
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polizei
01-28-10, 06:26 PM
I was a .5lb under, which I needed to gain to ship. It's hard to gain weight...just keep eating food. Nothing much more you can really do...now that said, it's been easy to gain weight. I went from 106 when I shipped, to 125 now, in a span of a year. Must of that I would like to think is muscle, the Corps will add the weight, don't worry. I had little flimsy legs before I left, now they're built up from all the running and hard as a rock!
josephd
01-29-10, 12:34 AM
eat a lot and drink a TON of water, you'd be surprised how dehydrated you body is and how much weight you can put on with water
Some of ya'll are small....I am not big by any means (6' 170lbs) but 5'8"?...5'6"?...low 100's?.....wow! (no disrespect intended, just surprised)
polizei
01-29-10, 04:04 PM
5'4" 109 lbs of mean, lean, fighting Marine! Now I'm 125 though. :( lol.
TinDragon
01-30-10, 06:28 AM
Horribly underweight here as well, so my advice on that would be horrible as well. :p However! Your weight should not affect you getting PFC from college credits, whether you need a waiver or not. Someone telling you that you'd lose it sounds kinda shady to me. If I were you I'd talk to a different recruiter about it, and if all else fails, talk to your SDI about it when at boot camp. There should be some point in time when he asks the platoon if anyone is supposed to have E2 and doesn't, and that would be when you could say "I have x credits, I should be contract PFC".
Regarding weight I'm 5'6" and usually between 110 and 114. I gained some weight pretty easily since I went to MEPS it's just the last few I'm having trouble with. I've been doing a lot of lifting with the recruiters to gain some muscle.
TinDragon: It actually wasn't my recruiter that told me. They granted me a waiver to enlist in the DEP then I had to bring proof of the waiver back to medical. I think it was the Cheif Medical Officer who told me that.
TinDragon
01-30-10, 09:21 AM
I apologize, my mistake. Haha. Either way though, the waiver/weight thing should not affect your Contract PFC.
usmcmsf
01-30-10, 10:27 AM
I would love to be in the situation where I could eat junk all day.