Really your question has a lot more to do with the basics of weight training and nutrition than it does with IBS. You just need to modify standard advice on how to gain muscle mass to fit your IBS needs.
Basically you're right - you need to be consuming more calories than you're burning. To know this you need to be tracking your calories consumed and burnt - do you use fitday.com? If not, start. Take a few days and record EVERYTHING you eat and then see how much you're eating vs. how much you're burning. To gain mass, you just need to be eating more than you're burning by a few hundred (200-500) calories a day.
And yup, you need lots of protein. Don't eat carbs without protein. In fact eat protein at every meal - which should be 5 or 6 meals a day like you're doing. It's kind of hard to tell from your menu if you're getting enough calories or protein (use fitday for this), but you should be getting 0.8g of protein for every pound of bodyweight MINIMUM. A more standard number is 1g for every lb. This is not hard to do on the IBS diet - I get more than that usually. Just have small amounts of protein with each meal, and try a soy protein powder (or if soy is still giving your problems try a rice one maybe). On the IBS diet you need to eat some simple carbs since many of the safe staples are simple carbs - white bread, white rice etc. - but make sure you're also getting complex carbs as much as possible too. Oatmeal (if you can tolerate that?) and sweet potatoes are a good example. After you've got your protein requirements, for the IBS diet you should be getting about 10-20% of your calories from fat - NO MORE. I generally go for 10-15%. (You can see what you're getting from fitday). Then the rest will be carbs.
On top of this, you need to be training HARD otherwise it's not going to be muscle you're gaining. 3x per week 1 hour sessions (no longer!) with HEAVY weights. Use a spotter. 6-8 reps only. And skip the machines - only basic, compound lifts (bench press, squats, deadlifts, etc.) - HEAVY. And take good rest days where you reward yourself with calories. DO NOT skip rest days under any circumstances and do not workout on consecutive days! You can still do cardio (if you're doing it now) if you want but keep it to a minimum - 2-3x/week, 20 mins a session. If you have trouble gaining muscle you might try a Hard Gainer Routine.
And lastly but MOST importantly - it requires dedication and commitment. No cheating. No slacking off. No getting discouraged. Here's a good discussion about goals: web page. If you slack off on the training and keep eating lots, you're going to be gaining fat and not muscle. If you train lots but don't eat lots - well you're going to lose weight!
I also want to just qualify this before I finish - are you over 18? If not, you might want to reconsider your goals a bit since this kind of stuff is too hard on a teenage body that is still developming.
Good luck!
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