OhHey:
All the places turning health conscious and making sure their menu is under a certain amount of saturated fats and calories makes wg hard.

I miss the days where you could get a salad that was 700+ calories. Back in the 90's and 00's, a Southwest Grilled Chicken Salad from Mcdonalds contained over 730 calories! (Now its just 350)

Also, I used to get the chicken fried steak meal from ihop that was over 1000 calories. It was really good too. Now its been nixed. RIP.

What are some menu items/places that you miss or remember that used to help you put on the weight?

Munchies:
I think some of these issues are location-specific. When I'm at (one state north of you), I can buy the IHOP chicken-fried steak meal. In fact, there are a lot of places where I live where you can buy a meal for well over 1,500 calories. But I live in a fairly rural area, so that may have an impact on this.

I will say it's more expensive to gain weight - especially past a certain point. Not just the food, but also having to size up when you outgrow things.

BigBallBellyGirl:
It's absolutely more expensive. My household food budget is probably average for a family of two, maybe a little more because I'm making a concerted effort to eat healthy, and vegetables are costly. But when I was gaining, our food budget was our biggest expense. Additionally, having a dress made for someone my size costs around $250. My feet have also grown too wide for regular shoes. I only have one nice pair appropriate for wearing out.

Reality is hard. We're well educated and successfully employed, but most assuredly middle to upper middle class income-wise. But my size still taxes our budget, even with "normal" food expenses.

Munchies:
Money is the ultimate reason why most people stop gaining - even more than health, comfort, or peer pressure. At some point, it gets hard to afford.

FattyBeefPatty:
Man, how come the moment I’m committed to gaining everything’s gotta be so expensive 😔

Munchies:
Truly unfair

BigBallBellyGirl:
I've always wondered about the accuracy of so-called calorie absorption caps. As someone who has a lifetime of experience gaining, stuffing, and overeating, I've frequently consumed more than the body is supposedly able to metabolize. As an example, I consumed 90,000 calories over two days during the 2023 Thanksgiving holiday. My weight temporarily increased by 29 pounds. Based on the maximum amount of calories a body is theoretically able to store as fat, I should have settled around a 9 pound gain after digestion and loss of water weight. I didn't. 19 pounds stuck... not to mention, I stretched my stomach (I believe permanently) and set off a massive holiday weight gain over the next few weeks.

Roosterman89:
I just woke up from a dream where I was immobile, and now I’m turned on and unable to sleep 😭

Noah Boart:
I agree, but what if we aks9 promoted being plus size not with gluttony, but with both an accumulation of body shaping and muscle to help keep fat away from hearts and arteries?

There is technically already a sub-sect of lifters who do this. We turn bad health to a new type of body building

Munchies:
Something to point out here: health is only a subsection of fatphobia. You can be an Olympic-level power lifter, and people will still shit on you about your size.

I love obesity as much as the next feeder, but sadly, it's not so simple to eradicate fatphobia. I don't say this to discourage you. I support anything that seeks to push back against any form of bigotry. I only say this because a narrow focus on the issue will leave you vulnerable to attacks from other angles.

LuvsChub04:
Agree,N on a side note Munchies,i met a power lifter few years ago. Very fit yet people still said she was obese... Yet BMIS are another story..
Fatphobia will always exist, same for skinny shaming as well.. Nothing will ever stop it on either side...

Munchies:
Hell, you can be thin and still deal with fatphobia. I remember my mom fat shaming me as a child because I went from 115 to 120 at 5'7". I was 15. Apparently going from the high end of being underweight to the low end of being normal weight made me fat? Idk

Health is truly only one aspect of fatphobia.

Enas:
There are many complex issues in this world, fatphobia is not one of them.

There isn't a health aspect to fatphobia. There is only a perception aspect and a historical/social aspect to it really, because it is entierly a result of behaving on unfiltered -and to be frank, of very bad quality- perception, plus the fact that our current society has decided that fat is "bad" and "ugly" (as opossed to what it had decided for fat, 2 centuries ago, for example).

On a side-note, my own mother has called my gym-rat brother (a very muscular person), "obese".

Munchies:
Wait until you hear about medical fatphobia

Milanesa:
I know that there's a limit on how many calories one can consume before they stop being absorbed
But does this apply in a smaller time frame? Like, 2k in one sitting might be too much?

Infatuated:
Cheap way to gain weight.

½ box of cake mix any flavor
1 quart of heavy cream
1 cup of maltodextrin
3 cups of whole milk
Blend well and drink quickly through a funnel with a valve such as a beer bong with a valve. Try to do it in one shot or break it up in two.
It’s about 4800 calories of fat, sugars, and carbs for a total fat cell rejuvenating experience.
ADD peanut butter for even more calories.
You can buy maltodextrin off of Amazon or even Ebay.
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Here is another one.

• 5 cups of heavy whipping cream
• 1 cup of maltodextrin
• 2 sticks of melted unsalted butter
• Nestle's Quik or cocoa powder to taste.
• 1 cup of milk!
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And a 12k super fattener

My homemade 72oz weight gain shake that I make 5 days a week and carry with me throughout the day and chug. That’s roughly 6 cups of weight gain shake in one bottle. Here’s what you need.
Supplies:
* Blender or Blender Bottle
* 72 oz bottle or two 32 oz bottles (a bit less shake than 72 oz, but
* it’s more available than a 72 oz bottle.)
Ingredients:
* Whole / Full Cream Milk
* Heavy / Thickened Cream
* Strawberries and Bananas (or your favorite fruit)
* PB2 Peanut Butter Powder (optional)
* Peanut Butter
* Naturade Vanilla Weight Gain Shake
* Chocolate Syrup (any kind)
Recipe (For 64-72 oz):
* 6-8 cups of Whole / Full Cream Milk
* 6 tbsp of Peanut Butter
* 4 tbsp of PB2 Peanut Butter Powder (optional)
* 2 Bananas
* 6 Strawberries
* 8 oz / 235 ml of Heavy / Thickened Cream
* 4 scoops of Naturade Vanilla Weight Gain Shake
* ½ cup of Chocolate Syrup
Blend all ingredients together, feel free to tweak it a bit and add extra milk or heavy cream.
This shake is approximately 12,000 calories and guaranteed to give you a nice steady gain. You should definitely start seeing results in a week! I make 5 days a week and carry with me throughout the day and chug. That’s roughly 6 cups of weight gain shake in one bottle. Here’s what you need.
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Normalize LAZINESS,
Normalize EXCESSIVE OVEREATING

Caloriesrule123456:
What is the most amount of calories you have eaten in one day?