Fat experiences

On an unexpected gain

I've always had a fascination with fat people and weight gain; how our bodies can shrink and grow and change shape and proportions so drastically. I always watched this community with lustful eyes from the sidelines, suppressing this part of myself like I'm sure many of you do, and never participating as either a feedee or a feeder. It's been a suppressed corner of my identity that I only feel comfortable indulging when I have complete solitude. Until now, I suppose.

I've always been a pretty thin dude. My remaining baby fat melted off when I ran cross-country in high school and I hovered around the 140 pound mark standing 5'10". After graduating and during my first quarter of online college, the extreme quarantine boredom pushed me to indulge in my fantasies a bit, as I conveniently worked at a pizza place and then a bakery. I put in what felt like an absurd amount of effort put into eating as much as I possibly could, even resorting to weight gain shakes on the side that I drank 3 times a day. I barely managed to gain 7 pounds before giving up and losing it all in a month. As far as I was concerned I was never doing that again.

Once I finally moved away to college my fetish retreated to the back of my mind again. I was the most social I'd ever been, surrounded by partying and boundless sexual opportunity. I felt disgusted at myself by the fact I even considered getting fat in the past. I pushed all of that out of my mind and completely reinvented myself. I pledged a fraternity, became sort of a manwhore, started going to the gym and getting that beach body I wanted. My ADHD diagnosis and subsequent Adderall prescription certainly helped in keeping my eating limited and I was probably the leanest I'd ever been in my life. Hazing itself involved intense workouts and I found myself encouraged to look like the chiseled frat guys that I was surrounded by and became close friends with. As far as I was concerned, my weight gain fetish was part of the old me, and he was long dead.

So months pass, I get initiated into [insert Greek letters here] and begin my sophomore year of school. But the novelty of college life has worn off, and I grew desensitized to the fast lifestyle of my freshman year. I begin to look for happiness in other places, and sidled back into some of my old habits as I pruned my bloated social circle and refocused on myself. I stopped going to gym and canceled my membership. I stopped watching what I was eating. I stopped caring so much about the opinions of others and learned to enjoy my newfound confidence with myself. I stopped being someone that I simply wasn't.

The process was gradual. I swapped out vodka for beer at parties, and a lot of it. I upped my dining hall plan from 5, 7 to 10 meals a week. At work I started getting full sandwiches for lunch instead of half. I got tired of biking to campus to study in the library so I often stayed in my room instead. I bought a mini-fridge for my room that always had beer, snacks and ice cream. Rather than taking the short walk to the corner store for snacks I started using the local start-up electric scooter delivery service, Duffl. And my Duffl orders that used to consist of a small bag with water and some light chips turned into the largest size bag filled with full size chip bags, chocolate milk, ben and jerry's, and candy. These snack runs went from a weekly treat to daily necessity. I also voluntarily stopped taking my Adderall prescription due to my tendency to abuse it, which certainly kicked my appetite back into gear.

In my mind, I was still the same skinny kid I was in high school, the one who couldn't gain weight even if he tried. To me, I was still receiving plenty of female attention, of course indicative that I was still the slim, tatted, pierced and personable ladies man that I had grown to (quite pompously) see myself as. When my weight came up for whatever reason I still said 140 because, let's face it, that was simply never going to change. Indeed, until earlier this week the delusion was still in full force. The utter denial that I had scoffed at as unrealistic in those weight gain stories I'd read for years was now singing its simpering lullaby into my ears; and I was enthralled by its song.

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2 years

On an unexpected gain

That is, until I saw a video of myself from a year ago. It was a short video I was told to make when I was pledging my fraternity. I poured a bowl of water on my head and apologized to our treasurer for failing to bring him a burrito after he asked for 30 minutes or so. It was only significant because I was completely shirtless. I immediately knew something was wrong. My collarbones were far too defined, my muscles too prevalent in my arms, shoulder and abdomen. My face looked more defined and my stomach was flat, if not practically concave. Was it the lighting? Was I flexing? What was wrong with this video? I went to the bathroom and tore off my shirt to look at the same torso I'd been looking at every day in the year since that video. I was baffled as to how I had been so completely oblivious to what now seemed like an obvious transformation.

A previously defined chest has turned almost saggy, hinting at the beginnings of moobs. What once had the makings of a six-pack is now a rounded, squishy potbelly. I've widened as well and developed obvious love handles with the threat of a muffin top clear in the bulges developing above my belt. My face is not significantly affected but I do not have the jawline I once did and my cheeks are visibly fuller, with a thicker neck to boot. My arms have lost all definition under a layer of fat. My lower half has not been spared either, as previously baggy Dickies are now tight and difficult to bend down in, another piece of evidence that I somehow managed to ignore. Earlier today I bought a scale to weigh myself for the first time in 4 months and the numbers blinked back, 160. 20 extra pounds of me added completely undetected, far more than I ever gained during any of my deliberate attempts.

To say my reaction to this new reality was mixed is an understatement. I was somehow both elated that I could see my fantasies come to life on my very own body and mortified that I had so quickly fallen to the mortal sins of gluttony and sloth and their very apparent consequences. I agonized all day yesterday after my revelation over whether to take this as an opportunity to explore even more weight, or to kill all of the fattening habits I'd developed and get the version of myself in the video back. To be honest, I'm still on the fence about it. As of me typing this, I think I'm curious enough to keep the train going until I hit 180 pounds, just to see what being overweight is like for the first time in my life. After that, I'm really not sure. I have such a powerful desire to give in and just see what happens but simultaneously a paralyzing fear of how others will come to see me when a gut starts poking out from under my shirt and I have more than one chin.

That's my big ol' vent, I didn't know where else to go and I doubt anyone will read this or care much if they do but this seemed like a good place to put all of my thoughts. Thanks for reading if you got this far smiley
2 years

On an unexpected gain

The cook thing about gaining weight on purpose is you can stop whenever you want. If you want to be soft and cuddly, you can. If you just want to be a little thicker, you can also do that.

And don't worry about what others think of you. Scrawny or fat, your body is your own business. Focus on what makes *you* happy because at the end of the day, you are the one who has to live in your body.
2 years

On an unexpected gain

Munchies:
The cook thing about gaining weight on purpose is you can stop whenever you want. If you want to be soft and cuddly, you can. If you just want to be a little thicker, you can also do that.

And don't worry about what others think of you. Scrawny or fat, your body is your own business. Focus on what makes *you* happy because at the end of the day, you are the one who has to live in your body.


I'm trying really hard to live with that mentality but its definitely a process. I had just learned to love myself in one body and finding myself in another is going to be its own process. I think I'll get there soon though.

I really appreciate the support, thank you. :,)
2 years

On an unexpected gain

You are welcome.

Try standing in front of the mirror every morning and admire yourself. Pose, flex, whatever you like. Go out of your way to find something about yourself that you like. Your self-esteem will go through the roof.
2 years