Gaining

Many people who are unsure about gaining try an experimental gain of 10 or 15 pounds to see how they feel about it.

Have you done this? How much did you plan to gain as an experiment?

Did you gain that much? What happened after that? Did you decide to go on and gain more or decide it wasn't for you?

I did a 15 pound gain last year, it was wonderful and I was looking forward to the next 15 but I slowly lost it. Now I'm in a good place to gain it all back, though!

Interesting point. So if you're quite thin to begin with a 10% gain won't be enough.

Perhaps it's necessary to gain to at least 10% more than the "normal weight" for your size to do a proper experimental gain.