Gaining

Gaining is not a good idea if you are going to worry what everyone says. Most gainers prefer when people comment about their gain.

A feeder would help, or even on-line support.

Hi Christy.

Going purely on BMI, you would have to put on 30 pounds before you even qualified as overweight (at 146 lbs). You could eat and grow with total abandon for several weeks at least before you reached that point, and no one could tell you that you were affecting your health because you'd still be in the healthy weight range.

This would of course be a lot of fun, but it would also give you the opportunity to find out exactly how your family will react to your expansion. You'd have plenty of time to decide whether to go back or continue past the "overweight" threshold, which is good in another sense because it gets harder to lose it all once you gain more than about 30 pounds.

So, I say give it a shot and see what happens. Any one of us, or all of us, would be happy to encourage and advise you.