Well, you know your wife and family better than we do--though we can at least establish that, in general, contemporary society does not exactly celebrate fatness and weight gain. You could:
- Be open and talk to your wife (and possibly your family) about your fat-related interests. Approach the topic as delicately and deliberately as necessary. If you're too sensitive about it to do that (I know I was until recently), you could try a less desirable option (IMO):
- Do a "test gain" of somewhere around ~15-20 pounds, then see how your wife/(family) react--but more importantly, examine how *you* feel. You're young and fit, which will make gaining harder at first--but losing most or all of the weight will be easier should you choose to do so.
Hard to offer more advice without knowing you. Probably obvious, but just remember that actually gaining a lot of weight and living with it is far, far different than fantasizing about it.
8 years
