Gaining

So for those of you who have tried an experimental gained (gained a small amount of weight--10 or 20 lbs or so--to see if you might like gaining more):

1. How much did you weigh to start with?

2. How much did (do) you plan to gain experimentally?

3. Did you gain the experimental weight as planned?
a. Yes, but decided to lose it.
b. Yes, but decided to maintain right there.
c. Yes, and decided to gain more.
d. No, haven’t yet.
e. No, I decided not to.
f. No, gained some of it but then decided not to gain more.

4. How much do you weigh now?

Congrats on the gain xD

I started out around 145-ish when I graduated high school, and decided that I wanted to gain to 160 in college. Right now, a year after my college graduation, I'm more or less maintaining my weight around 165, though I've always tended to get a little heavier in the summer.

Years ago, my wife was going to be living out of town for four months for a school thing. I'd drifted up to about two hundred by then, and felt that I was close to finally being fat (I'm only 5'8" so I thought I'd relax my food vigilance while she was gone, enjoy eating what I wanted more and maybe gain ten pounds to get solidly over 200, and maybe feel fat.

Once I relaxed my usual controls, the amount I ate began to escalate quickly as I discovered just how much I actually wanted to eat. After four weeks I'd already put on the ten pounds, panicked, stopped gaining, started trying to lose it.

I never did get back below 207, and am more like 227 these days despite trying to stay in control on the food front. But ever since that experience I occasionally have to cut lose and pig out for a day or three, because it feels so amazing. I'm pretty sure if I cut lose for any amount of time that I'd be in the upper two hundreds very quickly.

The goal of this thread was to see how many people gain more than their experimental goal.

Some of the gains described either were not experimental or were experimental but had no defined goal. (Nothing wrong with that, but not relevant to my original question (which I probably should have spelled out better!))

Anyway, of the 10 people with relevant answers, 9 gained more than they originally planned. Only one gained less than that!