Gaining

Over the years I've gotten stretch marks. I haven't gotten any in this gain, but I have noticed that old ones are more visible. Is this common? Is it a sign more are coming?

It’s basically all your skin elasticity. Sometimes you gain sometimes you lose causing your skin to loosens. This happens in bigger people you just gain/lose over a long period of time. Sometimes you stretch out your skin so much over such a short period of time the skin stretches to such an extent it “breaks” causing bigger stretch marks, but if you’re losing and gaining a lot your skin is going to have more elasticity

I’m sure you probably could with enough stuffing but I don’t think they are anymore prone to be itchy than say a really old scar just areas that are more sensitive to dryness

I had a few from when I gained last year. I didn't even realize they happened, just very subtlety appeared. Itchiness may come if you gain real quickly, but otherwise you don't feel it.

I am certainly softer this gain (when not stuffed silly). My belly seems bigger than when I used to be at this weight. I was pleasantly surprised to see the older stretch marks become highlighted. I am trying to slow things down...but no luck so far. The day started off well. Had a big, healthy breakfast...then wound up at Wendy's for lunch. Sitting at 3000 calories for the day and its just past lunch. Perhaps there will be new stretch marks soon.

Well, it's happened. I have new stretch marks.

I was noticing my belly was feeling quite itchy tonight so I took a look and there they were.

None are the large stripe types. They are more like dots. I count 4, maybe 5 of them. All but 1 are "extensions" of previous marks.

I don't know if they'll grow further or if there will be any more of them, but I guess I haven't done a great job of slowing down this gain. It's still surprising they're appearing.