Gaining

For me it was around the 15 lbs mark i guess.
i was on pain killers and whatever else and just didnt care.
Then the doc said for me to take a break from all meds and its like a fog lifted off my brain. While i was sitting on the couch i felt something in the way like when i would bend to get up.
I cried when i realized my sweats were below my belly

I started putting on weight around my mid-30's, but I wasn't even concious of it until I could barely close my jeans one day. I ended up gaining about 75 pounds, the last 60 intentionally. In regards to really feeling the weight, running and climbing stairs come to mind the most. Where I had been pretty light on my feet, now I felt my stomach bouncing and jiggling when I ran and I was quickly out of breath. But when I tried to run up stairs is where I could really feel the extra 75 pounds of fat. I loved it by the way. Wish I had kept gaining.

My first inclination that anything had changed at all, was about 30-40 lbs from my smallest.

Shorts that I wore to work that had fit a certain way- perfectly, for more than five years, all the sudden were tighter around the waist. I had the tiniest little gut forming over my belt when I sat. I felt it a little bit in the way my car seatbelt needed to sit. None of this was extremely noticeable at all, just ever so slightly. It did not make me feel fat then, loosening my belt. just a little more normal honestly.

I didn't feel completely transformed into a new thing until somewhat recently, which is maybe 50 lbs later. I am unmistakably different from every angle, fat in every outfit. The line for me is when my belly became unhidable 100% of the time, when I started to really in every moment feel it being part of me.

I feel like I've still only *just* barely crossed the line though. Gaining (at least..) another equally sized chunk of weight is really appealing to me lately, it takes somewhere in that ballpark for me to notice things in a big way.

Honestly it was such a a weird feeling at first. The only way I could describe it is initially I felt bloated but as bloated feeling went away my belly stayed out a little bit further than it had before. And it's just been a gradual process since of keeping it nice and round