J8o8h8n:
I was wondering if anyone had any advice for training your body to overeat to the point where you no longer have to actively think about it and your body just 'autopilots' to eating thousands of calories more than you need in a day.
I was also wondering if there's a point where it no longer gets uncomfortable stuffing yourself with that amount of food. Obviously you will probably be uncomfortable if you're always pushing your body to its limits, but is there a point where you'll be eating thousands of excess calories on the regular and it won't feel uncomfortable because you've expanded your capacity to the point where eating enough to constantly grow is your new normal?
For anyone who's done this, how long does it take for this habit to become the new normal?
I can tell you it absolutely is possible to hit a stage where you need 15,000 or 20,000 calories a day to even feel full. I can also say it comes with consequences you have to be ready for. That's not what you asked though, so I'll share my experience.
I've been fat my whole life and have only ever tried to lose weight once. I dropped from 370ish to about 190, and it was neither easy nor fun. I think I probably do have a slow metabolism as well, because my body didn't seem to want to maintain 190, even though at the time, I was physically active and pretty strict with my diet. When I acknowledged I was unhappy, I first started eating whatever I wanted. Having been accustomed previously to being a big eater, I fell back in the groove pretty quickly, and I didn't really find it hard to hit 4,000 or 5,000 calories a day. I'm also a stuffer, and initially, the average stuffing would be 10,000 calories in a sitting to begin with, and then kept increasing. I found, the bigger my stuffings, the more my regular daily appetite and capacity grew. During peak gaining periods, I've put on 10-12 pounds a week. That required monster stuffings, in addition to all day grazing. I'll also add, eating like that is very expensive. My fiance and I have good incomes, but we're not rich, and we've had weeks where I cut out other personal expenses because the grocery bill was between $800 and $1,200. We agreed on the expense though. I guess we considered it an investment in our lives just like anything else, because we were both enjoying what we were doing.
In any case, if I had any pointers, it would be increasingly large stuffings and staying constantly full, topping off anytime the fullness alleviates. If stuffings aren't your thing, eating something every hour, like a 500 calorie snack is effective too.
