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I've witnessed friends lose for a vacation. The girl wants to fit in a bikini and will crash diet hard for 3-4 months to prepare for this cruise/trip. Usually it's to celebrate an anniversary.

And of course they have to vlog every moment of their struggle on social media. And show off their new figure.

Their metabolism is at a crawl by time they leave for the trip due to them starving themselves for months.

And then you'll see a Facebook photo a couple months after the vacation and they're an absolute bloated whale. Piled back all of the weight and then an extra 20-30lbs because they wrecked their metabolism and pigged out for the next couple months.

There are people I only follow on socials I media because of their fluctuating weight hahaha

I have had the same up and down experience. Back in my mid-30s I went on several diets like Weight Watchers and Nutri-System, which were always successful in that I lost 25 to 30 lbs. each time. But when I went off the diets I ended up gaining back more than I originally lost.

So after a number of yo-yo experiences, I just said the heck with it and I decided I would eat what I wanted when I wanted and let nature take its course. I ended up slowly gaining 130 lbs. over a 10 year period, going from 175 lbs. to 305 lbs. and I have to admit I enjoyed every bit of my weight gaining experience. I have now settled in around 260lbs. as my maintenance weight and have decided I will never diet again.

Having said all of the above and being an FA, I do enjoy watching women gain more back than they originally lost when they go off their diets. It seems to be a very common experience and for me it is always breathtaking to see women fatten up more than ever after their diets are over.

How does the weight seem to redistribute itself on the next gains after losing? I am curious. Is it different for everyone?

Spoken truth. I'm just thankful to have regained in the same spot(s) this time around knowing the fat can be distributed differently 2nd/3rd time around. Though not trying to dip or go down again, hopefully adjust better during plateaus.

This is absolutely me, since a young teen I’ve gone through cycles of losing and gaining big amounts of weight in short amounts of time. It definitely does take a toll on the body, and I’m sure I’ll notice that even more as I get older. Thankfully I no longer feel a desire to be thin, so there’ll be a lot less yo-yoing in my future. And I’m quite fat now, so my weight is steadily going up rather than piling on all at once (that was last year, lol). There’s an appeal to the big weight spikes but of course you have to weigh up the pros and cons.

I'm mortified at the thought my coworkers will think that when I get back to work... I used to be so thin when I started working there (around 110-113 lbs) and before I left for my sick leave in May I was probably around 120-125 lbs. I weighted myself in August and I was close to 140 lbs! There's going to be taking being my back for sure.

Like my lower back. I never had fat there before! That was the first sign I had gained a lot of weight but I didn't
want to believe it was true until I stepped on a scale and saw I had unknowingly gained 15 lbs in 5 months. I went through lots of stress in my life, a breakup last October, my dad passed in January, I moved in April, a friend of mine died a month ago. Now I'm terrified of getting on the scale again and see my weight has increased even more. I used to wear size 25 jeans a few months ago (they had quite a bit of stretch so they probably were closer to size 27) and the size 30 corduroy I bought in January are already tighter than I like to wear them at the waist and thighs. After years of weight-loss maintenance
(BMI ~ 22), it looks like I'm no exception to the diet don't work rule anymore. I just hope I don't get fatter than before I started loosing because I was already only 1 BMI point away from being morbidly obese...

I'm sorry for your losses, love

Yoyoing up and down with my weight kinda became my routine over the last few years. Before I intentionally started to gain I was always around 145 lbs (+/- 5) at a size of 1,75 m (5.9??).
About 4 years ago was when I initially started to gain intentionally and whenever I did so, I went all in (heavy cream + regular fastfood stuffings) and see how far I can get. Those periods usually go on for about 1-2 months, until I get freaked out by how effective they are and will just go back to living "normal".

All over, I enjoy eating healthy and exercise and I don't aim to get morbidly obese - but over the last few years I definetely learned that I also enjoy allowing myself letting go to indulge in my gaining fantasies and seeing myself rapidly gain is a huge turn-on.

So over the last few years I went from 145 to 160m getting back to 150, then go back to 160, but only losing a few punds before going nuts again and ending up with about 170, eventually go all the way back to 145, change my mind again and get back to 170, lose another 5, add another 10, etc.... So basically, even though my weight fluctuated a lot, I slowly was packing it on and when I was in a situation that I hadn't really an interest to keep on gaining, my weight stagnated at about 165 for about a year and I never got back to 145, or even under 160 since then.

Even though I enjoyed gaining a lot, I was always a bit self-conscious about it. But something changed since the end of last year, where I absolutely let myself go and somehow got to 200 lbs. Of course, it absolutely freaked me out and I lost about 30 lbs the following 2 months.
So I stayed at about 170 for a few months further, but started pushing myself again two weeks ago and am at 185 lbs as today.

My "style" of gaining is probably very unhealthy with all the rapid ups and downs, but I just really can't help myself to do it another way and I enjoy the sensation of getting as fat as fast as possible.. Whenever I'm in a phase of gaining I will stuff myself with everything that's highly caloric and will not cause me to throw up (even tho I'm close to it often).

I don't know where I will end up on this journey, but I definetely aim to pass the 200 lbs mark this time and will just see how I feel about it, eventually get back to "normal" eating habits and working out again.
But in conclusion, it seems I will never get back to below 180 and I don't want to at this point.
Now, being offcially "overweight", I learned to enjoy being so much thicker as I used; my thighs rubbing against eachother constantly now, where I used to have a disctinc gap, my belly always being bloated an sticking out, stretching all my shirts now and my skin as well....

Looking all they way back when I first started gaining intentionally I would definetely have had fantasies about managing to gain up to 200 lbs, but never thought it would be possible to let myself go that far. Currently, as I mentioned, I'm not quite there yet again, but was at 200 lbs at my highest and I'm very curious about to findout where my next high will be at.

I still don't have a specific goal, since I'm just going with the flow and will see whatever fits me right, but I kinda would like to see me at about 220 lbs, which would translate to 100 kg and set me in the range of being obese. Even though it's just numbers, those are considerable milestones I feel confident willing and able to archieve.

I'm still very hesistand into seeking out someone who would encourage me to gain weight. So far I was doing all this on my own and am kinda afraid of what this kind of relationship could do to me, since it's already working so well if I want it to.