Gaining

Forgot to mention but since redoing my gains the new way, I've gained much more prominent lovehandles.

It used to be that I only looked big from the side, but when facing forward a lot of my size would be less obvious. Now I'm actually getting wide on the sides of my torso and you can clearly tell that I'm fat from the front, which brings me a lot of joy.

Interesting and informative thread!

I too had some experiences a while back with heavy cream. I happen to have a muscle chub figure with a big bloated gut when intentionally gaining or accidentally gaining for that matter.

During my time with heavy cream when I was intentionally gaining, I would cook with it adding it to pasta dishes, eggs a lot of things as well as drinking it directly from the carton along with a couple glazed donuts for sugar spike that I was told it makes it react way better this way.

My discoveries were this:
1. I didn’t seem to gain weight really quickly at first even though I felt bigger and heavier.
2. Once I did notice the gains I felt it softer fat subcutaneous not visceral in my lowest part of my belly being really soft and kind of jiggly which for me was strange because my gut was always so taught and tight and bloated feeling and looking.
3. I also noticed all my pants getting so much tighter in my butt and thighs which I typically never feel with my gains, I’ll mostly all goes to my gut. But as time went on I couldn’t even get my regular pants by my thighs and certainly not over the fatter butt I packed on.
4. My pectoral muscles which were always so rigid and tight began softening and even had a different type of jiggle not the muscle bounce but a fat sprout jiggle.
5. The love handles which I never noticed before now engulfed my higher hip area. I had a lot of soft accumulation to my back and even my upper last softened.
6. Not only was my lowest part of my belly softening but I developed a belt hang which was quite noticeable when looking from the side, which I never ever imagined I would have at this weight, expecting I would get if I gained a bunch more possibly.
7. This one is the magic - you have probably heard it before with Heavy Cream - the delayed gains I developed, I actually stopped or slowed down the heavy cream and not only the number on the scale kept climbing at least two weeks after I stopped but I felt so much fatter heavier and I was, clothes that I already sized up were not fitting at all again and I really developed more soft fat than I was prepared or used to with my nice only tight inflated physique.

During this whole time I was intentionally gaining so my appetite was pretty big from already stretching out my stomach and I definitely co aimed a lot of calories per day. But if I ever really want to get a lot of soft fat I would definitely do heavy cream again. Although, treading lightly may be a word to the wise, because the delayed gaining was extremely real in my experience and much greater than what others have mentioned at least for me and on my body.

I started heavy cream, one cup, every night before bed. In the beginning I was a little queasy and hot as my body tried to burn off the excess calories. But after a week that subsided. I still ate big lunches and dinners and then one cup before bed, and was up and down on the scale (starting around 275). Up 5, down 3, up 2, down 5, etc. I kinda jokes that turns out heavy cream was great for losing weight. Then the well-known delay wore off and I felt like I gained thirty pounds overnight. Suddenly nothing fit, it was hard to tie my shoes, and the belly started to hang. It was all squishy, soft, jiggly fat that you can grab, not a hard beach ball belly. Plus legs and ass bigger too, plus boobs and chin. Kept drinking to 315 and then phased it out for cost. Now even if I lose weight the soft squish isn’t going anywhere. I think heavy cream is the true magic pill for the soft squishy fat that we all love

I will STILL die on the hill of "heavy cream leads to hard visceral fat", despite the anecdotes people keep conflating with proof.

Heavy cream destroys insulin sensitivity, and poor insulin sensitivity means visceral fat.

This is the same reason that TZDs cause people to gain subcutaneous fat, because they increase insulin sensitivity and PPARy activation.

This is so well documented and supported at this point that it honestly drives me crazy that people keep insisting otherwise.

Heavy Cream in large doses is basically poison.

I can't tell how far it would be different. But I have Phases where I literally make myself a pig. Therefore I drink a lot of heavy cream in this time's. Usually 2000kcal a day. The last week I had a surplus of 28.000kcal. The weight I gained is enormous, and the same as I did it the last times. I gain mostly subcutaneous fat. I can tell how much is the cream and how much is the genetics.