Gaining

It takes your body time to acclimate to the amount of calories.
Once your metabolism resets you should see some weight gain.
Heavy cream always took a few weeks for me to feel/ see any weight increase.
Just keep it up and don't get frustrated.
I kept up the heavy cream drinking right before bed for a few months and I kept gaining after I stopped doing the heavy cream.

5 days in and the is softening happening, but not much weight. Have actually gone to smaller belt notch due to redistribution I think

5 days isn't much in the grand scheme of things.
It took months sometimes for me to see any changes that were substantial and lasting.

there are soooo many factors. how much activity you perform, hormones, what is happening with your metabolism at any point in time... i wouldn't stress about it too much.

my gains happened over several months, so slowly that they literally snuck up on me. i was not paying attention, and it took me a little bit by surprise.

if i eat significantly more over the period of, say, a weekend, i can definitely feel it - but within another week, it may have evened out, depending on what i am doing, how physical work is, how much i am sleeping, etc.

A very wise reply canuck.

I found that to be the case with me too.