Gaining

I was underweight until I started working at a pizza restaurant. There was always a pizza somewhere for the staff to snack on. So I got fat.

I used to wrestle so I’d starve myself all the time but I was done so I got to eat what I wanted, without limit really so I got fat and fatter… and fatter, over a long period of time I tried losing weight I’d diet lose here gain here etc eventually I got tired of failing so I chose to embrace it now I’m here huge and loving it.

my advice would be to just live without arbitrary restrictions on diet let yourself indulge

was training for a half marathon when i killed my ankle. then covid happened.
nearly immobile for a long time with complications and pain meds and etc.

i was underweight because of financial aspects and house around environment, as soon as i changed the house we could get fat with my girlfriend in a tremendous way, let's say middle fat, again we have been much disturb, and i can start again after some month

I was always underweight and felt like I couldn't gain. Recently I started counting calories and realized that I had been sort of intermittent bingeing - I would eat a 2000 calorie meal and then not eat much for the next day, so overall I wasn't getting a surplus.

Now that I am counting calories, I have put on about 10 pounds in a couple months. It takes way more effort to hit the goal each day but the results are very rewarding!

Growing up I was always super underweight from being a picky eater and just not a big eater in general. One day my gf made brownies and I ate waaay more than I usually would and felt nearly the fullest I've ever felt in my life.

Ever since then I've tried to eat until I'm completely full and then try to force in one or two more bites. It worked great for a while, I gained about 100lbs in a year and a half, but in the few years since then I've plateaued. I probably need to implement more snacking on top of big, filling meals.

I think to gain weight you have to push your body passed what you're used to on a somewhat regular basis, and when you're skinny you're REALLY not used to doing that kind of thing, but if you're into gaining, you'll find that it feels pretty good soon enough.

I feel like as someone who just accidentally gained some pounds. You have to find way to not notice how much you’re over eating to gain. Relationships, mutual eaters, any distraction or crazy discipline if you want to monitor everything. Of course eating rich and calorie heavy foods is a big part.

I feel like as someone who just accidentally gained some pounds. You have to find way to not notice how much you’re over eating to gain. Relationships, mutual eaters, any distraction or crazy discipline if you want to monitor everything. Of course eating rich and calorie heavy foods is a big part.

So for me it started with never eating that much. Then i started excercising alot and with that also came eating more. Then the excersising slowly became less and the eating stayed the same or even become more. it creaps up and u don't even notice. I actially only noticed quite late when i got a bit lazyer and less mobile.

So the trick is just munch more without thinking about it

I am sure like with most things there is no one approach that is best for everyone. Several were mentioned here already.

I found gains on myself or my wife typically show up after over eating about two weeks later roughly. I tend to have a bigger appetite and accidentally gain and notice after some time of over eating - and on several occasion’s decided to intentionally gain after noticing this initial accidental gain.

What works best for me when intentionally gaining is stuffing myself at every meal followed by something sweet with plenty of calories. I began to crave sweets after every meal when I never had much of a sweet tooth before. I would continue to stuff and eat more at every meal and eventually after 2-3 weeks I was surprised at how much I could eat without force stuffing anymore at meals, not to mention I not only craved sweet deserts after but my meals became much more fattening because of taste and I started eating a lot more fast food. I would go to a drive thru at lunch and easily eat $20+ for lunch followed by a desert of some sort. I not only amazed myself but I would then between these meals start driving thru and getting an extra large milkshake to suck down sometime 2-3 times on top of all the other eating and deserts. I was also really trying to get my wife to notice the 50+ lbs. I packed on in a short time to my new gut sticking out in front of me - by either teasing me, scolding me or lecturing me - so I was determined to be really stuffed and bloated by the time I got home from work and hauled my huge gut to the table for dinner she was fixing us. She never commented but served me huge portions possibly because I was eating that much but she certainly didn’t shy away from serving her husband 2nds and sometime 3rds having me look like I was 15 months pregnant with my gut. Everything was going good I turned into a gaining machine with this approach and even was a bit scared how much I could eat now with this method and training - easily 3-4 times more at an individual meal as well as all the deserts and liquid calories. I decided I couldn’t maintain this gain because my body was changing so much so quickly. I decided to try and tapper back on my consumption and finally felt what it must be like for an overweight person must feel like trying to diet. I was so used to the much larger portions not to mention the extra desert after every meal that when I tried eating 1/4 less at meals for breakfast and lunch that come dinner time without having the extra fattening milkshakes I got used to I was ravenous for dinner and ended up probably consuming that many more calories at that meal to make up for my slightly lighter first two meals. My stomach was so stretched out I craved food and the deserts were unbearable to live without because I got so used to eating them and almost needing them now. It took me over a month to even slightly control my appetite and I didn’t lose any significant weight for several months maybe a few lbs. after a year and a half I still held onto 20 lbs. of the gain even with working out and eating healthy.

I wonder if anyone else has tried this method with similar success and results?