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Anyone else forced into sports at a young age? Most of my life I've worked hard and worked out nearly every day to be a basketball and vollyball player.

But it wasn't my thing and now I feel like eating and enjoying myself and not being an athlete.

Ugh idk anyone get me?

Not particularly this exact thing, but I understand being forced into doing something but not wanting to do it. I ended up just doing what I liked like art and stuff.

I didn’t get fat to spite at least not consciously subconsciously maybe a bit or at least it shaped my relationship with food later in life. But I was a wrestler and my dad was like a coach a lot of the time in grade school I’m some of high school, I had to make weight and a lot of times I had to cut weight, meaning no solids and in a lot of cases not even water; but I liked and enjoyed it, but as i got older and more out performed I lost interest.

I didn’t get the comments I thought I would at all, my weight wasn’t a topic until I was quite heavy at which point I just given up on trying to drop weight and I explained that my weight wasn’t a topic of discussion and that was pretty much the end of it not a peep about it since.

[quote]DoubleK:
Most of my life I've worked hard and worked out nearly every day to be a basketball and vollyball player.
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That’s funny, i just wrote a story about a fit volleyballer who got fat


fantasyfeeder.com/weight-gain-stories/view/title/the+volleyballer’s+gain/author/Abicon

Forced into a lot of things by my parents. Soccer, ugh. even when i was tiny and liked ot run i didnt like to run and kick a ball while everyone else was trying to take it away from me.

I like that my weight gain embarrasses my mom now.

Honestly yes, when I was a freshman in highschool my dad made me pick a sport to join. I ended up joining wrestling, which basically has built in eating disorders, because you're regularly weighed and you have to stay under specific numbers. I was really underweight at the time (125 lbs) so I was out in the 126 weight class and was told for that entire year I was not allowed to go above that number.
That worked out for the first couple months but I just felt so scrawny and weak. Like I was working out every day so my muscles wanted to grow but I couldn't eat enough to let them because I couldn't gain more than a pound that entire year. Luckily the pandemic happened that spring and brought everything to a halt. I was still lifting weights but I didn't have any restrictions as of course, all the sports games got cancelled.
I ended up gaining like 45 lbs of lean body mass within the first couple months alone. My parents still made me diet and we never had any sort of junk food in the house, so even though I was a lot heavier I still looked really thin and it was messing with my body image. I hated that I was 170 lbs but you could still see every one of my ribs.
Now I'm finally moved out of my parents house and I can eat whatever I want. I still lift weights because it's a comfort to me, but I make no attempt at dieting. I'm a lot softer now and I love my new body.

That’s actually a pretty common thing. If you notice when most pro athletes retire, they end up fat for that very reason. In fact, there’s a a lot of feedees and gainers in this community that are ex athletes and jocks

Now, as for the forced into sports at a young age. My mom forced me into track & field because she hated the fact that I did martial arts. Tbh, that’s one of the reasons why I don’t like running to this day. And also, when I was running track, I wasn’t lifting weights anymore so my legs continued to get disproportionately bigger while my arms didn’t. One day, one of the girls on the team asked “why you got arms like a girl?” And I never forgot that, that’s one of the reason why prioritize arms in my bodybuilding routines to this day. In fact, I’ll have mesocycles where I strictly train arms.

So yeah, I definitely know what you by being forced into a sport that you never cared about and getting a body that you wanted. And how it effects you mentally and emotionally

Parents forcing their children to do something, or not do something is a sure way to get the opposite as soon as they leave home. I knew an adult who spent every Saturday morning watching cartoons because she was not allowed to watch them as a child.

such a parents are a disgrace!