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FatAsButter:
I gained quite quickly from 13stone to 15 stone and then after a while, to 20 stone, which was a big change, adding 70lb. I really enjoyed the gain. Then I changed my mind, went down to 15 stone again in about six months. I didn't get hanging skin or anything, but I wasn't happy with it. I didn't feel like me really. So I have loved gaining it all back to the 280lb/20st but then I wanted more and I think there was the point of no return. Now all the foods I buy, like and eat are very high calorie and food is completely bound up in gaining more fat and feeling turned on. Now as I feel myself swallow anything I imagine it filling up my belly and stretching it, and all the food turning to flab and rolls. That mental change I haven't had before and I think it can't be undone and I don't want it to be. Now I've passed 300lb/21st6 I have loads more goals and enjoy how slow moving and waddling I am. I consider that I'm well past the point of no return and this commitment to get bigger and bigger is part of my identity.

Pummeluff:
Once you really get consumed by the idea of gaining weight which then gets reinforced by actually gaining weight. The inhibition level might sink to a level where this fetish is inevitably making you gain weight because you just don't want it to stop. I think this could be considered a point of no return psychologically.
At least that's the place where I am at at the moment....

Kimllyy:
I've weighed 135 pounds most of my adult life. I told myself I'd gain 20 pounds to see what it felt like, then lose it all. Now I'm 155 but I don't feel very different. My new goal is 175, but I'm afraid if I get there I won't be able to lose the weight afterwards.

Zora:
If you're having doubts, it's better not to go down that road in the first place. Your body has a set point and, as you gain weight, that set point is adjusted higher. This means your body will prefer to be at a certain weight and, if you try to lose weight through diet and exercise, your body will tend to regain the weight once you stop dieting.

I'm a perfect example of this. I started gaining weight at 166 pounds. Through a combination of heavy whipping cream and dieting in between gaining cycles, I'm not at 282 pounds.

When I "diet" between gaining cycles, I just eat the same amount and types of foods that I ate at 166 pounds, which is what I normally eat anyway. I rely exclusively on the heavy whipping cream to gain weight.

Thanks to gaining weight, my set point was 260 pounds prior to my current gaining cycle. So even when I returned to eating what I normally at at 166 pounds, my body weight would not drop down below 260 pounds. My body wants to stay at 260 pounds. I would need to try very hard to lose weight and get below 260 pounds.

This is why it's important to be sure. Once you start gaining and increasing your set point, it's very hard to lose the weight and, even after losing the weight, your body will try to return to it's set point. This is why yo-yo diets fail.

As far as I know, the set point only goes up, not down. I hope this helps.

Pummeluff:
Once you really get consumed by the idea of gaining weight which then gets reinforced by actually gaining weight. The inhibition level might sink to a level where this fetish is inevitably making you gain weight because you just don't want it to stop. I think this could be considered a point of no return psychologically.
At least that's the place where I am at at the moment....

John Smith:
I get what you mean and that's a very good insight.

I can reflect about it, as a feeder: my feedee used to share some quite similar fears about the urgent crave for losing control and just let herself go, let everything go and turn herself into some sort of a living pigging machine. The way she spoke about it, how the thrill to ever yield to the temptation was ever scratching within her-- even perhaps slowly withering away a little more of her self-control, her willpower to maintain her moral self or public facade who had to work for a living, earn money, had projects and all the following subtleties and intricacies of being an young single woman... that was an everyday fight. A fight that was someday easy, someday easier, someday hard and the other day way harder. There has moments she admitted the thought of just leaving her clerk job and social life, slacking at home and all was crossing hee mind every once and again: just sparing her whole time and money porking out endlessly every single day and just see how many hundreds of pounds she can pack within a year, literally (and she could: the girl was capable to effortlessly pack 20 pounds within two weeks prior plateau-ing and shedding it for a couple of more weeks, even once she did gain 25 pounds in six days!) .

She somehow knew that was a fight she will lose, sooner or later-- preferably later, she once admitted. Except that some part of her want to actually lose it .

John Smith:
Probably a mix of period-induced body water and her having a habit from stress-eating during that same lenght of time. A grown-up woman can swell up around 15-20-lbs bigger within a span of one to few days, while suffering of water retension.

Coupled by the fact she can casually gain around 10 pounds within a week (even a rare record of 25 lbs in six days) , she may have swelled up around 30lbs during this short timespan and shed most of it before her period ends.

Given that she pass the chubby threshold at 160-lbs, I may figure out what happens when that phenonemon occurs to her while starting up from a smaller 130-to-to-140-lbs diet-enforced weight set point...