Fat experiences

hey guys. just wanted to write about my feelings with my weight gain. maybe someone who was in my shoes a year ago can learn something. i moved out of town last year. i was also “taking the year off” after high school. long story short, i gained 90 pounds in a year. i wasn’t sure about it. before the weight gain, i was skinny. very insecure, and also got very anxious in public settings. now that i have gained and decided to rejoin society after hiding for a year 😅, i seemed to have dropped both those traits. in public settings i would just accept the fact that there is nothing to hide anymore. i have come to terms with my body and love the shape i have taken. i just didn’t care anymore. didn’t care what other people thought about me. what i was wearing, how i looked, how they perceived me. i was fat. so what? i quickly regained all the confidence i lost when i was skinny in my hometown. i did pay a visit to some old friends from that hometown. they didn’t say anything about my very apparent weight gain, and new shape. there is no way they didn’t notice. i can assure you that. something i would have found to be a nightmare a year ago, (me thinking people look down on me for my image or just all around being insecure) was not a problem. not once did it pop into my head that i was anxious or worried. i was fat. what were they gonna do about it. i have just been more confident since i gained. i thought i would share my liberating weight gain experience. i thought this was just a fetish for me, but it turns out it has helped my social anxiety and confidence in a way i never thought it would. i wouldn’t lose a pound for anybody, i am happy. has anyone had an experience like mine?

I hated being fat all my life. I dieted and exercised and stressed over it. My weight and attitude yo-yo’d. I was attracted to fat guys for the longest time and realized that there’s too many good looking fat guys around for there to be anything wrong with it. I also realized I was never going to get a bodybuilder’s or athlete’s physique, nor did I really want to work out that hard anymore. I like being fat because I have some size and feel more confident. I like what I see in the mirror.

I haven't had the same experience as you guys, but since I have been gaining, which for me being old is so easy, I have found that being old, it is far more socially acceptable to be overweight/obese/fat as an older adult. I wasn't happy when I was an overweight (husky) adolescent. I always wanted to be slimmer. I gained more in college, then lost a lot of weight after college and was able to stay in shape (I was in the military reserves for 25 yrs.) until I retired from the reserves several years ago. I love having my growing belly (48" waist) though I'm still pretty active. Just some thoughts from an older perspective.

I'm also older. Although I'm not "big" yet, the 30lbs I've already put on have made a huge difference in my confidence. Having been thin most of my life, this change, and change of mind, has been fantastic.