One good thing about the popularity of streaming is that you can get DVDs super cheap ($1-3) at Goodwill or Salvation Army. I used to spend a hundred bucks a visit at Best Buy in the early 2000s and yesterday I spent $16 on four movies plus a TV show.

When you do, it's absolutely amazing. I go to the beach at least once a summer armed with two or three footlong subs wearing my stars-and-stripes bikini (chosen because it looks like something an Olympic athlete would wear, and there's me pale and flabby with all my fat spilling over) and eat them in front of everyone. SO HOT.

The old Fat Nat's had a good recipe/tip. When you make macaroni and cheese, add an extra stick of butter.

I've been using a tailor's tape measure for years to gauge my gain.

Surprising how many of us prefer panties to men's underwear. I figure why should women have all the fun? I stick to briefs, not into thongs or anything like that. Bras would be nice but men's boobs aren't shaped the same as women's plus they're definitely more expensive than panties are.

I do, however, have a bikini that fits my boobs great. I have a fair amount of bikini pix.

Wearing too-small clothes in public and making my weight gain obvious to others has always been a major part of my transformation. It IS really hard at first but I forced myself to do it until I got used to it.

It's worth it. The looks and reactions from others confirmed that yes, I really am very fat now and everyone can see it. And it gives me a strange sense of satisfaction to be actually "dressing sexy" even as a guy, to want to show off my boobs and belly, the things I find sexy even if some others don't.

One thing for me was when I went into a Target and realized that I didn't fit into their biggest size anymore.

Michael Giacchino's Medal of Honor scores...they're like Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

I've had my belly prodded by strangers twice...once in Chicago and once in Thailand. Even though it was rude, I found myself loving it as proof that I am now very fat and everyone can see it.

I think we might as well be realistic and accept that obesity is slowly becoming the norm. I keep thinking of that movie "Wall-E" and how everyone is fat, sedentary, and constantly snacking. That's a fairly accurate view of the future and I think people should embrace it rather than fight it. Add to that that our bodies mostly like getting fatter and holding on to fat.