My goal as a Santa is to get up to the average Santa weight of 265 for my 5ft 11 frame. I'm currently at 220 and would like to see pictures of men who weigh 265 to have something to inspire me. Just send me a note so I can look at your profile. Thanks!

Fat and Proud

That was a fun quiz and I agree with the Fat and Proud result for me. Thanks to this community I turned from being ashamed of my big belly to enjoying gaining weight and am learning how to turn my viceral fat into softer subcutaneous fat. Hopefully someday I will have a beautiful belly apron or gock, as I guess it is called.

Everyone calls me Santa because I have the look, I guess, so I joined a local Santa group and even though I have a 49 inch tummy, I had the smallest tummy there. Maybe there is a cute little female elf out there who would like to help me be a fatter old Jolly Saint Nicholas. I live in the Nashville area.

I am glad you are trying the HC diet. I started about 10 days ago with about 450ml a day which is about 1500 extra calories. One thing I have read here is that the liver cannot handle much more than 1000 extra fat saturated calories at a time. What happens is that it pushes out the HC fat if it is too much, or at least I think so. You should monitor your poop. If it turns very yellow (like mine did) then you may be over-doing it. If your poop is yellow, floating or some of it sticks to the toilet bowl, then you may be over taxing your liver. I laid off HC for a few days and am seeing my poop return to a more usual color - brownish, which I assume means my liver is adding enough bile to digest the fat. After a few more days, I will start using the HC but I will be more cautious about the quantity I use daily. Like you, I have noticed a softening of my belly subcutaneous fat - which is what I want from the HC. So, for me, it is finding the right balance between gaining subcutaneous fat and keeping my liver in a healthy state. It is an ongoing experiment.

[quote] I was thinking of consuming about 300ml total heavy cream a day, 100ml in the morning after breakfast, 100ml with my afternoon meal and again 100 ml about an hour before I retire. I would stay on this routine for as many months as you suggest. I am not interested in rapid weight gain, but consistent gaining and developing my apron. I am fairly well toned in that I don't have any jiggling fat on my butt or thighs at this point, nor any moobs and genetically, I may not be prone to gaining in those areas, but if it occurs, I am not adverse to that.[quote]

Update: After my first day of using heavy cream at 100ml three times a day I found that I didn't have any digestion problems and very little bloat. Unfortuantely, today I had a lot of physical work and when I came home I had gone down from 225 to 223, so I decided to up my daily intake of heavy cream from 300ml a day to 450ml a day along with a "no sugar" diet that would perhaps boost my subcutaneous fat gains and decrease my visceral fat. By "no sugar" I mean no sodas, cookies, cakes, etc., but I still might have some bagels and fruit juice without added corn syrup fructose along with plenty of carbs but I intend to keep my sugar intake low. At 450ml a day that is 1500 calories added to my no sugar diet, so I am hoping to see some results in about two weeks, at least that is what I have heard happens... it takes about two weeks for the heavy cream diet to kick in. If anyone has suggestions regarding heavy cream and subcutaneous fat gains, I am all ears! When I get some results I will post the "base line" photo I have and then a photo of any good gains. I wonder how long it will take. I have made a commitment to stay on this heavy cream schedule for six months.

[quote] I was thinking of consuming about 300ml total heavy cream a day, 100ml in the morning after breakfast, 100ml with my afternoon meal and again 100 ml about an hour before I retire. I would stay on this routine for as many months as you suggest. I am not interested in rapid weight gain, but consistent gaining and developing my apron. I am fairly well toned in that I don't have any jiggling fat on my butt or thighs at this point, nor any moobs and genetically, I may not be prone to gaining in those areas, but if it occurs, I am not adverse to that.[quote]

Update: After my first day of using heavy cream at 100ml three times a day I found that I didn't have any digestion problems and very little bloat. Unfortuantely, today I had a lot of physical work and when I came home I had gone down from 225 to 223, so I decided to up my daily intake of heavy cream from 300ml a day to 450ml a day along with a "no sugar" diet that would perhaps boost my subcutaneous fat gains and decrease my visceral fat. By "no sugar" I mean no sodas, cookies, cakes, etc., but I still might have some bagels and fruit juice without added corn syrup fructose along with plenty of carbs but I intend to keep my sugar intake low. At 450ml a day that is 1500 calories added to my no sugar diet, so I am hoping to see some results in about two weeks, at least that is what I have heard happens... it takes about two weeks for the heavy cream diet to kick in. If anyone has suggestions regarding heavy cream and subcutaneous fat gains, I am all ears! When I get some results I will post the "base line" photo I have and then a photo of any good gains. I wonder how long it will take. I have made a commitment to stay on this heavy cream schedule for six months.

I am not really one of the people here who knows a lot about adding heavy cream to your diet and how much, but I do understand that you should probably keep it up for at least two weeks to see how your body adjusts.

I have read with interest this entire thread and I am excited to try adding heavy cream to my diet. These are my current statistics:

5 foot 11 inches
225 lbs
Chest 44 inches
Belly 49.5 inches
Hips 43 inches
Thighs 23.5 inches
Belly hang 1.5 inches
Navel position 7 inches above groin

From the sound of it, my belly is mainly comprised of visceral fat, which I want to decrease and increase my subcutaneous fat. My belly is not so much round shaped as sloping down a bit, bulging to the sides and tight with just a little jiggly fat on the under side of my belly. My goal is to increase the size and length of my overhanging fat into a much bigger belly apron and soften up my belly. I don't have any particular weight goals but am open to suggestions about how much I need to gain to get a nice belly apron.

From what I have read, taking smaller amounts of heavy cream mixed with milk and perhaps fruit or some sort of sweetener is best. Also, I think I understand it is best to keep up the heavy cream routine constantly for many months added to my regular diet rather than binge eating or short term stuffing periods.

I was thinking of consuming about 300ml total heavy cream a day, 100ml in the morning after breakfast, 100ml with my afternoon meal and again 100 ml about an hour before I retire. I would stay on this routine for as many months as you suggest. I am not interested in rapid weight gain, but consistent gaining and developing my apron. I am fairly well toned in that I don't have any jiggling fat on my butt or thighs at this point, nor any moobs and genetically, I may not be prone to gaining in those areas, but if it occurs, I am not adverse to that.

I am a little concerned about the colesterol in heavy cream and using too much sugar, but I am excited at the prospect that heavy cream could lower my tight viceral fat. As I said, it is my thinking that long term usuage of heavy cream at smaller amounts could be effective. Am I wrong about that?

Any insights or suggestions on how to use heavy cream for gaining subcutaneous belly fat are very welcome! It is nice to step on the scale now and have joy rather than sadness over my weight gains. Thank you!

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