I've mentioned before that one of the most insightful things I read here was that if you get turned on by the prospect of being fat, you pleasure yourself, and afterwards, you are glad you're not fat, don't do it.

Often people think if something turns them on, they are obligated to embrace and express it, but there's a reason why people have sexual FANTASIES. Getting fat is a big commitment.

I did and he just chuckled and said don't gain more than 20 lbs (for what it's worth, he was an MD).

Gaining weight turns you on, but how do you feel after you've pleasured yourself? Do you still wish you were fat? If not, then it's best to keep gaining as a fantasy.

If you ask "should I gain?" on here, everyone is going to tell you to do it (and, of course, chronicle it for all of us), but you have to remember that you will be carrying around that fat body 24 hours a day. Someone who, say, likes dressing in women's clothes can do it and pleasure themselves and then go out and live a normal life. If you're fat, people will see it every day and will not know you deliberately did it.

It's a hard decision, especially since the common attitude towards sexuality nowadays is "if it feels good, do it" as long as it doesn't harm someone else. However, there are physical and social consequences to gaining weight that you will have to consider and eventually deal with if you do decide to gain.

I graduated high school in 1995, so we had very early internet....I'm pretty sure I just happened upon this article, "The Joy of Fat," since it was reprinted in Harpers, not looking for it, on the computer in my high school library.

www.thefreelibrary.com/The+joy+of+fat.-a015172957

news.yahoo.com/diet-trends-see-4-bn-105050960.html

More than four billion people could be overweight by 2050, with 1.5 billion of them obese, if the current global dietary trend towards processed foods continues, a first-of-its-kind study predicted Wednesday.

Warning of a health and environmental crisis of "mind-blowing magnitude", experts from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) said that global food demand would leap 50 percent by mid-century, pushing past Earth's capacity to sustain nature.

Food production already hoovers up three-quarters of the world's fresh water and one-third of its land -- and accounts for up to a third of greenhouse gas emissions.

Providing a long-term overview of changing global eating habits between 1965 and 2100, the researchers used an open-source model to forecast how food demand would respond to a variety of factors such as population growth, ageing, growing body masses, declining physical activity and increased food waste.

They found that "business as usual" -- a continuation of current trends -- will likely see more than four billion people, or 45 percent of the world's population, overweight by 2050.

The model predicted that 16 percent would be obese, compared with nine percent currently among the 29 percent of the population who are overweight.

"The increasing waste of food and the rising consumption of animal protein mean that the environmental impact of our agricultural system will spiral out of control," said Benjamin Bodirsky, lead author of the study published in Nature Scientific Reports.

"Whether greenhouse gasses, nitrogen pollution or deforestation: we are pushing the limits of our planet -- and exceeding them."

While trends vary between regions, the authors said that global eating habits were moving away from plant- and starch-based diets to more "affluent diets high in sugar, fat, and animal-source foods, featuring highly-processed food products".

At the same time, the study found that as a result of increasing inequality along with food waste and loss -- food that is produced but not consumed due to lack of storage or overbuying -- around half a billion people will still be undernourished by mid-century.

"There is enough food in the world -- the problem is that the poorest people on our planet have simply not the income to purchase it," said co-author Prajal Pradhan.

"And in rich countries, people don't feel the economic and environmental consequences of wasting food."

The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned in a special report last year that humanity will face increasingly painful trade-offs between food security and rising temperatures within decades unless emissions are curbed and unsustainable farming and deforestation are halted.

Same here...I use a tailor's measuring tape and check my belly first thing in the morning.

When I fattened up, I wanted it to be obvious to everyone, so I started wearing tighter clothes. When I bought shirts and tried them on, I would sit down in them to make sure the buttons would gap just a little bit.

I like the way clothes look and feel now that I'm fatter. When clothes are more snug, it reminds me of how fat I am now and I enjoy imagining what people must think seeing me slowly waddle by. And going to the beach is a lot more fun now

The best answer to the "should I get fat" question I've heard is how you feel after you come. You think of getting fat, you get turned on, you masturbate...if you come and still want to get fat, do it. If after you come, you don't wish you were fat, don't do it.

Getting fat isn't always the right answer simply because it turns you on. Some people would rather fantasize about it to get turned on but not want to live in an obese body 24/7, which is totally understandable.

I will say, though, that I think that a lot of people who ask "Should I get fat?" are really asking for someone to talk them into gaining.

I remember loving the scene in The Little Mermaid when Ursula turned back into her octopus form and the wedding dress ripped right off her.

Putting on my tiny bikini and hitting the beach with two or three footlong subs. There would be an area where men and women are lifting weights, doing pushups and pullups, etc., and I'd waddle into the area with all my soft fat on display and I'd sit down and devour all the food while watching them.