Structural home modifications

BigBallBellyGirl:
Has anyone had to navigate structural home modifications because of your size? In my case, it's my girth and how far my belly protrudes that's made getting through standard doorways painful. My waistline is more than 100 inches, and if I stand with my back to a wall and have my husband measure from the wall to the part of my stomach that sticks out most, the depth/distance is more than 45". Additionally, when I try to go straight through, I don't just brush both sides; I literally have to squeeze. We have already removed all internal doors, but I still come very close to getting stuck. Plus, forcing myself can hurt and sometimes causes bruising. We're own a condo in a building that has a rigid HOA, and any kind of internal structural modification requires board approval. We recently filed a petition for permission to widen our internal doorways. Of course, they do not permit widening external doors, so I'm well aware that if I get much bigger, I'll have a major issue. Appreciate hearing your stories and insights if anyone else has navigated something like this.


From the sound of things, you have 3 options:

1. See if you can modify the door that leads to the garage and use that to get in and out.

2. Move

3. Be more diligent about losing weight.

I don't say any of this to be mean. But even with the most lenient HOA, there's a hard limit with condos about how much you can modify before you put the structural integrity in peril. You may need to buy a house at some point if you keep growing.

If moving isn't an option (housing market is ass), you run the risk of becoming home bound. If you can make your peace with that, then good for you. If not? Then you'll have to figure out how not to keep growing.

Easier said than done, I understand. I've read your struggles on the matter, and I know you are trying.
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Ai generated content, yay or nay?

The Wicked Pear:
I think a lot of the authors of any content need to remember that AI it a tool to assist in your creation


As someone who has been writing for over 20 years, respectfully, no.
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🌍 african “fattening rooms”: the cultural roots of what we celebrate here

Morbidly A Beast:
I don’t believe feedism is a part of feeding rituals and is in no way connected to some cultures seemingly infatuation with fat. I think that’s us reading into it with our fetish eyes.

A culture is a peoples survival mechanism passed down generation to generation, these fattening rituals are simply there way of ensuring to the best of their ability, the rearing of children. Just imo.

What I would like to know is if these people follow a calendar at all and the time when these rituals happen? Do they happen anytime a woman is about to get married? Once a year? Is it only once per woman?


It depends on the culture, but when it comes to the fattening rooms, the woman goes off to a secluded area when she is of marrying age. Once she's nice and fat, her family makes sure she stays that way until marriage. Her weight is a sign of their prosperity. Once she's married, keeping her fat becomes her husband's duty.
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A buffet of feeders

A buffet of feeders sounds like y'all are eating the feeders. I'm sure this will tickle some pred feedee's fancy.
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Overlap between feederism and strength sports?

Mr Smith:
Strength athletes are often fat and building muscle involves bulking. I wonder how much these world's overlap.

UnbredHeifer:
I mean, I have known people who wanted to be 'strong fat'


On top of this, a lot of the weight gain advice you see in feedist spaces also exists in bodybuilder spaces, minus the exercise intensity. It's funny how much overlap there is.
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Chair coverings

I wanna point out that booster covers are a thing. They exist in scores of styles and shapes to fit your specific cushion. If you are willing to shell out $20 or $30, you are good to go.

I do not recommend using Velcro on towels, as some have suggested, as that will destroy the towel. Most of the covers I've seen are machine washable.
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Chair coverings

The Wicked Pear:
So the issue I've been having lately is a towel that I lay over a booster cushion on the kitchen office chair. It's nice and protects the booster, but when getting up from the chair, my pear -shape, i.e., my butt, pulls the towel up with me. I'm unable to fasten it to the seating; nothing really, but really annoying, help?

Munchies:
Question. Why are you using a towel as a cover?

Edddde:
A regular fabric chair is better.


This is a booster, love. A regular chair won't help. She's short.
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Chair coverings

The Wicked Pear:
So the issue I've been having lately is a towel that I lay over a booster cushion on the kitchen office chair. It's nice and protects the booster, but when getting up from the chair, my pear -shape, i.e., my butt, pulls the towel up with me. I'm unable to fasten it to the seating; nothing really, but really annoying, help?


Question. Why are you using a towel as a cover?
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🌍 african “fattening rooms”: the cultural roots of what we celebrate here

Slayright:
We should acknowledge in some countries in africa such as mauritania, girls are brutally force fed to increase their attractiveness for marriage. Just thought I'd bring it up.


The cultures around fattening people up are a reflection of gender roles. When it's about fattening women, it's to highlight their submission to men. When it's men fattening up, it is to show their power.

This is not to say cultures who do not do this are better. They are not. In fact, they are terrible in their own ways. But I believe if we could achieve gender equality, it would fix a lot of things.
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🌍 african “fattening rooms”: the cultural roots of what we celebrate here

Slimjim:
Most people think feederism and fat admiration are purely modern kinks, but in parts of Africa, they’ve been cultural practices for centuries.

In my culture (Nigeria), fatness traditionally symbolised wealth, beauty, fertility, and good health. Among the Efik people in Calabar, brides-to-be would be secluded in special “fattening rooms” for months. There, they’d be pampered, taught womanhood, and encouraged to gain weight before marriage.

These images are from both modern ceremonies and historical records 👇
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When I look at this community, I see a parallel: what we do here isn’t strange or “taboo” it’s part of a long human tradition of celebrating fatness as power, prosperity, and attraction.

Maybe Fantasy Feeder isn’t just fantasy at all… maybe it’s a continuation of something much older.

Had anyone here ever heard of the Calabar fattening room before?


I'm familiar, but I'm a Pan-Africanist.

There are a lot of tribes throughout the continent that practice fattening up women as well as some that fatten up men (like the Bodi tribe).

If we zoom out a ways, we will see there are many cultures that prize fatness in some form. In fact, valuing thinness is a more recent thing relatively speaking.
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