Munchies:
Well, no. Once you get them, it means you grew faster than your skin could keep up. I've seen some wicked cases of fluid retention that led to stretchmarks.

Sweetfattie:
I can confirm that severe edema sometimes causes stretch marks. Years ago I had a terrible reaction to a medication that resulted in my lower legs and feet blowing up like balloons. That was painful. I’ve also seen stretch marks on teens who had huge growth spurts.

Thanks for the tip, by the way! Shea butter is great stuff.

Modulo9:
Not really. My wife does well in the corporate world and will lay down the law like a Mama Bear.

She used to do gymnastics. She was into demanding sports that require physical and mental strength but are considered feminine.

She's likes to eat and she enjoys girlie things. She really likes masculine men and enjoys when I put on tool belt when I do maintenance on the house.

I've encountered quite a few well fed women like her in the corporate world with similar attributes.

I would describe her as a feminist in the streets and with the man she loves a submissive in the sheets. Which I find very hot.

Munchies:
You mean like a type A kinda person?

JN_TumLover56:
Ahh… sure you can say that. It’s like when I am saying a “softie” I’m trying to say as to describe someone who is humble and kind or even down to earth. Instead of someone who’s very uptight to a point where they come off as a rough person.

I’m essentially saying something similar to what you said earlier but saying it in my own way y’know?

AskDrFeeder:
Been reading about the "soft girl" trend. I know it's not "soft" in the sense that fat bodies are soft, but I wonder if there's any overlap between soft girls and feedees. Anyone?

JN_TumLover56:
I think I have heard that it’s a long the lines of being a softie compared to someone who has a strong face and sturdy. If that’s one way to say it?

Munchies:
Eh, no. My comment gives a brief overview of the soft girl lifestyle. It has nothing to do with facial features or body shape. You can have a strong face and sturdy body while having a soft life. On the flip side, you can have softer features and a willowy body without being part of the soft life.

JN_TumLover56:
That wasn’t what I was referring to. I was talking about more of a personality type way. As in that you have to be tough and boss-like in a world where people want to bring you down. Or perhaps being such a technical strictly person that always has some sort of edge to them.

Strange metaphor but yeah.

Canuck:
wow, this thread has a long history! my previous response is apparently 4 years ago - so time for some new perspective, i think.

i gained a bunch of weight since my last post and over that time i've experienced some new limitations, and i am also with a new partner, which has changed my perspective, too. i gained up to a top weight of about 475, although i've lost some weight since then (about 450 now).

there are a lot of limitations that have been hot. little things, like being to wide to get close enough to the kitchen counters to reach the upper shelves. i get teased about that regularly, which is kind of hot.

my partner is pretty fit, and the contrast between us is really nice, and her ability to easily dominate me, just by being more flexible and limber than me, is very hot. the limitations it has created in our sex play has actually been very hot, too.

the limitations in standing, walking, not fitting in chairs, and just getting through the day are the nuisance problems which i can live with by i don't enjoy them at all. i've had to lose some weight for health concerns recently, and i am definitely not enjoying the food limitations (mostly missing beer!).

Munchies:
When it comes to health issues and physical limitations, I think there's a bit of a disconnect between fantasy and reality. Sure, it's sexy to be too fat to move normally. But that's also really inconvenient.

MottiF:
Yeah, not to mentioned the fact that it could be really problematic if your partner let’s say leaving you or something, then what would you do?

Ahhdipose:
Well so far i started out the day with a huge stuffing 7 sausage biscuits so around 3500 cals and grazed on star cruncehes throughout the day like 5 so about 1400 and then had two plates of spaghetti about 2000 cals and am planning to polish it of with a brownie sundae 1100 cals thank you all with the advice and reccomendations

Munchies:
These are two different things.

I'm talking about liking the actual person. You are talking about liking the body said person inhabits. These two things are very unrelated.

AskDrFeeder:
When I'm interested in a relationship with a woman I want both. The fact that you have a thing for her size does not mean you can't appreciate her on other levels.

Of course it is possible for a man to fetishize a woman for her size and not love her or even like her, and she should reject such a man (unless she just wants a roll in the hay!). But having a preference for curvy women certainly doesn't eliminate the possibility of liking or loving her.