What I tend to find is that when I just around the house I'm not generally hungry until around 10/11 so I eat an early lunch.

I tend to only feel like eating breakfast when I'm out and about e.g. on my way into work.

So it's funny in a way, one morning I don't feel like eating anything, the next day I'm at an AYCE buffet at 9am eating the equivalent of 2/3 meals.

So it's been about 3 days now, I'm not sure if it's my imagination but I think I've become a bit 'softer' on my butt, upper legs and lower stomach.

I've also started to add some heavy cream to my morning coffee (replacing milk) to get some extra in as well.

However, one thing I only remembered after starting this is that the other in the house is going away for a few days next week....so I might try upping it to 600ml for those few days (spreading it of course).

Overall I'm planning to give it the two weeks before deciding whether to continue or not, perhaps taking a break after 2.

Update to my previous post.

So for the last couple of days I've been continuing to no longer suck my gut in after decades of doing so.

As before I've still yet to hear any comments.

But today I faced what I think was the ultimate challenge.....family.

In the end neither my parents nor my brothers seemed to notice or they didn't care, including the one who I especially thought would be the one to say something, in fact he joked about how I would be able to eat an entire Large pizza by myself (which of course I did).

Tl;dr: Nobody seems to care and I'm just going to continue being myself.

So day 1 update, last night at 8pm after coming home from a late shift I made my first double cream milkshake.

Because it was late I ended up using about 200ml + 1/3 tub ice cream with a drop of milk, it tasted relatively nice with the double cream providing a thickness my milkshakes were previously lacking.

Whilst this isn't much, it's still about 1300kcal by my estimates.

I also don't seem to be having any significant negative reaction.

Overall I think I'm going to be sticking to 200-300ml every day depending on my shifts and availability of cream.

edit:

One other advantage to milkshakes, I'm not getting any remarks about it from the other person in the house.

I just told them 'I found a recipe online' and I've been on/off making ice cream milkshakes for a while now, so I'm just telling them that I like them and I'm making them a daily treat.

I've just realized today I'm now using my stomach as a 'hand rest' whilst standing.

I was going to say, 600ml is an entire pot which by my maths is about 2802kcal (2000 is the usual reference).

I'll probably try 300ml at first to see what it's like and go from there.

Thanks, out of curiosity how much do you use per day?

Thanks, the main reason why I'm looking at milkshakes is that it's the easiest thing I can add which I know I also like.

So I figured I give this a shot first.

I'm thinking of introducing cream into my diet to try and increase my gain by adding it to vanilla ice cream milkshakes.

I want to make sure though I'm looking at the right stuff or at least something close enough which is this:
www.ocado.com/products/m-s-british-double-cream-519483011

Is this the correct product to add? Would 300ml a day (going by another thread) be enough over a few weeks as a daily dessert? Or am I looking at this wrong?

Thanks in advance.

When I was young, I developed the habit of 'sucking in' my gut because of the social stigma of being a 'fat kid' and trying to reduce this.

Even now this 'instinct' to suck it in remains, partially because of said instinct as I was doing it for so long and partially because I was concerned about the reaction to my 'sudden' weight gain (as opposed to months/years of slower gain).

Well today I decided to screw this and whilst at work tried to actively work against said 'instinct', making sure it was as 'loose' as possible resulting in a slightly bigger bulge and more 'jiggle' as I walk.

Guess what, no comments. So far it seems like all that fear was for nothing. So unless something happens I'm just going to continue and try to force myself to stop sucking it in.

I'd say my biggest concern for OP is where they're also actively denying themselves activities because of their concern, when they could be worrying over nothing like I was.