AI generated art may also be something to look at.

Stable Diffusion via Automatic1111's webgui has an img2img feature which with some messing around it is possible to morph a photo to some extent.

It's far from perfect, but it is fun to take a picture of myself and mess around with the prompts.

One thing to note is that obviously different people, different circumstances, etc.

For example, when I started doing this I actually used my parents own concerns about their own weight against them because they were becoming stressed over it.

However, in my case I've been doing two things:
1) Telling people I no long care and I'm just enjoying life
2) Joking about my weight e.g. 'meh give me 5 years and I'll be this big (with hand gestures doubling my width).

That said, I haven't had any significant gain (yet), so time will tell whether this will continue to work.

I'm curious about what people's eating patterns are, for example, do you just eat three large meals a day? Do you have 'normal' sized meals but snack allot in between? Do you simply eat 'normally'? etc.

Personally, I've mainly been just eating two main meals a day (larger portions than most people I know, but not too large) with maybe a chocolate bar or two and occasionally something like ice cream or home made ice cream milkshake.

But recently I've decided to try adding more snacking and maybe additional smaller meals whenever I feel even remotely hungry to try and boost my intake, particularly on my days off.

In addition to the **** I had to go through because I've been chubby/overweight my entire life, I also myself in my teenage years to be struggling to 'enjoy' the woman I was 'supposed to enjoy'.

It was during this time I instead found myself being attracted more to the even fatter people around me and even the idea of fattening up myself to become like them, which thanks to now having a laptop to invoke some privacy, lead me to go online and discover the various online 'fat fetish' communities.

Although annoyingly one of the earlier ones I found was hosted on a relatively small social media platform which shut the section down because it was 'unhealthy' and I should 'seek advice'.

IRL though, things improved when I graduated from secondary school and moved onto Sixth Form (High School equivalent) because all the A-holes who caused me problems weren't there. Uni also later helped because people gave even less of a toss about my weight.

That said, I was still on/off about my gaining/preference, only formally accepting it when I was in my 20s since I could foresee myself become even more obese anyway and no longer having to worry as much whilst enjoying it.

I dream of the day I have a massive hang, the type that you can hold in your hands and rests on top of you when lying down.

Sadly so far the best I've got is a 'slight temporary' one after wearing trousers for a few hours or by using a belt and having my trousers slightly higher up.

I don't have a 'target weight' like allot of people here go by, instead it's a target hang.

Try smaller/independent fast food outlets, I find their sizes can be bigger or at least the food more filling compared to the large chains.

I've been telling family for a while now that I've stopped giving a (redacted) when asked and even joking with them and others how in a few years I'll probably be huge.

These days any talk of eating less junk food comes down to cost more so than actual health.

I'm honestly not too sure due to fluctuations, but I definitely feel fatter....just wish I was fatter in my stomach though.

I know in the past McDonalds would give employees free food for certain length shifts and I know someone who works for a small supermarket branch which gives near expired/unsellable food to either charity or staff.

You may want to look at an 'idle' job, so you're not physically active often, uch as something office based.

Now as for my job, which is generic retail but fairly physical as I'm based in the stock room, on the one hand I do enough physical work that I joke the company should be promoting it as a gym, on the other hand the shifts are such that I end up getting allot of takeaways e.g. a McDonalds before or after a shift (a potentially good way to hide what you're eating as well).

I don't really have a weight goal, more a physical goal, which is to have my stomach sag and descend.

Although going by my current weight the last I checked quite a while back and judging by other people it may take a while.

The difficult part is gaining whilst making it look natural e.g. eating lots of junk food but not going for heavy cream.