Sugar or carbs

Ney:
As I know it sugar is a type of carbohydrates. So if you talk about sugar or carbs it's actually the same. Carbohydrates are the most unhealthy type of food and alosothe type of food which is not actually an essential for the human body. That's why you won't find any or only few high-carb diets. Most are high protein, cause it's the building material of the body, to say it simple. Fats are also important for survival, but some are more healthy than others.
So if you wanna be as healthy as possible possible keep some distance from carbohydrates.

In the end it's as simple as that: If you wanna gain, you have to be in a caloric surplus. You can calculate your body's daily intake for keeping the weight (just do some research) or you could track your calories every day for a week or so. That way you'll get a feeling for how much your body needs. Therefore you can use several apps (also here just do some reseach).
If you know your intake just reach it everyday and add more calories and you'll gain.

Munchies:
It's the other way around. Carbs are a type of sugar. There's two types of sugars: simple and complex.

Simple sugars are easy to absorb. This would be things like fruit or cane sugar. Complex sugars take more effort for the body to absorb and break things down. This would be things like starches or carbohydrates.

That being said, carbs are 100% necessary for the human body to function. It's just that people tend to eat way more carbs than they actually need to eat. For more information, check out this:

www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/161547

Also, most people these days eat a lot of refined carbs. These are carbs that have most of the nutritional value stripped from it. This is why you hear people say things like "eat whole wheat bread instead of white bread." Sure, white bread may taste better to most people. But whole wheat bread has numerous health benefits to it.

Of course, everything in moderation. Eating too much of anything will negate its health benefits.


Agree with everything but the semantics; Ney was right. Sugars are water-soluble carbs.

To return to the topic, there is a lot of research linking excess carbohydrate consumption with the development of type 2 diabetes. As with all things, do your research and take steps to mitigate the risks you want to avoid.
2 years

Fat admiring getting more common?

I think it largely depends on the subcultures and communities you're examining.

One thing the internet facilitates is the discovery of opinions and tastes that don't fall into the cultural mainstream of your meatspace community. At its worst, this means echo spaces where you can find others who share your own narrow set of tastes and opinions and reinforce them. But at its best, this means diversity of thought, especially if you are yourself willing to explore beyond your comfort zone.

In the latter case, people can expand their definitions of attractiveness, value, or even just normalcy to be more representative of a larger variety of people, even if those populations are traditionally marginalized or uncommon.

I think it's in these spaces that fat attraction--or even better in the long run, in my opinion, attraction to and visibility of people for reasons beyond their appearance--will be more apparent.

I think, at least in the US, we are far from adopting values like that in the mainstream; consider the biggest franchises in media and I don't think you'll find these inclusive values reflected there. Fat Thor was played for humor, not humanity, and he was swiftly brought back to "normal" once the joke ran its course.

Sorry if that rant was incoherent, I am running on 3 hours of sleep and have a can of Monster in me.
2 years

Profile dm button not working?

This may be unrelated but I don't want to make a new thread for it:

When clicking a user's profile picture through the message page, it doesn't find their actual profile. The URL it sends you to ends with a number, rather than their username (possibly a relic from an old URL scheme).
2 years

Profile dm button not working?

I'm able to view and send messages to other people through other means (the Write button in the messages page, the button that shows up on notifications about other people viewing your profile), but clicking the mail button on someone's profile doesn't seem to do anything when clicked.
2 years

A dissertation on feederism

Natatat:
I was recently in a discussion about sex with a guy I might want to actually be in a relationship with. He said and I hate what he said: “ All girls I've had really kinky sex with have cried telling me it's the best orgasm they had, and it's not coming from a place of anger it's intimate to hurt someone for their pleasure and comfort them afterwards. In a twisted way I don’t truly understand.”
It was upsetting to learn. That to me raises the question about how often is a kink and or fetish a reflection of trauma, abuse, toxic? Just idk all I know is that I’m not interested in that. I believe that sex is a culmination of what the relationship is. As in sex is an expression of love. And yeah it’s also recreational. But someone hurting me especially during sex and then comforting me is a horrifying concept. It made me wary of him. And just I had to bite my tongue and not point out that from what I know of his past relationships that was not a bdsm or something. That was an actual trauma toxic thing that those girls had brought into sex because that’s what they were shown that love is. I know people won’t agree with me. But when I read that it made me cry. It scared me. So just yeah a kink a fetish can be so many things. It can be a fun thing. It can be a liking a girl in dresses. It can be a penchant for shoes or whatever. It can be enjoying more to hold onto. It can be because maybe you have had better relationships with heavier people. It can be that you like the sounds they make when they are eating or really full. Or that they seem happier. Or just literally anything can be a turn on for whatever reason. Maybe it’s cause of morbid curiosity, maybe it’s a power thing. I know for me that My porn is completely separate from my relationships. Yes sometimes I am turned on by a pudgy belly spilling over jeans or them overeating or whatever. But it is not something I want to explore because for me it is a selfish thing. As in I would get bored and resentful if it was permanent. I get too sadistic. It’s not shame it’s more I don’t want that. Plus it’s not one or the other. So I mean idk. A fetish, kink, preferrence, whatever is complicated. Also some people just like how they look bigger or smaller. If they are confident and healthy then good for them. Idk it’s confusing. These discussions get heated. If someone writes on these topics you should be prepared for major criticism. Atm I’m exhausted and responding because why not. Plus that conversation was slightly upsetting and I’m curious


I won't comment on whether a relationship with this guy is advisable or not, as ultimately that's your decision, and I'm not fully clear on the situation/his past relationships. Under the assumption that you're still interested in him, however, I will advise you, if you haven't already, to talk to him about your feelings on the matter. If his kink is something you will never be able to entertain, let him know your boundaries. If he's accepting of those boundaries, wonderful. Likewise, if you're curious, he is ultimately the best person to ask about his perceptions, motivations, and desires. You might learn something new, or you might affirm your own beliefs; either outcome is good.

Additionally, I will point to this passage in the second research paper that I think describes well what some people get out of BDSM.

Crushing self-awareness either through physical or emotional pain forces an individual to focus on the here and now and liberates them from thinking about consequences.


I don't think there needs to be any trauma involved for someone to enjoy a kink or to have a sexuality that deviates from perceived norms. Sometimes you need an unconventional release. Sometimes you're just born that way.

I'll also point this out:

"to hurt someone **for their pleasure** and **comfort them afterwards**"

This alludes to two things that are really important to BDSM.

The first is consent; "for their pleasure" **requires** that all parties are consenting. A lot of care needs to be taken to ensure that all parties are aware of any risks that are involved in the kink and that there are clear lines of communication to slam the brakes in case things go too far. The point is to have fun.

The second is aftercare. After a scene or play, people will often engage in a bit of nonsexual intimacy while talking about which parts of the experience they enjoyed, what they want to explore further, and what they want to leave on the shelf next time. Again, the point here is to make sure everyone is having fun, and to reaffirm the baseline of love and affection with which partners should go into these experiences.

Again, talk to each other and educate yourselves.
2 years

A dissertation on feederism

Bellyempire:
I have not read the dissertation yet. I am glad someone in the academy is doing work on feederism. I believe it could provide a more positive view of our kink in the long run and also provide a great way for us to reflect on our community and selves. For this reason I would also love to see more work done on people with belly and vore fetishes.

Before reading this I am going ask a few questions going in.

1. Is the author connected to feederism in anyway? A feeder a feedee. Are they related to anyone involved in the kink. Are they fat.

2. Why did they chose this topic? Goes back to question number 1. Its a question of how objective they began writing this.

3. What kind of quantitative data will the be able to present?

4. Will the author attempt to correlate the kink to childhood trauma?

5. How much was drawn from secondary sources?

6. How can this work be furthered?


To sate your curiosity as you go in:

1. They self-identify as a BBW, but appear to be an outsider to feederism.

2. Unclear. It's possible they encountered it in their own life and were curious about the myths around it. That's just conjecture though.

3. There isn't much, as they admit. Qualitative analysis contributes the most to their conclusions, just as in the research paper mentioned further in this thread.

4. The dissertation had little focus on the psychological origins of feederism. The research paper has a more in-depth discussion of that topic, though most of it is conjecture. These papers have been more sociological in nature, if anything.

5. Little was drawn from secondary sources. Almost everything contributing to their conclusions were primary source interviews or information they found from inside the community (through forums such as FF and Dimensions).

6. Check out the other research paper in this thread!
2 years

What is it about feederism that turns you on?

Besides the physical attractiveness of a soft body, the kinky aspect of it appeals for me for two reasons.

First, there is a theory that masochism is a way to escape self-awareness and the pressures of life. In feederism, the same could apply through hedonism; giving up restraint and rational thought to simply gorge and seek pleasure is sexy.

Second, I enjoy seeing happiness in others. I would love to watch someone give into the above hedonism, happily indulging their basest appetites while I provide both a safe environment and the food which facilitates their delight. I tend to avoid fiction which features the force-feeding of someone who clearly doesn't enjoy the experience, for this reason; consent is the sexiest thing of all and the lack of it is an instant killjoy.
2 years

Nice confused thoughts

Ky Belly Boy:
I'm not gay. I am happily married. But I have been having strange romantic thoughts of being with another obese man in a room stuffing ourselves. Encouraging each other. Then kissing and caressing each others big swollen bellies. Even rubbing our bellies together. Every time I think about a time like this, it is always with another man. Strange huh?
P.S. this maybe in the wrong topic area


You might rationalize this as a desire to see that which you find sexy in yourself embodied in another person. Or you might say that your attraction towards fat and weight gain transcends gender. Sexuality is fluid and amorphous, and even in traditional heterosexual attraction, people aren't often attracted to every member of the opposite gender; there are specific characteristics to which they are attracted.

Whether these fantasies of yours constitute an attraction that could manifest in real life is something you'll have to explore for yourself. But I'd caution against letting the label of "gay" or "not gay" dictate your enjoyment of scenarios you find exciting.
2 years

Positive reviews needed

Frankly, while those reviews might be putting some people off the site, hopefully it's only the kind of people who shouldn't be on the site in the first place. As Munchies says, the reviewers all reek of being incels. If they want to cry warnings that other incels will take as a sign to stay away, perhaps we should welcome their efforts.

That said, I'll contribute a review.
2 years