I’ve been obsessive about checking my weight during gaining in the past, but I’m making an effort to check it less often now because I think it’d be more satisfying if I could see a bigger difference between weigh-ins. How long do you go between weigh-ins? I want to be surprised, but it’s so hard to wait!

Mine is to hit the tipping point where my weight gain gets out of control, and becomes something that I couldn’t stop even if I wanted to instead of something I have to put tons of effort into.

Thank you for the tips, folks.



This is exactly why I’m wanting to know how much I need to gain to hit the point where my fat cells duplicate. Even if I am getting tired of eating so much and feel like I want a break, I want to keep on gaining at least until my fat cells multiply so that the weight is more likely to stick.

The idea of being classically conditioned to associate food with sexual pleasure is something I’ve seen discussed here as a fantasy, but has anyone acted on it successfully and either been conditioned or conditioned someone else? If so, how did you do it, and what were the effects like?

Alternately, do you think it would be possible to do such a thing to oneself?

It’s my ultimate goal, but I haven’t reached it yet and it will probably take a long time considering how quickly I burn out when trying to gain (for me, feeling myself get fatter is extremely rewarding, but eating enough to get there is a miserable chore).

When you start off extremely underweight, especially if you haven’t got much muscle, even just reaching the lower bounds of the normal BMI category makes you feel huge. I can jiggle the fat on my stomach, and my thighs rub together when I walk, and I can no longer squeeze into my old pants, so even though most people would still consider me skinny I feel fat already. It’s a feeling I can’t get enough of, and I am really looking forward to getting fat for real.

Does anyone know how much weight gain it takes for the body to create new fat cells? Personally, I’ve found that a 20 pound gain was what it took to alter my body’s set point (before that, I’d always just lose all the weight as soon as I stopped actively trying to gain, but now I naturally stay at my heavier weight even when I’m not trying), so I’m assuming that created some new fat cells, but I’d love to know more, either hard data or other people’s personal experiences. I’m attempting another gain now, and the hottest thing about it is knowing I could cross that line again.

I take cyproheptadine and it works very well. Mine’s prescribed by my doctor since I used to be super underweight, but if your doctor can’t be convinced that you need it, in some places you can legally buy it over the counter either as an appetite stimulant or an allergy medicine. I haven’t experienced any side effects, although, as with any other medicine, some people do.

Recently I found out that the serving size of peanut butter is much smaller than I’d believed- apparently you’re meant to level it off! I’d previously avoided peanut butter since I mistakenly thought I was only getting about 200 calories from my “two tablespoons” of peanut butter, and it made me feel very full so it seemed inefficient (I’d heard it was a good food for gaining, but didn’t understand the hype)- but apparently, what I thought was just a single serving was actually 3 or 4 servings, around 700 calories! That’s far more than I’m usually capable of eating in a single serving of any anything, so I’ll be eating a ton of peanut butter now that I know.

Are there any other foods like this, with deceptive serving size information that makes them much better for gaining than they first appear?

When creating or searching for a story, two of the categories used to sort the stories are “gender” and “orientation.” Currently, the only options for these are male and female for gender, and straight, gay, and lesbian for orientation. This is reductive and makes it hard to categorize some stories.

I propose the following categories be added for gender and orientation, in addition to keeping the existing ones:

Gender:
-Other
-Multiple
-Unspecified

Orientation:
-Bisexual
-Unspecified

The reasons for these new categories are explained below.

“Unspecified” should be an option for both gender and orientation because some stories, mostly those written in second person, do not specify any gender or orientation since they’re intended as self insert stories any reader can enjoy. Furthermore, it could also be used for the orientation category in stories where one person gains weight alone without their orientation ever being brought up.

“Other” should be an option for gender in case a story involves a nonbinary character.

“Multiple” should be an option for gender in case a story involves people of different genders with equal focus placed on them. For instance, a story about a straight couple mutual gaining could be categorized as “straight multiple.”

“Bisexual” should be added as an orientation option for stories where there is M/F content in addition to M/M and/or F/F content.

I know stress eating is very common and can cause some serious gains, but I’ve never been able to do it- is it possible to train yourself to do it, or is one’s personal response to stress relatively set in stone? Any advice is appreciated!

Lately, I have been very stressed, and it has made it difficult to gain. Just maintaining my current weight has been an uphill battle. My desire to gain doesn’t go away, but my appetite does and it is difficult for me to eat even small amounts, and I don’t enjoy what I eat. Overeating, for me at least, takes a lot of mental energy that I don’t have right now. The stress is unlikely to go away any time soon, so if it is at all possible to turn it to my advantage and change the way it affects my relationship with food, I’d like to.