If you’re going to take a medication to help you gain weight, you should probably use something less dangerous than prednisone- heed everyone’s warnings about the side effects, they’re serious! You’d be better off just getting some appetite stimulants.

I don’t think they’re any more effective in increasing weight gain than any other kind of encouragement, at least not for me, but they’re fun to listen to. Some people are apparently more susceptible to hypnosis and might actually see results beyond just enjoying a sexy video, but I think for most people it’s just a pleasurable experience in the moment.

Another update for you all: I missed my cream lattes last week due to a family emergency that kept me away from campus, but even without them, my weight is now up to 133 pounds! I wonder if this is the delayed gain people talk about, or if I’ve just been eating more without noticing? Either way, I’m happy with it, and with how tight all my pants are getting. I’m hoping to be able to get back to drinking them soon.

Does anyone have recommendations for second person weight gain stories (i.e, ones where the gaining character is referred to as “you”)?

My only two criteria aside from it being second person are that there must be weight gain involved, and all characters involved in the feeding/gaining must be adults. Of course the story actually being well written is a plus, but I’ll settle for any quality.

I don’t care if the gain is caused by overeating, forcefeeding, magic, or anything else, and I don’t care if it is realistic or not or whether it’s a small or large gain. I want to see all of them!

Thanks for the input! I guess I won’t be trying this then, sadly, and will have to stick to consistent stuffings.

I’ve read that when someone goes on a heavily restrictive diet, their body goes into starvation mode and this results in changes to their metabolism that can last for years and make them pack on weight much more quickly than before, and furthermore that more new fat cells are created every time lost weight is regained, creating a double whammy effect. This idea seems well supported by science and by the personal experiences of many dieters who genuinely do want to lose weight, but none of the articles I’ve read mention one vital factor: how long it takes to happen.

I’ve thought about the idea of going on an extreme crash diet (like, not quite dangerous levels of calorie restriction, but close) and then stuffing myself with as much food as I can shove down, causing me to balloon up much faster than I currently am able to. It would be nice to be able to take a break from consistent overeating (which is a bit of a chore for me, I just like the gain) and have it actually contribute to my gain overall. If it is a viable strategy and wouldn’t take too long, I think I’d wait to gain ten or twenty more pounds (or to hit a plateau) and then cut my calories drastically for a little while before switching to trying to eat more fattening foods than ever. But without numbers, I’m worried it would do more harm to my gaining than good or else just take so long it wouldn’t be worth it.

My questions are:

-How long must you maintain a crash diet for it to affect your metabolism, and make you fatter in the long run?

-How much must you restrict your calories to have the long-term fattening effect?

-Is crash dieting and then binging more efficient than just overeating and never doing a diet?

-Would doing this increase or decrease your appetite (I have seen differing reports on this)?

-At what amount of gain do fat cells divide and increase in number (when never having dieted)? If I do this, I want to get to a point where my fat cells have just multiplied and then do the diet, so losing the weight would be even harder and gaining it back would be even easier.

-Does the rebound weight really come on faster? If you’ve experienced it, what’s it like?

Where would you say the lines are between the categories “thin,” “normal,” “chubby,” and “fat?” I consider numbers (such as BMI or weight in pounds) to be poor markers since between two people with the same weight, one could be fat and the other not depending on things like height, muscle mass, etc, so I think it would have to be judged by a set of qualitative criteria, but I don’t know what they should be.

The main reason I ask this is, of course, because I want to know when I cross into chubby territory (or if I already have!) so that I can celebrate appropriately!

Found this online:
tasteofhome.com/recipes/creamy-holiday-eggnog/

413 calories in a serving, but 1 serving is just 3/4 cup- the recipe makes 6 servings or “4 cups.” The math in the recipe appears to be a bit off because if we divide it up into 4 servings each one would be about 1.125 cups with 620 calories each, but realistically, most mugs and glasses hold closer to that than to an actual cup anyway, so functionally it’s 620 calories per regular sized glass, 2478 calories per entire batch. Maybe if you wanted to take it up even further you could substitute some or all of the 4 cups of milk for more heavy cream and/or half and half?

It’s also good that it makes a smaller batch, because that means you can easily double or triple it if you want more, but you don’t have to worry as much about making a ton and having it spoil before you can drink it if you don’t have great capacity (or, if you DO have great stomach capacity but don’t have much room in the fridge, you can chug it all at once and not worry about storage)!

Also worth noting, I’d make it nonalcoholic myself since it’s still a few months until I can buy alcohol legally, but I have read that alcohol stops non-alcohol calories from being used for energy until all the alcohol calories have been used for energy first and so anything else is just stored as fat- if that’s true, spiking the egg nog would make it even more fattening.

I plan to make some when I’ve got time, but I’ve been busy lately and am not sure when that will be. In the meantime, I thought someone else might appreciate it!

I was already feeling fatter and as a result couldn’t wait until tomorrow to weigh in and so I did it today, I’m now at 131.8 pounds, up from 130! That’s within the range of possibly just being normal weight fluctuation, but I’m still very excited about it because I’m already a LOT softer and more jiggly, and have less of a hard belly (even though my weight has gone up, my high waisted pants button significantly more easily!). I had heard before that cream could redistribute VAT to SAT, but had been skeptical about its ability to do that for me since I’m having it in smaller quantities, less often, and with a pretty sugary overall diet, so I’m blown away by the effects! Also worth noting is that I was only able to get 2 lattes last week due to scheduling issues, rather than the full 3, but I also managed to eat above my minimum goal in regular food most days (about 2500-3000 calories per day on no-cream days).

I’ll be having another heavy cream latte tomorrow.

Thank you, I’ll do my best with that! Stuffing is still difficult for me but I do think my appetite is up at least some, it’s no longer so difficult to avoid losing weight.