What made you decide to get fat?

GrowingLoveHandles:
You gained some love fat, but that’s not the whole story. When in a new relationship, many succumb to the habits and enjoyments of their new partner. She was no gym-goer. You got to spend more time with her if you didn’t go to the gym.

And what did you do with that time? You did what she did: You enjoyed food. She was a foodie, and you became one. She was big and soft, so you grew soft as well. Her hedonistic ways became a part of you.

As did the belly you acquired.


yes - this is exactly it!

so, we split up (amicably) about a year ago. what is really interesting now is that those habits are still with me - maybe more now, having worked at home for the last year and adding another 50 lbs (probably more).

we are still casually in touch with each other, just the odd email. some stuff happened in her life last month, so i sent her a note and we had a zoom chat last month. i think we were both surprised - i was bigger and she was smaller, lol! she has been using the pandemic to get in better shape, so while she still outweighed me, the gap was certainly much narrower than it was a year ago!

so while she's changed her lifestyle, i find i am stuck in mine. my new/current gf is sensitive to being healthy, but she also has made it clear she's not attracted to skinny guys, so i think i am in a good place right now. smiley
3 years

Past the point of no return

BiteSize:
Oof 😣 Best of luck! Yeah, you’re probably going to have to rein it in from now on to avoid it getting entirely out of hand...


lol! i think it got pretty out of hand about 100 lbs ago! smiley but i know what you mean.

a couple days in with no muffins, cookies or beer... i am already looking forward to this week being over! smiley
3 years

What made you decide to get fat?

GrowingLoveHandles:
To further my point above, it seems this happy accidental weight gain initially was not so much decided as just seemed to occur — the result of a new relationship, being around such a lovely woman, learning to enjoy eating and foods in new ways, adopting her hedonistic outlook, and thinking you could easily lose those first pounds.

Not as much a decision as a delicious kind of carelessness.


yes, i think you are correctly stating it. certainly it was not a conscious decision!

when you put it like that, and i think of my change in thinking from when i was fit to now - the "value" i placed on being in shape motivated me in my exercise. i mean, i went to the gym 3-4 times a week continuously for 20 years! at some point it just becomes a habit, and you do it on automatic pilot.

but when i took that time away and grew out of shape, the "value" i placed on that enjoyment of that new hedonistic lifestyle, was much greater than the effort it would take to get back in shape.

none of it was conscious, but i think i realized i had missed out on some of those pleasures... now they've become the habit, i guess!
3 years

Past the point of no return

was pretty surprised on the weekend to find i'd gained 4 pounds in just one week! that was kind of a shock. i've put on over 50 lbs since halloween without even trying, which kind of scares me a little, to be honest. 350 lbs is way closer than i realized.

so this week i am going to try cutting out beer, and try to resist my girlfriend's baking (no easy task!) and see if i can get things a little more under control. we'll have to wait and see if this helps...
3 years

How fat is "too fat"?

this has changed for me over time... three or four when i first started to accept putting on weight, anything much over 200 seemed like it would be too much. then when i found myself at 220, it seemed like 250 would be acceptable, but 300 lbs would be way too fat. now here i am at almost 340 lbs, and 350 seems like it wouldn't be much different and i am kind of wondering what 400 might be like.

objectively, now, i would say too fat would be when my weight has a significantly negative impact on in my life (health, or quality of life). but i don't know when/how that will be.
3 years

Anyone switch from feeder to feedee?

voluptuouslover:
After I continued to intentionally gain along with her feeding us both huge fattening meals.....without one conversation about this she actually took on the feeder roll in our relationship and was making us BOTH much fatter than I ever achieved. She seemed to have a sense of excitement with verbally discussing how fat I got not to mention I think she loved the fact that she thought it was all her cooking and live that made me this FAT.....and the best was she didn’t even care how Fat she was getting for the first time in her life. Mutual gaining for sure became my total favorite.


that is really great that you are both engaged in this, and that you both are so accepting of your growing bodies. smiley

was this a gradual shift over a long period of time?
3 years

What made you decide to get fat?

this question really made me think : was it a decision? i guess it was, in a way.

i had been fit, thin and active all my life. i went to the gym regularly and lifted weights. but i was an fa and a feeder - i was attracted to fat people and the idea of them growing even bigger was really my turn on. so i dated bbw and bhm, and often i was their feeder. i was in this mode for a long time - like, from my late teens until i was about 40!

then i started dating and then living with a ssbbw. she was a nurse and was completely uninterested in being the whole feedism scene - that was fine with me. she was gorgeous, fun, intelligent, and we had a great time together. she was more a "foodie" i think, and her love of good food started to rub off on me. i started to find a new enjoyment in food through her. spending more and more time with her meant it was getting tougher for me to dedicate time to the gym. eventually i decided i would take a break from the gym for a few months, just see what would happen.

not only did i stop working out, i started to indulge more with my gf. we both put on weight. after maybe 25 lbs i started to get a little worried about how big i was getting, but she helped me put those concerns aside, we were still both really enjoying our life together which involved quite a bit of eating and drinking and making merry. smiley at some point i thought, well, i've let myself go this far - let's see what 200 lbs is like! then i can start getting back in shape.

200 lbs turned into 220, and i realized that the lifestyle i had become used to was very seductive. my gf had also gained some weight over that time, and was growing concerned it might impact her mobility to the point it effected her job. so we knew something needed to be done. i decided to go back to the gym, and she cut a bunch of things out of her diet. i was really impressed with her level of discipline!

i was also surprised by how *hard* it was to go back to the gym. being fat and out of shape, not having worked out at all for many months... wow, was that a rude awakening! i thought i would jump on the treadmill for 30 minutes, like i used to. i lasted about 5 minutes and i felt like i was going to die, lol! i was shocked and embarrassed by how little weight i could lift, and how far i had fallen in terms of my fitness. seeing myself in the mirrors all around the gym shocked me over and over again - who was that flabby guy with the gut hanging over his too-tight exercise pants? oh, it was me!

being so disillusioned at the gym created a bit of a cycle... i would stop going, get fatter, try to go again, and become too discouraged to continue.

so while my gf was losing some weight, mine went up a little. eventually just the thought of being in the gym was too humiliating, i made a conscious decision to stop trying. and i guess this was the point at which i actually "decided" (or admitted) i was now a fat person.

i have often thought, looking back on my life, what motivated me to be fit and to work out for so long? and how did i change so much in such a short period of time, quite far into my adulthood? i think part of staying fit was just my sense of my own identity. getting over that was the hardest part of getting fat (getting past the "this isn't me" mindset). but also, as a fit guy seeking out romantic and kinky relationships with fat people, i think being in good shape was one of the things that i knew made potential partners attracted to me. not sure if i knew that at the time, but in hindsight, having joined a dating site as a fat guy, i know that the "marketplace" has shrunk substantially for me. smiley

i guess in another way, my decision to be fat (or get fatter) was really around my lifestyle choice, and what i valued in how i spent my time... having discovered a great joy of food (which included a newfound interest in cooking for myself, family and friends), and being a craft beer aficionado, the value of these activities and the joy they bring me has increased substantially. just 4 or 5 years ago i would never have looked forward with any enthusiasm to getting take-out from a particular restaurant. now, i have a list of almost 20 places i can't wait to try. my mouth is watering thinking about what i am going to be having for lunch - food, for the first time, has become a very central part of my life, my day, my week. it isn't about "stuffing" (although sometimes it is smiley ), it is about taste, flavour, texture, trying something new...

sorry, didn't want to make this an essay, lol! but thinking about it made me kind of reflect over the last 3-4 years.
3 years

Muscles going soft

quiverdream:
As someone who’s not exactly into the athletic-to-fat kink, I’m curious: what’s y’all’s take on those trainers who get fat and then back to fit with their clients?


that was kind of my plan a few years ago... take some time off from the gym, have fun, indulge... and then eventually get back into shape.

it turned out i liked the fun & indulgence part a little more than i expected, lol! so my weight went from 150 to 180, and i thought, "i'm so close to 200 - let's see what that feels like."

i didn't get back to the gym until after i'd gone well past 200 lbs... and it was such a challenge, i got discouraged. i tried to get back into working out a couple of times, but i felt very discouraged by how hard it was, and tbh, embarrassed by how far out of shape i had become.

plus, i'd really discovered the joy of food - something that really hadn't registered with me prior. really diving into the world of food (and drink!) and all the different flavours really became a new passion for me, which made cutting back so hard.

i think if you watch those gimmicky tv shows, they put on 20 or 25 lbs, and yeah, they can lose that. it's because they haven't really embraced that lifestyle. i think i just waited too long, lol!
3 years

Anyone else had back issues from standing at 324lbs?

Softissohot:

Sounds like a classic case of sciatica, we see this in patients of all shapes and sizes in the clinic I work at. More often than not the root of the problem is that patients are too stiff through their mid back and shoulders (sitting at a computer, driving, generally not getting movement in the spine all day) and so the lower back acts as a hinge point and gets strained, which puts pressure on the sciatic nerve. Any exercises that get gentle movement through your mid and upper back will help. Also do hamstring, glute and quad stretches at least 3 times a day, as often as you possibly can. The sciatic nerve runs down the leg through the IT band, so you can get sciatica type symptoms just if the leg/glute/hip muscles are too tight.


this is great advice - when i stopped exercising and getting fatter, i started to have back issues. my gf at that time convinced me to do some yoga stretching, and it really helped - i think softissohot accurately gets to the heart of the matter.

i am bigger now, but i know i should be doing more stretching. every time my back starts to bug me, i know i am overdue. there are some great youtube videos on yoga for big people, too.
3 years

Muscles going soft

alelectro:
And to think that those muscles melting into flab have also made it easier for a domme to control you.

Before, you could run away if you really wanted to.

Before, you were maybe pretending she could overpower you. It was a game. But now with that lard ass weighing you down and that swollen gut pinning you back, you really are at her mercy.


wow... this really resonated with me, and where i am now... and i am kind of surprised how much i like it!
3 years