I go alone to the university Starbucks which is always very busy with people who I don’t know, so no one really pays attention to my order. Today was my first time getting one, and I ordered it as I normally would a latte but just asked them to substitute the milk with heavy cream. Since I get 10+ pumps of syrup for the taste (Starbucks coffee does not taste good to me without being drowned in syrup), the cream is not the weirdest part of my order anyway.

Lots of people around here get it for keto so the general assumption if someone orders it is just that they’re trying to go on a diet that is doomed to fail because they don’t know math, but I don’t want to try to claim I’m on keto when everyone knows I eat nothing but junk, so if anyone tried to confront me about it once I have gained some more I’d tell them I just like the creamier texture. My current weight is still low enough that I can just say I am trying to get extra calories because I’m recovering from an eating disorder and struggle to eat enough normal food to maintain my weight, which is technically true anyway.

My ADHD meds have weight loss as one of their usual side effects, but by pairing them with an appetite stimulant, they’ve actually helped me gain by allowing me to focus on eating when I sit down for a meal and not get distracted doing other things. I used to always get distracted after only eating a few bites even if I was hungry, and then by the time I remembered I had food an hour or two later, it was cold and gross and inedible. Now, I can eat my whole meal, or at least most of it.

I haven’t used anti-depressants myself because I do not have depression, but I’ve never seen a discussion about them in which at least one person didn’t chime in to complain about having become fat because of the medicine.

Medical issues that make food unenjoyable certainly make it much tougher to gain. I have the opposite problem but with the same ultimate effect- I’m hypersensitive to taste, smell, and texture and so the majority of foods are just unbearably disgusting and overwhelming to me to the point of causing me to become severely nauseous or experience sensory overload and panic, sometimes even just by being in the same room as them if they stink bad enough, and so I mainly have to stick to sweet or bland things which, even then, I don’t enjoy much. I actually originally got into feedism because I was desperate to find a quick and effective way to gain weight to avoid hospitalization, and then realized I actually liked gaining and wanted to gain more once I got back into the safe weight range! It’s even helped me expand which foods I can tolerate a little bit, albeit not by much. Probably somewhat unusual for this site, but my doctor was delighted when I came and weighed in at 30 pounds heavier than my last visit recently. Best of luck with your future gains, you can do it!

Thank you for the information, it’s very helpful! I’ll definitely be trying this. Unfortunately, I can’t stand cold coffee, so I’ll have to get hot, but with the large amount of extra syrup I usually get added to it, even the hot latte ought to come to around 2454 calories.

Today I got a grande to test out if I liked the taste and could keep it down, and I definitely can. It tastes exactly like a whole milk latte, which I wasn’t expecting, but am happy with. Tomorrow I’ll get the venti!

With my current schedule, I ought to be able to do this 2 or 3 times a week and can keep going until my coffee budget runs out. If I get coffee three times a week and/or can manage to eat even just 300 calories per day over my weight maintenance requirement in my non-coffee diet, I should be able to gain 2 or more pounds per week. A lot of people buy their coffee drinks with heavy cream here for keto, not realizing how many calories there really are in them, so no one will suspect a thing. I’ll post an update if it works. Here’s hoping for at least 10 new pounds!

I heard recently that you can order a latte at Starbucks with heavy cream and it has quite a lot of calories. I think this might be a good way to gain when on a tight schedule without time for stuffing and to try heavy cream discreetly without people noticing it in the fridge, but I keep finding conflicting information when I try to figure out how much cream/milk is in a latte. Does anyone know how much heavy cream is in a venti Starbucks latte, and/or how many total calories such a drink would have? If it’s more than 1000 calories I think it would be worth the money, but I don’t want to spend Starbucks prices if it is just a 600 calorie drink or something since they’re expensive. Also, has anyone here tried drinking them? Do they work well?

I’ve always had both a high metabolism and a low appetite. Like, extremely low appetite. I finally managed to gain about 30 pounds by intermittent periods of eating ~3000 calories a day followed by periods when I’d track my calories to be sure I ate enough to maintain my weight but not push myself too hard. After what I’d estimate to be about a total of 5 weeks intentional stuffing and 6 weeks watching to be sure I didn’t go below my calorie requirement and going over it whenever I felt like it, but just not pushing myself, I have gotten up to 130 pounds which is still pretty skinny but a big gain from my previous weight. I was worried I wouldn’t be able to maintain it when busy with school, but I guess I must have crashed my metabolism somewhat because a few days of severe undereating due to school stress did not cause me to lose any weight, whereas in the past I used to lose significant amounts of weight any time I relapsed. I haven’t been active much here since I have not been actively gaining, but I do plan to start again once I have more time.

As for foods, I loaded up on junk food, bread, juice, and egg nog. Egg nog isn’t available anymore here, but the “damage” was done! Worth noting is that it’s far healthier to gain on a low sugar, high fat diet, but I do not like low sugar food enough to overeat it, or even to meet my maintenance requirement with it, and so I decided the health risks would be worth it.

Oh, me too, I’m on Ritalin for ADHD which is the medicine that messes up my appetite, so the Periactin definitely helps with that specifically. The good news is that you don’t have to take every dose for Periactin to work, it doesn’t cause a withdrawal or anything, at least not for me. It just doesn’t do anything at all when you don’t take it, so if you miss a dose the only problem that causes is that you won’t have the appetite enhancing effects until you take it again. Usually I take it two or three times a day because four is just too much for me to keep track of even though it’s what I’m supposed to take, but it’s easier to remember on days when I’m trying to meet a high calorie goal because then I get frustrated with my low appetite and go “If only there was some way to increase my appetite- oh yeah I have appetite stimulants.”

I know some people here have spoken about how once you start gaining, it can be difficult to stop even if you try. Is it possible to do things that would make that point come faster, or is it something that can only happen naturally over time from extended periods of overeating or from aging?

Gaining weight is exciting for me but right now it is still a chore to eat enough to accomplish it. I’d be satisfied with becoming what is referred to here as a “letting-goer,” and just be able to gain weight by eating whatever I want. What I really wish to become someday, though, is a person who not only can gain weight without trying, but who cannot help but gain more and more weight even when trying desperately to lose it. I want to hit a point where I can never be thin again no matter what I do. I want to change my habits and/or metabolism so completely and irreversibly that once I reach my goal weight and try to stop, I just keep gaining anyway and find that all my weight loss efforts end in failure even though it used to be so easy to lose weight.

I doubt Periactin would help at all with sweating, but I definitely think it would be helpful for appetite enhancement. I still can’t eat huge meals with it, but I can eat three normal sized meals, plus one or two small stuffings with easier to eat things like junk food or liquid. The one drawback of I have noticed is it lasts a short time so I have to take one every few hours, and it is hard to remember so I usually don’t take all 4 pills in a day like I am supposed to. These are the results I’ve gotten while having a lifelong low appetite, eating disorder, and other medicine that decreases appetite, so it’s not like I had a good appetite already.

If you do some digging online you can find reviews for it. Since it’s prescribed for things other than appetite, too, you can find both reviews from people who were trying to gain weight with it, and people who were taking it for a different reason and packed on the pounds anyway, which they’re usually pretty unhappy about.

It is OTC in Canada, but wouldn’t it be illegal to order it from there when it is prescription only in the US? I don’t want to get in trouble. If it wouldn’t cause any legal issues though it would definitely be an option for me.

I’ve been gaining for about a month and a half now and have put on about 15 pounds. It’s been pretty slow most of the time, because of my low capacity, but this week I’m speeding things up: I decided to force myself to eat a minimum of enough food to average at 3000 calories a day. Since I don’t have much time every day I’ve achieved this by eating more on days when I have a lot of free time, so that my weekly average stays up even after a day of eating less. One day I ate 4252 calories! My current average is 3271 a day and I have gained 3 pounds since Sunday, from 125 to 128. It’s actually a bigger gain than I was expecting, I thought I’d gain only about 3 pounds all week. I’m not about to slow down now, though, I can’t wait to see how much I will have gained by the end of the week. I’m already starting to feel my clothes get tighter, and my belly is starting to get bigger a little jiggly, even though I’m still pretty thin! I didn’t expect it to get jiggly so soon but I’m very happy it has. I can feel it jiggle slightly when I walk and it pokes out of the bottom of some of my smaller shirts just a tiny bit.

If anyone has tips for making the gain go even faster or increasing stomach capacity I’d love to hear but mainly I just want to share what I’ve accomplished so far.

If I can sustain this amount of eating for longer than one week without getting sick then I might do another week after this week is over! If I do I want to increase my goal average to 3500, maybe push the goal up by 500 daily calories every week until I burn out, and then try to maintain until I feel up to stuffing again.