One woman here mentioned having that every time she gained some, and said that for her doing some full squats each day helped her get past it.

For me I do some simple back exercises regularly which seem to help (do a web search for 'McGill big three back exercises and you'll find them). I usually only do one or two of the three each day, because I'm lazy, but it does seem to help (and I notice more back pain if I start slacking off on doing them)

I have no idea how long until business trips will be a thing again, or if it will ever go back to how it used to be when for lots of companies they were just a routine part of business.

But I hope they come back, if only for the chance to have a bit of alone time and fantasy time like you described!

This ^^^^ Deliberately fattening someone without their consent is unethical. It is putting your kink ahead of their self-determination.

Getting consent, well, that is a whole other ball of worms. Most people won't be interested, so by bringing it up you risk freaking them out. But in the end it is the only way to have an ethical feeding relationship.

No rush, but some day soon you can be playing with his belly and say how glad you are that he had gained, and pretend to be stern and say "No dieting now! Keep those good habits!" and he'll get the general idea that you don't mind if he gains a bit more. After that it is back and forth over time.

that is, if you don't want to risk telling him all at once.

I'm the one with the fat kinks, my wife is a bbw and foodee, but no fat/food kinks, so likely it is different than with a couple where you share these kinks. That said, my experience was:

- desire to be able to do things with my son, and to set a good example, made it easier to control the kink feelings for years. They began to get stronger again in his mid-teens, once I wasn't coaching soccer or being as integral to his daily life as friends became more important.

- my wife's ob/gyn was a total bitch about her weight. Which really spoiled food for her during pregnancy (but sex was amazing!) (if possible, try to find a size accepting ob/gyn if you are bigger, or go with a mid-wife (apparently they are generally more accepting)

- after baby that classic baby weight stuck with her for about six or seven years. We saw the same with a lot of other moms at son's school, so this actually was easier on her in terms of feeling social judgement. (she lost a couple of dozen pounds after that ... and eventually found them all and some friends. Didn't want to, but age and love of food, you know?)

- Modeling that fat doesn't have to mean lazy or bad eating is pretty legit. That may or may not meet your kink desires, but personally I find seeing fat bodies being active is pretty awesome (With a fat Dad there is a reasonable chance that your kid(s) will get some of those genetics, so modelling being a happy, healthy, fat person may be really important. And even if they grow up being thin, it educates them (and their friends!) that not all fat people meet stereotypes.

- We had our son when my wife was 27 and I was 30. There is NO perfect age for kids, but personally I think I was happy with that age, I felt we still had a lot of energy but had at least some of our rough edges worn off, you know? (nothing to do with the kink side of things, just saying)

For some years when I was a kid there was a fat couple living across the street. When we moved there they were likely both super sized, but after a few years she lost a fair chunk of weight (still very much bbw, just not SO big), and the word went around the local grapevine that she'd lost the weight so that she could cut the grass and shovel the driveway because those were getting too hard for her husband.

Even as a kid I was pretty sure that she loved him being fat, and was happy being fat herself.

Yah, all of that ^^^^

I just wish I had hips at all. My weight all seems to go to my front, nothing to the sides. Darn genetics/male hormones!

A couple of times on business trips I've done some shopping for femme clothes, items for padding, and food for stuffing and just enjoyed my evenings in the hotel room, dressed femme, padded out, and stuffing myself totally full. Sooo good!

For me I was always at best ambivalent about being male, and I think in some part of my mind early on I had the association that fat guys were less masculine, which may have been some of the appeal to me? Not sure, since old memories are not always reliable. So maybe less fat affecting my perception of my gender, as my perception of my gender affecting my perception of my fat?

Either way, I think I've been pretty much fatsexual forever. My sexual attraction was initially to the chubby girls around me, but I couldn't find a term to describe my fascination with the chubby guys around me, but with hindsight I was totally crushing on them, I just didn't really understand. I'm still more oriented toward women, but think not-overly-masculine fat guys are hot as frick too.

Outgrowing your clothes is one thing, outgrowing your furniture is a whole 'nother level!

And @eats, yah, part of the issue is my pants riding down below my belly, part is the shirts being a bit small so not reaching over my belly as far as they should.

These last couple of weeks my golf shirts and t-shirts have all been coming untucked from the front of my shorts. I know this is mostly just that I've outgrown them, but it feels like belly just refusing to be constrained. And I've come to love feeling the cooler air kissing that exposed bit of belly (for all that I futiley then tuck my top back in, since others around me may not find the sight as pleasant)