I would like to do a fake diet. If I can gain effectively enough then someday I might be able to do this in real life but right now I’m too thin for it to work the way I’d like it to happen. Here is the fantasy:

Once I finally get chubby, like maybe around 160 pounds, not quite fat but big enough for people to notice and start making negative comments, I would tell everybody that I was going to go on the keto diet and lose all the weight. Any time I was in public or near other people, I would carefully follow the diet requirements, avoiding all carbs but still eating many calories of the fatty foods that you eat on that diet. It would be easy to have more calories without it seeming like much since fatty food is so dense. No one would question the presence of heavy cream in a keto fridge. If I could figure out a way to secretly put lots of carbs into my fatty diet food, like maybe weight gain powder or pure sugar, I might do that, but otherwise I really would eat the diet things.

Then, any time I was alone, especially at night, I would binge on as many carbs as possible, preferably thousands of calories worth. When I was too full to eat any more food I’d chug heavy gainer shakes until right before the limit of being too full to keep it down. Because of all these binges, I’d not only never go into ketosis, I’d gain a huge amount of weight from all the stuffing and increase my capacity over time until I could shovel things down like a competitive eater.

Any time people asked why I was rapidly gaining more weight instead of losing, I’d tearfully insist I had no idea why the weight wouldn’t melt off even though I was following my diet completely perfectly. I’d maybe try saying things like maybe my metabolism was just completely destroyed by my years dealing with my eating disorder and now I’m stuck fat. I’d wear too-small clothes until I could no longer squeeze into them at all, and claim that I didn’t want to buy new, bigger clothes because I was totally going to lose all the weight, because the diet had to start working sometime, right? People would ask me about it all the time because I’d be gaining so fast for seemingly no reason, and they’d want to try to find out why, find out what was happening to cause me to blimp up despite eating such a seemingly small amount.

The goal would be to stay on this fake diet, insisting to everyone that I was following its requirements religiously, until I went from a little chubby to obese. Then, once I got really and truly fat, I’d “give up on the diet,” and no one would ever know I hadn’t ever actually been dieting in the first place. When I stopped pretending to be on the diet, I’d start stuffing with anything available all the time without hiding it, telling everyone that after depriving myself for so long I just couldn’t control myself around food. Since my capacity would have increase so much, I’d be able to eat massive amounts of food. I’d pretend to be upset about that for a little while, too, before “accepting it.”

In addition to how humiliating this would be, I think it might have the side effect of discouraging bystanders who witnessed it from trying to lose weight. I mean, would you want to starve yourself for months to lose weight if you’d just watched somebody else do it “rigorously,” “following all the rules,” and balloon dozens of pounds in a matter of months instead of getting thinner, and then watched them quit the diet only to discover their appetite had permanently increased so much they were never satisfied unless they ate thousands of calories in every meal, dooming them to never be skinny or even normal ever again?

This would be really hot, I wish sometimes that I was super fit so that I could watch my muscles soften and disappear like that... Unfortunately though I’ve never been fit, just thin but with no muscle, and I’d never have the willpower or patience to get fit before gaining!

The full name is just Calory, I have an iPhone and I’m not sure if it’s available on other kinds of phone or not. If it helps, the app icon is purplish blue with white dots on it, the subtitle when you click on it is “Easy Calorie Counter & Tracker” and the company is Funn Media, LLC.

Thanks for the advice, I’ll try to use liquid more often. Right now I usually do liquid about 50% of the time.

From research I’ve done, barring preexisting health issues or other unhealthy habits it seems the most important predictor of health at any weight is having a balanced diet and moderate exercise, and to not gain or lose weight too fast.

I think it would be difficult to get really fat that way, but if you managed to then you would probably still be pretty healthy unless you were dealing with other factors like drug use or preexisting health issues. There’s a reason a lot of studies show average size and slightly overweight people to be healthier than either underweight or obese people on average, a balanced lifestyle like that will usually make someone average sized or slightly overweight instead of very skinny or very fat.

Being too skinny can be very unhealthy, too, I have nearly been hospitalized for it in the past and I have long term health damage from it even now that I’m in the normal range. I’ll probably never fully recover from some of it, particularly the damage to my bone density. I think that most of the time, the point at which your weight itself (and not just the potentially unhealthy things you do to get to that weight and maintain it) becomes a big risk is when you go extreme, like when I got down to 90 pounds or when someone is so fat they’re near immobility.

Things like eating lots of junk food or being sedentary are of course bad for you even if you don’t gain any weight from them. So are a lot of other things people do all the time, though, so I think what’s most important is to keep an eye on your health and clean up your lifestyle if your health starts getting worse than you think is worth it. I think unless you have naturally very low blood pressure, that’s probably the most important number to keep an eye on for most people.

For me, gaining weight rapidly and eating junk food is worth it even though it is not good for my health. Right now, it’s safer for me than not trying to gain, because when I don’t pay a lot of attention to increasing my daily calories I sometimes end up only eating a few hundred a day and then I lose way too much weight very fast and get sick. I do not enjoy eating aside from as a tool to gain weight, I just really dislike the taste or texture of 99% of foods, and so it’s difficult for me to motivate myself to eat at all if it won’t make me gain. I do keep an eye on my bloodwork, blood pressure, how I generally feel, etc, so that if anything starts looking really bad I can make changes.

If you want to gain weight in as healthy a way as possible though, it’s safest to gain slowly by eating a balanced healthy diet with just enough calories to make you gain 1 or 2 pounds a week while also doing a little exercise. Maintaining or losing weight in a healthy way is the same, too, just with the amount of calories adjusted accordingly.

I’ve really gotten into stuffing myself lately since I’m trying to gain a lot of weight. I’ve successfully increased my capacity quite a lot and ate 4200 calories in one day for the first time, but I’ve been having a problem where after stuffing I’m bloated all day long and it makes it difficult to do another stuffing, not to mention that it hurts.

Is there any way to make bloat go down relatively quickly after stuffing? I want to be able to stuff myself to capacity multiple times a day to speed up my gain but I can’t do that if one stuffing makes me feel painfully full for hours and hours. I like feeling bloated right after a stuffing, I just want the feeling to go away within an hour or two so I can stuff again.

Also, does anyone have tips for forcing lots of food down even if you’re bloated or are already full? I’d love to get to the point where I can consume 9000+ calories at a time and really pack it on but I’m nowhere near that goal. My gag reflex kicks in and makes things difficult.

Periactin, it’s prescription only here but in some other countries you can buy it over the counter. It’s been pretty effective at boosting my appetite. Although it didn’t for me, it apparently also tends to make people more sedentary, so between those two things it can be an extremely effective weight gain pill. Personally I haven’t noticed any side effects aside from that since it’s an antihistamine it helps with my allergies, but there is a wider range of potential side effects someone might get in theory. I’ve tried other antihistamines before for dealing with the allergies, and none of the others have had an effect on my appetite. You can get it prescribed for appetite enhancement, migraines, or allergies.

I use Calory, its real strong point is the graphics: once you set your goal, the screen shows a circle that fills up with blue dots until you reach your goal each day, and then if you keep eating after you meet your goal, red dots start filling the area outside the circle. I would imagine this is upsetting to see for people using the app to lose weight and is meant to scare them into stopping eating, but it is exciting and sexy to see how much of the screen you can fill with the red dots when you’re trying to gain.

It rolls over at midnight and I don’t go to bed until around 3 am most nights, so my favorite thing to do with it is stuff myself before bed enough to meet my daily goal, so that every single thing I eat all day the next day piles up as excess.

I think you misunderstand my concern. I am not worried that people might be rude or hurt my feelings, I am worried that I will no longer be able to obtain my prescription appetite stimulants, which cannot be bought over the counter in my country, and that it could become more difficult to get as much food. As in, real material issues.

Money does not grow on trees, and it would be a bad financial decision to shell out cash for a dorm when my parents’ house is close to my college. College is very expensive, and I’d prefer to minimize the amount of years I spend paying off debt. It would be nice to be able to retire someday and not be stuck paying off student debt until the day of my death, so as great as it would be in the short term to go live in a dorm or apartment right now, I’m not planning to jeopardize my future financial security for a little fun. I’d rather live with my parents in my 20s than live on the street in my 70s.

If you read my post, I say in the post that I expect people to notice, my question is about WHEN people are likely to notice, not whether they will at all. The title of the thread also says “when do people notice?” and not “will people notice?”