I've never had anyone ask me to avoid a certain piece of furniture, because I usually self-select and then am very careful when I sit down. However, I have had friends and family members bring a different kind of chair (sturdier) into a room automatically and ask me if I was comfortable. I have a special chair at my in-laws dining table, and they roll it out anytime we sit down to dinner.

With the right conditions and resources, massive gains are possible. I gained 80 pounds in two months in 2023. During that time, my fiance and I spent more on groceries than any other household expense. If I was awake, I was stuffed to the limit. I moved very little. I also stretched my stomach capacity to the extreme, until 20,000 calories a day no longer filled me up. So yes, someone could absolutely blow up in this time frame. They would just need financial resources and the ability to stay home (in my case working remote).

I've always heard that regain is softer, so I was surprised when I regained after going from 370 to 190. The first hundred pounds were almost exclusively hard visceral fat, which is usually more common in men. I was well over 350 again before I truly had a fat person's face. Now, at 571, my belly still is disproportionately large compared to everything else. My boobs have swelled and my thighs are bigger than a thin woman's waist. There are some surprising fat areas though. The tops of my shoulders have a thick fat pad on them, and I've gone from a size 6 shoe to an 8 wide-width. I knew I might have to wear different shoes if I got as fat as I wanted to be, but I didn't expect to increase two sizes!

Mine is fairly boring, as it's just extreme stuffing, but it worked. I would fill up at breakfast, stuffing past my limit on heavy, fattening food until I felt like there was no way I could swallow another mouthful. Immediately when the pressure subsided the slightest bit, I would eat something else, aiming to feel a little tighter than before. I ensured I didn't go more than an hour without eating. Occasionally, when I felt absolutely fit to burst, I would stretch myself more with liquid. Doing this put 80 pounds on me in two months during summer 2023, and it increased my capacity to the point it was easy to eat 20,000 calories or more a day and never feel stuffed. I eventually no longer even had digestive issues from eating like this because I adjusted. There were only two drawbacks, the first being the extreme cost of food. Groceries were our biggest monthly expense at my gaining peak. Second, once you've become accustomed to such gluttony, it's VERY hard to cut back. Initially, when I was tapering, I felt like I was starving on 10,000 calories a day.

I love both the eating and the tightness of a belly that's completely packed. When I was first regaining and was around 225 to 250 pounds, I would stuff my way from having a respectable pot belly to having a bloated, tight, 8-months pregnant-looking gut.

It's harder (but not impossible) to achieve at my size. When I did 90,000 calories in two days last Thanksgiving, I blew up so much I couldn't sit upright and needed help to go from sitting to standing. My gut pushed my boobs practically up under my chin, and my whole midsection was drum-tight, even my sides, which puffed out and pushed my arms out. It was delightfully painful and felt a bit dangerous! I'm not sure I recommend it, but I can certainly say I don't regret it.

I sure wish you all the best as you sort through the complexities of an ED. People come here for many reasons, and you are WELCOME here.

I hope you grow to see your value, your beauty, and everything you offer as a human being.. I am a big girl and always have been. I have a very good friend who is in recovery from an ED, and she's on the opposite end of the size spectrum. I'm hardly an oracle of wisdom, and I certainly have no therapeutic expertise, but I did ask her once, when she was deeply struggling, if she considered me a good friend. She said she certainly did.

I asked what she liked about me. She said she appreciated my loyalty and my kindness. She said I'm funny, and I'm open-minded.

Then I asked her if she would love me more or consider me a better friend if I wasn't fat. I encouraged her to take a long pause before answering. After that pause, she verly clearly said It would make no difference.

The reality is, people of all sizes can be beautiful. Please know that "ideals" are an illusion, and they are also subject to change over time. You are enough, just as you are. I wish you lots of health and happiness.

Definitely!! Also recommend making the last stop, whether for more food or a dessert, a sit-down restaurant so you can show off your food-stuffed balloon belly!

When I regained weight, I put on over 400 pounds in 3.5 years through stuffing multiple times a week, eating 10 to 25,000 calories a day even when not stuffing, and a steady diet of bread, cheese, pasta, pizza, potatoes, and fast food. I was just over 600 lb when I had going to the hospital with a cardiac emergency, but I had vitamin deficits of vitamin B, C, potassium, and magnesium. It's definitely very possible to have a massive calories surplus and a vitamin deficit.

I absolutely loved fast food crawls when gaining. I've done it many many times, and my best ones led to around a 10K calorie intake. There's something exciting about returning home fatter, with your belly bulging and clothes straining, panting for breath and in desperate need of a belly rub.

Being unable to get into a Uber because the UberXL i ordered turned out not to be XL. I just didn't fit and couldn't maneuver myself in, which means I certainly would have been unable to get out. I had to call for another car. (And this was about 150 pounds ago!)