You could also try weightlifting, there's a lot of options for seated leg exercises to help you build up more strength so you can stay mobile at higher weights. Also for cardio, I'm in a similar boat but to a lesser extent. Running just straight up isn't fun for me but I can find bike riding or using an elliptical bearable.
3 weeks
I did my first coke and mentos bloat today and had some interesting results. After I finished lunch earlier today I chugged about 1.5 litres of coke and swallowed a couple of mentos. At first the reaction caused some discomfort but after a couple seconds it felt less bubbly and more like the normal bloated feeling so as it inflated it felt more and more comfortable. The bloat lasted maybe 20 minutes or so and then went away. But a couple hours later my appetite woke up monstrous.
I guess the reason I've been putting off the inflation part of this community is because I almost viewed it as "not my cup of tea" because my goal is to gain weight while I just thought inflation to be a temporary sensation. But now I'm realizing it's an important tool to help me grow my appetite. Afterwards I did a stuffing just consisting of sugar cookies and I was able to eat several more of them than I could last time I tried it
I'm curious if anyone else has had similar results after bloating and if it led to any long terms gains for you?
3 weeks
Morbidly A Beast:
Homie is 19. If that’s true ggs you have a metabolism still I didn’t seriously start packing weight until I was 25-26 that’s when I shot from slightly chubby to out right fat a few years later that’s with crash dieting and yo-yoing just following my appetite
Not to discourage if you really are young
Munchies:
Can confirm. I was naturally underweight for a while. I'd gorge myself comatose on as many calories as I could fit inside me and still never gained a pound. Things didn't start sticking until I was 23.
I do find that encouraging, Ive been trying to eat well above my calorie deficit for a while and my weight has been fairly stagnant. So hopefully after I give it some time I'll be able to start gaining seriously. I don't really have a set goal, I just know I want to be bigger and I'll listen to my body when it tells me it's ready to quit
3 weeks
SumoSized:
Oh I agree people really have no idea what they're getting themselves into when gaining that amount of weight, hell I question if I even know what I'm doing half the time. I'm more or less interested in what the median weight of feedees is and what the cut off is. I wonder if there is a specific cut off weight where people tend stop or if it has more of a gradual drop off. I also want to know if there's a consensus on an "ideal weight" for most people. Like beyond x weight too many issues start to arise so this would be the perfect cut off
Munchies:
From what I've seen, if you are thin starting out, 200 - 250 seems to be when most either stop or reverse course. This is the fattest they can get without negatively impacting their everyday lives. This number is smaller if you are short (160 - 180).
If you were chubby or "small fat," most stop in the 350 - 500 lbs range. This is around the size people experience moderate to major health issues.
Damn that's concerning because I started off really skinny and I'm hoping to well exceed 250 lbs
3 weeks
SumoSized:
Oh I agree people really have no idea what they're getting themselves into when gaining that amount of weight, hell I question if I even know what I'm doing half the time. I'm more or less interested in what the median weight of feedees is and what the cut off is. I wonder if there is a specific cut off weight where people tend stop or if it has more of a gradual drop off. I also want to know if there's a consensus on an "ideal weight" for most people. Like beyond x weight too many issues start to arise so this would be the perfect cut off
Food Enjoyer:
This might be the one area where BMI is sort of useful; not as a health metric, obviously, but as a way of benchmarking relative size and body composition. The "ideal weight" varies a lot both in terms of subjective experience and how it's moderated by a person's height.
So for example, my "ideal" size in a partner is somewhere between 40 and 50 BMI. This looks like 230-250 on someone who is 5'4" but is closer to 275-300 for someone 5'10". (I imagine this is also the ideal range for myself, but because of my height I'd have to be 350 at a minimum... so I really don't know.)
Beyond 40 problems become more likely, but it's not a hard and fast rule (because BMI is a useless health metric). People also run into different problems at different sizes for different reasons. When I was 26 I had a diabetes scare when I was barely 280 (so mid-30s BMI iirc) while my partner at the time hit 350 (50+ BMI) without ever being flagged as pre-diabetic, even into her 30s with a pretty reckless diet. The human body is mysterious.
Ultimately the cutoff varies from person to person. But now that you mention it, I would definitely be interested in collating the data from other gainers for the sake of objectivity. Dreaming of an empirical science of feeding....
That's definitely true, I still have a fair amount of muscle so I look smaller for how much I weigh. So even just going off weight isn't a perfect measure but that's probably only a bigger deal in lower weight classes rather than higher ones
3 weeks
Oh I agree people really have no idea what they're getting themselves into when gaining that amount of weight, hell I question if I even know what I'm doing half the time. I'm more or less interested in what the median weight of feedees is and what the cut off is. I wonder if there is a specific cut off weight where people tend stop or if it has more of a gradual drop off. I also want to know if there's a consensus on an "ideal weight" for most people. Like beyond x weight too many issues start to arise so this would be the perfect cut off
3 weeks
I would actually be really interested to see a chart of the weight of all the people on this site who are actively gaining. And if the chart was updated year by year I wonder if it would trend upward as people gain, or if it would stagnate from extreme gainers/feedees deciding to maintain/lose weight and from new people joining the community. I guess really what I would want to know is what percentage of people who claim they want to be extremely obese bordering on/being immobile actually achieve that
3 weeks
BigBallBellyGirl:
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.
90,000 calories is insane, what did you eat in order to reach that number in two days??
3 weeks
Glitter Jelly:
Makes a lot of sense.
I'm not sure how I feel about these stories... I've read many of them but I often feel bad for the protagonist as I'm not into gaining weight myself and feel strongly that secretly fattening someone is not OK.
I've been bullied a lot for being heavier than my classmates so I'd be lying if I pretended I wouldn't feel some satisfaction if I came across one of these mean girls and she had gained a lot of weight.
I used to think of it as karma but I acknowledge this is the socially conditioned fat-phobic part of me that is responsible for that kind of thinking.
Even if they were much fatter than me, I wouldn't go as far as pointing it out to them or humiliating them, however. I wouldn't want them to feel the same way I felt because it leaves scars on your psyche.
I think intentionally getting fat as a way of saying f**k you to diet culture and revolt against current beauty standards. I'm not there yet but can see myself getting here if/when I'll be fed up with trying to shrink my body against its nature.
That's also another issue, some of these stories are just straight up domestic abuse, and then people actually turn around and want to bring these ideas into their relationships. Like I've only been on the platform for a couple months and every once in a while I'll see someone post asking for advice on how to secretly fatten their partner, which is sickening and should qualify as abuse. While there are a lot of perks of being larger, there are also downsides, and people just have their own preferences. Luckily these posts usually get shut down pretty quick, but it's still unacceptable people actually think that way
3 weeks
SumoSized:
I will say there is something freeing about finally letting go an letting yourself gain weight. I first started lurking in this community as a feeder and a total health nut myself. Then after I realized how much work it really takes to keep a 6 pack, I decided to just not worry about keeping my belly completely flat and let it do what it wanted to. I ultimately found the feeling of gaining weight so satisfying I decided I wanted to intentionally do it.
I'm not saying that'll necessarily be your experience but who knows you might surprise yourself. At the very least it may allow you to by kinder to yourself and boost your confidence
Glitter Jelly:
Thanks, you often have the right words to comfort me and help me go further in my reflections.
Oh no problem, I'm always here to help. I have a lot of friends in my personal life who struggle with similar thoughts, and it really is an internal battle you have to deal with. I am glad that you are having those reflections though, that's usually one of the hardest steps, because you get so caught up in your own image of what you think your body looks like you lose track of how it actually looks. So the fact that you're aware of that and are taking steps to rethink how you look at yourself is a strong start.
4 weeks
