Thanks for the comprehensive intro and Welcome! Sounds like you have made a good start at gaining despite having a fast metabolism. Results are showing!
6 years
softgainer:
I've just started a pint of heavy cream before bed every night three days ago. I'm really curious to see what that's going to look like a week or so from now.
soylentlilac:
A pint of heavy cream has about 1600 calories. After 7 days that is VERY roughly 3.2 pounds’ worth of calories. So if your diet is otherwise balanced, that’s how much you can gain by adding the cream.
ILuvChubbyChix:
Wouldn't it be closer to 2.5 lbs?
Whether you can keep that up for 7 days in a row is another matter, though. I'm not judging anyone who can't, but I think most can't.
That estimate also seems posited on 3,500 excess calories being an extra pound. Whereas, a kilogram is 9,000 calories and thus, a pound would be 4,082.
Of course, you (or others) may say it's not that simple, and you would be right. Water retention, for one thing. But the human body also isn't going to be completely efficient. I think getting 80% of that would be very impressive.
Fat in general, though filling, is however very efficient in that regard. But this filling effect might prevent or discourage snacking that otherwise may have happened.
But after a certain point, if you go past your current capacity, some of it is discarded. A little TMI perhaps, but I think this may even change the color of your *ahem*... waste if you go overboard enough. It's why you can't drink oil (not that it would be very tasty!).
On the other hand, it seems that one's capacity likely increases, the heavier you get. I couldn't keep that up for a week, but some have said or claimed 10 days or even two weeks in a row.
I must say I have tried this sort of regime and found that a pint of cream just before bed would give me awful heartburn in the night. I can manage a pint a day, spread out, although there are some side effects (TMI). Incidentally, Double cream (which is the UK equivalent of heavy cream) is 2800 calories for 600ml (1.27 US pints).
6 years
boundandfeed:
I have noticed my BP is up from the cream/extra fat. Is this a normal result?
My BP tends to go up when I gain but I have never worked out what particular food (other than salt/sodium) causes it. I do find that exercise helps keep it down, even if I don't lose weight.
I'll experiment with heavy cream over a couple of weeks and see what it does to my BP (and my weight). Will update you.
6 years
Nuts are good too. I can get through 300g of peanuts in a couple of hours while working. That's 1800 calories. Also drink plenty of whole milk. 2 litres (1/2 gallon) of milk is about 1300 calories.
3000 extra calories a day would soon have you gaining!
6 years
I first realised that I liked fat when I went to a wedding at around 6 or 7 years old. I played with my belly at the reception. When I was 10, I had a crush on a cousin who was very large. Later I went through a padding stage in my teens and started gaining once I went to college. There was no internet in those days and it is only in the last 10 years or so that I have found like-minded people.
I'm 64 now so have been a gainer on and off for getting on for 60 years. I'm 310 lbs and married to a lovely lady of 270 lbs.
6 years
Fatteningman:
Hey,
What foods are good for quick weight gain? What heavy creams can anyone in the UK recommend? Thanks
I Suggest double cream, which is simlar to heavy cream. Apart from in shakes, you can put lots of it in coffee, on breakfast cereals and in cooking. Some people can tolerate more than others. In my case 600ml per day seems to be the max. so work up to higher quantities slowly to avoid being put off the whole idea of gaining. I can also suggest nuts in largish quantities. Also drinking 2 litres (1/2 US Gallon) of full fat milk a day is an option instead of the double cream and is less expensive per calorie. For example, 300g of peanuts a day plus 2l milk adds around 3000 calories to your usual daily intake and costs around £2.50. You will soon gain on this sort of diet.
6 years
Hammertime44:
Starting to get the whole wonder and curiosity of getting fat again. Thought it would go away.
That is a wonderful feeling, isn't it? Comes and goes but never permanently.
6 years
tfm94:
I am starting with HC once again, but I'm going to do it differently this time. I'll drink less cream, e.g. 2x200ml per day, but try to keep going longer than just a week or two. In the past, I usually drank more than 600 ml per day, but it became exhausting after a while. If everything goes well, I am planning to continue until christmas, hoping to gain about 20 lbs.
That sound like a sensible plan. I can't take 600ml daily myself without getting hot and sweaty at nights in bed.
6 years
I'm sure you will have heard of this and some are able to do it - drink a gallon of full cream milk within an hour and keep it down. It is quite difficult and uncomfortable at first and takes some practice but I can do it.
Anyway it got me thinking about how to gain in a fast and reasonably healthy way. The GOMAD (gallon of milk a day) diet is really for body builders (google it) but I am doing this in addition to my normal meals as it adds over 2500 calories.
I have found that having 2 pints spaced out four times a day (not at mealtimes) works for me although I have only been doing this for a week so far. It certainly expands stomach capacity.
Of course this only will work for those folks who can tolerate milk (not lactose intolerant). I will see where it takes me. So far no bad toilet problems have occurred.
For those in the UK and Europe, 1 US gallon is about 4 litres. I buy 2 x 2l bottles for £2 so not expensive.
6 years
curiousv:
The biggest problem was not making it a supermajority vote. Important and long-lasting changes should require a supermajority, just as it's like in almost every other country. It's not a simple election the results of which can be changed again in 4 years if people realize they don't like it.
And as the result of this referendum was very close, it means that it's not the will of the British people what decided the election. It's temporary mood, and the weather, and that day's television program, and that day's news headlines are what determined the result. Because such things (which are very temporary, but still affect the mood) can easily sway 1-2 percent of the vote.
And of course the lies told by the Leave campaign. You are quite right and I definitely think we should stay in the EU.
6 years
