Hey y'all, I've been having an issue with my weight stagnating recently. I've been doing more of a go with the flow type gain so I've increased the amount of food I eat in a day but I stop just barely past getting full because after that point I just feel sick. Does anyone have any advice on how to increase your appetite/stomach capacity?
8 months
I don't know if this counts as being a part of the medical industry, but I assemble wheelchairs for a living, and a lot of our clients are overweight or morbidly obese. And honestly we don't really judge. If anything being obese makes it easier for us to get Medicaid to approve the chair. The only time I've seen my boss get frustrated with a patient gaining/losing weight is when we've ordered a custom back support for them and in the couple weeks it takes for us to get the seating from our vendor, the patient no longer fits the mold
8 months
As someone who is muscular and trying to gain weight I can tell you probably are bigger than you were before if you lost muscle mass since your last gain. Muscle is just a lot denser than fat, so 1lbs of muscle takes up less space than 1lbs of fat. So if you've now exceeded your previous weight that means you have significantly more fat than you did previously
9 months
Gaz2012:
Why am I getting male viewers on my profile when I am not interested... I don't mind them looking but I am as hetrosexual as can be!
Just getting a little annoying no females viewing.
There's just a lot more men on this site than any other gender identity so natural more men will be scrolling through people's profiles. Also I can't speak for everybody but sometimes when I'm reading through the forum I'll also click on people's profiles just to see more about them. It doesn't necessarily mean these men are interested in you, it just means they're looking around the site
9 months
Glitter Jelly:
Haven't been able to lose any weight because I've been sleeping at my bf most nights which means I'm still waking up and eating at night. Will see an endocrinologist in December, I'm almost hoping something is wrong with my health so this can be medically fixed. I feel so uncomfortable in everything, I dread going out of my home now. But staying in means I'm moving even less and I need to start exercising even if it's just walking more... My bf says I need to jog and walking isn't exercise, but I have bad memories of PE classes from being a fat child/teenager...
SumoSized:
To be completely blunt your bf is flat out wrong there, any type of movement outside of your normal routine is exercise. And it's actually better if you start off slow, that way it doesn't shock your system too bad and ruin your moral. I would recommend going on walks throughout your neighborhood (or a treadmill if you have access to one) and time your walks. Each time you do this you want to try to walk for a little longer than the time before. Then once your body adjusts to this start speed walking for sections of it. Speed walk until you physically can't anymore and then walk for as long as you feel safe. Then after this do the same thing but with jogging, and then after that you can try sprinting. And there's a reason people refer to this as a fitness journey. Don't get discouraged if it takes months if not a year to reach the goals that you set for yourself. You'll make progress eventually.
Glitter Jelly:
At this point just going outside and face the world in my current body is a struggle. I can walk for a long time but even at my thinnest I get really winded whenever I run. I really don't want to be the neighborhood's out of shape fat girl running... The less attention I draw to myself, the better.
That's definitely understandable, I've had quite a few good friends of mine in your position so I know what it's like. I will say most passerbys aren't going to take notice of you or hell even remember what you look like after 5 minutes. You could try investing in a treadmill or something to keep in your home so you don't have to go outside, or you could try out a gym membership. It depends on what gym you go to, but at my gym at least it seems like it's mostly a lot of people trying to lose weight themselves so you wouldn't have to worry about not blending in.
9 months
Malicieux:
Turn on. It’s so cute when fat starts to get in the way. Even just bending over you’ve gotta make room for the belly. Or thighs so fat you can’t cross your legs anymore.
Glitter Jelly:
Yeah, even before I weighted myself and saw how much I've gained in the last few months, I noticed sitting with my legs crossed wasn't as comfortable...
I've definitely noticed that too, usually when I'm sitting at my desk I cross one or both of my legs as a comfort thing but it's slowly becoming less comfortable as my legs are now pressed firmly against the armrests. I also work as a wheelchair technician so I'm sitting on the floor for a lot of the day and it's starting to hurt my lower back so I have to stand up to stretch very often
9 months
I'm still on the smaller side (220 but a fair bit of that is muscle so not much of my weight is in my belly) but now that I'm actively gaining weight it's the little things that stand out to me the most. Like I have to work a lot harder to reach down to grab something, and my center of mass has changed so I've had to change the way I stand up from sitting on the floor. Also this is hard to describe but just the act of taking up more space is a really weird feeling. Like I've gained weight before when I was putting on muscle, but muscle is much denser than fat so even though I was heavier I wasn't really that much bigger. But now after putting on 25 lbs of fat since the beginning of this year, there's a weird disconnect between how much space my brain thinks I take up versus how much I actually take up.
9 months
Glitter Jelly:
Haven't been able to lose any weight because I've been sleeping at my bf most nights which means I'm still waking up and eating at night. Will see an endocrinologist in December, I'm almost hoping something is wrong with my health so this can be medically fixed. I feel so uncomfortable in everything, I dread going out of my home now. But staying in means I'm moving even less and I need to start exercising even if it's just walking more... My bf says I need to jog and walking isn't exercise, but I have bad memories of PE classes from being a fat child/teenager...
To be completely blunt your bf is flat out wrong there, any type of movement outside of your normal routine is exercise. And it's actually better if you start off slow, that way it doesn't shock your system too bad and ruin your moral. I would recommend going on walks throughout your neighborhood (or a treadmill if you have access to one) and time your walks. Each time you do this you want to try to walk for a little longer than the time before. Then once your body adjusts to this start speed walking for sections of it. Speed walk until you physically can't anymore and then walk for as long as you feel safe. Then after this do the same thing but with jogging, and then after that you can try sprinting. And there's a reason people refer to this as a fitness journey. Don't get discouraged if it takes months if not a year to reach the goals that you set for yourself. You'll make progress eventually.
9 months
Either people are really bad at guessing other people's weight or fat is so stigmatized people try to sugar coat things when talking about weight. I still get people who are shocked to find out I'm over 200 lbs
9 months
FeederOni:
in all fairness
in my Campaigns (i am the DM) I often have at least one BBW or SSBBW character that is useful to the party or if i mkake the character for myself, it makes sense
A fat Orc or Golaith who is trained in the way of the sumo is one idea
or a pig beastman
I make it work and make sense as to why a BBW or SSBBW can go toe to toe with a golden dragon
See that makes sense, in a lot of survival situations having added body fats helps ward off starvation and it can protect the body from some degree of harm. Also spellcasters don't necessarily need to be the most nimble so having them be ssbbw/ssbhm won't affect their effectiveness in combat. So I'm definitely pro body positivity in games. Im just afraid of adding kink to tabletop games as that can lead to some degree of awkwardness in the group
9 months
