I always liked stretch marks as a sign of how much progress I've made. Even before I had the desire to gain, when I was only into weightlifting I loved my arm stretch marks because it proved my arms were growing fast. Now as a feedee I love the feeling of them coming in along my belly. So far I've only got them along my love handles and none on the front of my belly but I'm hoping that changes soon
10 months
SumoSized:
I try to do a minimum of 800 calories per meal (more if I can), and then snack for a few hundred more calories throughout the day. And I usually end off the day eating around 3,500 or so. I just get really full after each meal and I feel like I have to force myself to eat snacks in between meals
Morbidly A Beast:
Don’t take this the wrong way but I think you might be pushing yourself to hard each meal, you should try to eat more with your eyes, granted you might end up eating less but your tummy and appetite will be larger, there’s times where I might have 1 meal a day with more snacks or light meals.
This is just an aside but I wonder how I even ended up fat tbh I never counted a calorie, are some people just naturally more gluttonous than others?
I'll definitely have to give that a try, I think I, like a lot of others on this site see other people's gains and try to replicate them, and start to feel like failures when we don't get the same results because all of our bodies are different and process food differently.
And to answer your aside, you probably just have a slower metabolism and so you didn't have to try as hard to get the results you wanted. I know in the fitness community they use the term hard gainer to refer to people who struggle to put on muscle and honestly it works the same with fat. (Though funnily enough I'm not a hard gainer when it comes to putting on muscle, but I am when it comes to fat)
10 months
SumoSized:
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?
Morbidly A Beast:
Do you calorie count? What’s the breakdown of your average meal? Do you mean you get full after a day of eating or after each meal.
I try to do a minimum of 800 calories per meal (more if I can), and then snack for a few hundred more calories throughout the day. And I usually end off the day eating around 3,500 or so. I just get really full after each meal and I feel like I have to force myself to eat snacks in between meals
10 months
SumoSized:
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?
Munchies:
Ramen noodles
Don't use the seasoning packet if you don't want your blood pressure to french kiss the stars. But I highly recommend seasoning the noodles.
When you make the noodles, leave very little juice. Eat as much as you can comfortably stand. Then get any non-fizzy drink of your choice and nurse it. The noodles will expand with the liquid you drink, so don't chug it.
Interesting I haven't heard of that technique, I'll definitely have to give it a shot
10 months
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?
10 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
11 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
11 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
11 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.
11 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
11 months
