True, but if we're going to talk about cultures in a fantasy setting thats based around stuffing I prefer the gnolls from D&D. They're whole deal is that they were once Hyena's that would follow armies eating the dead bodies left behind from war and they would eat until they were so stuffed that they could no longer move until their god would pop them like a pimple and they get reborn as hyena people

(Also bonus points to that one ogre in Baldurs Gate 3 that ate a person who was wearing a circlet of intelligence, which made him smarter so now he thinks the more he eats the smarter he'll get.)

It's interesting the article mentions exercising increases your capacity to store fat. I've been advocating for feedees to exercise more since I've joined this site so it's interesting to learn more about the benefits of it. I'm also curious to know the extremes of it. Like if you had a 400 lbs person in the study who worked out regularly, how healthy would they be considered. I'd also like to know if this would improve the quality of life for those who are really up there in weight, would exercising more have a notable effect on their mobility or is it that once you get up to a certain weight it doesn't matter how athletic you are your body is just too heavy? That's probably outside of the scope of a study like this but I'm still curious

Interesting, I don't play too many TTRPG's outside of D&D, so I was just coming up with ways to be a feedee in that system. I'm curious though if there's any other spell or magic item combos in D&D or other tabletop games that would allow your character to gain weight

There's a dollar tree just down the block from my work, between the $1 candies and the 75c soda from the gas station across the street. I can get 1500 calories just for a few bucks

I always enjoy it when my boss brings us sweets, most of my coworkers are complete health nuts and don't eat anything, so it allows me to sneak in a couple extra without anyone noticing. I can't be known as the work fatty just yet

I'm glad in this story it was a non-fetish thing because kink at a DND table is usually awkward for everyone. Luckily it's never been brought up at any of my tables but a good friend of mine has told me horror stories from a game ran by her ex (at the time bf) that basically turned into a sex dungeon which made the women at the table very uncomfortable.
But as a side note, feedees in faerun would be eating well. Between spells like good berry (one berry gives you enough nourishment to fill you for a day and 1 first level spell slot gives you 10, so that's minimum over 20,000 calories with one spell) or heroes feast (which is an all you can eat buffet that lasts for one hour and has enough food for 12 people). Or if you're a powerful enough wizard you can skip all that and cast true polymorph on yourself to set you size however you'd like.
Also again please never actually bring this up at an actual DND table unless you know all players are into this AND would want it in their game, otherwise you'll run the entire game experience. I just brought this up as food for thought

Holy hell that's insane, I can see why that would scare people away from gaining more. Do you have a recommended speed for gaining , like eat X amount of calories above your metabolic rate per day to gain healthily, or is it dependent per person?

Issues like what? My gain has been rather slow so I don't think this applies to me but I'm still curious

Honestly this is why I advocate for more feeders/gainers to go to the gym. It seems contradictory since the gym is usually seen as a place to lose weight but it offers so many benefits.

Fluctuation in weight is pretty normal, my weight can fluctuate from 2-5 lbs any given day, especially on days that I'm more active. From my experience it's usually a sign that I'm not hydrated enough or it's been too long since my last meal/snack. So keep yourself hydrated and keep yourself fed and you should be good to go