Hm probably several reasons.

1) I really was too thin before at one point, even by non-feederism standards.

2) It's easier to catch the attention of BBW (or other gainers), which is convenient.

3) I actually enjoy eating now, though only heavier foods. I'll still eat salad, but I need to use lots of dressing and ideally, bits of chicken and bacon. Ideally the dressing is something creamy, like Caesar.

4) The additional heft, thickness, and softness feels nice. Pretty sure I'll give better hugs as I gain more.

5) The heavier I get, the more I can eat, which helps me gain more. Although the pace and rate of gain hasn't been as fast as I might like.

6) I actually feel happier after gaining some, but I still need more.

That's just off the top of my head.

Realistically? No, not really. Fantasy is one thing, but such a place would never last from insufficient sales.

Cruise ships? Not really. Except for the "Pride of America," the name of a cruise ship operated by Norwegian, you probably can't get a job on most cruise ships. I get the impression they don't really hire Americans because folks won't work for very little, for what would mean a lot of long term isolation (highly limited phone and Internet access), probably no spouse or family... fooling around with the passengers is frowned upon too. Most seafaring jobs are the same way. There are jobs at sea for Americans, but not many. Most Americans at sea, are going to be in the US Navy.

The "Pride of America" is different because it's the only US flagged cruise ship in the world. One requirement of any US flagged seafaring vessel is to have an exclusively American crew. This means all crew members have to be American, or at least have authorization to work in America legally.

The Jones Act also stipulates that any vessel that travels point to point from one US seaport to another, must be a US flagged vessel. This means Guam, CNMI, Hawaii, and American Samoa must be supplied from California. Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands are supplied from Florida. However, freighter vessels won't offer you what you want, nor is an answer to your question.

The closest thing is probably some sort of buffet restaurant, but the pay is likely to be terrible (unless you can be the GM or district manager, the GM's boss), so I don't recommend that for a long term career. I'm sorry.

Hm... kind of both?

It started off as weight and body goals for me. I suppose besides arbitrary numbers, I just love the idea of eventually becoming heavier and larger than the average American man. Weight and size goals are still important to me.

But ever since I started gaining, you know.. I actually like and look forward to eating now. Now I have another reason to gain more - it should increase my appetite and capacity so I can eat more. It's a wonderful, lovely cycle. The more I eat, the more I gain. The more I gain, the more I can eat, and the more enjoyment I can get each time. I even have certain eating/stuffing goals that I want to be able to achieve.


I also love the idea of how I've slowly been adopting fat behaviors. I don't like to run quickly or rush, which is getting harder anyway. So I'd just have to make sure I have enough time to walk, or if I get to a certain point, waddle to wherever I need to be. Even if it means using basic project management principles to plan ahead. I've also been starting to snack a little more often than before. I look forward to when the snacking becomes almost automatic, and I start planning ahead to make sure I have enough.

I kind of wonder how a scale could ever possibly determine that.

Some online calculators estimate that I'm at around 27%, which of course could be wildly wrong, but I haven't quite gotten to the point yet where it's easier to gain than to lose.

Though I hadn't heard about this before, it's not surprising. I found an article about this, dated from October.

nbc-2.com/news/2021/10/08/irs-to-start-taxing-certain-money-transfer-app-users/

As far as I can tell, it can and will only apply in cases of business, often self employment/independent contractor income. Also that the rules themselves didn't actually change, but it may be another avenue where the IRS may perform an audit. It's always been the case that $600 in gross revenue as an independent contractor/self-employment would be subject to self-employment taxes.

If you're such an individual who already paid the appropriate income taxes, that you'd have nothing to worry about. Giving money to friends, splitting a tab at a bar or restaurant, etc. or giving money to family members is not subject to this. In an audit, it's quite obvious which cases are which.

Receiving certain sweepstakes prizes can be considered income as well, actually. Though whether that's considered ordinary income or gambling winnings isn't entirely clear.

A lottery jackpot, or actually managing to make money on casino winnings is considered gambling winnings, which is taxed at a much, much higher rate, likely because it was NOT the result of economic output, but because someone else had to lose it, and after the house takes it's cut, that's what's left.

But if you're say, a sex worker who was often relying on this sort of thing for tips and/or sale of content or services, and didn't pay self-employment taxes, this ends now. But, you should probably pay it anyway, since it can effect the eventual size of Social Security checks, assuming you aren't collecting them yet.

About 20 lbs, I think.

Doesn't sound like much, but I ended up spending much of the year at a plateau or even losing some at times. All because I often forgot to have lunch and had one major meal a day. Who knew that was all it was? Everyone is different though.

168 lbs, as of this morning. I had hoped I might be at an even 170. Though given I spent a lot of last year at a plateau, most caused by forgetting lunch and eating once a day, I'm just glad I passed the overweight threshold before Thanksgiving.

Would like to be at least 220 lbs, or about 50 lbs heavier. Hopefully at least 200 lbs by summer.

To this end, I'm going to attempt the "1 million calorie year" challenge. That would mean an average of about 2,750 calories a day. It might be a challenge sometimes, but it also seems doable.

Awhile back, I came across this which is well.. intriguing to me for several reasons.



It got me wondering how hard it might be to do this, or to get to the point where one can do this. It's the only video I can find where I see someone do this.

I also notice it's about half a stick of butter. Wonder how hard it might be for a full stick (1/4 l.

Still, it might be a fun party trick, or just as a way to gross out those who don't like fat people.

I also wonder if anyone here has done this. What was the experience like? Did it seem hard to get it down?

A few points on the job suggestion.

A good ideal would be an office job that's not too active and provides free pastries, but that's hardly a guarantee. An office job is a good idea anyway, since that's most likely to lead to better paid work in general later on. Fast food is largely dead end. Even if you somehow stay there for years and somehow become the GM, you'd still be stuck with atypical hours and it likely won't help you prepare for jobs with normal work hours later. Same problem with the GM's boss, the district manager except this time, now you have to visit multiple locations. Off hours is required to evaluate service quality. I know 20 years may seem a long time from now, but your long run goal should be a job with business hours and 20 years isn't as long as you might think.

For the sake of free or cheap food, a lot of fast food restaurants are terrible for that now. The nickel and diming has become ridiculous. The signs I saw for working at McDonald's around here advertise a 30% discount, which is pathetic, and only shortly before, after, or during work hours. When I worked at a McD's, it was 50% which I thought was pathetic then. For how little the job pays, I feel like free food should be an entitlement. I should also note I worked at a rare location that closed at 9PM, so despite being in high school I typically worked closing shifts, which meant I could take home the leftover pies. Most are now 24/7 so that doesn't work anymore, though some close at 11PM or Midnight or so.

That they only provided a 50% at the time is not terribly surprising, if you know things the general population doesn't. I learned that 50% of the operating costs was the food, which in the restaurant industry seems very high. In the restaurant industry, the largest operating costs is supposed to be labor. Of course, this is because of franchise agreements, requiring each location to purchase the raw food inputs exclusively from the corporate fast food company. This is one way they enforce the consistency that customers expect. This means they could be paying above market prices for the raw food. I'm starting to digress, but my point is to highlight that typical fast food is a terrible choice.

I notice you're in Washington state, a relatively short distance from the northern border. I don't know if you have Tim Horton's but if you do, stay the hell away. Don't shop there, don't eat there, don't work there. They have a policy where 1) they will throw out all unsold food at the end of the day, and 2) if you work there and eat any of the food, even leftovers at the end of the day that they can't sell anyway, they'll fire you. So, fuck Tim Horton's. So disgusting and wasteful. I also heard of some grocery store chain where the GM dumped bleach into the dumpster to spoil the food and prevent dumpster diving. His words? "Damned homeless; fuck them all." I think he was hoping the bleach might kill off some of them. Don't know what chain that was but I never heard of that as company-wide policy.

If you're interested in a job that might have substantial free food, your best bet is probably some sort of local bakery or doughnut/pastry shop, especially if they advertise freshness. Until Tim Horton's, I never heard of any restaurant having a problem with taking leftovers, and especially not any smaller independent business. Not when they can't sell it anyway. Shops like this pretty much have to make it all ahead of time and the odds are good they won't sell them all. Pastry shops also often close at something like 2 or 3 in the afternoon, which can be a plus too. There's also of course the fact that lots of pastries can be quite fattening, so that's a plus too.

Regular sit down restaurants are likely to be a poor choice, unless the owner makes a point of providing free food to employees. The reason is because nearly all of what they offer is made to order, so most ingredients will thus sit raw until used. There may not always be mistake dishes lying around.

So yeah.. an office desk job if you can, though a bakery might be a good job to start off with for a much younger person.

As of this writing, 169 lbs as of this morning.

I don't have a fixed maximum number. Certain daily tasks would have to become really difficult, that'd be my hard limit, but that gives a lot of headroom.

What I do know is that I need to be at least 200 lbs, but I really don't think I'd like to stop there. At my current rate of eating, assuming I keep it up (and fortunately it feels sustainable too), I should hopefully reach that by March or April. It's my hope to be at least 200 lbs before summer. After that, hopefully another 20-30 lbs by the end of the year, depending.