Belly the Kid:
I've always been a belly lover since I was a child. My ex wife gained a lot of weight over the years and after we divorced I started gaining. I've gone from abs to flabs and from a 6 pack to a keg. I'm up about 60 lbs since the pandemic started

UKX20:
I think I'm at the begining of the 'slippery slope'... Just taken some time off from the gym while I move, which has also lead to me eating fast food 2-3 times a day. Question is - do I let go or try to fight it?

Captain Cake:
from spending time with her I naturally gained some and she always tried to make me keep up with her eating habits (and of course I often chose to have food to encourage her as well) and I found after gaining some that I actually really enjoyed it on myself too.


canuck:
my experience was very similar - i have posted about it elsewhere in the forums, so i'll just summarize my experience: i was a fit, athletic feeder from my 20s and thru all of my 30s. it was when i started dating a ssbbw who was not interested in gaining that i kind of fell into it.

like @captain cake i found just being around her and her decadent eating & drinking habits had an effect on me. when we moved in together i was spending so much time with her that my gym time grew more and more infrequent. then it became a decision to "take some time off" from the gym, stop stressing about it, and just enjoy life.

the slippery slope was that some "time off" made it too hard to get back into going to the gym, and her influence on my appetites was too strong to resist! so even though we split up more than a year ago, i've continued to gain weight!

now my much slimmer girlfriend gets a kick out of feeding me sometimes. which isn't helping me lose any weight, lol!

Captain Cake:
It wasn't hard to be honest! She liked big guys as well and from spending time with her I naturally gained some and she always tried to make me keep up with her eating habits (and of course I often chose to have food to encourage her as well) and I found after gaining some that I actually really enjoyed it on myself too.

Now I just want to be bigger than she ever was. It's like a weird revenge story 😂

Captain Cake:
I was a feeder before, with a 370+lb girlfriend. She kind of encouraged/enabled my own gain a lot and it ended up becoming a big part of my life now.

One funny thing I've found recently with my gaining is that I've gotten physically bigger faster than my mind can keep up, which means I keep forgetting/misjudging how large I am and bumping my hips and belly into things and while it's funny, it can be damn painful sometimes!

ljrockarts:
I feel like there is some correlation/crossover between mukbang and feedism. In essence they are the same thing: deriving pleasure from watching someone eat. There are however different motivations behind each, and each may well end in differing results.

It seems like mukbang sort of falls under the ASMR brand of content. Something about it, I guess, is supposed to be relaxing or comforting somehow to people. Its funny when you think about it, there was a time when most people would come home at the end of a long day and have dinner with their family while they talk about their day. Maybe a lot of people just don't have that kind of connection anymore, and maybe the mukbang videos are a way of finding that again?

In any case, I do find myself drawn toward some mukbang videos, as well as other ASMR videos, in probably more of a sexual way than was maybe intended or than what most people might think. I don't know if I am alone in this (I would guess not) but there are some of those girls who whisper and smack their lips that really get me hot - like they have to know how sexy that is, right? lol

But with the mukbang videos, some of the people I see doing that are pretty cute and pretty sexy, but the emphasis is definitely NOT on the food or the eating, the fullness or the fatness as much as it would be in straight ahead feedism content. I often find myself a little disappointed at the end of the videos at how little they actually ate. So much talking, not enough chewing and swallowing. lol

Anyway, its an interesting question, one that I've wondered about myself in the past. Maybe both feedism and mukbang have the same appeal at their core, only we feedists have found a way to sexualize/fetishize something that others just find modestly pleasant or satisfying.