I would Love Your expert opinion on a theory of mine fatapple
Let's say we have two identical twin women with hourglass shapes. They are both instructed to gain 50 lbs starting at 5'3" and 120. One of them has to gain the weight as quickly as possible with regular stuffings and daily calorie intakes of at least 6000 calories minimum. She is trying to gain the weight in under four months.
The other has to go much more slowly. At the rate of a non -intentional gainer. She is to attempt to gain the weight in 18 months and her shortest allowable time is one year.
I feel that the slow gainer would tend to get a very even distribution of weight. Buttocks. Thighs. Breasts. Belly arms.
And I think that the faster the quick gainer accomplishes the task the more weight would be concentrated in the Belly and Love handles while certainly growing some in the other areas as well.
Am I completely wrong about this?

I lasted almost 50 years of never having weighed 200 lbs.During one year that I stopped the gym and avoided the scale I went from 192 to 222. Since then I have been back at the gym since 2008 and still can't get below 210.

Yes. I really believe there was a Tipping Point.For me the symbolic 200 lbs.A number at which I started getting a big belly to go with my big arms.lol

I think if this year on FF doesn't result in 60-75 lbs I will be surprised Wretty!

You're off to a Wonderful Start! You should also measure your belly at it's biggest circumference-around the love handles and below the belly button. You're in for a real treat if you eat diligently.

Bravo Dr. Feeder!
Everyone I've ever talked to on here I ask them to measure their thighs.For exactly the reason you mentioned. I think the "Gold Standard" for thighs on a BBW is 30". At least with an hourglass or pear shape.Some ladies just have naturally thin legs-and yet the thigh measurement is still usually the most important.

35 lbs in 3 months is a pace for over 125 lbs in a year. You'll probably have a better handle on your average pace when you are 6 months into it. I would gather that your pace the first month was even faster had you been able to sustain it.

In past years and the past 13 months in particular I have seen the following gains.
1. A yo-yo dieter of great variance -at times as high as 240 andin the same 12 month span as low as 150.I have seen her gain 27 lbs in 9 days.12 lbs in a week with ease.And 20 years later as a 296 lb BBW could still gain a lb a day for several days in a row-going from 296 to 345 from mid June to late August.
I know someone who ate 10000 calories two days in a row and gained 8 lbs from Friday morning to Sunday Morning.
I have seen S31 models take 8 years to gain 90 lbs.Starting very slim. I have seen another who was 5'2" and 195(already heavy in other words) gain 95 lbs in a year and then go another 40+ lbs after that.
And two BBW members here who went from the 230-270 range and added 150 lbs in 12 months.
It takes a uncommon ability to eat past full on a regular basis-plus a devotion and diligence that is sometimes difficult to sustain.And it takes some money for food as well.
One of the real successful people I talked about used a phone app that has restaurants nutrition charts to choose her "menus" and it helped quite a lot!

Drakes products. Yodels. Ring Dings. Funny Bones
They're So delicious and yet to me at least they seem light enough that I could eat an entire box (1800+ calories ). Without feeling painfully Stuffed. Since I am not a gainer I will never do it. But I am sure I could. Drakes products are also so good that You will find yourself wanting "Just one more " over and over.
Entenmans is also a great product line. Danish. Cheese Buns. Sheet Cakes. All yummy and Fattening!
And for a quick calorie blast on the go. Most convenience stores have iced honeybuns ranging from 500-760 calories Each.
And for ultra cheap gaining. Plain white bread with plenty of butter or margarine on both sides. Not the tastiest most exciting food - but it doesn't taste bad either.