And once you get to 241 pounds, 90% of women would consider you a BBW.

Check out "Deciding to Get Fat": askdrfeeder.dyndns.org/dtgf.html

Well if you're getting fat even though you're scared it just means you're brave enough and strong enough to do what you love in spite of social taboos. You should be proud of that! And don't take any shit. If you take shit from people they'll think you must deserve it and they'll give you even more.

To answer this question: According to my study, when you get to 175 pounds, a slight majority of women would consider you a "BBW".

I actually did a study of this on Feabie, since women on there not only post their BMI but can categorize themselves as BBW or not. If you have a Feabie account you can see this:

www.feabie.com/Photo/Details/e908fab9-592d-462b-a5ec-67a0751c3eb1

Note that 50% of women consider themselves BBWs if they're at 29 BMI or up. 29 BMI is just below 30 BMI, which is considered "obese".

After 40 BMI pretty 90% to 95% of them consider themselves BBWs.

Really? It seems like it would be pretty obvious. If you touch your toes to the wall and immediately start falling backwards, you pass! If you can't touch your toes to the wall at all, you also pass.

I created the Wall Test ( askdrfeeder.dyndns.org/walltest.html ) some years ago as a fun test to gauge one's gaining progress. I recently added the Wall Test Gallery ( askdrfeeder.dyndns.org/walltest.html ) with pics of people trying it. Check it out!

Also send me pics of yourself taking the test if you'd like.

Still pretty set on topping out on 330? I'm just curious because many people bump up their goal when they get near it.

Trying to categorize the different ways of gaining weight. They are not mutually exclusive.

1. Accidental Gain -- where you don't intend to eat more or gain weight...it just happens, often due to a lifestyle change: leaving home, going back home, quitting sports, getting a new job, etc.

2. Experimental Gain -- when you gain weight to see if you like it.

3. Feeder-driven -- when you gain weight to please your feeder and let the feeder call the shots.

4. Gluttony-driven -- when you gain weight because you love to eat; maybe you don't want to gain but can't or don't want to cut back on the goodies.

5. Stuffing-driven -- Like (4) except the main attraction is not eating so much as getting really stuffed.

6. Weight-driven -- you gain because you want to be bigger.

7. Capacity-driven -- you gain because you want to be able to eat more.

8. Goal-driven -- you have a specific goal in mind, a weight goal, a level-of-functionality goal (e.g. "Too big to walk" or morphological goal ("Big enough to pass the Wall Test".

9. Limited -- You want to gain or at least not diet until you hit a certain limit.

10. Erotic -- gaining or stuffing or overeating turns you on and you gain in consequence.

11. Anything else?

Of course, these styles can happen in conjunction or serially. E.g. 1,10+4+6 would mean you gained accidentally then realized you liked overeating and found gaining to be erotic and decided to let yourself go. 3,4 would mean a feeder started you out and now you don't want to stop overeating. 2+10 is if you want to gain a certain amount to see if you like it. 2+10, 4+5+6+7+10 means you gained experimentally, found you love everything about it and have completely let yourself go.

Darlene Cates (who was in the movie "What's Eating Gilbert Grape?" was large but still could get around fine and had no serious problems with it. Then she broke her ankle and was bedridden for a few months. She gained more weight as a result and even after her ankle healed was barely able to walk. She was not happy about that so I would call that "too fat". Of course maybe it helped her get that movie role, so there might have been some upside!