I like your thread title :-) Sums up anyone who gains weight!
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I’d say it’s true peoples’ preferences change with age and with their weight gains. If you’d have told me as a teenager I’d ever reach 200 pounds and my wife would be 325 pounds, I’d have thought you were nuts. But that’s indeed how each of us have evolved and we wouldn’t take each other any other way :-)
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Capacity and tolerance tends to go up hand in hand with weight, it seems :-) My appetite is reined in only by my budget! I could always eat more at every sitting, it seems.
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Here’s a funny true story. Wife and I ate at a seafood restaurant a few months ago. Ate so much we couldn’t get comfy in the car for the ride home without at least unbuttoning our pants. I said why don’t we just take our pants off. No one will see us. And so we rode home pantsless but full, fat and satisfied :-)
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Waddles begin with a combination of both belly and thigh gains, from what I’ve seen.
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I think you have quite the lucky roommate witnessing you gaining and outgrowing all your clothes :-)
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Marcela:
Hi all! I've recently gained some weight (34 pounds over the course of 3 years). It's been a slow process and I'm enjoying it. I currently have a BMI of 29.7, so almost obese (at least according to those medical classificationa). But when I see myself in the mirror I can hardly see myself as an obese woman.
I wonder: from what BMI onwards did your bellies start to hang? I can imagine it changes from person to person (I tend to gain in my ass and thighs, not so much on my belly). But i just want to have an idea.
Thanks!
I’d say at about 35 BMI or so will you start to see a belly hang. My wife’s BMI is about 58, so hers is surely hanging :-)
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Genetics indeed plays a role in how a belly grows. Mine is just a visceral fat-laden beach ball. My wife’s belly has been enormous for years now :-) Her double belly sags and touches every surface she sits on :-)
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At 210 currently and hope to see at least 225 by the new year :-)
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Ditzy:
Not sure where this idea comes from but you don't get to pick where the fat goes as you gain weight.
Most of my weight when I first decided to gain went to my thighs,butt and hips very little to the belly.
Actually it took me several years to see much in the belly so genetics has everything to do with it.
If you want to gain just make your portions larger at meal time.
My belly didn't appear until a few years later.
It was a high beach ball/beer belly and I wasn't real happy about that.
I lost a bunch of weight to have ankle surgery and when I regained the weight it all went to my belly but it wasn't a beer belly.
It was super squishy and flabby.
Thats the belly I wanted so badly.
Love your descriptive timeline on that belly of yours :-)
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