Sorry for the crappy title, but character limits are kinda tight.

Anyway, I was wondering, outside of "eating a lot and being lazy", what are some of the more extreme things you've done to gain weight?

Anything you wouldn't want to be caught doing?

I'm comfortable with someone seeing that I ate a whole pizza, as it's something that pretty much anyone could do if hungry enough. Same with devouring a pint of Ben and Jerry's in one sitting.

But then there are the more extreme things...

For me, I've drank entire six packs of Ensure Plus right before bed (2100 calories, on top of whatever I ate that day), ate an entire bag of Hostess Mini Donuts washed down with a quart of half and half (2360 calories), and blended up some weight gain shakes consisting of brownie mix, milk, heavy cream and ice cream (around 3200 calories each). Sometimes I decide I want the most calories as fast as possible, and I just drink them through a funnel (which is actually fun, some are scared to try it, but if you get overwhelmed, you can always stop the flow with your tongue, or just put a valve on it to shut it off).

Wondering what other extreme things people have tried.

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Don't give him straight heavy cream, as it'll probably make him sick.

Weight gain shakes are very effective, but here's my advice on them: They're for dessert. Load him up on the heavy, high calorie, liquids after he's already had a good size meal and maybe some dessert. Combination of gradually stretching his stomach and loading him up on calories.

Don't push him too much. It's one thing to feel really full and maybe have a little bit of pain/discomfort, but it's just awful to get nauseous and throw up. It's also really counter-productive and might turn him off from future stuffings.

I think the types of food you have to watch out for when it comes to getting sick are anything greasy, extremely fatty (cream, oil), high in lactose (milk, cream, etc), or anything that can cause rapid expansion effects (soda... heavy cream can basically turn into butter in your stomach... really not a good feeling)... All of these foods are great for weight gain, but you don't want to push it with them.

I once had someone try to encourage me to drink a gallon (!) of heavy cream a day... a cup an hour for 16 hours... sounds easy, but even a cup of the stuff straight is kind of gross. But the calories accomplished by that feat would be immense, over 13000. Added to a normal diet, it would theoretically be close to 115 pounds of weight gain in a month. And probably kill you. Or at least make you violently sick. So no, a gallon a day, even spaced out, is not realistic, to those who encourage such absurdity.

Still, even a cup (~820cal) or a pint (~1600) a day would make him pack on some serious poundage if he's eating a good amount otherwise. The key is to really spread it out and dilute it into other foods/liquids. Keep him full, but not feeling sick. Might help to keep some Nauzene tablets on hand. I sometimes chew a couple if I feel queasy. It usually helps quite a bit.

I must carry my weight really well, because all I got was a remark after a hug.

"Are you on steroids or something?"

I don't see any concern with that site taking away from this one. It's what looks to be a periodically updated... periodical... ahem... yeah.

If it was something like that Feedist site that was around about a year or so ago, then I could understand some concern.

This is awesome, I hope they continue with the production!

Sounds like a good plan.

Nothing to back this up, but I would assume more muscley surface area would also give the fat more places to hang out, gradually making you bigger all over.

Gonna echo what others have said here, the file sucks.

The voice sounds like a guy trying to talk like a woman, and it probably is. It's just too creepy to have any effect.

I put on 10-15 pounds recently, and as such kind of want to take a step back and maintain my current weight before gaining anymore.

And yet, I feel the need to have a sizable dessert and "dozens" of ounces of chocolate milk each night before bed.

(By dozens, I mean anywhere from three to six 14 ounce servings - approximately 400 calories each... so probably a days worth of calories on average right before bed.)

If I don't do this, I have trouble sleeping. Some can't sleep on an empty stomach. I can't sleep unless it's on a happily stuffed stomach. So there's a bit of concern that might weight might wind up soaring regardless if I'm trying to or not.

I haven't been busted yet, but I had kind of an awkward moment before...

I was on break at work, eating pizza with a couple of girls I worked with, and a guy co-worker says "you're getting fat from all that pizza".

One of the girls immediately chided him for being mean, and he shrugged and said "it's okay... he likes it when people call him fat".

There was some immediate panic, as I thought maybe he's on this site and he saw me or something, but it never came up again. As for his comments... it wasn't really mean-spirited... he is from another country and has a propensity to say some really off the wall stuff - so it was probably just a very strange coincidence.

Another possible disaster I had recently... I had a binge on pizza, donuts and chocolate milk one night. The next morning, I had the trash bundled up and ready to go out on my way to work. Somehow in the process I got distracted, and realized about an hour into my shift... I left the empty pizza/donut/chocolate milk cartons right smack out in the open for my roommate to see.

Came home at the end of the day expecting awkward questions - found my roommate had decided to sleep the day away. Destroyed evidence. I was relieved, because I'm not sure how I explain eating an entire pizza, six donuts and six 14 oz bottles of chocolate milk.

When I know my roommate is not going to be home, I eat a big meal, dessert, then blend up a 3500 calorie shake and force myself to drink it through a funnel. I always make sure I destroy all evidence before drinking the shake though, as so many calories make me not want to move/do stuff/stay awake.