For jeans, go to Mark's Work Wearhouse. Some of theirs go up to at least a 44" waist in a 28" inseam, at reasonable prices, and they are all over the place up here.

For slightly dressier stuff, check out shortmanbrowns.com. Store in Toronto specializing in clothes for 5'8" and under. I've never bought from them, but I keep thinking I need to get down to Toronto to check them out-- if only for shorts that don't button up over my rib cage and hang past my knees. Why does pretty much every maker of men's shorts seem to assume that as you get bigger around you get taller?

One reasonably cheap, widely available, and quick and fairly clean to eat thing is poptarts. Up here they are typically $3.99 for a box of eight at convenience stores, sometimes cheaper at grocery stores, and they are two hundred calories per piece-- 1600 per full box.

Pure junk, of coarse, so use in moderation.

My wife and I moved cities a bit more than a year after we’d gotten married, and we were still in a honeymoon phase of enjoying eating everything we wanted and liked, without really caring about consequences (and yes, we’d both been gaining a fair bit over that stretch). Our new apartment was near our city’s small ‘chinatown,’ so on our first evening we went to start checking out the restaurants there. The first one that we tried, however, we loved so much that we never got to the rest of them….but we did get back to that one once or twice each week. Every time we split the large hot and sour soup (meant for four) followed by three or four other dishes. We would walk out feeling very full, sated, and happy.

It was a family run place, with the kids waiting the tables, so we saw the same few people every time we were there, and got to know them in a casual sort of way. They were not necessarily the most polished wait-staff, but they were all nice. Anyway, after a few months of this I arrived one night for a rare night of take-out instead of eat-in, and one of the staff saw me and quickly hurried over—it turned out that the last time we’d eaten there, Visa had rejected our bill (we were living near the edge of our very low limit credit cards at the time, which should have been enough reason not to eat out so much, but that is a different discussion). I apologized profusely, but she commented “Oh, we weren’t worried, I told my family ‘It is that couple who eat so much, they’ll be back soon.’”

Then she clapped her hand over her mouth as she realized what she’d said, but I just had to laugh, because that was indeed us! I paid both bills happily, almost with pride. (Mind you, after that, due both to financial limits and my wife discovering just how much her thighs were rubbing together as the weather got warmer and deciding that she’d been enjoying herself a little too much, we stopped going there so often....although we still go a few times a year and they still remember us)

When I'm on a gaining / indulging jag, I will eat often on the way to and from work. A cinnamon bun in the morning and/or a sandwich on the way home really add up

Doh! The perils of posting from my phone, with autocorrect on! Should have been "wouldn't"

If you really want to push how much you gain, I agree that advance planning will help.

First of all, know your budget! A week of feasting followed by five weeks of bread and water because you are broke won't help, lol.

Second, steady eating all day will let you eat more than just stuffing yourself at night. So figure out how to make the most of whatever snacking and meals you can do at work, school, etc. Can you bring biscuits with you, or some extra fruit, after you regular lunch is there time to step out for a high calorie treat, etc. How will you remember to eat every hour or two?

Third, how do keep up variety, and make it fun, so it rodent become a chore? Varying food helps, but maybe you could also set yourself challenges or mini goals?

Fourth, what about clothes? If you do well, do you enough clothes with enough space in them to avoid being painfully squeezed?

I think that if you work through that planning, you won't have trouble packing on a good amount

Fantastic advice--I love it.