every now and then i will use the search function to see if a topic has come up in the past (it's great that there is such a long history to this forum, btw!). i may have necroposted in the past because i wanted to comment directly in relation to the thread already posted.

but usually, for the reasons described already, i would opt to start a fresh thread... the link to the past would have to be very specific, very niche, and completely pertinent to whatever i wanted to talk about.

that's why it is good to quote the post when you respond - the original post will disappear when a fly-by-night user deletes their account, but the quote will stay.

oh, i truly adore this lifestyle! i loved those years of not spending time in the gym, of eating and drinking and indulging to my heart's content - once i got past that initial uncertainty, i really enjoyed myself.

discovering the delights of food, all the flavours, aromas and textures... experiencing the disabling delight of being truly stuffed... i loved every minute, and i miss it now.

there is something wonderful about feeling big, feeling heavy, too. the reduction in flexibility, speed and endurance is sometimes more difficult to adjust to - but even those can be fun, in the right circumstances with the right partner!

i am still enjoying my fatness, even if i am not able to participate with wild abandon like i used to. i will never be thin again, i am quite certain!

i would agree with this theory, having been thru a similar experience.

i started gaining when i was with a fat partner. i'd been athletic my whole life, and it was the first time i kind of gave myself permission to "let go." when i was with my partner, enjoying our life together, it was amazing... but it was in those other moments when the realization was much harder to deal with.

after putting on 50 lbs i panicked a little and rushed back to the gym with an idea of getting back in shape, and that is when the reality of getting fat and out of shape really hit me. i was a (large) shadow of my former self in the gym!

that happened a few times during my that initial year of gaining. as time went on i think i kind of eased into being a fat (and growing) guy, and that conflict with my self-image as a buff, fit guy sort of died away.

now, several years later, and three times my original size, i look at it like a different life - almost a different person! and that is kind of cool, too, getting to live more than one life in a single lifetime.

like @frogman i am no longer trying to gain, and i should actually lose some weight, but i will never go back to being a thin guy or average sized.

hmmm, is that a new kink being unlocked that i'm sensing?....?

wow, this thread has a long history! my previous response is apparently 4 years ago - so time for some new perspective, i think.

i gained a bunch of weight since my last post and over that time i've experienced some new limitations, and i am also with a new partner, which has changed my perspective, too. i gained up to a top weight of about 475, although i've lost some weight since then (about 450 now).

there are a lot of limitations that have been hot. little things, like being to wide to get close enough to the kitchen counters to reach the upper shelves. i get teased about that regularly, which is kind of hot.

my partner is pretty fit, and the contrast between us is really nice, and her ability to easily dominate me, just by being more flexible and limber than me, is very hot. the limitations it has created in our sex play has actually been very hot, too.

the limitations in standing, walking, not fitting in chairs, and just getting through the day are the nuisance problems which i can live with by i don't enjoy them at all. i've had to lose some weight for health concerns recently, and i am definitely not enjoying the food limitations (mostly missing beer!).

my experience was kind of different, because i didn't start gaining until later in life... up until about 40 i was athletic.

my initial gains happened when i'd moved to another city. i met a ssbbw there, and in the couple of years we were together i went from fit to fat. but because i was in a place where i didn't know a lot of people, i didn't get many comments. i got some - especially my mother, who i saw pretty frequently at the time. but nothing too memorable.

fast forward to 2020, i split with that gf when i moved back to home city for work. because i'd gained about 100 lbs while away, i got a *lot* of comments from friends who i hadn't seen during my gain!

then the pandemic hit - and i gained even more. so, to this day i still get comments from people who haven't seen me in a few years.

there's only been a couple of occasions where anyone said anything that made me uncomfortable, most of the time i can roll with it and enjoy them and even take a little delight in the discomfort of others who aren't sure what to say, lol!

ok, a little bit of googling (actually i used duckduckgo, it just doesn't make as nice a verb i happened upon this resource:

bbw.wiki/stories/

they seem to have archived the original dimensions stories... but melanie bell's stories are not included.

wow, there's a name that took me back! i can't help, but i would love to get that link and revisit melanie bell's work.

i was just reading the story "Unusual Roommates" by thekinkypen in the story section...

after a couple of chapters it ends with a link to his patreon to read the rest.

just wondering if this is an appropriate use of ff's story area? i don't think it is.