Really?

I kind of hate to slightly high-jack the thread since the OP is British, but it seems simple enough to not warrant it's own thread.

I haven't been to Aldi for a very long time, so I don't really have a frame of reference. Last time I went, I felt like I was herded almost like cattle and the shopping cart rent rubbed me the wrong way.

But cheaper than Wal-Mart's $3.12 or $4.48 (store brand vs. Land of Lake brand, respectively) ? That's for a quart.

Wal-Mart also has half & half for $2.98; that's store brand and for half a gallon.

I do like the self-checkout that Wal-Mart has; I can avoid judgement or weird looks. If I use a regular cashier, I don't like to get more than 2 quarts of cream or more than 2 half gallons of half & half at once.

I find it revolting, plain and simple. So do most other men.

It's true that most men don't seem to attempt to remove it, but since I'm not gay it doesn't matter.

Since I make a point of keeping body hairs to a minimum and always keep a clean shaven face, at the very least she can do the same thing. In addition to shaving, I'm trying one of those at-home laser hair removal regimens since I have pale skin and dark hair, the most ideal combination for such devices.

Armpit hair is especially disgusting. I might be able to deal with trimmed pubic hair, but I won't be pleased.


Regardless of what I might think, the general consensus in public is no body hair. Older individuals may be more tolerant of pubic hair on women. The trend is towards less and less. I read somewhere that 45% of men age 35 and under remove all pubic and body hair, and it's increasing.

Occasionally, yes. But the feelings usually subside.

When I was much younger, back in the pre-puberty days, I was scared in the sense that I had a hard time coming to terms with it. But times were different then, and everyone, especially Americans were much thinner.

Back in those days, folks in general were much thinner and the pressure was thus, much greater. The World Wide Web was just taking off.

Sometimes I wonder if the younger members understand just how good they have it in this regard. The body positivity movement, and the fact almost every clothing brand offers larger clothing sizes. Even as recently as '08, plus-size mannequins were very rare; now they're everywhere. I'm not aware of any clothing brand that won't offer at least 44" waist/18" neck/2XL in men's, or at least a size 18 in ladies, with some that go up to 22 or 24. That you don't have to wear ugly clothes that frankly don't flatter anyone. Not anymore. But I digress.



For a long time, I think I actually suppressed a desire to be much heavier. For a long time, I even had a hard time eating most of the time, and I didn't want to come to terms with this. Lots of possible reasons. Depression maybe? Or fear of change? Or fear or being scared to finally embrace it?

I tried the occasional stuffing here and there. Two large size milkshakes in one go, or straight heavy cream here and there rarely; nothing too major.

But at some point, I decided to finally do something about it. 125 lbs really was too skinny, even by non-feederism standards. Between the suppressed desire, the fact feedees/gainers seem to have a lot of fun eating, and a bit a curiosity, I thought I'd go for it.

There's also the fact that in nearly all couples with a BBW, the man is also heavy. And life is too short to be unhappy in all things. If I didn't like it, surely I could stop at 10 lbs.

Even though I was kind of scared at first, for the last almost 2 years I've been gaining on purpose. Every time I gained, I wanted to gain more. I wondered if I was going to get comments, but I haven't really gotten any, at least not to my face from anyone in public. I'm still working on a weight gain goal.


Nowadays, I have less fear, but sometimes it still rears it's head. It may be just because I'm in my 30s, so if someone random in the general public doesn't care for it, it doesn't really matter.

There are two things I still fear though. One is what my mother might say. I know I can't let her control my life, but at the same time I don't want, and can't really cast her away.

Traditionally, she hasn't always said the nicest things about fat people. Lacking self-control or other such things, or "this obese lady eating a couple really big pieces of cake" (as if she's not supposed to). Although, there have been some fat, or at least chubby or plump individuals she respects. I'm just not sure what she might say if her son weighs 170, or 200, or 220 so I'm still scared of that.

She also doesn't know that I prefer women who weigh at least 200-250ish, although I have a solution to deal with that whenever that comes. I'll just tell my mother that I love her, think she's cool, and that I don't mind. If it's a real, serious relationship I wouldn't even have to lie. My mother did once say out loud without prompting that I could go out with someone who's heavy, because "she can lose the weight later." Of course, unless she's so big that day to day, independent life is no longer possible, I'm not going to apply any such pressure. That's not happening.

I guess you could say I'm still afraid of a moment of truth, or an ultimatum, whether it's being given one, or having to give one. But maybe this fear is overblown.

Speaking of, I'm not sure what to expect when I'm 200 or 220. This is uncharted territory for me.

However, despite these feelings, I still nevertheless plan to eat larger quantities of delicious, fatty food, drinking heavy cream shakes, half & half like milk, baked sweet goods, slathering on butter or cream cheese on bread and bagels, triple burgers with bacon (that have 3/4 of a pound of beef), etc.

Still going to ensure at least 3,000 calories a day and at least a cup of heavy cream, that I hope to increase to at least 4,000 calories on average and at least a pint of cream every day. Despite the fears I've mentioned, I would still like to be at least 180 lbs this summer, ideally 200.

I don't know about there but where I am, there's a shopping mall nearby with a shop that will resize rings and they want $50 for it. Does it while I wait (unless they're busy with another job ), and it takes about half an hour. Just a thought.

I'm assuming Philadelphia is large enough to have a shop like that locally.

Watch out for jewelry stores though. Some of them don't have the ability to resize on site, and it takes too long for them to ship it to the service center, do it, and get it back. Call ahead if you aren't certain the place can resize on site.

I wasn't sure if this should fit into the Lifestyle, or the Gaining message board. I went with this one, since this could be a problem even for those who aren't trying to gain on purpose.

So, there's often a bit of talk about outgrowing clothes and having to upgrade to the next size up. In a way, this makes sense since upon gaining weight, the most substantial differences are for clothes.

But, I almost never read about having to adjust ring size.

I think one of my rings will have to be readjusted now, possibly as a result of weight gain. I've had to move it to my pinky, as it causes discomfort from pinching some blood vessels. I fear at some point it might cause gangrene (NSFW/NSF-Life warning if you look it up) unless I resize it.

So I guess I'm wondering... with a resize, how much more weight might I be able to gain before I'd have to resize again?

BBW and BHM typically have soft sausage fingers, but they usually aren't all that much thicker than that of the hand of someone of similar height who is fairly skinny, from what I've noticed.

What are your experiences on this?

I'm not into shame and embarrassment, so anyone coming to me with that will be told where to stick it. I'm only answering because of whether I get a kick out of measuring.

That said, I do like to take measurements of myself just to see how I've increased in size over time. Sometimes it helps if I'm feeling discouraged about not having gained enough.

I even have a spreadsheet with this information. I'm not always consistent with how often I measure, but there's enough data points that I can even plot graphs of things like weight, waist circumference, or thigh circumference and how it has increased over time.

I could even likely perform some linear regressions. Not to necessarily predict how heavy I will be at a certain time, as the rate of gain can vary or I may plateau sometimes. But things like how much more weight I might have to gain in order to add another inch to my biceps, or waist.

The kinds of measurements I like to measure are:

Note: Except for waist, you want to measure the cross section that's the thickest or fullest.

- Weight while wearing only underwear
- Bicep circumference (relaxed)
- Bicep circumference (flexed)*
- Tricep circumference
- Neck circumference
- Chest circumference
(Ladies may want to measure underbust as well)
- Waist high (couple inches above the belly button)
- Waist (at or about an inch or two below the belly button)
- Hip circumference
- Thigh circumference (thickest part is about a couple inches from the top of the inseam)
- Calf circumference (thickest part is about 40% of the way down from the knee to the ankle)

Being American I prefer pounds and inches, but being Excel I use a conversion factor for centimeters and kilograms. If you live elsewhere, you could do it the other way around.

*- There will be a difference in measurement between flexing your biceps and not. This may remain the same for awhile, but at a certain point there may be little difference if there's enough fat. However, you would likely have to be very heavy and obese with a very high degree of body fat, possibly with a BMI of 50+.

Mainly, I'm just trying to get a new job. But whether it could possibly bite me in the ass later on. So I wonder if anyone else is worried about this?

It's partly the reason why I have never posted any pictures, in spite of having had a profile for 13 years and an ID number that's only 4 digits.

I do see that some folks simply post body profile pictures without a face. Is this reasonably safe, or is there something I'm missing?

It seems like it would be a shame if I didn't post pictures of myself growing wider and thicker.

My experience is a bit different from yours.

I am, and always have been a straight man. I simply don't have any kind of attraction to men. I also find body hair repugnant on myself or others, and men still usually don't remove it.

I too, started off as an FA, who likes to see when women gain to at least 200 lbs. I have some feederism tendencies, but they're only kind of intense if I think she's too thin, which would be anything under 200.

At a certain point, I think it was both a combination of being too thin (horrible that I used to be 120-125 at one point) and curiosity. Gainers seemed to be having so much fun, and surely... 10 more lbs wouldn't really be a game changer, if I didn't like it. There's also the fact there's no social advantage to being a thin man, and the average American male now weighs 200 lbs. I was sick of being too skinny, and decided to do something about it.

35 lbs later, I really enjoy it and I only want to gain more, grow thicker, and get a softer, wider butt. Sitting down is even more comfortable than it used to be, and I like how I can eat more than I used to, although I still want a larger appetite.


But, I've noticed something else. If anything, my desire for heavy women has only become more intense, almost more of a need than a want. Like how it's almost not even an option anymore.

I try to keep an open mind, and I know it depends greatly on her personality and who she is as a person, but if she is far too skinny, I just can't see it happening anymore. And I feel slightly terrible for saying this.

Under 150 really is far too thin now, unless I know for a fact she wants to gain a lot of weight. Like I said earlier, what I really want is 200-250, possibly more (give or take some). Has a bit to do with how she carries her weight, but it's got to be substantial.

I wonder if this will become even more intense as I get closer and closer to my weight gain goal. Only one way to find out!

Does this make any sense?

I most like it when my limbs get thicker. Can't wait until my thighs are 24" (two feet) around, and more (30"+). Or when my arms are over a foot around (so close now!). Or when my ass increases in circumference and width.

Of course, as I do this my gut grows more substantial.

Time will tell if this results in B-cup moobs or not.

Not sure if I already posted in this thread, and it's 32 pages. Things change with time, anyway. I might even post again later. Although so far, every time I gain weight I've wanted to gain more and be able to eat more.

The near term goal is 170 lbs, but I don't think I want to stop there. That's just about when I should be officially overweight according to BMI, so that seems like as good a milestone as any.

After that, 200 lbs. It's a psychological milestone, and 200 seems like a good, round number (no pun intended). It's also the average weight of an American man as of this writing, so any higher and I would be heavier than most of the population.

After that, 222 lbs. I know this sounds arbitrary, and it kind of is, but that's also 100 kgs, which like 200 lbs, seems like a nice, round number.

Of course, who's to say I'll stop there? Part of me wants to be 250, 270, or even larger.