The thing is, when you make the goal you don't know as much as you know when you reach the goal. 150 may sound big enough when you're 120, but then when you become 150 you realize it isn't.
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rubens_feeder wrote:
Sorry, did not want to misquote you.
Well, if you are fat, you don't need to run and hunt ;-)
You can sit home and work on better tools to hunt, you don't have to constantly be on guard and fighting to survive and not starve.
So after a time of plenty when everybody could eat themselves fat, the pressure was off compared to when you are thin.
Fat is after all energy reserves. We got that, after life taught us that having no reserves is deadly if you have to run for months and maybe years without food.
There are times and places where it's better to be fat, and times and places where it's better that some people are fat and some aren't.
But if you're saying it's ALWAYS advantageous to be fat I'll respectfully disagree. Maybe we can debate it at the next meet-up!
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rubens_feeder wrote:
I agree wholeheartedly with Dr. Feeder, in the old times being fat was a huge advantage, because you would survive bad times, while your thinner contemporaries starved to death.
Actually I didn't say that. The reality is more complicated I fear.
While SOMETIMES being fat is an advantage, e.g., in times of food shortages, a lot of the time it isn't. E.g., it's harder to hunt, flee from your enemies. So obesity and attraction to it has varied a lot over the years and between societies. Really, storing energy as fat is pretty inefficient. It's better to store food and stay thin if you can.
So what I'm saying is the human race is a mix of tendencies to gain and not gain. Feedists happen to have inherited more pro-fat tendencies than other people, and likely have gotten certain environmental triggers to get that going.
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I'd like to be the grant manager for the Feeder Foundation, which would give out lavish "feederships" to women who want to get extremely fat but who are held back from gaining by financial concerns.
11 years
mooshmoosh wrote:
This is interesting, I've read fics where all these effects happen but I've always wondered if that was anywhere close to reality or not, lol
It's amazing what a great resource the ff user base is! You can simply start a forum thread and find out almost anything you want to know about the feedist life.
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Skeletal structure is key. If you have a small frame, a few pounds will make a dramatic difference.
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CheeseOrGTFO wrote:
...although my "experimental" gain turned into 50+ and still going..
I think the experiment was a success!
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Supposedly going out in cold weather with bare legs causes you to gain weight in your legs. Could be a myth, don't know.
11 years
Fat Cat wrote:
If you're not dead set on it, best to avoid gaining until you're sure. It's easier to gain weight than to lose it!
I used to think that. The conundrum is some people aren't sure until they've gained! You might try an experimental gain of 15 lbs or so. It's enough to get a taste of what gaining is like, but not all that hard to take off if you decide against it.
11 years
Have you read "Deciding to Get Fat" on my site?
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