Just got home from a buffet lunch, and while the food was good and I ate quite a bit, the staff was not too subtle in letting me know it was time to wrap it up, even though it was not rush hour or packed. I still had food on my plate and they asked if I was done, brought the check, and then kept asking if I was done when I clearly wasn't. I am usually against wasting food, but I got one more plate piled high, ate one bite, and then left. I still tipped well, but I probably won't be going back soon.

The two things I would enjoy having at a buffet are if there was an area to put your empty plates that meant "don't take them, I'm keeping track, and staff that encouraged eaters, especially if they were struggling with the last couple bites, or to take a minute to let things settle.

That would be something I would like for myself, but I have the problem of having an ambiguously big body. My muscles are strong but don't pop and aren't vascular, and my fat distribution doesn't round me out either.

I never gained intentionally, but I did nothing to stop myself from getting up to 295 lbs. I knew I didn't want to cross the 300 lb mark, and got down to 280 without much effort. Later, I lost another 40 lbs on purpose, but that is a different story.

Anyone else do this? Go to a drive thru, order enough food for an entire family, drive to a scenic, secluded area, and tear through the whole thing?

I wouldn't want everyone just watching me. I would want us all stuffing together, bringing each other plates and admiring how big and full we were getting. Walking around with buttons undone, legs out belly rubs at the table, and encouragement.

This should be more of a thing for us. I mean, who doesn't love breakfast? It seems like there should be the equivalent to stoners who wake and bake. And also, breakfast buffets usually cost less than lunch or dinner. Thoughts?

Denver represent.

Three and a half months ago I had an opportunity to get stuffed at one of my favorite restaurants. I only ate four plates before I got nauseous and had to tap out. I was very disappointed, and decided to do something about it.
I looked up techniques that competitive eaters use and here for stuffing advice, and experimented with a number of bloats over the next month. I tried mentos & coke, seltzer, bananas & sprite, water training, whole head of lettuce & cabbage, only eating one big meal a day, a cake shake, and some other things. I wasn't really interested in gaining, & I wanted to fit any stuffing I wad doing into my busy schedule, and jad to know what the sise effects of each thing were.
I settled into a routine of water training 1st thing in the morning, piece of fruit for breakfast, big lunch topped off with more water (unless I had a meetings scheduled in the afternoon), and a normal dinner with my family (who have no idea about any of this).
In order to mitigate the effects of all my training, I put in extra gym time, I ate less cheese and heavier foods (which have a greater "stuffing hangover effect" and I stopped snacking in between meals. I never felt sluggish when stuffing cooked veggies or water training, and the added water and healthy food made me more regular and cleared upmy skin. I could only do one half-gallon of water for the first week, but after three weeks, I could get a little over two gallons of water in one sitting. At that point, I always replaced some of the water with gatorade, pickle juice, or veggie broth to avoid water toxicity. I only overdid it twice and threw up, and learned how to get up and move around and rub my belly between rounds.
Last month, I had a couple days off of work where I could test my increased capacity. I went to two buffets over three days, and cleared six plates at each. Mission accomplished.
Since then, I have tapered down the water training and have slowly transitioned back to three square meals a day. Even now, if I do a wster bloat just for fun, I can still do two gallons, but I have to be conscious about when to stop eating, as I hit a point where my stomach switches from "enough for now" to "needs to be all the way stuffed".
Tips I learned for anyone who wants to eat more:
1: Get up and move. If I was inactive, my aappetite crashed.
2: Greasy heavy and syrupy food doesn't stuff as well. If you are going to eat that, pair it with something simple that will soak it up.
3: Push yourself slowly. Eating snd drinking faster just makes you hit the wall harder.
4: Don't stop. When I did hit a wall, I still kept the next bite or swig in my mouth until I was eventually ready to swallow it.

Does anyone eat at the same place enough to be considered a "regular"?
I don't eat out that often, but if I had a favorite place, I would enjoy having the same server that knows my order as soon as I walk in.
For stuffing sake, I would enjoy ordering the same thing consistently, cleaning my plate, thanking the server, and tipping well. Then one day, after finishing my meal, I would ask for another round of the same thing.
This is the test. If the reaction is positive, I know I'm in the right place. If not, they don't appreciate big eating.
The only reason I would be confident I could finish two rounds is because I had been eating beforehand every other time I had been there, but not that day.
Then, I would go back to getting just one again most of the time, but occasionally ordering a second. Then, when I have built up a reputation, I would order both rounds at once.

I would do it. I would go as far as to lose weight if my wife agreed to gain pound for pound what I took off. I like myself at any weight.
If we were both gaining together, she and I have different eating styles and preferences. I don't know how much teamwork we would have.
On the other hand, we are both petty competitive, so I could see us trying to out-gain each other too.