Maintaining...

So having been thrust feet first into our busiest season of the year (I currently work on a loading dock for a company that has a big share of the parcels business) my entire life has become about work, sleep, snatching something to eat, repeat, repeat, repeat...

I can tell right now there will be no further gaining for me until at least January.  My goal at this point is simply to maintain my weight at over 210 pounds.  This will be a huge accomplishment seeing as I'm burning crazy amounts of calories at work...heavy manual labour combined with working in extremely cold conditions for long hours.  Last year I lost 10-15 pounds over the 10 weeks that included Christmas just because of this.  

If I can make it to January the same weight I am now...for me this will be a huge WIN.

Automatic Gainer Mode Engaged

Interestingly, even though I've decided to take a short break, I'm still getting bigger.  Last night I weighed in at 212 pounds.  It appears that my body has finally and firmly committed itself to the process of getting fat 'for realz'.  Not that I'm complaining - it's nice that I've finally gotten used to eating the larger amounts I need to keep on gaining.  I just never figured it would only take a matter of weeks to get this so ingrained into my daily routine.

I think it's time to raise the bar for myself and shoot for the 4500 - 5000 calorie a day mark and keep on until eating this much more comes naturally, too.  And after that perhaps flirt with 6000 calories a day and so on.  The idea behind this is to aggressively gain until I'm (finally!) big enough...which will be a LOT bigger than I am now...and then figure how much I'll need to eat daily in order to maintain my new larger size.