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Dec 24, 2020
Monday, December 28, 2020
Sunday, December 27, 2020
Okay so here's some baseline photos from today. I currently weigh 200 pounds.
I cut down and re-sewed this t-shirt to make it as form fitting as possible. I chose a grey t-shirt because it's a neutral colour with no pattern and the way the shadows fall on it accentuates my body's shape and hopefully will give good contrast later when I'm a lot bigger than I am right now. I admit it feels pretty darn nice wearing this shirt right now. It's not super tight fitting (yet, anyway) but every time I move I am reminded that I'm already pretty chunky.
I intend to take progress shots as I grow and upload them here so that people can follow my journey. And also, while I like the visual simplicity of the grey cloth, I'll also include a shirtless picture once in awhile in order to prove I'm not padding or faking my weight gain.
I have no idea how long it's going to take for me to reach my ideal size because I'm not exactly sure what that is right now. A lot of it will depend on how well my body handles the extra weight but I think that 300 pounds is a reasonable expectation. I realize at that size that I won't be running any marathons but at the same time I believe that if I keep my cardio up and continue with weight bearing exercise, I should be just fine.
That being said I'm going to take things in small steps so I don't get overwhelmed. My first goal is to reach 220 pounds, which is my all-time heaviest weight which I achieved in 2018 when I was off work for a few months and wasn't exercising as much as perhaps I should have been. I wasn't particularly healthy at that point and to me it kind of shows when I look at how I was carrying the weight.
My current gain will be happening while I am working at a physically intense job that involves a lot of heavy lifting and burns a ton of calories. To compensate for this, I've adopted a sumo diet of a couple nutritionally balanced meals per day combined with as much rice as I can handle. And also some gluten free beer but not too much of it and only because for some reason this year everyone decided to give me beer for Christmas.
I cut down and re-sewed this t-shirt to make it as form fitting as possible. I chose a grey t-shirt because it's a neutral colour with no pattern and the way the shadows fall on it accentuates my body's shape and hopefully will give good contrast later when I'm a lot bigger than I am right now. I admit it feels pretty darn nice wearing this shirt right now. It's not super tight fitting (yet, anyway) but every time I move I am reminded that I'm already pretty chunky.
I intend to take progress shots as I grow and upload them here so that people can follow my journey. And also, while I like the visual simplicity of the grey cloth, I'll also include a shirtless picture once in awhile in order to prove I'm not padding or faking my weight gain.
I have no idea how long it's going to take for me to reach my ideal size because I'm not exactly sure what that is right now. A lot of it will depend on how well my body handles the extra weight but I think that 300 pounds is a reasonable expectation. I realize at that size that I won't be running any marathons but at the same time I believe that if I keep my cardio up and continue with weight bearing exercise, I should be just fine.
That being said I'm going to take things in small steps so I don't get overwhelmed. My first goal is to reach 220 pounds, which is my all-time heaviest weight which I achieved in 2018 when I was off work for a few months and wasn't exercising as much as perhaps I should have been. I wasn't particularly healthy at that point and to me it kind of shows when I look at how I was carrying the weight.
My current gain will be happening while I am working at a physically intense job that involves a lot of heavy lifting and burns a ton of calories. To compensate for this, I've adopted a sumo diet of a couple nutritionally balanced meals per day combined with as much rice as I can handle. And also some gluten free beer but not too much of it and only because for some reason this year everyone decided to give me beer for Christmas.
Saturday, December 26, 2020
December 26, 2020
So the extract worked...for about two weeks I definitely felt hungrier. I might even have gained a few pounds but it wasn't really worth writing home about. Then it stopped having any noticeable effect so I stopped taking it.
So much for the build up. Sorry for the letdown.
I've decided to get back to this the old fashioned way: food, food, and more food.
This should all be easier now because a lot of the financial problems that were plaguing me have been settled. I finally have enough money to pay my bills AND be able to buy all the food I like. I think part of my problem is the boredom of just eating the same six things day in and day out so I'm going to try to get more creative with my meal planning. And, of course, nutritionally balanced meals but with way more carbs than any one person should reasonably be expected to eat in a single sitting. It works for sumo wrestlers. It should also work for me.
I'm making it clear to anyone who will listen that my New Year's resolution this year is to get fat(ter than I already am, which, at 5'6" tall and 200 pounds probably falls more into the definition of "chubby")
I normalizing this intention for the folks around me so they know what to expect and not be surprised when...and yes I'm salivating at the thought of this...I start getting noticeably bigger. I want them to know that this is something I'm doing TO myself because this has always been something I've wanted FOR myself.
Starting with what should be an epic early morning trip to the grocery store tomorrow, I'm heading into 2021 and leaving my current weight of 200 pounds in the dust...
Thursday, April 30, 2020
April 30, 2020
Now into the first day of Week 3 and officially into the zone of excessive weight gain.
Although I can't say I've got insatiable appetite at this point, I am eating a lot more than usual and never really feeling full. Also feeling a little bit shaky, like from low blood sugar, even after I've eaten and I hope this is because my body directing more calories now into gaining weight. The solution here, I guess, is to just keep eating as much as I can, as often as I can in order to get as fat as possible.
And although my overall weight on the scale hasn't changed much, I'm getting bigger, especially my belly which is already starting to feel amazingly heavy and round again. Feeling the "gainer itch" as the skin is stretching, especially on my love handles. It seems I'm gaining the weight higher this time, above the navel, as well as more on my love handles and the skin already feels tight in places even though I'm overall not that much bigger yet. Not sure why the difference, other than the fact that maybe it's because I'm working a heavy manual labour job and the muscle underneath is influencing how the weight is coming on. In truth, I'm hoping for a nice round hard ball belly and all signs are pointing to this being where I'm headed.
I'm not even close to my all-time biggest...yet...but I'm really enjoying how fast I'm fattening up again.
Although I can't say I've got insatiable appetite at this point, I am eating a lot more than usual and never really feeling full. Also feeling a little bit shaky, like from low blood sugar, even after I've eaten and I hope this is because my body directing more calories now into gaining weight. The solution here, I guess, is to just keep eating as much as I can, as often as I can in order to get as fat as possible.
And although my overall weight on the scale hasn't changed much, I'm getting bigger, especially my belly which is already starting to feel amazingly heavy and round again. Feeling the "gainer itch" as the skin is stretching, especially on my love handles. It seems I'm gaining the weight higher this time, above the navel, as well as more on my love handles and the skin already feels tight in places even though I'm overall not that much bigger yet. Not sure why the difference, other than the fact that maybe it's because I'm working a heavy manual labour job and the muscle underneath is influencing how the weight is coming on. In truth, I'm hoping for a nice round hard ball belly and all signs are pointing to this being where I'm headed.
I'm not even close to my all-time biggest...yet...but I'm really enjoying how fast I'm fattening up again.
Saturday, April 25, 2020
April 25, 2020
As I look at the date of the last post I made here I realize it's been two years.
After getting up to a 218 pounds (my all-time heaviest) I backslid down to just 189 pounds last fall after a particularly strenuous two week trip into the wilderness, though to be fair, I was only about 200 when I started the trip. .
Although over the past six months or so I've worked my way back up to 200 pounds again I find I'm having a hard time making any real gains.
I'm trying a new experiment right now. There's a particularly malevolent shrub that grows in temperate rainforest areas in Canada that is traditionally used as a weight loss remedy by Indigenous people. I managed to get about a quarter pound of it, dried, and have made a tincture of it that I've been taking before each meal for the last ten days or so.
And you're probably asking yourself...what...why would he use something that promotes weight *loss*...?
Well, here's the kicker: use it for up to two weeks and yes, you do lose weight. I am in fact down about four pounds since I started.
The punchline for anyone who's legitimately trying to lose weight is that it's said if you *keep* taking it for more than two weeks, you gain back everything you lost, and then some. One account says that caution should be used because prolonged use causes "excessive" weight gain. I'm not sure what the author thinks is "excessive" but I guess I'm going to find out because I intend to keep taking this stuff for as long as my supply holds out, which should easily be two or three times longer than the recommended time one *should* take it...unless of course one's goal is to get as fat as possible.
I have reason to believe this will work - at 10 days into this experiment I only feel full now after eating about 1.5 times the food I usually eat at any given meal, and I only stay full for about an hour or so before I start feeling hungry again. And the hunger is getting more intense. If the anecdotal evidence can be believed, in just a few days from now I will feel insatiable hunger regardless of when or how much I've just eaten. This can only mean good things for someone whose fondest wish is to stretch his stomach out to epic proportions.
My belief is that once the biochemical "switch" in me that causes weight gain and insatiable appetite is finally, firmly clicked into the ON position, I'll fatten up in a hurry, and hopefully far beyond what I've been able manage so far.
Wish me luck, people. And I'll keep you posted.
After getting up to a 218 pounds (my all-time heaviest) I backslid down to just 189 pounds last fall after a particularly strenuous two week trip into the wilderness, though to be fair, I was only about 200 when I started the trip. .
Although over the past six months or so I've worked my way back up to 200 pounds again I find I'm having a hard time making any real gains.
I'm trying a new experiment right now. There's a particularly malevolent shrub that grows in temperate rainforest areas in Canada that is traditionally used as a weight loss remedy by Indigenous people. I managed to get about a quarter pound of it, dried, and have made a tincture of it that I've been taking before each meal for the last ten days or so.
And you're probably asking yourself...what...why would he use something that promotes weight *loss*...?
Well, here's the kicker: use it for up to two weeks and yes, you do lose weight. I am in fact down about four pounds since I started.
The punchline for anyone who's legitimately trying to lose weight is that it's said if you *keep* taking it for more than two weeks, you gain back everything you lost, and then some. One account says that caution should be used because prolonged use causes "excessive" weight gain. I'm not sure what the author thinks is "excessive" but I guess I'm going to find out because I intend to keep taking this stuff for as long as my supply holds out, which should easily be two or three times longer than the recommended time one *should* take it...unless of course one's goal is to get as fat as possible.
I have reason to believe this will work - at 10 days into this experiment I only feel full now after eating about 1.5 times the food I usually eat at any given meal, and I only stay full for about an hour or so before I start feeling hungry again. And the hunger is getting more intense. If the anecdotal evidence can be believed, in just a few days from now I will feel insatiable hunger regardless of when or how much I've just eaten. This can only mean good things for someone whose fondest wish is to stretch his stomach out to epic proportions.
My belief is that once the biochemical "switch" in me that causes weight gain and insatiable appetite is finally, firmly clicked into the ON position, I'll fatten up in a hurry, and hopefully far beyond what I've been able manage so far.
Wish me luck, people. And I'll keep you posted.
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