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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...
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