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.
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