What is physically possible?

[bluetech]

I am knocking around some ideas for WG stories, and I'd like the gains to be pretty big but still constrained to reality (e.g. no magic, sci-fi, or disregard of physics). What is the absolute maximum that a normal human being in the real world is physically capable of gaining in 1 year? 

[harnwald]

75-100 kg/year is quite possible, there were such cases.

[Jazzman]

2 hours ago, harnwald said:

75-100 kg/year is quite possible, there were such cases.

I know of a gain from 120 in late August to 208 January 10th.Also 133 August 8th of 2013 to 144 at Christmas. That triggered intentionally "letting go" to 168 on April 2.Then began Stuffings.Cake batter milkshakes.Regular weigh ins and a gainer blog on FF 

200 Memorial Day in a new plus size bikini.220 at a wedding rehearsal dinner for a 280 lb bride to be.All other bridesmaids were big and were shocked when my friend showed up 70 lbs heavier and ate way more than even the bride.The wedding was July 4th and she was 230. July 28th was her final blog entry.250.She told me a week before that she was now capable of eating an entire Costco sheetcake for 10 people and was surprised to be stuffed only mildly.She was disappointed that 250 didn't look as much bigger than 200 If she got to 266 by August 10th that would mean doubled weight in a year at a doctor's appointment.

Most important for your story is after becoming very overweight at 5'3" and 168- she was able to gain so rapidly that it was mind boggling.Imagine this Easter dinner she is a very chubby 168.Memorial Day 2 months later she is 200. 32 lbs in about 60 days Then she gained Faster 230 July 4th.30 lbs in 35 days And then 20 more in 24 days.She gained 117 lbs in a year.But for your story and question it is better to look at 106 lbs from New Year to July 28th. 7 months.Even better to consider 82 lbs in 4 months. And Fifty lbs in Two months! That pace us probably not sustainable for 12 months. But I agree that even Someone who starts thin to average who has the right makeup and determination -once their capacity has expanded .220 lbs in a year and even 240 to 250 is remotely possible.

[Gusto]

Chubby_bunny_160 went from 110 lbs on January 21st to 143 on Februrary 13th. If my memory serves me right, she ended up gaining over 50 lbs in just over a month

[bluetech]

So in a contrived situation where a person does literally nothing but stuff to capacity every single day (this is WG fiction after all), would 300 lbs gained in a year, assuming starting as thin-to-average, be within the realm of possibility? Or would a gain of that magnitude just be physically impossible?

[Jazzman]

14 hours ago, Gusto said:

Chubby_bunny_160 went from 110 lbs on January 21st to 143 on Februrary 13th. If my memory serves me right, she ended up gaining over 50 lbs in just over a month

I am certain you are correct.She utilized cake batter milkshakes.I have known three different women who gained 20 plus lbs in a week with cake batter shakes.

[Jazzman]

14 hours ago, bluetech said:

So in a contrived situation where a person does literally nothing but stuff to capacity every single day (this is WG fiction after all), would 300 lbs gained in a year, assuming starting as thin-to-average, be within the realm of possibility? Or would a gain of that magnitude just be physically impossible?

The most I have seen in an entire year was 150 lbs by PinkyDear on FF.From 230 to 380.All my other examples dropped out of sight after a few great months. Pinky actually slowed down for 3 to 5 months.She could have made 220 to 250 lbs in a year easily.Particularly if she had started intentionally gaining earlier.She graduated high school as a 5 foot 7 inch skinny 110 lbs track runner.That summer she worked in  a friend's ice cream store and gained 25 lbs.She loved it.Over the next 6 years she tried to be "normal" until she reached a plump 175 and took the step of "letting go" and gained to 230 in a year.Then she joined FF and Totally went for it.230 to 380.Then the 400's.Then over 500.Now? 566 lbs Over 5 times her high school weight.

So.I think 300 is Super tough without cake batter and heavy cream and even then 220 to 250 is more likely.

[John Smith]

On 29/08/2017 at 7:34 PM, bluetech said:

I am knocking around some ideas for WG stories, and I'd like the gains to be pretty big but still constrained to reality (e.g. no magic, sci-fi, or disregard of physics). What is the absolute maximum that a normal human being in the real world is physically capable of gaining in 1 year? 

I once already read about a German-born American 300-lbs Plus-Size model living at L.A. since the 80's. She claimed been a waif-figured type at a whereabout 120 pounds while her departure from Europe but that her earliest six months in California and an American-style diet been enough to get herself through the size she still have nowadays.

I already once read about a British gym freak whom a metabolic dysfunction aggravated by medication caused her to balloon up over 150 pounds of pure body water in the lapsetime of only six months.

On **, I know some feedees who manage during their earliest months to gain 80 pounds in only one month.

[John Smith]

Personally, I already once worked to a coffee shop three years ago and a curvy yet slim reguliar customer went brought our muffins two/three time per day. Because this is my first month, I spent a part of my formation in the warehouse but after three weeks I returned in the store, doing my business while a familiar voice saluted me. I raised one's head and missed to jaw-dropping before her : this is the same customer, except she's getting obese since my absence. Big body, big limbs, swollen face, doublechin. She seemed to have gained 80 pounds.

 

I have also a female friend capable to gain 10 pounds after only three-days-to-less-a-week. Today she's now in her "stay thin, kept my shape" phase (with a few gluttonous turnabouts, though) but a few years ago, just a couple of days without we didn't see each other and the next moment, she's almost misrecognizable. One day, her outfits may clad her overall figure perfectly, slim face, strikingly thin, average-sized breasts, slight bubble rear, etc : then the other day, everything you glance were two sizeable orbs of flesh sticking in and out in a perpetual bouncing motion from that same top she wore a week ago, her baggy pants getting almost skintight around her hips, her bottom protuding fleshily, her thighs rubbing each other as her nonchalant toddle verge into a lesser yet ponderous swaying, her face puffying out until she got a noticeable double chin. 

And that, only during her yoyo-ing phases. The biggest weight she got was 170lbs after she gained 40lbs through last summer. But she has the potential to gain lesser closer to 40lbs at a monthly basis, even more.

[dania201]

Honestly, 100 pounds in a year is exceptional.  Quick gains can happen over a short period, but over a protracted period of time just isn't realistic.

I sort of turn off when stories get unrealistically quick with weight gain. Just say "a month later" vs " a week later" and I don't have to pretend your not 15yo and never datded an actual gainer in real life before. 

[jarlewski]

On 8/31/2017 at 4:10 AM, dania201 said:

Honestly, 100 pounds in a year is exceptional.  Quick gains can happen over a short period, but over a protracted period of time just isn't realistic.

I sort of turn off when stories get unrealistically quick with weight gain. Just say "a month later" vs " a week later" and I don't have to pretend your not 15yo and never datded an actual gainer in real life before. 

Yeah, unless it's sci-fi or magical weight gain, something to consider is that gaining weight costs money, and in turn, it's not always possible for someone to gain 100 pounds rapidly/consistently. 

Maybe think about it this way - if a 20-something with an office job decides to eat a few extra donuts each week, that could mean a pretty noticeable weight gain. Going from 1700 calories a day to 2400 calories a day is about 15 Oreos or 3 donuts. Hell, that's less than one 2L bottle of Coke.

But 2400 calories a day is about what it takes to maintain your weight around 250 pounds. To gain weight as you get fatter, you're looking at consistently eating 2,800 - 3,500 calories a day. The average American lady eats about 1,800 calories a day... so that's 38 extra Oreos a day, every day, in addition to their usual diet.

So, yeah, it's possible to do a lot of things, but if you want to write an authentic story about natural weight gain, my tips would be to (a) consider that it takes more time/energy/money to do it than you ever imagined and (b) date someone that wants to gain weight. Even the most dedicated person is going to gain/lose/maintain at an unpredictable rate, because life happens.

[maltesefalcon]

In 1978 I was dating an English girl. We went to England together to meet her folks. All she did was eat when she was there. She arrived weighing 135 lbs. At 5'-2" she was already a bit chubby. Two weeks later we flew home and she'd gained 22 pounds.

We broke up soon after (she had problems being faithful). But it awakened the FA in me.

[bluetech]

On 9/1/2017 at 2:12 PM, jarlewski said:

Yeah, unless it's sci-fi or magical weight gain, something to consider is that gaining weight costs money, and in turn, it's not always possible for someone to gain 100 pounds rapidly/consistently. 

Maybe think about it this way - if a 20-something with an office job decides to eat a few extra donuts each week, that could mean a pretty noticeable weight gain. Going from 1700 calories a day to 2400 calories a day is about 15 Oreos or 3 donuts. Hell, that's less than one 2L bottle of Coke.

But 2400 calories a day is about what it takes to maintain your weight around 250 pounds. To gain weight as you get fatter, you're looking at consistently eating 2,800 - 3,500 calories a day. The average American lady eats about 1,800 calories a day... so that's 38 extra Oreos a day, every day, in addition to their usual diet.

So, yeah, it's possible to do a lot of things, but if you want to write an authentic story about natural weight gain, my tips would be to (a) consider that it takes more time/energy/money to do it than you ever imagined and (b) date someone that wants to gain weight. Even the most dedicated person is going to gain/lose/maintain at an unpredictable rate, because life happens.

Turns out I'm shit at turning ideas into prose, so it might be a very long time before this idea actually becomes a story worth sharing. But without giving too much away away, the point was to put the main character in a setting (constrained by the physics of the real world) where the whole time/energy/money thing is no longer a factor and see with unlimited access to food and no responsibilities for an entire year other than to put as much of that food in her face as possible and a strong incentive to do so, how much weight is the human body physically capable of gaining. 

[dania201]

20 hours ago, bluetech said:

Turns out I'm shit at turning ideas into prose, so it might be a very long time before this idea actually becomes a story worth sharing. But without giving too much away away, the point was to put the main character in a setting (constrained by the physics of the real world) where the whole time/energy/money thing is no longer a factor and see with unlimited access to food and no responsibilities for an entire year other than to put as much of that food in her face as possible and a strong incentive to do so, how much weight is the human body physically capable of gaining. 

Okay. So, if your question is to ask what would someone realistically be able to gain if they just stuffed their face for 12 months, i would say plus-or-minus 100 pounds. However, if you want her to gain more, you could just make the situation 2 years long instead of one. 

[Gusto]

20 hours ago, bluetech said:

Turns out I'm shit at turning ideas into prose, so it might be a very long time before this idea actually becomes a story worth sharing. But without giving too much away away, the point was to put the main character in a setting (constrained by the physics of the real world) where the whole time/energy/money thing is no longer a factor and see with unlimited access to food and no responsibilities for an entire year other than to put as much of that food in her face as possible and a strong incentive to do so, how much weight is the human body physically capable of gaining. 

Rosalie Bradford gained 150 lbs in a year, going from 350 to 500. After that, her rate of gain went down. I'd agree that 100 lbs a year is average, with 150 probably being the max. I've always been curious what the rate of gain was of other supersized individuals who reached 800-1k+ lbs. 

[John Smith]

On 29/08/2017 at 7:34 PM, bluetech said:

I am knocking around some ideas for WG stories, and I'd like the gains to be pretty big but still constrained to reality (e.g. no magic, sci-fi, or disregard of physics). What is the absolute maximum that a normal human being in the real world is physically capable of gaining in 1 year? 

An Austrian-born American Plus Size model, Claudia Flaurance, once stated she past from 119 to 300 pounds in only six months in just six months after have moving to L.A. due to a rare medical condition from her own - we talk about approximatively 30 pounds by month.

The former ballerine-turned-TV-reality-contemporary-dancer-&-Body-Positivity-tycoon Whitney Way Thore gained most effortlessly 100 pounds the first nine months she have diagnosticed with PCOS in spite being very active at this time, then a second 100-pounds spurt the next year afterward.

Both Bryce Howard Dallas, the retired pornstar Carmella Bing then Kim Kardashian gained over 80 pounds within their respective first pregnancies, though such feat isn't that unusual amongst many women in general. Although the latter aforementioned show-business "personnality" [Kardashian] stated she deliberately overfed herself during pregancy so as to getting obese accordingly a fattening/slimming diet programm she followed for a compagny to which she was paid to be their spokewoman. 
Furthermore, let's not forget that some profesionnal trainers starring in the TV reality "Fit To Fat" managed to gain over forty pounds after only four months: in a further extended, yearly timespan, they could possibly manage to gain 60 pounds more.

There does exists however some examples of such quick weight gain stories that I should say more awesomely extreme in my knowledge: a few years ago, I've read an article from a blog where its owner complained alot to an extraordinairy Holiday incident of her own where she managed to gain 50 pounds and thus past from "average" to clinically obese within weeks only, thanks to weeks of overindulgence in eggnog same as an oddly convenient significant metabolic slowdown in the meantime added by the well-known calorie-dense proprieties of her favourite beverage. In second point, I fell a couple of times upon some female feedees who have publicly boasting through social medias and forums about how they succeed to fatten up themselves 50, 70 even 80 pounds more at the starting month of their journey: those latter claims stem to a lot of unreserved skepticism amidst a lot of F.A.s throughout the web.

I, nonetheless, personally witnessed such outcommon phenomenon with my own eyes a couple of years ago, when a reguliar customer from a shop I used to work once past during a three-weeks on-floor absence of mine from a rather slim yet curvy physique, to a full-blown obese body: her Petite height same as her poundage let me to guess she was probably 80-pounds heavier - we talk here about roughly 27 pounds per week!! I Besides, I fluently wrote in various threads about this friend of mine and her shilly-shally propensities to Feedism, who were capable to gain 5, even 10 pounds at a three-days-to-weekly rate of mere overreating but possess either a strange metabolic yoyo-ing to the point that at some periods of almost total appetite loss she may getting 15, 20 even 40 pounds heavier after have hardly snacking something same as she can lost unwillingly the same 40 pounds in a matter of months, even of weeks: she once turned practically emaciated after only two weeks while she weighed at this time 145lbs.

[John Smith]

I am firmly convinced that some people, due to a combination of both preexisting latent elements and/or outward phenomenons from either medical, environmental, biochemical or alimentary nature, possess some set of biological or unnatural traits allowing them to put on weigh more subsantially and quicker than the rest of common people and at various degress. These latter points would to give an rational explain about why some gainers/feedees and random people, whenever their size or health status, may fatten up more "easily" than others, given to mislead to this F.A.-related belief about "natural fatties" . 

However, this category of people seem somewhat rare amongst the population. To which why dealing about them in the matter of a realistic WG-genre narrative is quite risky yet challenging.