I don’t feel as if I’ve been growing per se this week, though I have been feeling bigger—out to the side. For the first time I’ve been feeling the start of love handles.
Good stuff. Could have gained more this week, though, but wasn’t able to eat near as much as I’d like. On the plus side, took a measurement and I’m up an inch from last month.
So, pics for y’all!
Been feeling huge all week, especially just after lunch. Read a book on weight-gain advice, Dr. David Reuben’s Quick Weight-Gain Program™, whose enthusiastic tone occasionally reminded me of Dr. Nick Riviera in the Simpsons episode “King-Size Homer“:
Now there are many options available for dangerously underweighted individuals like yourself. I recommend a slow steady gorging process combined with assal horizontology. You’ll want to focus on the neglected food groups such as the whipped group, the congealed group and the choco-tastic! Be creative—instead of making sandwiches with bread, use poptarts. Instead of chewing gum, chew bacon!
Well, the advice in the book is not really that bad, though as the book is aimed at the underweight, he tends to focus on the dangers of underweight (which has been found to increase the risk of mortality from just about everything except heart disease and cancer[1]) and the need to escape it, which in several places he puts forward as a straightforward life-or-death proposition, e.g. in chapter six:
Eat your way through each meal deliberately and methodically, from start to finish—as if your life dependend on it. And—in a real sense—it does.
Outside of that, though, the book does have good advice for those of us who are trying to gain weight but aren’t gluttonous by nature. Though eating more often is suggested for those who have the opportunity, a larger emphasis is on eating similar amounts of food but by choosing foods with higher calorie values (or enhancing foods with easy calories, e.g. by adding oil or sugar). Some example menus and recipes are given, from benign things like switching from orange juice to grape juice at breakfast, to more dramatic-sounding measures such as eating cereal with half-and-half instead of milk.
Also touched on are increasing one’s inclination to eat, and decreasing metabolism. The former mostly hinges on your eating environment, but also, for example, having food that’s ‘organoleptic,’ i.e., appealing and interesting not just to the taste but to the other senses as well. All three components of metabolism are covered: exercise, specific dynamic action (the thermic effect), and the basal metabolic rate, and how to make sure your body isn’t working against you with them.
Anyway, there are a lot of interesting ideas there and I’ll hafta work on implementing some of them…
The beginning of the week started out really promising, gain-wise, but I lost my drive about halfway and wasn’t able to follow through on it. I’ve been having lunch with a hundred percent extra snacks but once I get home the drive to eat has been falling. Hopefully I can make up some of that this weekend.
I am really enjoying feeling huge. At work, my belly rests on my legs, pushing them apart ever so slightly; it’s a great feeling.
Around mid-week I did notice I hit 195, and I promised video at that point, so… here’s one of me eating BK on Tuesday.
The video was cut in two parts; I’m posting this one because it was more popular on Youtube.
Well, I feel huge this week for some reason. Outside of the weekend I mentioned earlier (which I think went well, but not as well as I might have liked) I didn’t really overexert myself to eat as much as I should have.
My last goal was to be at 195 by now, though I’m still coming up short. No matter; I’ll say it’s close enough. Resetting goal to 200 by a month from now—tougher, but I’m feeling up to it.
Weighed myself twice yesterday, came up with 193 and 190 somehow, just a few hours later, after dinner; you can guess which number I like better.
Since I’ve got a long weekend this week (four days off) I’m gonna work on eating a lot more often and hopefully manage putting on a couple of extra pounds just for the heck of it.