At what age....?

[bigboygutty16]

At what age did you all know that you wanted to have a big belly???

[Omniscient]

Last year I think...

[Big_fat_kiddo]

Um..... i gues my whole life, but took it seriously 3 or 4 years ago, and started gaining actively about 1 year ago.

[BigMick]

I was about 14, I think, that's 30 years ago, give or take. The hardest thing was admiring other bellies, used to make me wonder bout myself, str8/gay whatever. But I figured it out and now it's a hobby of sorts, gut appreciation. Anyway I'm str8 and married with a kid and still admire the big guts wherever they are. :)

[wally]

wow i couldnt say it betta...im the same...14

[LrgrThnLf]

It all started when I was 8yo I think.

[lear]

for me i started wanting a big gut at abot 12. I was probably influenced by the fact that all my favorite teachers and role-models were well indowed in the gut.

[Big_fat_kiddo]

Atleast you had some ppl to look up to, the only ppl i knew at that time were skinny sticks.

[texasgut]

I've always liked to watched the guys with the bellies. For me just gaining weight was always difficult. I burn it off too fast. I got seriuos about it when I found the belly/gaining groups and seen how others enjoyed the pleasures of a belly. So I've been at it for better than two years. Now that i've quit my job in LA, I just might be able to hold on to what I gain.

[Big_fat_kiddo]

I've always liked to watched the guys with the bellies. For me just gaining weight was always difficult. I burn it off too fast. I got seriuos about it when I found the belly/gaining groups and seen how others enjoyed the pleasures of a belly.


Sounds like what happend to me, and how i started.

[Omniscient]

Yeah well at first I thought I was the only one that wanted to get fat but now I have found lots of gaining/belly groups and other people that wanted the same thing, and that got ME really motivated and glad that I wasn't the only one

[Big_fat_kiddo]

I'm still glad I found this place. If I haven't found it, I would still be thinking I was weird.

I first came to this site when it was just a gallery. A few days later there was a Poll at the gallery about adding a forum to it yes/no :) .

Then, I forgot all about :o . When I got back, the site had a forum :D.
Then I registerd ;).

[Fatgutlover04]

Hi. I started when i was 14, (I'm 15 now). I was wondering, now that you have a gut do you have more gas, like farts and burps n stuff. And what foods do you reccommend i eat. P.S. I am 120 lbs

[Omniscient]

Well I can burp much, much louder now :p :D

[Fat_jack101]

I havent but it really depends on the food you eat not really your size.

[Tipical]

I started fantasizing about fat people and things at around...7 I think. Only started gaining a few days ago but i'm enjoying myself thus far.

[chunkyboy]

I started when I was 13 I guess, about a year ago. I would look at pictures on the internet. I cant gain weight very well( fast metabolism and family), but I bloat with water a lot.

[young gain]

Well I found that I wanted to gain when I typed beer belly into yahoo images which lead me to ballbellybear which lead me to gainerweb then that lead me here. Probably 2 years ago.

[GettinBIG]

im so glad i found this site i have no clue what i would do with out it thanks every one for this awsome site :cool:

[VIBE]

It started when i was 12 :o

[Growin Belly]

wow i couldnt say it betta...im the same...14
woah, creepy. same here...

[bellyjiggle]

I think about October last year at 12yrs.

[x_spunk]

I'm 12 right now... Straight, but still love a good jiggle.

[GettinBIG]

im 15 now and i started about a year and a half ago..i went from 112 to about 158 :)

[Wafflez]

Hmm... I started actually like, trying to gain back in January.

I think the earliest I thought I wanted to be fat was like when I was 11 or so.

Before that my favorite episode of Doug was the one where he gets fat and has those dreams of him all huge and blubbery. Too bad that show isnt on any more.

The VERY earliest gainer-thing I can remember is when I was like 3, there was some movie I watched where one of the guys ate a TON of food. I wanted to be like him :P

[jb17kx]

I have, as far as I can remember, admired fat since I was very young. I despretley wanted a huge belly that would fall out of my shirt and wobble all over the place. But, as it was and still is with the media, I became quite afraid of getting fat, and carefully watched what I ate, etc.
After a while though I started to pay attention to blubber again. I found these sites, and now I love fat. I'm 15 now, and am trying to gain. Unfortunatley, I haven't the slowest metabolism, and with a fat-phobic doctor for a mother and dietician for a step-mother, I haven't much of a chance. Everyone was happy though when I started to eat better a year or two ago though, so I'm using the gradual gain method for about a year now, eating large amounts at each sitting, and encouraging others as well.

[Glass]

For me, it ws age 19 (28 now).

[WTFOMGwolfgang]

I remember when I was 4 or 5 I saw one of those joke birthday cards with the 500-600 lb women on it and ever since then I've been fascenated by fat people.

[ozysteve]

For me it was probably around 5 or 6. I used to stuff my clothes with pillows and towels to make me look as fat as I could. When I was 8 I had a kid in my grade who was really fat. I used to love feeling his belly and gettoing him to "squash" me against the wall.

[WTFOMGwolfgang]

For me it was probably around 5 or 6. I used to stuff my clothes with pillows and towels to make me look as fat as I could. When I was 8 I had a kid in my grade who was really fat. I used to love feeling his belly and gettoing him to "squash" me against the wall.
I used to dress up fat with pillows and stuff in my clothes. I think just about everyone's done that though at some point in their life :confused:

[calculusauthori]

since high school when my teacher was telling us about how he used to be "normal sized," but he was at least 400 lbs.

[bahan02131]

I havent started yet

[tomv8]

I have always wanted to be fat. It's only been in the last year of so that I realized how much I enjoyed getting softer and flabbier.

[thinkingbigger]

Bellies have interested me since I was a little kid. I've toyed with the idea of growing one several times over the last few years, but it's only now that I can say I really, seriously want one and am ready to go for it.

[TidusTT]

i was around 15 - 16 when i thought that diets r a big waste of time..besides i likes the way my "mini" gut felt...my family wanted me thin...they still do but hey im gaining and love it! i wanna get a huge gut hehe

[rollymolly2001]

at the age of 12 I knew it:) i was completely into fat bellys.

[narnia]

As long as I can remember I wanted to get really fat but never took it really seriously.

[manwithagut190]

i almost feel as if i've known my whole life.

[knowiemanon]

i guess most of my life

[rumsdibums7391]

Since my girlfriend is guite huge I'm not antipathetic against gaining. Thats about 2 years ago now.

[crb]

Since I realised how much I missed my cuddly boyfriend. Having my own belly to play with is some compensation!

[ChubbyLevi]

I have always liked fat for almost my whole life. When I was about 4ish I would stuff my blacket in my shirt. Then I got some real fat when I was 5 to 6ish. This made me like FAT even better, so I ate and started stuffing with pillows. Its been a life long llove.

[fat75]

Well I have been at least chubby my whole life. I've gone through spurts where I've wanted to lose weight because of a negative self-image but I never lost very much because I just couldn't commit myself to it. Now, however, I know what I want and am trying to achieve it.

[chucky_rox]

I think I've always had an admiration for fat and gaining, but never understood it when I was little.

[dannyp]

i felt the way i do since as long back as i could remember.... prolly about 4 maybe even earlier

my nextdoor neighbor was pretty fat and we were rly good friends... i think that he was the one who made me realize that i love fat

ive always wanted to be fat but could never commit myself to it but i finally did this may and ive put on about 30 lbs since then and im loving every moment of it ^^

[Tom]

Like most people here, I've had an attraction to fat since before I can remember. I remember always feeling a sort of affinity for larger guys, like they were something I wanted to be and, someday, would.

[nuhnuhnuhnuh]

Hmm.. The idea was kind of suggested to me in some ren and stimpy episode. It was a skit about this guy and he started eating everything, including the fridge and car and all that. It was very cartoonish but that got me interested in the idea of eating to gain weight, and I always imagined what it would be like to have a big tummy like the guy on TV.

Then when I was 13 I was "Dating" this guy, we had been friends before. He used to be fat, but because of people picking on him at school he became obsessed with losing weight and now he's like an amature body builder. I always imagined what it would be like if he was fat again, and I would stack up all my pillows on my bed and just hug it to sleep, imagining it was his belly. I suggested to him to gain weight, but he refused it like the plague. We're not together anymore, but ever since then I've loved fat, and especially, gaining weight.

[bobbysgut]

That's funny about the Ren and Stimpy episode because there is one where the suck the fat out of the fat one and put it into the skinny one. That was a great one. There was also an episode of Doug where he goes to his Grandma's for a while and comes back fat. I remember gorging on food the night after I saw it when I was a kid because I wanted to be like that.

[schalome]

i think i was 14-15 years old and weigh about 165 lbs i was like 6 foot so very thin and i began with gaining since then now im 202 lbs and 6.2 i want reach atleast 250 lbs in summer 2007 , a long way to go:)

[trevorsain]

I guess I was at least interested in fat earlier, but I didn't really get the urge to actually gain myself until around 15. Even then it was sort of spontaneous and happened after I learned that there were others who shared my interests (I have the good old internet to thank for that :) )

[BigZero]

in relation to the original post: when i was about 15 im guessing

[MrDitschl]

I think that I've started liking big bellies since I was about 14 or 15 years. It's wonderful to see the fat growing ...!!!

[rays-]

I always liked fat bellies, and always had one myself. However I don't "really" want it ...

[dannyp]

However I don't "really" want it ...

what does that mean exactly? o.O

[FatMike]

what does that mean exactly? o.O
I would guess that he likes it on others, but doesn't like it on himself too much.

[Ziggy.1990]

I guess about 15 myself too.

[TheIcePrince]

Really, it was so long ago I can't remember the age. I've seriously wanted one as long as I can remember

[Kaejer]

I've enjoyed the sight of extremely big guts on people since probably about 13. I didn't really think twice about it until about a year or so ago.

[glutgainer]

I have always watched fat people and liked them. I though that i should start gaining when i was about 13. I have been actively gaining for 6 months.

[troodon]

Think I was about 5 or 6 when I first started to fantasize about being fatter, would sometimes put pillows or stuffed animals under my clothes to pretend to be fatter when nobody was looking. Had a high metabolism and was actually slightly underweight until I stopped growing at about 16. When I noticed I was gaining a slight amount of weight then, that's when I first actively tried to gain on purpose.

[meteodude]

for me like about 6, as early as I can remember.
Hmm... I started actually like, trying to gain back in January.
I think the earliest I thought I wanted to be fat was like when I was 11 or so.
Before that my favorite episode of Doug was the one where he gets fat and has those dreams of him all huge and blubbery. Too bad that show isnt on any more.
The VERY earliest gainer-thing I can remember is when I was like 3, there was some movie I watched where one of the guys ate a TON of food. I wanted to be like him :P
There was some Disney cartoon where some character was stuffed through a tube ntil he looked like a thanksgiving turkey. I always remembered that!
I would guess that he likes it on others, but doesn't like it on himself too much.
yeah, I agree cause I feel sort of the same way. Some people look absolutely awesome with a belly and others look horrible, at least to me. Don't know why though!

[greg123]

Ive always liked fat but just really got into gaining at 16

[merlpoe6]

I've been attracted to bigger guys since about age 14ish, but it wasn't until around age 17ish when I decided I wanted a gut myself.

[fattman2020]

a couple of years ago

[bellyguy24]

When I was five, my family took a vacation to my Grandmother's house. She had two chubby neighbors that were a bit older than me, but I remember we spent an afternoon weighing each other and eating snacks she had set out in her basement/family den. They said I needed to be fatter like them, and it always kind of stuck in my mind.

At 12, I knew I wanted to be fat. I swiped my parents' polaroid camera and took "progress pictures" well before I knew I wasn't the only person on earth who liked it.

Now I'm 24, 285, down from 315 . . but . . I'm okay with that. I still enjoy compliments on my big gut, and secretly wanna make it larger again.

Well, not so secretly now! haha

Josh

[technogeek]

I am 14 and I just decided. Couldn't put it better

[incredulous]

19-20... (was extremely thin all-throughout my life)

[noobyzors]

As long as I can remember. Didn't start to try to get one till I was in like 7th grade.

[strechmarkymark]

I remember being 7 or 8, noticing I was chubbier than other kids at the beach or on the playground, and being aroused by it.

[random_snow03]

16ish I think

[noodle]

Ha. This place is ace. Obviously i've just found this place. and its just nice to hear people voicing what i always felt weird for thinking. i must have been quite young when i fist thought about wanting a fair sized gut. i'd say 10 probably. i remember watching one particular kid and being so jealous of the fact his uniform seemed too small despite the fact it was probably a couple sizes bigger than my twig stylie effort.

[vmanbelly]

It started when i was 15 now 16

[runaway]

when I was 16...a few months before I realized that I can eat whatever I want without gaining :(

[Big_fat_kiddo]

when I was 16...a few months before I realized that I can eat whatever I want without gaining :(

It's called Fast Metabolism, a lot of people have this in their youth. But some people have it longer, even up to their mid 30's. There really isn't much you can do about it, just look at stuff that has enough fats and carbs.

[Oneas]

Well I don't really want one, but since I was about 7 or 8 liked fat guys.

[platypus]

Around the same time that I started realizing I was attracted to other boys, maybe slightly earlier, so at 12-13 years old maybe, I had this phase when I would hide in the bedroom & stuff a big pillow under my T-shirt. Somehow that gave me a thrill as well as a feeling of security & groundedness. Unfortunately, it lacked both the weight & definition of a real belly, and I never made the jump to actually trying to grow one. I think I was (1) afraid of my parents' reaction if I did, (2) ashamed of this 'fetish', (3) soon caught up in the other issue of sexuality and (4) kind of wanted to be able to put it on & take it off whenever I wanted. I do vaguely remember, once I started having dreams about other boys, that some of those dreams involved witnessing their feeding until their bellies were round & tight ... But I think I must have been too confused enough already about being gay to add to the whole maelstrom by exploring this further at the time, so I kind of buried it. I think it may have come back through when I became bulimic for about 8 years (15-23, about). Again, observe the yoyo relationship with a full/big belly implicit in the stuffing oneself/throwing up thing.

By nature I've been fairly slim ever since teenhood, only in the past few years have I gained maybe 15 lbs (not counting my one serious gaining phase, when I gained almost 50 lbs over my previous weight, but lost most of it again once i started again to eat what I wanted/needed rather than in order to gain - I think hitting the 200 lbs mark as a major goal sort of started my slide back down at the time).

Cheers, P.

[pudgymutt]

I've always fantasized about being fat, like when I was younger I would stuff my shirt full of pillows and pretended to be fat. I started to gain when I was about 14 , now I'm 16 and 80 lbs heavier (several inches taller though)

[fatboigainer]

about the same time that I hit puberty. But we still had to eat off of the cave floor back then...lol!

[killingtime]

younger then now... I imagine since the begining in one way or another.

[fawakka]

At the age of 14.

[atwa]

At the age of 16 when I realized how hot it felt to wear clothes that were too small.

[Largeness]

i knew i wanted to be fat when i started getting fatter. i had always been VERY skinny as a little kid. then when i turned about 13 or so i started gaining weight mainly because i think my metabolism caught up with me. i remember i had gained about 30 pounds and my pants didnt fit anymore and i told my mom. and she said " why are they too big?" and i said no they were too small. and she lifted up my shirt and there was my newly aquired fat belly and she couldnt button the button. she said " oh my, you are getting as little chubby mister" from then on i knew i wanted to be fat and get a huge gut.

[LA90077]

I've always been big. In second grade I weighed 130lbs biggest and tallest kid in my class.

[Xman34]

i got interested in the fat thing when i was 11, tried some gaining there, but it didn't work out. Now i'm 16, and i'm trying again. A little harder this time, but i'm only going for a little to see how i like it.

[LA90077]

I think the one piece of advice I would give to you is gain smart. When you gain weight, it takes a toll on your body (and sometimes your health.) So don't look for shortcuts in creating concoctions to maximize calories. Just eat more, excercise a bit less, snack between meals but do make sure you get the "healthy foods" into your body as well to maintain your health.

[jasonthejason]

uhhh, I guess somewhere around 8-14, I'd always think about it but forget about it for months at a time, it wasn't untill last year I actually always want to, or always have it in my mind.

[fatswedeboy]

I was about 10, starting to look at guys bellies, and started to pad with pillows.

[jaybear]

For me, it would have been when I was about 14, when I was growing tall, but not out. I had no muscles and my bones stuck out everywhere and I hated my scrawniness. I knew that I really needed and wanted to be bigger long before I realized that I was gay (and that there were TWO reasons that I loved looking at guys' bellies!). There was only so much "serious stuff" that I could handle at one time! But as time passed, I dealt with my orientation issues and became a happily gay guy. It took a lot longer for my metabolism to slow down so I could become a happily fat guy.

[Wish Fulfillment]

I've always been interested in largeness, but I didn't realise that I wanted to be large until about the end of my eighth-grade year. So roughly three years ago.

[Happenstance]

The desire has been present in my mind for as long as I can remember. Didn't take me long to catch on that it wasn't normal.

[bigburpboy]

i found out about a year ago so i was about 14

[BigGutt]

13, been addicted ever sence

[Barnabas Collins]

I've been a little overweight since I can remember, but I became interested in the gainer/feeder/ admirer community after reading a book obviously written by an admirer. I still don't know if I want to be a gainer though...

[fatlineman72]

i didnt know. ive always had one.

[fatterwill]

I wish I could remember. I must have been about 8 or 9.

[manualgrat]

I remeber very clearly, I was 8 and in second grade, the teacher was a Rahl Dahl fan and it was the first time I had ever laid eyes on the Guiness Book of world records.

I have always been heavy, and havn't intentionaly gained untill the begining of this week.

[trbushinu]

Well, interesting thay you say 'have' - this begs for a definition :)
I don't really want to have one on myself, though, who knows, that may some day be an option. But as for when I 'discovered' being irresistably drawnt to them, well, that woul dbe at a very early age, perhaps 5 or so.

[dream853]

Well, I've always liked the idea of a big belly :p, and i've always been a little overweight.... I didn't think much about intentionally gaining until I joined this site, felt more comfortable, and started posting pics lol. So that was like at the end of April, and I turned 16 in March. But I've always liked my belly like A LOT since I was about 13 and a half hahah

[hih]

at the weeh age of 12

[J_T]

Never really knew, just had one and decided it was better than the opposite.

[stuffedyetthin]

I have aways been a stick figure and wanted a nice big belly. My first memory about it was a dream I had when I was six. At 14 I started seriusly considering actively gaining it. I have been trying on and off since 17. I'm now 19 and skinnier than when I started trying to gain.

[RHCP943]

For me it was in 8th grade at the age of 15 when I came across fatnats

[Skinnydude07]

Since i was a little kid. i dont think a want a huge gut now though, but definatley later in life.

[someperson]

I've always had a fixation on cartoons and TV shows in which a character gains weight.

As time went on I grew more attached to fat than air/water in said shows. At the age of thirteen or so, I managed to convince a younger friend of mine to put on weight...

[dlewism]

when I was 11 or 12 yearsold

[Pwim]

I was 12. I remember it as if it was last week.

I'd put on a tiny bit of weight for one reason or another and had been panicking along the lines of "AAAH! I'm fat!". Of course, I wasn't fat, but it made me aware of people's weight, which I hadn't registered before. Then one day I realized that I preferred it when people were fat, and applied that preference to myself. It took me another year to come up with the idea of deliberately gaining weight though.

It's quite interesting that most people here realized from around that age (12ish) too. I think that says something about the nature of it all. Then there's that period of thinking you're the only person who likes a good belly; before you found the internet communities around it. Most people seem to have had that too. Personally I figured that there probably was another person like me, but that I would never know them or contact them.

[blargh127]

Yeah.. for me it was around 12ish too. That's when I was technically old enough to watch Ed, Edd, and Eddy (mom doesn't like cartoons -_-") and one of the first ones was when Ed was sleep-eating and he grows this huge belly.. haha.. >_< I was twelve.. come on..

[Wish Fulfillment]

I think I was about 11 when I realised.

[Toddle]

I believe it was between 8-10 honestly. I was always padding myself to look fatter when I was in private. I knew since then I wanted to be huge.

[atowncub]

I was always a chubby kid. About a yr ago I was talking to a guy online that was into gaining then I kept hearing about youtube and I guess it took off from there. I am 33

[BigD]

i've thought about when i decided i wanted to be fat before, and i've realized i've liked being fat to some degree for a very, very long time. i've been fat since kindergarten or so (im 16 now), and while for most of the time i wanted to be thin (partly, i think, because of my mom, who managed to hammer into me that i would be miserable if i was fat), i remember times from even 10 years ago when i was enjoying my flab for whatever reason. i officially decided that i liked being fat, i think, in 6th grade, and i've managed to gain nearly 100lbs since then..

[bellypudge]

I've had this preoccupation with fat for so long. There were drawings I drew when I was barely four of people with huge guts... When I first realized I actually wanted to have one of those huge guts was probably more when I was a preteen and now a few years later at just shy of 16 it's actually evolved into something.

[goodgainer]

I dunno. I loved to stare at big guts since I was, like... 6.

[fat6]

I think I was about 13 when I realised

[Zedd1]

At about 15

[mikekeatin]

i only realised at 16 and i am still very small with intentions of gettin a lot bigger !!

[beergut572]

i've been thinking about growing mine out for the past 3-4 years but just very recently have actually started getting an increase in appetite which could be at a better time since i was going to start my gaining the 1st of sept :)
im 25 as well

[akaras]

I'd say probably about 13 or so, give or take a couple years or so. Guess the more I tried to lose, the more I really didn't see the point in it. I guess I thought I'd just be conforming to everyones idealistic and unrealistic standard of beauty.

[wrestlingboy]

For me it was since I was very young.

[fatboyporgy]

I was 9 or 10 but have gained and de gained ever since, i'd like to be quite big just not sure really of how big or when.

[fatdino]

For me, I've always wanted to be fat. I can remember as far back as when I was 5. I never really thought I had what it would take to gain weight and get big. I finally got into packing on the pounds when I was 17, gained 60lbs in a year and havent looked back. I love being fat and want to just keep getting bigger.

[SchismSchasm]

I was interested in fat since about age 5 or so. I think the story "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" was the first spark, and through my childhood I always saw characters in cartoons getting fat in TV shows. I always liked watching that, but I was never really sure why until about 14, which is when I believe I actually realized I was attracted to fat (I was convinced then that it was a phase and that I'd grow out of it, sometimes I still try to kid myself.)

Anyhow, I'd been going along that route for about 3 years, until last year when I came upon some gainer vids on youtube (I believe Jiggly_Gut's was the first, so kudos for being my inspiration, brutha, I still think you've got an amazing gut), and I started getting into the mentality of gaining weight myself as opposed to just seeing others gain it.

So there ya go.

[Obesekid1988]

7 was the age I think I became consciously aware that I liked bellies and wanted one and also the time I started sneaking food and such to try and get one.

[bobbykandal]

I never really thought about it to be honest, growing up I played a ton of sports so I was always really on the thin/athletic body side. I stopped playing competive hockey last year of high school and I guess lost my washboard stomach, I still wasn't really chubby then though, I gained alot first two years of uni...

[Oboeplayer91]

I remember first liking bellies at around 7th grade, I couldn't stop staring at some really fat guys I saw, huge guts just really get me. I then found that I wanted to be fatter so I starting gaining in 8th grade.

[Toddle]

It always seems to be at a young age. Kinda funny, actually. lol

[packingonpounds]

When I was 11 or 12 my brother had a friend that was fat...I became interested at that time...I fantasized about having a belly by stuffing pillows under my shirt...of course the results weren't too realistic...I just continued admiring bellies until I became an adult...now I'm getting my own.

[ruachubbyguy]

I think I always knew but really started when I was in high school and have been working on it ever sense.

[thebigfatstereo]

such similar experiences to my own! thats why i love this forum.

i think as far as i remember i used to fantasize about bein fat. i remember my earliest 'hero' was my uncle. when i was about 4 i used to tell my parents 'i want to be as fat as my uncle'! but obviously they didnt think much of it.

i was skinny most of my childhood, and hated it. i had a very weak apetite while being very active! by the time i was twelve, i realised my true intention of being fat, and i noticed how i really liked looking at other people's fat bellies. and i started getting bigger appetites as well, and actually managed to gain some over the summer holiday! i used to wear tight clothes and look at myself in the mirror, lol.

but then one day my mum realised how fat my belly had got and she was so shocked! made me feel guilty. and ever since i've sort of been on the fence, sometimes gaining but then feeling the social pressure. i have a big extended family and each and every one of them would comment about my weight, lol!
but i think i've gradually been gaining on the long run, as i always gained more than i lost, so i am actually obese right now.

i think the trick is to find excuses for growing fat - for example, if you're a student you can blame it on poor diet. then you can gain even more during exam season or something, and then don't lose it until people get used to you. then you add a bit more next time, etc etc. in my final year at university i gained about 30lb in the last 6 months! (you can see the pics at my peak by the way...).

[jackjackjack]

Interesting how everyone has memories of wanting to be fat from young ages, it seems everytime I think I started at a certain age I think back and remember an earlier memory of wanting to be fat

[fatjigglor]

I grew up reading Garfield comics, and by the time I was 4 I would sneak off with my sugar-covered toast and have 5 or 6 pieces... eventually it wasn't about Garfield anymore, I just liked being fat.

[bellyguy24]

I started early.

I remember being four years old and visiting my Grandmother's house. Two really chubby boys lived down the street, and often came over to play.

One day, we spent an hour or two weighing each other and sneaking food from her basement fridge . . then going back to weigh ourselves again. That day I decided I wanted to be and stay fat.

[ditr0d]

When I finished primary school.
I always like eating and I was trying to gain some weight but I always was thin. Good (or bad whatever) genetics I think + my house don't have lot of snacks and candies because my parents find them unhealthy.

[TidusTT]

id have to say when i was 16, i was interested in seeing fat bellies and that, becaues ive always been kinda chubby, and and its only been the last year and a half that i took gainning seriously adn found the websites and all

[bellybuilder]

I was about 9 yrs old after seing document on children obesity ...

[bigboy7993]

I was 11 or 12, i think.

[Fat_rob]

I realised I wanted to be fat when I was around 6 or so I think, I always admired fat people, and wanted to be one too, I didn't know there was such thing as a gainer till around 12-13 years old, and didn't start gaining till I was 14.

[sypher07]

In High School i was an athelete doing Track and Field so i was always in good shape. When I stopped doing T&R, i started gaining some weight but not a lot, i just lost my muscle tone.

I officially started when i started to enjoy being fatter and when i found out when my GF was an FFA.....she liked me like i was but my expanding waistline was just too tempting i guess...

I gained some weight for her, and she did the same for me. She was also doing Track so she was like little miss hardbody turned plump.

we've been together ever since but i lost some weight since then....

im currently 185lbs.

[Emma]

I wanted to be thin until I was about 16, then I suddenly decided I wanted to be fat (yeah, just like that), but I haven't been too serious about it until now. For 4 years I thought I had fast metabolism, but the fact was that I simply didn't eat right.

[slimdimslim]

I know it since I joined these groups and websites who also admire big guys&guts.
And I started.. well.... one year ago - but I prefer to take it slowly ;)

[bg1cub]

For me it was at 14. My best friend at school was a beautiful chubby guy. I started imagining myself being like him

[csys64759]

I was about 8 and people made fun of me for being skinny. Not no more! Wha ha ha. I pounded those kids when I got bigger than them. All in good fun of course.

[collegegainer]

when i started to go to college

[biggerjackhorner]

from as young as i can remember i used to be jealous of the other lads at school who were BIG!

[FatGuyBelly]

id say when i wuz 11 i started wantin one.

[Auspex]

Never needed the epiphany, I just needed a push to start the ball rolling :p

[tom82]

I was 15 years old

[redvein]

I was around 18 when I first found out about the whole gaining and encourageing thing, but I always wanted a big belly, ever since I was little.

[glutgainer]

Seems like I haven't posted in that topic yet.

I have always wanted to have a big belly. My first attempt on "gaining" was between 2004 (I was 13) and 2005 and I put like 20 lbs in that period by eating chocolate bars (!). Then I got a huge "is getting fat really what i want"-like doubt and lost all the weight I managed to put on. Even if I remember that Autumn 2005 was not a great time, I think that it has teached me a lot of things.

Then I started again two years ago exactly (June 2, 2006 ; where is the birthday gâteau ?!) at 145 lbs. Since then, I have never had so big breakdowns and I am still actively gaining. I'm now around 235.

[uklad3107]

I think I was around age 12. Don't remember a specific instance where it started, just developed over time and now it's my number one goal.

[luvfattys16]

ive only jst startd

[gaining2getreallyfat]

umm i think i was 12 when i wanted to hav a massive belly

[Al. Truistic]

When I was three or four I realized I liked it, but it wasn't till 10 or 11 that I realized what that feeling meant xD

[nitsuj22]

When I was 4 or 5 i used to stuff! That young I knew!

[bichubbyguy]

when i was around 13 or 14

[gluttony]

I was 4...I use to stuff my shirt...I discovered the gaining community when I was 12.

[nikezoom787]

about 11 i think

[totebo23]

I would say i was attracted to bigness from as early as age 6, but gaining, since 14

[harryfatboi]

4 or 5 i was in bed and pretending that i won big belly competitions not realising there was such a thing. then when i was about 14 i realised tht people actually gained on purpose!

[KPHunter]

I guess it makes me an oddity here to say I never originally wanted a big belly. Actually, I hated it, and it made me incredibly uncomfortable in public when I was younger. It's only very, very recently I've begun to appreciate it. I look in the mirror after a shower and for the first time I don't cringe, I actually like what I see. Hell, I love it. :P

[SpoiledChad]

When I realized that I liked big bellies which was around 4 or 5, I remember trying to stick my belly out as far as I could to make it seem big

[Damien0708]

I think I was around 11 when I first realized I wanted to be huge. Well, actually, around that time I thought that big people were cool, but I didn't actually START gaining at that point. However, when I was 13, I found some website with some "doctor" (he wasn't real, of course) but he had lots of tips on how to get fat, and I actually did get really big that year, but unfortunately I lost it all until a few years ago.

[pickled]

i wanted one since i was little, ive been actually gaining since i was 12

[kumquat]

I have aways been a stick figure and wanted a nice big belly. My first memory about it was a dream I had when I was six. At 14 I started seriusly considering actively gaining it. I have been trying on and off since 17. I'm now 19 and skinnier than when I started trying to gain.

Same here although I was a little older. maybe ten. and then when I was like 13 I stumbled onto this site and its all downhill from there

[ukfa]

I can't remember exactly but I was VERY young.
I remember laying with my head on my grandads big belly when I was a kid and ever since then I've been almost obsessed with nice fat bodies.

[Sanaan]

Once, when I was real young, maybe 2 or 3, there was this one HUGE guy in our church. I would walk around and watch his fat jiggle, hidden under that tight buttoned shirt. It was awesome. Then I decided I liked big bellies. I hadn't looked into gaining until about two years ago. Now I started actively gaining at the beginning of the year.

[whaddup]

I started off being obsessed with sumo wrestlers ha......and then found websites like this and yeah

[63cars]

I actually never wanted a big belly myself, but I've been infatuated (no pun) with them since I was probably 5-6. It's nice to read someone else puffed their stomach out as a kid cause they thought it was cool. I did too even though I was a toothpick! I still appreciate a buff body, but I really prefer the ex body builder type body who's drinking more beer and gets a nice ball gut. Big or small, young or older, they all look great to me. I'm only just now thinking about growing one myself so I will finally know if it feels as cool as it looks. I can't believe how much I have to eat. That's the challenge for me.

[JeffandV]

I was around 13 when I initially became interested and I don't know what started it.

[GrowingFoxy]

im not sure exactly, i was really young though. i know i always admired a man with a big belly and that i wanted to be big and fat too as a kid. i couldnt ever get fat though becuase of how fast my metabolism was and how weak appetite was also. heh, i remember i'd pad myself will pillows to make myself look fat :p. i had always wanted to get fat but really started to "try" and gain about maybe 2 years ago when i was 14, but im not doing such a great job at it.

[LoveBigBellies]

I am not sure when my admiration of big bellies began, but I remember liking them when I was very young =)

[XxxanxxX]

i was 13 when i knew i wanted to gain & have a big belly

[GordoFatMe]

When I was 5 xD
I always used to think about to get fatter, but I thought it was too difficult for me. Now it's not so impossible.
A year ago I was confused if I wanted or not to get fat. Now I'm starting really.

[Dizza156]

Ummm i was allways fat and i lloveeedd it...
But now im losing weight to fit into atleast XXL! :D

[BiggerMe94]

Since i was about 6 i guess. Finally I think about a month ago I made my choice to gain, not too much but enough.

[KitsuneFox]

It was around age 15 I realized I wanted to gain. Progress is so slow...

[thefattest9]

at 12, now 15

[largeincharge255]

Um, I think like 10 when I saw the episode of Goosebumps: Say Cheese And Die Again...

[ktcj66]

I know I was pretty young. I started gaining weight around 2nd grade. Ever since then, I've been fat. I like my round softness, and I have always admired other large bellies.

[ukinsomniac]

for me it was a 'hate turn to love' thing - i used to be really judgemental of fat people when i was young and all 'how can you let yourself get like that!' - and then i started getting a bit obssessed about it, and started looking at pictures of it... and then i started to enjoy looking at it hehe

i didnt think about getting fat myself until i was 16 and found bellybuilders - it honestly never occurred to me before that i had a choice to be thin or fat - i was just thin and that was the end of it.

im still exploring myself in terms of what i want my body to look like and how i feel about getting fat myself, im 22 now so thats 6 years and im still deciding hehe - but im enjoying the experience so whether or not i go up or down i have no regrets :)

[oookkk]

i remember stayin around my friends house when i was about 12-13, and it was just us two and his older brother for the week. his brother walked around shirtless for the whole week and he had a pretty slim body, except for a huge gut sticking out in front. i thought it looked awesome and have always wanted to be like that since. it is only last year thatt i started to gain though.

[youngchubby1984]

When I was about eight and I saw this cartoon where Goofy got fat...The idea was hot.

[fatnate2012]

when i was 13

[EmjoyMe2800]

Probably only about a couple years ago...

[Littlebelly]

I've been interested in bellies since I was about 5-ish and I'd pad with pillows (as apparently, many other did). I started actually gaining about 2 years ago and it's been slow going, but I've got a pot belly that's hard to hide, so I'd call that progress.

[fatfatfatandfat]

when i was 10

[The Saxon Master]

15, but then wavered a bit

[bladeedge80]

About age 13

[eott34]

Just in the past few months actually. I came across a site like this and I was interested, but brushed it off. Then this site appeared on a certain humor site and I knew I had to do it!

[ruachubbyguy]

I was 10 and all I wanted to do was eat and get bigger and bigger. In fact that is all I want today.

[valek500]

for me i started wanting a big gut at abot 18:).

[TummyLover]

I knew like Sophomore year of high school.

[Dasoj]

I knew in Year 8 or so of High School, when I was about 13. I really wanted to get bigger, until I was huge :p
Even so, I knew I liked bigger bellies ages before... I always loved the weight gain cartoons and greatly admired my friend's huge belly! :D
I only started actively gaining in Year 9 though, age 14. But I've made good progress in the three years it's been :)

[J. C. Beck]

Hmmm- let me thing back, wayyyyy back to 1961 or so!

My best mate was so cute in his undies then, and I had a deep, deep crush going for several years. We moved at the end of eighth grade, so "my Butchy" and I became less and less close. Since, I've always had a DEEP FONDNESS for Irish guys, like Butchy. Indeed, my partner at present of many years is much like him.

"Taking care of unfinished business" -- yeah, I can do that.

Good luck to all, if this may be your own aim. Getting started early: it helps in many, many ways. And, it "helps" to know what you want!!!!!!!!!!

[andy]

I unintentionally started getting fat at 12, and I've been big ever since.

[Caligari]

I knew really young. Under 10, maybe even 8. I actually started to gain at age 14.

[lolzorz]

From when I was a little kid I knew I liked big people, but really from when I was about 11 I knew I wanted to be with a big guy and possibly be big myself.

[bulk_al]

12 .. when i saw a garfield cartoon

[aspirant]

I guess when I turned 40, and realised I was one of the few guys in my social circle that didn't have at least the beginnings of a big gut. It made me feel somehow less masculine, and I began to see guys with guts as sexy in a way I hadn't done before. I also started to question why I was denying myself that packet of biscuits, that extra slice of cake or piza etc Gaining a belly has made me feel more confident and at peace with myself.

[tubby255]

Well, I'm not quite sure... I think the desire started about my 7th grade year. I'm not quite sure why, though. I was about 190 at the time, a little chubby, but not bad. I started gaining a little weight, mostly unintentionally. I got to about 220 that way. Then I started actually trying, and it took me to where I am now, at about 285. This is after my freshman year in college. However, I don't think I'll be gaining anymore. I'll probably be losing some weight (makes it easier to attract the ladies :))

[newbeerbelly]

Ive been interested in gainers since I was in 8th grade. The site of a guy with a growing belly is soooo ummm.

[Dan0823]

I've been interested in gaining since I had like 12 years old but started three weeks ago.

[doughboy]

I had a little "starter belly" when I was in my late teens, which stayed like that until I was in my twenties, where I became a baker. I started getting heavier on the job from eating fresh-baked bread so much. I went from heavy to fat. I never thought to take pictures of the process. This is why I keep telling you with the "starter bellies" to get and save the pics.

[myanku]

i dont know it was before i even remember thinking it was weird or anything, i must have been like 3-4

[tnenamrep2033]

Into stuffing myself since 8th grade, but metab dropped out last spring (16yo), then I started gaining!

[big_j]

4th grade. Back to being skinny though.

[admirer1969]

Probably around 16 or 17 I started to notice the growing guts of the guys around me in high school...

[nickbue]

I guess it was about 12 or 13, while being at primary school...always been a bit chubbeh since child

[awesomefatkid]

well i did not try to get big, i was just fat since i was in 6th grade

[betterbefatter]

t age 6-7 I wanted to get HUge

[Zorg]

Pretty late actually, I lost a lot of weight around 17 and then around 19 I knew I wanted it back.

[Jay112]

Not sure really, I think when I was around 14 or so

[JMB2003]

I had kind of convinced myself at 17 that I wanted to pursue gaining after I quit going to the gym and put on 15 or so pounds. For a while I thought it was pretty unusual that I never really gave it much thought, but after putting on those few pounds that I really wanted to put on more and more, eventually deciding that I want to hit at least 300 pounds.

Then I thought back far to being a kid and remembered doing stuff like putting a pillow under my shirt, or really liking the episode of Goosebumps where the kid finds an evil camera that ends up making him fat.

So I suppose I always liked the idea. I just never went for it until it kind of started on it's own.

[thorben]

I started gaining when I was about 14 years old and weight 180lbs.
Now I'm 21 and since then I gained 130lbs.
It was great to feel the first fat around my stomach.
It's incredible how it feels now. All the softness all over my body, the stretchmarks, the moobs.....:D

[Diagonal]

Some time in junior high.

[manager_07_richy]

Situation: My big bro (6'7, 260 pounds, 27 y.o.) started having me over on weekends to hang out/play video games/watch movies (just basically whatever) about 4 years ago. From Friday night to Sunday night our food intake was primarily pizza, hot pockets, McDonald's, and an occasional beer or two.

Then: 5'9, 170 pounds, 16 y.o.
Now: 6'0, 220 pounds, 20 y.o.

[lovehandles42]

Sometime during middle school. I wavered during high school when I played baseball, but now I'm more confident about it... in private, anyway.

[fatbellyman]

Early this summer but i STILL haven't desided weather i want to or not.

[doughboy]

When I was about 14 years old, I had a little, soft "starter belly" and could pinch about 2 or 3 centimetres (about 1 inch) of fat.

[blubber gut]

Pretty early. Even as a kid I remeber padding my t-shirt with pillows to give me a big belly :)

[maxwell edison]

When I was 1o and saw King-Size Homer.

Highest I've ever gotten was 195.

Would love to get there again.

[Guygut2004]

I don't know whted being interested in this scene, but I do distinctly remember at around 12-13 being fascinated (read; turned on) by fitness mags with before/afters and the body for life comparisons.

Got into BF and BB.com around 15 so been lurking for approx 6 years, and over the time it's amazing the changes I've had, honestly by accident. Remember bloating up to 70kg in yr 9 and thinking it was huge! gradually went up to 85, then diated/exercised down to 78kg last year... then, really without intentionally trying (just partying...ALOT) I've ended up at 105kg this year... kinda love it but don't like getting winded walking up stairs! haha.

[Ben]

From what I can remember I've always wanted to be fat.
From family friends parents who's parents were overweight.
To watching King Size Homer to the Santa Claus.
I'm hoping to start gaining in my mid 20's, and get to about 400lbs.

[Driveshaft]

7th grade when I popped a massive boner when Chris Farley did the Chippendales dance.
Yes.

[todin]

I would say around 14, I was always underweight, and honestly I took alot of teasing with that. People claimed I MUST be anorexic and even once our health teacher spent the whole class talking about anorexia and staring at me anytime he mentioned that some of your friends may even had it (he kept reminding us this")

I remember thinking why I was always picked on, I mean wherever you look there's all this media saying that you should always be thin, blah blah, blah.

I probabally told myself I wanted to do it a month or two after that, at around 100Lbs and 5'6.

[littlegut]

I was always a heavy kid in middle and high school, but did not come to know I wanted to intentionally gain more weight until college.

[Bigdood]

Well I've always been a chubby kid. I've been gaining on purpose recently though.

[txgunbounder]

I'd say about 10 years old. I had a copy of Disney Adventures that introduced me to sumo wrestling for the first time. I found it strangely interesting. Later on I stumbled upon a chubby bear site on accident around 1998 and was just so amazed with their bellies.

[lovehandles42]

When I was 6 or 7, always stuffing things under my shirt. I did get chubby in middle school, then thinned out in high school, and have (until recently) unintentionally put on some 20 pounds since starting college last year.

[dizzel16]

i guess when i was 10 er 11 i started getting chubby i had always been a skinny kid, and i rlly ddnt notice at 1st till i couldnt fit into my jeans lol so i jus got biggr & biggr by 12 i rlly liked it & was bout 120 lbs so i jus tried gettn biggr & its ben awesum

[fatfer]

I've always been chubby, but I was actually interested in gainers since I was kid.

[bloatandfloat]

im going to say fourteenish...

[big_j92]

I think a few years ago, when I was 15. One day it just sort of appealed to me, and it's the best thing ever!

[kevindellerin]

As far back as I can remember.

[Insane_Kobain]

Right at the end of my sophomore year, when I was around 17.

[biguytony90]

i actually decided when i was about the age of 10, i remember even stuffing my shirt with pillows when i was in my bedroom playing with my toys i would even eat alot and step on the scale hoping i gained at least three pounds when sadly i didnt, it was even to the point where i even gave my GI Joe action figure a beer belly.

[shortfat]

First was interested as a child. I think it was about age 5 or 6. Family tends to gain weight, so before I really understood this "thing" i fought gaining with some success for a long time. Finally about 12 or 13 years ago, I discovered some of these sites, and that started me to gain, i was in my early 40's

[akaras]

Loved watching gaining in the cartoons as a kid. Never really thought about the prospect of growing my own until sometime in high school, maybe 14 or so. In fact, up 'till that point I was even trying to lose the weight sometimes.

[zNigel]

I probably didn't get interested until I was in 6th grade. I had a huge gym teacher with a big belly that just fascinated me. That was the start of it!

[ricardo7]

I enjoyed looking but could never gain. Tried a few times but always failed & would give up until I met my inspiration. At 14 I started my steady gaining. Since then I've always carried at least an extra 100+ pounds. One of these days I may meet a new inspiration & up the ante :)

[miniwebbo]

Well I went from fat to skinny to very fat, so when I wanted the gut I'd say just over a year.

[pootpassion]

at age 13, I believe.

[ian86]

at 23 lol, kinda late but whatever

[admjg8]

hope i don't get banned for saying this but i never personally wanted a big belly. i just always admired them on other people ever since i was about eleven

[schmidty2012]

At what age did you all know that you wanted to have a big belly???

hmmmm, it was just a couple years ago. i love guys with big bellies. its a major turn on and i love to see the fat jiggle

[Sumobelly]

I wanted a big belly since I was 14

[hungrydragon]

Actually, when I was 21, I thought about it. It wasn't until a few months ago did I really wanted a ball belly. :]

[gekjh]

About a month ago

[PaulMayer]

I always wanted to be fat, but i really started some months ago. Maybe i should eat just more

[bogie12002]

Oh man it must have been when I was about 10... really remember the interest