So Awsome!!

[Fat boy]

Ok, so today we had my mom's brothers over and her parents for lunch and my uncle was there. After we had lunch and desert we sat down and started to talk for a little while. While we were sitting there my uncle was sitting there pulled up his shirt to reveal this massive hairy gut. He sat there poking it, shaking it, rubbing it, and bouncing it around. Then he started to complain about how fat he was. He then went to the bathroom to use the scale. He came out and said, "I only weigh 334 now. Up from 328. I guess I am doing pretty good on my "diet". It was totally awsome!!

[gryboy09]

wow thats a great story i wish that would happen to me....u should some how slide the question if he is a gainer into it. like "i hate being fat too, but am okay with it...."or something a little more discrete then that

[jaybear]

my uncle pulled up his shirt to reveal this massive hairy gut. He sat there poking it, shaking it, rubbing it, and bouncing it around. Then he started to complain about how fat he was. He then went to the bathroom to use the scale. He came out and said, "I only weigh 334 now. Up from 328. I guess I am doing pretty good on my "diet". It was totally awsome!!
Sounds to me as if he's noticed your size and was trying to give you the message that it's okay to be fat. ;)

[Barnabas Collins]

I agree with jaybear. I think that he's being sarcastic, but then again, I have no context to this. Has he always been fat? Has this new "diet" actually added other pounds or was this just a splurge?

[fat hiker]

Ok, so today we had my mom's brothers over and her parents for lunch and my uncle was there. After we had lunch and desert we sat down and started to talk for a little while. While we were sitting there my uncle was sitting there pulled up his shirt to reveal this massive hairy gut. He sat there poking it, shaking it, rubbing it, and bouncing it around. Then he started to complain about how fat he was. He then went to the bathroom to use the scale. He came out and said, "I only weigh 334 now. Up from 328. I guess I am doing pretty good on my "diet". It was totally awsome!!

How totally awesome that you have a scale that goes above 300 pounds!

[jaybear]

How totally awesome that you have a scale that goes above 300 pounds!
For me, it was totally awesome when I realized that the scale I had here would have to be replaced cuz it only went to 250 (it was old as the hills) and that I was approaching the top line! Went shopping and had some trouble finding reliable looking ones that went very high. The one I have here now goes to 330 and I figure that will hold me for now. Although I'd love to have to get a higher one some day... :p

[Fat boy]

I agree with jaybear. I think that he's being sarcastic, but then again, I have no context to this. Has he always been fat? Has this new "diet" actually added other pounds or was this just a splurge?

He has been fat since he was a kid and his doctor tells him he needs to loose weight just like my doctor says I need to.

[Fat boy]

Sounds to me as if he's noticed your size and was trying to give you the message that it's okay to be fat. ;)

I don't know, he has always kind of joked about my weight. Like, he would poke my gut or grab and shake it. Another really cool thing is when I stay the night with my cousin he will usually take his shirt off after supper. Then he will complain about his weight and say he is fat. Then he will go grab some chips or some cookies and pig out. When he is finished he will poke, shake, and smack his gut which is really cool!!

[gryboy09]

that sounds like he is into being fat...congrats.. now the hard part is telling him ur into it

[jaybear]

I don't know, he has always kind of joked about my weight. Like, he would poke my gut or grab and shake it. Another really cool thing is when I stay the night with my cousin he will usually take his shirt off after supper. Then he will complain about his weight and say he is fat. Then he will go grab some chips or some cookies and pig out. When he is finished he will poke, shake, and smack his gut which is really cool!!
Wish I'd had a family like that! I really think the message being given to you is very positive. That you're okay and have nothing to fear... And I really hope that's the case for you. It's so much easier to gain with some support and not the family ganging up against the fatguy...

[SlipperyFish05]

that sounds like he is into being fat...congrats.. now the hard part is telling him ur into it

Would it really be that hard? Maybe all he would have to do is ask his uncle the next time he 'complains' about his belly or starts playing around with it if he actually likes being fat. If so, you can say you are into it too. If not, just say there is nothing wrong with it and say 'honestly, I don't know what the big deal is with trying to be thin. I'm fat and if I get fatter, it's fine by me, I am not going any kind of diet." ....

[Fat boy]

Ok, after an awsome week at the lake I do have an awsome story to tell. We were all going to the lake. Me, my family, my grandparents, my aunts, uncles, and cousins. Before I went to the lake I had to buy a new swimming suit. The only ones I had from previous years were a mens small and did not fit any more. So I went out to buy a new one. I grabbed one I liked in a medium and went to the fitting rooms. It slid right up, but no way in hell was I going to get it buttoned and tied. So I went and got a large and it fit. It was just a little snug but I was okay with it. So off to the lake. When I went into the bathroom to but on my swimming trunks I saw my dad's in there. I had to look and see what size his was. It was a size Medium!! I had surpassed him!!! Lately he has been complaining because he went from 180 to 197 and had to go from a size 34 jeans to a size 36. He keeps saying he is a fatass and needs to loose some weight. :confused: Anyway, I also saw my uncles in there. His was a size XL!! I was just one size behind him. I can not wait to be as big as him. Right now he weighs like 330. So then I got mine on and headed for the water. My uncle and a couple of his buds were sitting on the deck when I walked out. He looked over and said,
"Hey there big....... big guy!". I said hey and and headed for the water.

Later he came down to the water. He said he was just checking on us. My cousin was down there to with a couple of his friends. Then my uncle told me he wanted to talk to me. He said, "Its been a while since you been swimming huh?" I said, "Yep." Then he says, "It looks as if you have gotten alot bigger." I said, "Yeah I have gotten a little bigger. Putting on a "few" pounds!" He just laughs. "What is the last number in your weight?", he asked? I said a zero. He says, "do you weigh 150?". Me, "No." Him, "Do you weigh 160?" Me, "Higher." Him, "180?" Me, "Higher." Then he says, "OH SHIT!! Do you weigh 200?" Me, "No Higher." Him, "F**k! Do you weigh 220?" Me, "Lower." Him, "Thank god! 210?" Me, "Yep, 210 pounds." Then he pokes my gut. Him, "Sometime you and me will have to go on a diet, but that won't be anytime soon." Then he sits there smacking and rubbing his gut. He says, "Alright I'm going to go and have a beer." Then he smacks my gut and walks away.

Now that was pretty damn awsome!!!!!!!!!! :D :D :D

[gryboy09]

nice....i think we all agree that we wish our uncles were like that. lol

[Barnabas Collins]

Nice, very nice. I find it interesting he suggested a diet and then assured you that it would be a while before that happens. Perhaps that means he's been teased about dieting like you, but he is really a gainer too.

[FatMike]

I hope you guys realise that people who like been fat, or who put weight on do not necessarily mean they're gainers.
Just a bit tired of seeing the whole thing constantly been thrown up when family members or friends have gained a bit of weight, and suddenly some of our members think they're gainers. The chance of anyone been a gainer is VERY, VERY, VERY RARE.

[nkouraged]

I hope you guys realise that people who like been fat, or who put weight on do not necessarily mean they're gainers.
Just a bit tired of seeing the whole thing constantly been thrown up when family members or friends have gained a bit of weight, and suddenly some of our members think they're gainers. The chance of anyone been a gainer is VERY, VERY, VERY RARE.

Rare but not as improbable as all that. Granted, most of the evidence in this case could be skewed to create a premature conclusion, but my first experience in gaining and encouraging involved my cousin (he was ten, I was fourteen) over the course a couple of summers. He gained about 40 pounds over two years because I encouraged him to eat for me. [And no, I'm not about to go into detail for anyone, because since that time I concluded that regardless how hot it might have been (there wasn't sex, just physical horseplay), it was a form of child abuse, and I'm not proud of it.]

My point is, if you examine the evidence of how often phenomenae like child abuse and the formation of eating disorder behaviors happen within the family unit, it isn't a stretch to extend that to a gaining and encouraging situation. I stress strongly that it isn't a desirable situation to have it occur between family members of different generations. There are sound psychological reasons why there are taboos in our society against inappropriate cross-generational interactions.

Edit: For those of you who are interested, any overriding desire to alter the body to a degree that departs from the socially- and medically-defined norm and carries an amount of risk to the quality of life falls under the category of body dysmorphism, which can be found in the texts of psychiatric manuals and is often judged to be the root of eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa. Most of us don't want to hear a fetish labeled a mental disorder, but please keep in mind I'm not condemning gaining by any means. We all have our neuroses and their degrees, and most of us are still functional, and essentially good people.

We (gainers) tend to think of ourselves as a small bunch simply because of the number of people actively labeling themselves as such on the internet. What it comes down to is that there may be far more gainers out there than we know exist because they've chosen not to act on those desires, or they'd prefer to keep it to fantasy, or, they just don't know that what they like is called gaining or that there's even a community around it. Believe it or not, there are people out there who don't use the internet at all. Most of them are the members of previous generations who just didn't have tools like the internet to connect with others like them and are invisible because of it. (Sounds a lot like gay history in general, doesn't it?)

[dlewism]

fat does run in famlies

[AFatChance]

I really don't believe that...at all. Maybe, some of it, but not the fact that he sits around smacking it all the time.

[Matuso]

Yeah, I was gonna say. This sounds really fake. How many uncles go "MAN I'M GETTIN' FAT LOOKIT MY BELLY ISN'T IT HUGE *slap slap jiggle* MMM GIVE SOME MORE ICE CREAM I LOVE ICE CREAM DAMN I'M FAT"?

[buy more product]

Deja vu, anyone?