#How to Calculate BMI?

[troglobite]

fatphobia & hereditary heart disease fears will have me warning my dr that being sleep deprived and inactive lately bc of health stuff will surely have raised my blood pressure

then she takes it and it's fucking 110/70, literally perfect.

[mangled-by-disuse]

I have such mixed feelings about the love languages thing specifically, because, like, gary chapman fucking sucks and there's no scientific validity to his work BUT

at the same time, i do think there's some value in recognising and discussing the fact that different people need different expressions of love in different amounts? Especially in relationships.

Like, I have just recently been having a discussion with my partner about how he really doesn't tend to express his affection through gifts, whereas (as someone who is mega-bad at expressing sincere feeling) I do rely heavily on giving gifts and doing things for people as a less scary way to express love. Joe doesn't like giving gifts, because he's scared he'll do it wrong, and is only so-so on receiving them. He prefers to express love through physical contact and saying nice things. I hate having nice things said to me unless I am allowed to immediately rebut them with a joke or sarcastic comment that makes them less scarily close to emotional honesty. too many words of affirmation and i will genuinely just start avoiding you because it is painfully awkward to me.

and none of that means we are fundamentally different categories of people, which is where the 5 Love Languages stuff falls into being absolute bollocks. but I have seen, and done, enough throwing the baby out with the bathwater on that to be a little defensive - I think reasonable applications of the concept are actually really quite valuable. and for me, the taxonomy Chapman suggests (words of affirmation, quality time, gifts, acts of service, physical touch) while not at all exhaustive or thorough, is a useful framework to hang those conversations on. bc, like, no, the way people communicate and receive affection is not universal, and from personal experience, assuming that it is can have really significant problems for a relationship.

...you could argue that this is parallel to BMI in terms of "tools being used in totally not the way they should be used" though, tbf.

I can't keep having the same conversations about love languages, mbti, iq, bmi, "brain fully formed at 25" and shit over and over again...

[diabetesreversalprograminindia]

Understanding BMI in Simple Words

BMI, or Body Mass Index, is a simple number that helps you understand whether your weight is right for your height. It’s one of the most common ways to check if you fall into a healthy weight range.

How is BMI Calculated?

It’s quite easy! You just divide your weight (in kilograms) by your height (in meters squared). Formula: BMI = Weight (kg) ÷ Height (m²)

This gives you a number that falls into one of these categories:

Underweight: Less than 18.5

Normal: 18.5 to 24.9

Overweight: 25 to 29.9

Obese: 30 and above

These categories are provided by the World Health Organization (WHO) to help understand weight-related health risks.

But Wait – It’s Not That Simple

While BMI gives a general idea, it doesn’t tell the whole story. It doesn’t consider muscle mass, age, gender, or body type. For example, a fit athlete with more muscle might have a high BMI but still be very healthy. Also, people from different ethnic backgrounds may have different healthy weight ranges. That’s why BMI is just one tool, not a final answer.

Why Do We Still Use BMI?

Because it’s quick, easy, and helpful for basic screening. It’s especially useful when you want to get a starting point to assess your weight and plan your health journey.

What FFD Believes

At Freedom From Diabetes (FFD), we treat BMI as a guide. We’ve seen that people who bring their BMI into a healthy range often gain better control over diabetes and other conditions. But we never judge someone by a number alone.

Don’t stress too much about achieving a “perfect” BMI. Focus on feeling healthy, active, and balanced. BMI is just one part of a bigger picture that includes lifestyle, diet, fitness, and mindset.Read more, visit our blog. https://www.freedomfromdiabetes.org/blog/post/body-mass-index-bmi/3957

[danieyells]

"i'll let the doctor know your concerns nd get back to you"

Cool. Thanks.

I'm like 240lbs or something you're telling me NOW to lose 20 lbs by next month why didn't you tell me A MONTH OR TWO AGO about the weight thing so we could have A PROPER DATE INSTEAD OF YOU TELLING ME LAST MINUTE THAT IT'LL NEED TO BE RESCHEDULED.

I don't wanna lose weight! I don't lose weight easily because i am naturally chubby and also i have a bad back!! My parents were fat!!! Most people in my father's side if the family are fat!!! Idr my grandparents but i bet they were bigger too!!! My brother exercises a lot and does a lot of physical work and doesn't eat the same way or the same things i do!!! And his back and knees and such are healthier than mine!!! So he's much smaller!!!! But i've been chubby for a long time and frankly i like being chubby!!!!

And expecting me to lose 20lbs on short notice is absolutely insane anyway. Why sre you telling me about a goal weight a month out. Fuck off schedule me a hospital. Which is where i thought we were going in the first place

What do you mean he only noticed my BMI now while doing my booking. You've known my weight for a good while

/o\

[pnbmetlife123]

How to Calculate Your BMI: A Simple Guide

Discover your Body Mass Index (BMI) with our easy-to-follow guide. Understand what your BMI means for your health and learn the simple calculation.

Visit Us: https://www.pnbmetlife.com/calculators/bmi-calculator.html

[diabetes-health-corner]

Understanding Body Mass Index (BMI)

BMI is a calculation based on an individual's weight and height. It is calculated by dividing an individual's weight in kilograms by the square of their height in meters (kg/m²). This simple numerical value is validated by research to estimate body fat levels. While BMI is essential for assessing potential weight-related health risks, one must consider a holistic viewpoint of a person before jumping to any conclusion.

Read more on BMI: https://www.freedomfromdiabetes.org/blog/post/body-mass-index-bmi/3957

[bookdoctorconsultationonline]

How To Calculate Body Mass Index (BMI)? at Livlong

How to calculate BMI? The Body Mass Index (BMI) calculator can be used to calculate BMI and weight status while taking age into account. Visit Livlong for more details.

[allhealthneedsdoctorconsultation]

How To Calculate Body Mass Index (BMI)? at Livlong

How to calculate BMI? The Body Mass Index (BMI) calculator can be used to calculate BMI and weight status while taking age into account. Visit Livlong for more details.

https://livlong.com/blogs/fitness-nutrition/how-to-calculate-bmi

[fatliberation]

hi, i'm a fat person who is just starting to learn to love and appreciate my body and i'm very new to the fat community and all that.

i was wondering if you could maybe explain the term ob*se and how it is a slur. i've never heard anything about it being a slur before(like i said, i'm very new here) and was wondering if you could tell me the origin and history of the word or mayy provide links to resources about it? i want to know more about fat history and how to support my community but i'm unsure of how to start

Welcome!

Obesity is recognized as a slur by fat communities because it's a stigmatizing term that medicalizes fat bodies, typically in the absence of disease. Aside from the word literally translating to "having eaten oneself fat" in latin, obesity (as a medical diagnosis) straight up doesn't actually exist. The only measure that we have to diagnose people with obesity is the BMI, which has been widely proven to be an ineffective measure of health.

The BMI was created in the 1800s by a statistician named Adolphe Quetelet, who did NOT sudy medicine, to gather statistics of the average height and weight of ONLY white, european, upper-middle class men to assist the government in allocating resources. It was never intended as a measure of individual body fat, build, or health. 

Quetelet is also credited with founding the field of anthropometry, including the racist pseudoscience of phrenology. Quetelet’s l’homme moyen would be used as a measurement of fitness to parent, and as a scientific justification for eugenics.

Studies have observed that about 30% of so-called "normal weight" people are "unhealthy" whereas about 50% of so-called "overweight" people are “healthy”. Thus, using the BMI as an indicator of health results in the misclassification of some 75 million people in the United States alone. "Healthy" lifestyle habits are associated with a significant decrease in mortality regardless of baseline body mass index.  

While epidemiologists use BMI to calculate national "obesity" rates, the distinctions can be arbitrary. In 1998, the National Institutes of Health lowered the overweight threshold from 27.8 to 25—branding roughly 29 million Americans as "overweight" overnight—to match international guidelines. Articles about the "obesity epidemic" often use this pseudo-statistic to create a false fear mongering rate at which the United States is becoming fatter. Critics have also noted that those guidelines were drafted in part by the International Obesity Task Force, whose two principal funders were companies making weight loss drugs. Interesting!!!

So... how can you diagnose a person with a disease (and sell them medications) solely based upon an outdated measure that was never meant to indicate health in the first place? Especially when "obesity” has no proven causative role in the onset of any chronic condition?

There is a reason as to why fatness was declared a disease by the NIH in 1998, and some of it had to do with acknowledging fatness as something that is NOT just about a lack of willpower - but that's a very complicated post for another time. You can learn more about it in the two part series of Maintenance Phase titled The Body Mass Index and The Obesity Epidemic.

Aside from being overtly incorrect as a medical tool, the BMI is used to deny certain medical treatments and gender-affirming care, as well insurance coverage. Employers still often offer bonuses to workers who lower their BMI. Although science recognizes the BMI as deeply flawed, it's going to be tough to get rid of. It has been a long standing and effective tool for the oppression of fat people and the profit of the weight loss industry.

More sources and extra reading material:

How the Use of BMI Fetishizes White Embodiment and Racializes Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings

The Bizarre and Racist History of the BMI by Aubrey Gordon

The Racist and Problematic History of the Body Mass Index by Adele Jackson-Gibson

What's Wrong With The War on Obesity? by Lily O'Hara, et al.

Fearing The Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings

[bonyblushangel]

100 reasons not to eat

1. so you don’t sweat like a pig

2. so you can look cute in every clothing

3. so you can fit into children clothing

4. so you get that skinny high every time you go out and look better than others

5. so you put on tight clothes and people gasp seeing your tiny waist

6. so people give you concerned comments

7. so you don’t get annoyed by the folds on your belly

8. so everyone’s jealous

9. so people are worried when they get you XS clothes it would be too big on you

10. so every guy/girl/person stares at you thinking how tiny and fragile you are

11. so your thighs don’t touch

12. so you feel light and empty

13. so you’re confident and pretty

14. so people lift you up without asking

15. so you don’t feel scared to sit in someone’s lap

16. so you can see all your bones

17. so you’re delicate and fragile

18. for the “you’re so tiny I’m scared I’ll break you”

19. so he’s/she’s/they’re extra gentle with you

20. for the “omg you have my dream body”

21. to finally be respected and loved

22. for the shocked faces of the people who hurt you

23. so you don’t look like crap in every picture

24. so you’re finally not disgusted to look in the mirror

25. so you always feel cold and comfortable in warm clothes (not sweat in them)

26. so people want to go out with you

27. so people don’t laugh when you say you’re hungry or don’t want to workout in PE

28. so you look pretty and have no face fat

29. for the religious reasons (if you believe in that stuff)

30. for the “you lost so much weight, you look great”

31. so you feel malnourished and tired

32. so you get lightheaded and weak after getting up

33. to relate to €D themed music

34. to relate to €D themed movies

35. so you look good in a bikini

36. so you never feel “not sick enough” again

37. so you’re never neglected by the doctor again

38. for the pretty privilege

39. so you don’t feel disgusting and not enough every time you look at someone you’re into

40. so you don’t think “I’ll wait until I’m skinny enough” every time you’re shopping for clothes

41. so you don’t think “I’m not skinny enough yet” when your crush confesses to you

42. no more long toilet visits

43. no more period

44. so everyone’s attention is finally focused on you

45. so you’re the tiniest in every group

46. so your thighs are skinnier than that one thin guys with fast metabolism

47. so you can finally be the first choice

48. to look good in oversized clothes

49. so you don’t have to worry about looking good in the next meeting with friends or family

50. so people help you with every physical activity cause you’re so fragile

51. for the “did you eat today?”

52. for the questions about your weight

53. so your family threatens you to go to the hospital if you don’t eat

54. for that morning moment of the scale going down

55. for the jealous looks from that skinny girl you’re competing with

56. so you can finally BE Lacy or Heather and not HAVE one

57. so you can just grab the XS and leave

58. so you can brag about your weight being so low

59. for the BMI calculator showing “underweight”

60. for your hands and fingers to be slender

61. so finally someone your type likes you back

62. so you look good in everything (skinny IS the outfit)

63. so your ribs show when you wear a top

64. so you can walk around your place only wearing your pretty underwear and feel comfortable

65. to look good when you finally meet your favourite celebrity!

66. so the coffee + cigarette combo IS the satisfying breakfast

67. so you don’t feel stupid being interested in stereotypically skinny stuff (ballet, figure skating, modelling)

68. for coquette, 2014, lolita etc. style to look good on you

69. so you never struggle with excessive gas (I know some of you get it)

70. so you don’t struggle with bloating

71. so people post your pictures as thinsp0

72. so you can finally post on social media without thinking “when I finally lose weight this post is gonna mess up my aesthetic account”

73. so you don’t stress every time you think about showing your body

74. so you don’t feel stupid relating to a disordered character

75. so people can’t imagine you eating

76. so the teachers go easy on you because they’re worried

77. for the “chocolate, strawberry or vanilla” question

78. so you remind people of skinny celebrities

79. to finally reach your potential

80. so they think of you and what they lost

81. so people think you’re Lana coded

82. to see and touch your collarbones and chest bones

83. so you don’t have to purge anymore

84. so you can finally be the one in charge of your life and body

85. to have control

86. so your body checks become iconic on tumblr and pinterest

87. to go back into honeymoon

88. so you’re never scared of intimacy because of your body again

89. so your stomach shrinks and you’re never hungry again

90. so you’re not the fat funny friend anymore

91. to never hear the backhanded compliments again

92. so the first thing people think after hearing your name is “that skinny girl/boy/person”

93. so you don’t have to struggle with the feeling of unexplainable guilt after eating

94. so people finally care and do what you want

95. so nothing is ever controlling you again

96. so they don’t insult you anymore

97. so they finally care

98. so they don’t neglect you

99. so someone can finally love you

100. to escape this nightmare faster

[on-a-lucky-tide]

hey Jack,

this is a kinda personal-ish question and feel free not to answer, but my dysmorphia has flared up and I don’t really know what to do. I’ve been dissatisfied with my body for a long time and haven’t really had the time to do anything about it and with a combination of stress, the new trends and “clean girl aesthetic” and today, when I bought some clothes in my regular sizes but neither fitted, I just feel like shit to be honest. I’m not asking you to fix it but do you have any advice?? It’s fine if you feel out of your depth or uncomfortable, I wont be offended, but you’re the only person I’ve seen seriously talking about dysmorphia so I felt you were the person I could tell? I dunno. Thanks in advance.

Hey, bud. I'm sorry to see you're feeling uncomfortable. First off, you won't get any crunchy body positivity from me cause I know it don't bloody help. So, let's look at some solutions:

Right now, you need to get out your head. Go for a walk, get some fresh air. You need to move. Then talk to someone, play a video game, go shout at a bigot on Twitter, whatever.

Then, go sit in an average coffee shop and people watch. Look at the variety, the different shapes and sizes. Social media gives a distorted view of "average" because it needs you buying to alleviate your anxiety about not being good enough. Reality doesn't have an algorithm.

Next, look at what you can pick up for exercise that will let you celebrate what your body can do, not what it is. The things that helped me most when it was bad: scaling the Salkantay Trail in Peru, lifting a personal best, making some storming progress on my sub-6 minute mile, or battering someone in the ring. My body is a machine. It is powerful. I need to celebrate that even when I'm feeling it looks bad on the outside. And I'll repeat that over and over.

Once you've got a clearer head, you can start to action plan for how you're going to make the change so you don't keep feeling like this. I don't do BMI because it's dogshit (when I was an athlete I was "obese" because I was muscular). I do body fat %. Men should aim for 10-20% and women for 18-28%. Lower for women has a negative impact on menstrual cycle and general health, and men become miserable fucks. For both, it's unlikely your diet provides all the nutrients you need. Lower is also not manageable.

If you're in those ranges safely, you can afford to shred a bit until you're comfortable. Small calorie deficit of 200-300 calories from your maintenance calories (I can help you calculate this if you need; never lower than 1200), and move your body more (30-40 minutes a day; lift three times a week, some cardio every day, even if it's walking).

If your body fat is lower than this, I need you to speak to a therapist. You need to focus on cycling through Bullet Point 1-3, and maintaining a healthy diet. You shouldn't be shredding. But...

Getting more muscle definition can help you feel better in your body because it doesn't "jiggle". My arms look "fat", but when I flex, they're solid; no bat wings or hanging bits that make me feel dysmorphic. Same with (most) of my thighs. So, 0.7lb-1g protein per 1lb of body weight, slight calories surplus (100-200 calories) every day. Lift with good form, 6-8 reps with the last two blowing out your arse. You'll get there.

Dysmorphia is fucking shit. People will tell you "it's all in your head and you look fine" and you'll feel gaslit as well. My best advice is to let yourself feel it, your feelings aren't a lie, but then brush yourself off and take that bitch by the scruff.

You are worth so much more than living in misery, so batter the shit out of it, Non. Don't let it win.

[decayingdogt33th]

im gonna cry bruh okay whatever my bmi calculation says i’m 20 bmi but i obviously for my body that doesn’t make sense but i guess since the medical system is full of dense fucking retards they can’t just LOOK at me. i don’t care how stupid i’m acting i’m gonna cry over this and i don’t care if it’s dumb and no one is fucking getting why i’m so mad but i’m pissed i’m so fucking mad i’m literally gonna sob i want to fucking kill myself i’m gonna fucking starve myself more since that’s what everyone wants from me i guess cuz losing 60 isn’t enough right it’s not enough i’m not sick there’s nothing wrong with me and i may as well be fucking obese right i act like it fuck my life fuck all of this

[covid-safer-hotties]

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By Karam Bales

The decision to further restrict access to vaccines “will leave many vulnerable people unprotected” warn academics and health professionals

Acoalition of academics and healthcare professionals have backed an open letter critical of the Government and the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation’s (JCVI) decision to restrict access to COVID-19 vaccines.

Campaign group Clinically Vulnerable Families (CVF) has expressed concerns over vaccine access for autumn 2025 and spring 2026.

Until now, COVID policy prioritised protecting “at risk” groups such as those with chronic heart failure, COPD, or diabetes, but using a bespoke, non-standard cost-effectiveness assessment developed by the Department of Health and Social Care, the JCVI has advised that only the following groups should be offered vaccination in spring 2025:

adults aged 75 years and over residents in a care home for older adults individuals aged six months and over who are immunosuppressed (as defined in the ‘immunosuppression’ sections of tables 3 or 4 in the COVID-19 chapter of the Green Book) The JCVI is also withdrawing its offer to pregnant women, despite them having been recognised for years by the NHS as being at increased risk.

Vaccinating pregnant women helps protect their babies; COVID has been linked to developmental issues. The UK is now one of only a small number of countries including Afghanistan, Sierra Leone and Turkmenistan, which doesn’t recommend COVID vaccines for pregnant women.

Professor Christina Pagel of University College London and Professor Sheena Cruickshank of the University of Manchester expressed their concerns about the JCVI’s decision in a piece for The Conversation, urging the JCVI to “either reverse its criteria on vaccination in pregnancy or provide a much more detailed and transparent explanation for why it has been discontinued”.

CVF’s letter highlights how restricting access to vaccines doesn’t align with “evidence based public health principles, as supported by the WHO, as we do for the NHS flu vaccination programme”. It prioritises a range of at risk groups including those with diabetes and asthma, and frontline health and care workers.

The JCVI has not released the full calculations and evidence base to explain the discrepancy in its approach to COVID compared to flu.

The study provided by the JCVI notes data for clinically vulnerable groups is limited, meaning the most at-risk could fall through the cracks.

CVF are concerned the JCVI is sending a message to at risk groups that the vaccine is no longer necessary and that they are safe, a signal many may trust and believe.

At risk individuals have the option of paying for vaccines, but this financial barrier will add to inequality.

The open letter notes that private COVID vaccinations are priced around £100 per dose “an amount far beyond the means of many at-risk people”. The price of vaccines supplied to the NHS are approximately £35.04.

“Private charges will leave many vulnerable people unprotected, amplifying health inequalities and increasing the need for recourse to antiviral treatments, ultimately leading to an increase in hospitalisations,” the letter explains.

Eligibility criteria for COVID antiviral treatments is at odds with the JCVI’s decision on vaccination, the letter notes.

In January, NICE (the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) recommended COVID antiviral treatments for those over 70, or with conditions such as diabetes, a BMI of at least 35 kg/m², and heart failure, acknowledging the strong evidence of a heightened risk to these groups.

The JCVI’s decision to withhold vaccines from this group is therefore both inconsistent with known risks and contradictory, as it will increase their reliance on more costly treatments.

CVF say “prioritising ‘cost-effectiveness’ over vulnerability sends a chilling message: That our lives are less valuable because protecting us isn’t deemed ‘efficient’.”

The focus on age-based thresholds ignores the reality for younger vulnerable groups, a 30-year-old in heart failure could face far higher risks than a healthy 70-year-old, yet this new policy would exclude them from protection.

The JCVI’s cost benefit analysis only took predicted hospitalisations and deaths into account. No consideration was given to Long COVID despite increasing evidence vaccination reduces risk.

Kit Yates Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Sciences and co-director of the Centre for Mathematical Biology at the University of Bath asks “Why wouldn’t you take long COVID into account when considering who should be vaccinated?”.

Yates continues, “quite apart from the health issues of the people who get it, it clearly has an enormous economic impact.”

Yates cites a recent paper estimating the economic burden of Long COVID in the UK to be over £20 billion per year from real cohort data due to functional limitations and fatigue.

The JCVI’s focus on hospitalisations and deaths is based on incomplete data. COVID hospital data is now significantly under-reported.

Since April 2023, most patients with COVID symptoms are no longer tested to confirm if they have it, unless they are in a vulnerable group eligible for antiviral treatment, meaning data on COVID hospitalisations and deaths will not be accurate.

There are also other post-COVID consequences besides Long COVID, for instance COVID has been linked to increased risk of heart attacks, strokes and neurological harm.

The JCVI cites hybrid immunity, a combination of vaccination and infection acquired immunity as the reason they’re further restricting access to vaccines, however Professor Stephen Griffin, virologist at the University of Leeds, has criticised the JCVI’s reasoning, saying: “There are dozens of the usual platitudes, including the magical ‘endemic’. In my opinion, these are little more than misinformation, including the soothing balm of infection-induced immunity.”

Griffin warns, “we seem to value ‘normal’ over better, especially if it’s expensive up front, or gets in the way of ‘normal life’…but, complacency, ultimately, is also a devastating killer.”

[toptierteaser]

Butterball Status: Pt. 1

A Blowup Anthology Story

“Well, well, well…seems like somebody’s hit ‘Butterball Status” today!”

The taunt, accompanied with a firm poke into his ample abdomen, carried out across the hall, audible to the dozens of Coaches and hundreds of Campers alike. Diego’s mouth fell agape, his plump cheeks reddening as the weight of what had just been said sunk into his stomach way that extra, stale donut had last night. I knew I should’ve laid off the treats for a while! Diego cursed internally.

But Coach Jason simply smiled at him. Or was it more of a sneer? It was hard to tell with Jason. ‘Chubby-chasin’ Jason,’ they called him. Behind his back, of course. Never when the handsome coach was present to make his Campers run an additional lap around the track. Watching diligently as their overblown backsides jiggled uncontrollably with all the added weight. Of course, the Coach could never fully express his predilections, as it would have been social suicide among the other Coaches. But he had his reputation among the Campers, and the fatties had eaten the rumor up faster than a bucket of fried chicken.

Naturally, Jason played up the angle of a Coach being disgusted at his camper for packing on as many pounds as Diego evidently had. And so the sharp poke into his big, juicy tummy transfigured into a grab as Jason’s hand snaked around from Diego’s front to his equally-tubby love handle. The other hand was placed on its twin and Deigo felt himself, helpless, defenseless, and in full view of half the camp, being turned toward the mirror in front of him.

The scale had confirmed it, the numbers having jumped by ten since the last weigh in—how was it even possible he had packed on that much weight in a week?—and Coach Sebastian clacked away at his calculator, racking up Diego’s routinely-increasing BMI. The nerdy coach began snickering behind his glasses as he waved the numbers up in the air. “It’s official!” said the Coach in his nasally voice. “The fat fuck is officially a butterball!”

Those within Diego’s earshot began to snicker and whoop, to offer snide comments about how he had “never quite been able to put the fork down, that one.” Or how it was a “good thing he’ll get bumped up a weight class. His fat ass was barely able to fit through the door as it was, poor fat fuck.”

Diego tried not to let everyone see how badly it affected him, how flustered and embarrassed it was making him. But such teasing, taunting observations weren’t even the worst of it.

                “This is your own fault, you know, pork chop?” said Jason in his ear. Now he really was smiling. “You’re the one who fed yourself up like this, weren’t you fatboy?”

                And as Diego’s round body was wheeled about, he realized the Coach was absolutely right. He almost didn’t recognize himself. Before him stood a tubby young man, the lingerings of handsomeness jutting through the added pudge on his face. but the rest of him was completely unrecognizable. In his time at the Camp, Diego had absolutely buried himself in layers of fat, his belly swelling to completely cover his fly, his thighs porking out ridiculously, his moobs pressing up against his chubbed-up neck. He looked like a big fat scoop of neopolitan ice cream, his warm brown skin busting out from underneath the tight white t-shirt that didn’t even reach his cavernous belly button and his bright pink booty shorts that looked more like painted-on briefs. It had been a while since he’d been forced to look at himself in the mirror and while he still found his shocked, embarrassed face to be handsome, he felt that the rest of him rather resembled an overinflated balloon!

                It was all too much! The image of himself, standing there, big fat legs pressing out against each other, juicy arms unable to rest because his love handles were in the way. His Coach poking and prodding and squeezing his chubby side rolls. The sight of himself, about a bite of cheesecake away from splitting his uniform, completely defenseless. An overfed blowfish who in all likeliness would only be blown up even fatter! He felt himself growing excited, the waistband of his shorts creaking as he felt himself expand within them.

                Calm down, he told himself. Just take a deep breath.

                And then he saw Brandon, the flamboyant Coach who had been a tailor and a hairdresser before they began Rounding Up fatties across the country, walking up to him, smirking with a measuring tape held taut between his hands.

                And as Coach Jason was forced to stand aside as Brandon took the helm, wrapping the tape beneath Diego’s armpits and tut-tutting as he slid down Diego’s sides to his big belly, measuring the ridiculous circumference of the fatass. “Seems like the fat fuck has ballooned his belly wider than his shoulder-width!” said the Coach. And as he said it, Diego felt himself rise, swell, and—PING—the button of his shorts went flying out across the room!

                There was another humiliating snickering that surrounded him, consuming him, driving Diego ever-more flustered.

                And then, as Diego’s obese ass and thunderous thighs were measured, Jason all but shoved Brandon out of the way, grabbing Diego by the love handles and turning him in a 180-degree fashion. “Well, biggums…I’m sad to see you leave the Bunk…but rules are rules…now, there’s only one thing left to do.” And Diego braced himself, hoping his belly covered the exposed fly of his shorts, as he felt the enormous stamp flying out across the air and pressing squarely in his extremely-wide ass.

                He gave an involuntary squeal of embarrassment that thrilled the Coaches. And then, looking more pathetic than ever, Diego turned to look at the mirror over his shoulder, taking in the stamped image of a turkey that now replaced the teddy-bear print on his caked-up ass.

                “Well, then,” said Coach Jason. “All there is for us to do now is to roll you on down to your new bunk and introduce you to the other tubby butterballs!”

[pinksmoothiexoxo]

So I've always been a bit of a gym girl! Weight lifting during highschool, going to martial arts classes, learning about sports physiology, it's always been up my alley!!

What I didn't realise at the time is how so much of what I learned through those hobbies would translate to my gaining 😵‍💫 I'm OBSESSED with the numbers part of gaining. Measurements? Monthly weigh-ins? BMI? It's the better half of what I enjoy out of fattening up, since having all of these numbers kept and catalogued really drives in the feeling of being a prize winning cow who's being fattened up for people's enjoyment...

And I've decided to try and share what I've learnt with the community! Below is what I consider to be a comprehensive year long gaining plan that anyone can use!! The only number you need to know is your starting weight, and then using the math listed you'll find everything you need to know to start your own gaining journey! If anyone gets some use out of this, please let me know 🥺 It'd make my heart melt to know I'm contributing to our community <3

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Starting body weight =

To be measured at the beginning of the 9 month bulk

Monthly goal = 2% of your starting body weight

Daily maintenance calories =

To calculate your maintenance calories, multiply your body weight in pounds by 16

Daily goal calories =

To calculate your goal calorie intake, multiply your monthly goal in pounds by 120, and add the result to your maintenance calories

Daily protein =

To calculate your daily protein, multiply your weight in pounds by 0.7

At the end of the 9 month gaining period, subtract your starting weight from your current weight to find the amount of weight you have gained. Congratulations!

You may choose to spend the remaining 3 months losing 10-20% of that gained weight, for the purpose of losing visceral fat (the largest contributor to obesity related illnesses).

If not, have fun!

Additional notes

- Aim to have 30% of your daily calories by fats, and and fill the remaining daily goal calories with carbohydrates ideally