Back when I was 17 I had the 6 pack, pecs and bulging biceps. I started thinking why do I do this? What does it do for me? At that stage I was spending $80 a day on food and the high metabolism had no problem eating up all the donuts, coke, pies, chips, pizza and anything else I put into myself, not like that you sick minded......... So one day I decided t stop. I was getting heavily into Halo 2 back on the original xbox live and loving how I could talk to people all over the world. It didn't matter that the politicians had disagreements with people in China, I could still play and communicate with them....well kind of.... So as time went by I started putting on a bit of weight but no matter how much I tried to put on, I could never go over about the 80kg mark. I was drinking 3 litres of coke a day, eating chips stacked with enough salt to kill the snails down the street and I had pizza sauce coming out of my nose. Then one day I woke up at 3am. My gut was hurting. It appeared to be blowing up. Like I looked down towards my toes and my stomach was just getting bigger. Like it was cooking bread inside and there was nothing my stomach could do. So I went to the toilet and AAAARRRGGGHHHHH......relief. Then after flushing and washing my hands it was the same straight away, something was baking inside my stomach. This went on until I had relieved myself 3 times in total. After that happens I'm in that much pain from my gut having blown up an shrinking I just lay and curl up in the foetal position and doze off. Now I'm an unusual guy and enjoy pain, not in a kinky way but I actually find it makes you stronger. Anyway I nailed it down to the fact the pizza stores had changed the oil they used in their pizzas or something in the pizzas I was no longer able to tolerant, maybe the 3 litre coke habit a day had voided one of my organs. Either way every time I eat certain foods cooked or flavoured in the certain oil I blow up. Panadol/Paracetemol does nothing. Usually from noticing myself start to blow up to the grand finale of foetal position it's all over in half an hour. Now if you can imagine a relatively average sized woman and then the same woman when she is nine months pregnant. This is what I look like during this process. My organs/skin just stretches and causes me horrific pain, like while I'm having the unpleasant experience I'm thinking of ways to use top myself and end the suffering, sad but true. Anyway after recently leaving my parents nest and venturing out to my own place I've discovered many awesome lifestyle things you do without thinking, for example walking around nude. Now one day I was in the bathroom cleaning the floor and as I looked to see if the mirror was still clean I noticed something on my hip. Then I looked at my other hip and it was there too. I thought nothing of it and maybe it was some veins but as I felt these veins it felt like hard tissue underneath, like ripped and healed skin. A few days later I was having a conversation with a particular mate who was a personal trainer and I told him I had started getting back into shape and then about these things on my hips. He explained they were stretch marks and I was like guys get stretch marks? Then a few nights ago a particular lady friend and I decided my new-getting-in-shape-body would look better without hair. As she was frolicking through my belly hair she noticed these vein things. And they are also stretch marks. Upon further inspection it is clear they are from when my stomach blows up. It honestly blows up from regular woman size to nine month pregnant woman size, 3 times in a period of half an hour. Now as a woman goes through this expansion slowly over the pregnancy I imagine the pain I feel during this inflation and deflation of my gut is something like childbirth. Just thought I'd share this quick story with dpers, on second looks it seems like a large story...... What are your thoughts? Did you know guys could get stretch marks? Was this interesting? Like to hear your thoughts.....