There was a kid on the forums a few years ago. Artem, about 16 or 17 years old.
He started off around 5’11" and 140ish and ended up gaining about 100 pounds in one year. Drank two gallons of milk a day, ate a ton, didn’t train right. After all that weight gain, he could barely squat his bodyweight or put half-bodyweight overhead.
But hey, he gained 100 pounds. That was his rallying cry and security blanket to deflect any comments from the tons and tons of vets who were trying to steer him down a better path and give him legit advice the whole time.
When he finally did decide to cut, he went about it his own way, eventually crash dieting for a while and dropping 50 pounds in three months, and losing another 25+ pounds the month after that. From there, he talked about wanting to start a “clean bulk”, but that thread fizzled after two weeks and he didn’t talk about his training anymore after that.
So he gained 100 pounds in a year, and then dropped almost 80 in the course of four months. When it was all said and done, with about a year and a half of “big eating”, bulking, and cutting, he didn’t look all that different. A major disappointment that a ton of people saw coming.
Sure, the scale still showed a net weight gain, but looking at the pics (and understanding why he was hesitant to post more after the last weight loss), you have to wonder if there was a better way to go about the whole thing from the start, instead of just focusing on seeing the scale move up and up.
Am I rambling here or am I using a story about a former member to drive home a point relevant to your situation? Probably both.