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OK, add me to the list of those who just couldn't resist. Ordered a size XL a few days ago, arrived today. My first observation upon getting them out of the package was that they are INCREDIBLY soft, softer than even my regular underwear. They have a pleasantly thick feeling, yet even the 4-layer version isn't noticeable under clothing. I just took it out of the dryer an hour ago after washing it. It wasn't completely dry after a cycle on low heat, so I have it air-drying on a table right now. I can tell I'm really going to love sleeping in these!

Yeah, sort of bringing an old thread back from the dead, but I have a similar story... Through sheer recklessness, I gained a ton of weight a few years back. What really caught my attention was when I tried putting on a pair of size "XL" Depend underwear - and they ripped in half as soon as I sat down. I pulled out the old bathroom scale and climbed on to see what it said. When it just flashes "-E-", that's a bad sign. Given the weight range for that scale, I was well over 400 lbs. I had known that I was seriously overweight for quite some time, but that seemed to be the moment of epiphany. I immediately started trying to cut back on how much I ate - no more going to the pizzeria twice a week, no more going out for hot dogs every afternoon, no more "snacking" on what most would consider a full meal - certainly no more doing all of the above in a single day. I restarted my membership at the health club I had quit going to 3 years back and made an effort to go at least once a week. Things started slowly at first - after an initial burst of activity, I started making it to the health club perhaps once every other week, or every third week. I cut the take-out pizzas down to one large with breadsticks a week, and reduced the snacks throughout the day to the absolute minimum I could bear. Even that had an impact - after a month the Depends stopped tearing apart on me, and eventually I could even get a brief to stay taped on again. The scale started showing meaningful readouts again as well - I was actually glad when it showed "398.0". Things kept going slowly until October of last year - I had been working as a newspaper carrier for about 2 years while saving for school (no, I don't wear diapers while I'm working), and started doing a short walking route in addition to the motor route I had been doing. That short route doubled in length when the the kid who was supposed to take over an adjacent route bailed - while I was waiting to pick up my papers, the manager came out and asked me if I wanted another route! Needless to say, this meant a lot more physical activity for me every day. At first, I was panting and sweating profusely throughout the whole daily ordeal, but after only a few weeks I found I was having a much easier time with it. The scale was showing ever smaller numbers - now around 340 - and the diapers I was wearing to bed each night seemed to be getting a bit more comfortable. The pull-ups always seemed to dig into my legs before, but now they did not. The tapes on the briefs were getting noticeably closer to the front as well. Encouraged by this, I started going to the health club more often and cut back on the food even more - the weekly pizza was now a medium, and sometimes I'd just skip the hefty lunch altogether. By February, I was below 300 lbs! It was around that time that I decided to try something silly - I went to the store and bought a bag of Underjams. That store had just started carrying them and they were a bit hard to find, on the bottom shelf buried amongst the Easy-Ups. I got them home and tried them out - with some careful stretching, they fit! Sure, they snapped apart after a few minutes but that got me excited! The next time I was at the store I grabbed a bag of GoodNites underpants to see how they'd fit - unfortunately, that didn't go as well; I couldn't get them past my still-too-thick thighs. Close, though! A few months later the new GoodNites underwear came out - word was that they were softer and stretchier, more like Underjams, so I decided to see what would happen if I tried one on. I was down to 280 lbs by that point, so I thought I might have better luck in any case. I picked up two bags of each of the Girls' and Boys' style, plus the last of the GoodNites boxers they had in stock - they were marked "clearance" so I figured it might be my last chance. When I got home, I actually tried one of the "boxers" first, since the bag was torn open. It was painfully tight, but I eventually squeezed myself into it. After about an hour, I decided to "use" it, then took it off and jumped in the shower before bed. While preparing for bed, I tried on one of the new "underwear". It wasn't nearly as tight as the boxers, but still put quite a squeeze on my hips, and left some unpleasant-looking red marks on my thighs in the morning! I'd come a long way, but still had a way to go... That brings me to now. I'm down to 250 lbs, have quit going to the pizza place entirely (well, once a month) and now make every effort to go to the health club at least 4 times a week. Those GoodNites fit much better now, they're still too tight for practical daytime use but they don't dig big red gouges in my legs anymore. My goal at present is to lose enough weight to be able to wear the old-style GoodNites underpants I have stashed away, and eventually to get into the far-less-tolerant 2008 GoodNites boxers I bought 2 cases of a few weeks back - unlike the soft, flexible ones made today, these are made of a tougher paper-like material that rips apart as soon as I get them over my thighs! So, as it works out, diapers proved to be the best weight loss motivator I could ever ask for.

I was around 17 when I finally decided to give a real diaper a try: I ordered a bag of Tena Extra-absorbent Underwear (with my mom's credit card!) from HDIS, under the guise of ordering some computer parts. I was incredibly excited when it arrived a few days later and put one on right away. It was an amazing feeling, impossible to describe. A few weeks after I used the last one from that bag, I ordered 2 cases more - hard to explain away two big shipping boxes as "computer parts" but my parents seemed none the wiser... After occasionally ordering diapers (mostly the aforementioned underwear and Tena overnight briefs) over the course of about 5 years, I bought some "in-person" for the first time. On my way home from work, I stopped at a Wal-Mart and bought a bag of Pull-Ups. I had just suddenly gotten curious about them for some reason that day. Since they were clearly baby diapers and could not possibly be for me, I didn't feel particularly nervous about buying them. A few weeks later, I worked up the courage to head down the adult diaper aisle and see what all was available. I had passed by it on several occasions before and had seen some promising products. I went late at night, when the store would be as close to deserted as possible. After nervously passing by the aisle a few times (must have looked awfully suspicious on the security camera), I went in and took the longest look I felt I could. I ended up grabbing a bag of Depend Refastenable Underwear. I put them in the cart underneath some boxes of cereal, then went over to the self-checkout lane. I scanned the diapers first, quickly stuffing them into the bag and covering them with other items as I scanned them. Turned out to be a lot of excitement over nothing though, the Depends were of much lower quality than the Tenas I'd gotten used to. Thinner, much less absorbent, and they didn't even have leak guards!

Right now I'm actually wearing regular underwear, but I'm thinking of putting on a pair of Goodnites...

Meijer carries Goodnites underwear (the new style) and Underjams, Walmart has Goodnites underpants (old style) and boxers if I want some of those. Meijer has self-checkout lanes, which is a big plus! For adult diapers, I've been using XP Medical for the last couple of months. They used to ship everything from CA but I noticed that my last case of Molicare Super Pluses came from an address in the next town south of here. Sure surprised me when I got it overnight! Have also used HDIS in the past - good selection but the ads in the mail bother me as I don't live by myself...

I'm a 23 year old "plain vanilla" DL, living in the sticks of central Ottawa county. Not really up for any meetings... yet.

About 4 hours ago.

Been lurking here a LONG time, so here's the first of what might be many more posts to come... Anyway, I have a problem that I'm sure most of you have dealt with at some point: several small-to-medium "liquid" stains on my bed's mattress. Nothing huge, just a few spots where stuff has found its way around my waterproof mattress pad and into the mattress itself. I'm not really sure what the best way to deal with this is, so anyone have any suggestions?