>>78366 Depending on height, as early as 250 can start it, hell even earlier for some women. There was a tiny period of time where my mom was just over 200 lbs (I think maybe 210ish?) from her super sedentary job, and she was scared she'd have to start using a scooter at the store. She'd also go on about how her thighs kept touching and rubbing together and how uncomfortable it was for her. Maybe if she was less sedentary during that period it would have been less of a problem, but I couldn't tell you.

My girl gained about 60 pounds in a year while being fairly sedentary. At 207 pounds, she had some minor issues with stairs and started getting out of breath from simple household chores. It depends on physical fitness as well as overall size. Everyone is different.

Friend of mine weighs about 250, is 5'4", and stores fat primarily in her ass and thighs. She gets winded super easily as shes not nearly active enough. She visibly waddles and is super slow. I have a family member who weighs 100lbs more, stores it mostly in her belly, and while she waddles and is slow, she has plenty of stamina. Another member still is 50 lbs heavier, stores it in their belly and ass, and gets exhausted super easily because they dont eat right at all. No vegetables or fiber. All carbs and meat. It really does depend on height, weight, build, and lifestyle.

>>78384 Lifestyle is a huuuge part of it. I've dated girls im the 300s who obviously had a hard time getting around and girls who were close to or over 500 who were completely independent, lived alone, good hygiene, drove themselves, etc.

>>78366 My wife is 5'5 and I'd say she really starts to slow down when she's over 350. At her peak, which was just shy of 400, she was very limited. We went to the beach for a weekend and she had to abandon our walk after about a minute because it was too much weight to carry through the sand.

As much as it would be simpler if it were an exact formula (at X pounds, you have Y mobility) all this stuff happens on a spectrum. Even for “immobile” people, you can still get out of bed with enough assistance. And some days are better than others, and some periods you have more strength than others. The reality is that it depends on quite a few factors (most notably percentage muscle mass).

>>78366 My wife (29, 5’7”, 405, more belly than thighs) can walk a mile or too if needed, but complains about it. 2 flights of stairs are fine, more requires a break or pushing herself. I think her fitness is slightly better than the average 400 pounder due to working in a role that requires moving around a decent amount (not an office job)

My wife was over 600 lbs and incredibly mobile 7 years ago. She lost down to under 400, but has recently gained to over 500 again. She’s now 37 and I think age and time of being the size of 4-5 people have just added up. At 500ish she is much less mobile than she was 7 years ago at 600-650. She needs to use scooters everywhere which she never did before. She can just barely make it up the stairs in our house. Her joints are shot.

>>78588 It's this. Mobility issues are coming at every size. The bigger they are, the worst they take care of themselves, the younger it happens. It's a symptom of overall aging. Weight accelerates things. A woman who's 400lbs at 40, is more like a normal weight person 25 years older.

>>78366 Well, there's really two types - exhaustion, and just straight up pain. The former theoretically has no limit - the body will just keep up when used. The latter is where the hard limitations are - extreme weights are hard on the joints (bodybuilders, despite not being fat at all, get the same issue). They're really shoddy and currently we don't have any widespread method of taking care of that. Then there's just mechanical issues - some women will get so much fat in their thighs that it just starts getting in the way So yeah, no rules really, and it's more of an age thing

Really depends on how much work you put in, and also probably genetics. And whether anything else is wrong with you. Two cases that show how weight alone is not really a determining factor: Amberlyn Reid used to be nearly immobile in the upper 500s because she was not getting up and moving. Then she got up and made a concerted effort to regain her mobility, and she did. She is probably about 30-40 lbs lighter now (maybe less) than she was at her peak, but seems to have no mobility problems. Another example is FatMissT. She is around 800lbs (or for sake of argument - i.e., so that nobody comes and tries to say she no longer that size as we have not had a weigh in in a hile - she used to be over 800), and she gets around great. My 600 Pound Life is a great place to see the variety of mobility at that weight: some people get around fine, and others cannot get out of bed. All comes back to how mobile they stayed while they gained the weight - and a lot of that I think is if they don't have someone to enable them, then they have to move around just to survive (like MissT) - then they can stay mobile at incredibly high weights, when others who weigh hundreds of pounds less have been allowed to be sedentary and lose their mobility. All that said, this is a really interesting question, and I am glad you posed it. The related issue I always wonder about is how women who are not into gaining feel when they eat themselves into needing a mobility scooter and how that does not become the wake-up call that they need to lose weight (as it is for a lot of women - for example, I would love it if my wife got that big and stayed that way, but I know that if she ever did get big enough that her mobility was compromised, even a bit, she would be going in for WLS, which would be a fate worse than death). There's a woman I know who has got to be in the upper 400s - she fluctuates and may get into the low 500s, though it is hard to tell exactly how big she is - and I know back in college she was probably around 300, and I would love to know how she allowed herself to get as big as she is and needing a scooter (she was already this big when we met her and her husband - man, I would love to wife swap with him!). If only I could ask!

Given what I'm reading on this thread it seems like it's super variable and that weight isn't even nessicary an important determining factor. I'm a guy and my weight is some around the upper bound of 300 and I have pretty good walking stamina. I live in a fairly mountainous region where I walk everywhere and I rarely get tired from walking on it's own. Last time I went on a long walk I only got tired after about two hours Standing also isn't super uncomfortable for me. In fact there are some situations where I find it preferable to stand, though admitted I can't hold the same pose for particularly long. The only thing that really gets me winded is going up stairs and even then I can usually tank one flight. I get this thread is primarily asking about women and their bodies probably deal with this type kf thing diffrently, but I though my input would be valuable. I think another good example of this would be Boberry who last I remeber was about ~700 lbs. and she seemingly has pretty high stamina while doing a decent amount of walking. Though I do understand that she is exceptional in this regard.

Spanxbeluga was navigating the airport system without a scooter when she was nearly 700lbs. That is one bad ass party girl