Comfort eating

chapter 4

Once home I took off my suit I decided to walk home as I had nothing to do after my appointment. Melanie wasn’t home which was a blessing. I sat on the sofa and put some tv on and sat with some soda water trying to bloat myself. I couldn’t get too far before my stomach felt too tight and I had to stop. Melanie got home not long after and was shocked to see me. She grilled me about pretty much every step it took to get home

“see I knew getting you that gastric band fitted was a good decision”

“yea a decision that should’ve been mine to make” I muttered

“Sorry?” she said

“nothing”

“no go on, what”

“I just didn’t want it. If I was going to lose weight then I would have liked to do it myself not have surgery that I didn’t even ask for or want to slim down smaller than I was before”

“I just wanted to help you get back to being your slim attractive self again!” she screamed

“I didn’t want it!! This, here,” I said motioning to my body “is my body and it is here for what I want to do with it! If I want to be fat or I'm not in a position where losing weight is possible that my choice! Not yours! You cannot make those kinds of decisions on my behalf they are not your decisions to make!!”

“You are so ungrateful!” she bellowed. “After all I've done for you, all I do for you I drive you to work every day, I make all of your meals, I buy all of your clothes, I put up with your eating habits and how gross you looked when you were so fat!”

“I am not ungrateful! If you did something once in a while for me to be grateful about I might just be! But you sold my car so that you could drive me to and from work to make sure I didn’t sneak to a McDonald's or something on the drive back home, you make all of my meals for me so that I don’t get to eat anything that has more than 6 calories in! You buy all of my clothes because you don’t like my style! I can’t just sit on the sofa with a t-shirt and sweats on I have to wear a polo shirt and slacks, and you didn’t have to ‘put up’ with me looking gross and fat if you didn’t like it you should’ve just left!”

“Pfft! I should’ve left?! Okay, how about you leave Adam.”

“Fine by me!” I said storming off to my room to grab a few suitcases.

I raced around the house with my bags and suitcases grabbing all my clothes, my laptop and my iPad, several suits and a few bathroom bits including the scales. Grabbed all the bags one by one and dropped them at the bottom of the driveway. I then stood there and wondered what to do next. I decided to chance it and ring my new landlord.

“Hello?”

“Hi its Adam you showed me around your apartment earlier today”

“Oh yes, hi Adam how can I help you?”

“I'm really sorry to bother you so late. Me and my wife have been on the rocks for a long time which is why I was looking for the apartment but we’ve just had a huge argument and she's thrown me out. I was wondering if there was anyway even if I have to pay a bit extra if I could have the keys to the apartment now?”

“ah yes, that fine, the last tenants broke the living room light though so it doesn’t work. That’s why I said a week gives me a chance for the parts to be delivered that I need to fix it and then fit the new one.”

“oh, that’s fine ill buy a lamp or something I’d be happy just for a roof over my head tonight.”

He laughed and then said, “that’s fine meet me there in 10 minutes.”

“brilliant thank you so much”

I hung up and called an uber loaded my stuff into the car and made my way to the apartment. He gave me the keys helped me with my suitcases and then went home I was standing in the kitchen smiling to myself. My plan didn’t go to plan but I got what I wanted in the end.