Gaining

Well, almost. Its intention is a week long seminar of course, but I have never seen anything like this.

1. Breakfast buffet - buffet is always nice
2. Second breakfast - some stuff from breakfast with an addition of little sweet and hearty dishes
3. Lunch buffet - yet again another buffet, I‘m starting to see a pattern
4. Cake buffet - I kid you not.
5. Diner - yet another warm meal and you guessed right: it‘s another buffet.
Aaaaand if you really wanted to, the bistro is open until 10pm on the typical arrival days, so you could get a breakfast before sleep.

Truth to be told, it‘s not like there is a ton of food, even if it‘s a buffet. You see some people with bigger portions, but the frequency and amount of food related breaks makes normal people skip some or or go for smaller plates.

Yet, although I was on a diet I‘m totally in on regaining this week. It‘s too alluring to let this opportunity pass. To round this up, I get snacks later to fill me up.

It‘s day 3 and I effectively went from intermittent fasting with skipping breakfast, two slices of bread for lunch and a small dinner in the evening to two breakfasts, two slices of cakes, two warm meals including desserts and forcefeed myself some snacks in the hotel room.

The seminar instructor said, it‘s probably a tradition rooted in the 50s where people needed to do these seminars about work council in their free time and a lot of them were factory workers, doing hard labor, so at least they should be „well taken care of“.
Kudos to them. If you want, you can visit a nearby therme and let your swollen belly be warm and afloat.

How do I continue after this? Idk, this is a perfect setup for a massive regain and beyond, but not sure…

That being said, I can‘t sleep and go for the last snacks so I have a reason to restock tomorrow.

My question is how did you come across this? It sounds delightful.

Pure coincidence, to be honest.

And the best part, it‘s a union related seminar, so according to german laws, you could even enforce your right for this to be paid for by your company.

That being said, it‘s not something you can have access to that easily as a normal random person.
You need to be elected into work council at your company, be organized in the related union of the corresponding industry sector, the work council gremium needs to see a use case for you and a seminar, vote on it, then book it and there you go… one week of culinary excess and inbetween being juristically trained on work laws to be a pain the butt for your boss - and they even have to pay for that and pay for your trip - and you keep your full salary for this week of course. I need to check, but I could do this probably two times a year.

Summa summarum, people voted for you to travel to a exclusive facility to be fed for free. Ain‘t that something to write home about…

Jokes aside, this is actually of grave importance to do a good job for the people who elected me. So sadly I couldn‘t daydream through the seminar and needed to go easy on portions to not fall asleep from food coma.