Chapter 5

She returned ten minutes later. Josh couldn’t see that she was carrying anything so he asked what she forgot.

“Oh, it’s nothing,” she replied.

He noticed that she looked a little sneaky. She was so cute when she looked like that. It reminded him of how she looked on their first date, in the car. He had the sudden urge to take a leak so he excused himself. Tammy made sure no one was looking and she poured a solution from the lab into her date’s drink. It turns out that she had been expecting this change in him. She was a brilliant chemist, and she was studying to be a pharmacist. She had made a special concoction that cuts metabolism in half and increases hunger by forcing his stomach to become larger and it digests food faster making room for more. It also stops the breakdown of fat cells, which keeps him from loosing fat and decreases his energy. He returned and she was glad to see that he drank the whole drink. She left him saying that she had to be somewhere, and he immediately felt sluggish. He returned back to his dorm, with the intentions of going on a jog, but he was just to tired. He was also extremely hungry, and his stomach hurt slightly. He raided the cabinets and found some Lays© chips and some chocolate chip cookies. He finished those of and drank a liter or coke. He was still starving, so he ate a bag of mixed candy bars and some butter sandwiches. He had a strange craving for fries after that so he fried a whole bag of them. He ate the whole batch of them. He was so thirsty after that, and he had exhausted their supply of coke. He checked the fridge and found a gallon of butter milk. He finished the whole gallon and then fell asleep at the table. He awoke with a start due to Matt’s hand gently shaking him. His other hand was rubbing his belly. Josh felt like he had gained back the five pound he had lost. He got up and checked his weight on the scale. It turned out that he weighed 184 now. He had gained seven pounds in one binge. This thought horrified him. He wanted to run and exercise, but despite his nap he was still tired. His abs were well insulated once again and his love handles had returned with a vengeance. He could now grab them with his whole hand. He decided to buy some fat calipers. He measured his body fat and found that it had increased 15% since high school. The thought horrified him. He now had 25% body fat. He felt so depressed that he decided to snack a little. Then, he got in his actual bed and drifted of back to sleep. While he slept, Matt was busy preparing them a very large meal. He had noticed that Josh’s appetite had increased by all the missing food and his sudden weight gain. Matt had gained weight too but not that much. His 30s were starting to become a little snug.