Hefty Changes

As Edward walked into the crowded student union, he saw that several of his friends had already gathered around one of the vacant tables and were chatting away with each other. When they noticed that Ed had arrived, they happily waved for him to come over and have a seat. "Ed, over here!" Clutching his rather full tray of food,  Edward made his way over to the table. Once he got there he frowned. There was barely any room for him to sit. Grabbing a chair from an empty table, he did his best to squeeze into the small space he was given, just barely fitting. "Guys, I think we need to find another table." Ed groaned, barely able to move between two of his rather agitated friends. One of them laughed lightly. "The rest of us seem to fit just fine, maybe you just need to watch the calories, big guy." The rest of the table broke into a fit of  laughter at the comment.
Edward smiled slightly. "Yeah, yeah, very funny." After all, he was pretty used to jokes about his weight by now. But in his own opinion, Ed didn't think of himself as overweight, really.  Sure, he was nearly 180 pounds and only 5'10", but that didn't make him overweight. Just a little thick.  As he readjusted his glasses and started to eat his sizeable lunch, his friends continued to toss a few more zingers about his weight. After the rest of his friends had left the commons, Edward found himself alone at the table with his best friend, Sonya.
Edward let out an exhasperated sigh. "I know they're just joking...but I wish they'd quit it with all the fat jokes. It's getting old really fast." Sonya smiled an understanding smile. "They're just having a little fun," she told him, "If you didn't react to it, then they would stop doing it, you know." Edward shrugged. "Yeah, I know. But I really would like to lose some of this extra weight. But I'm just no good at diets and that kinda stuff." Sonya grinned. "I think I have just the thing to help you shed that extra fat,"she said. "Meet me at the used bookstore after class." Edward figured that it was worth a shot. "Sure, sounds good. Thanks a lot, Sonya." Sonya stood up, gathering her things. "No problem, I'll see you then!"
A few hours later, Edward walked into the large used bookstore down the road, looking around for Sonya. Across the store he saw her waving at him, her blonde hair bouncing up and down with excitement. He noticed she was in the "lifestyle and fitness" area, holding a book in her hands. Handing the book to Edward, she said "If this doesn't help you lose weight, nothing will." Edward thanked her, and paid for the book before heading back to his car.  Once he was behind the wheel, he opened the book up and started to read the instructions.  He raised his eyebrows in disbelief after reading a few pages, then looked again at the front cover before shrugging.  As he turned the ignition he thought, "Well, I guess the author knows better than I do. I better just do what she says."
. . .

"Alright, let's see..." Back at his apartment, Ed had just come back from a very extensive shopping spree at the grocery store. "I think I've gotten everything that the book called for." With one quick motion, Ed emptied the contents of his grocery bags out onto the table top. "Potato chips...ice cream...bacon...cake mix...yep, looks like I've gotten everything!" He picked up the bag of chips, opening it and snarfing down the contents. "I dunno how this is gonna make me lose weight...but the book said that I needed to eat at least twenty bags of potato chips, five tubs of ice cream and seventy strips of bacon a day, and the book knows what it's talking about!"  Ed plopped down on the couch, turning his television on while still crunching away at the chips. He placed all of the food out on the table in front of him and spent the rest of the evening pigging out; slurping down entire scoops of ice cream at once, and only taking a break to fry up the bacon. By the time night had fallen Ed's stomach was full. The first day of the new diet had gone perfectly. Satisfied with his feast and excited to see himself start losing the pounds, he lay down on the couch and went to sleep. The rest of the weekend was the same: Ed stuffing himself with all the food he had  bought on Friday, keeping up with the books instructions, slurping down three greasy bacon strips every 30 minutes, cooking up cakes and downing ice cream milkshakes and watching T.V all day without moving a muscle until it was time to sleep.
The night before Monday, after finishing the last bag of potato ships, Ed decided to check his weight before going to sleep. Jjust before stepping on the scale, he slowly reconsidered. "...Naaah, that wouldn't be fair, I'll check my weight on the morning."
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It was Monday morning and Ed was excited to show all of his friends how much weight he'd lost on his diet. He'd stuck to the list for the entire weekend, eating everything it told him to eat without missing a meal. After climbing out of bed, Ed hoisted himself up on his scale, excited for the results of his labor. His expression quickly went from excited to confused. "...250 pounds?" Ed watched his belly giggling and gurgling with hunger. "How did I gain 80 pounds in three days...?" Ed stepped down, not entirely sure what to make of his sudden gain. "...this must all be part of the process. My weight must go UP before it goes down. Yeah, that must be it!
Confident that he had found the reason for his gain, Ed returned to his room to get dressed for class that day. Fitting into his jeans proved to be pretty difficult with 80 extra pounds. It was hard to get into his pants, but once they were on they became skin tight. Even his shirts weren't big enough to cover up his jiggling belly. "...Maybe they won't notice." Ed thought confidently as he tried to tie his shoes, fighting with his big belly. As he finished, he took his bag and headed for school.
By the time Ed had arrived at school, all of his friends were crowded around their normal table in the commons, as usual. When they saw him coming, all five of them felt their jaws drop to the floor. Ed, waddling his way to one of the empty chairs and then sitting on it with a large "creak", just smiled and greeted his friends. "Hey guys! How goes it?" It took Ed's friends a few seconds to process exactly who was talking to them, but when they realized who it was they all broke out in laughter. "Dude, look at you! You're a whale! How'd you gain that much weight in three days?? Do nothing but eat cake?" Ed, frustrated that his friends were still being so insensitive, stood up again. "For your information I'm on a diet. Just you wait, in a few more days I'll be thinner than ever!" His friends laughed once again as Ed stormed off, his fat butt bouncing up and down.
Ed was so frustrated that he didn't notice every person at school was looking at him; how his big body giggled as he walked into the classroom. He heard people whispering and laughing in his back. Determined to prove to his friends that he would lose the weight, Ed thought, " Once I get home I'll see what else the book says I should do. I gotta speed up this process...".When Ed sat in his chair, everybody heard a large "creak" and watched as Ed fell on the floor, breaking the poor chair into smithereens. Ed sighed and thought, "This is going to be a long day..."

Once Ed arrived back at his apartment that evening, he immediately opened the book back up again, fanning through the pages furiously. "C'mon...c'mon..." After a few moments of flipping he came across what he was looking for. "Aha! Here we go: 'Phase 2.' I need to speed this thing up if I'm ever gonna get my friends to quit it with the fat jokes." Phase 2 of the diet turned out to be pretty similar to phase 1, just...much bigger in food proportions. Ed recited the paragraph out loud, excited that he had finally found the next step in his weight loss adventure. "For phase 2, double your intake of all foods mentioned in phase 1, but add the following daily: 30-35 Double cheeseburgers, 40-50 liters of high-fat pudding, 100-200 Sugar doughnuts and 15-25 extra thick milkshakes. Also try to avoid any strenuous physical activity." After gathering his things and squeezing out the door, Ed went back to the supermarket again. Once he got there, Ed started to search for all the things he needed for the diet. The people at the supermarket were speechless as the big boy gathered all kinds of fattening foods. When Ed realized that he had everything on the list, he went up to the cashier, who looked at him with surprise and a bit of disgust, his t-shirt riding up on his big belly even more now than ever. Even Ed's moobs pressed against his tight t-shirt, his pants starting to rip apart. After buying all of his "supplies", Ed made his way back to his apartment. Even though it was only a block away, he made sure to drive there to avoid moving as much as possible. Once he got to his apartment he tried to take the elevator with all the supplies he bought at the store, but the elevator wasn't able to carry all the weight.  Ed sighed. " The books say that I shouldn't do physical activities, but I guess I don't have a choice." He left the supplies on the elevator as he tried to run upstairs, his fat body jiggling all the way up.After about 15 minutes, he finally reached the second floor (the floor of its apartment). Exhausted by all the exercise, Ed pressed the button for the elevator, bringing all of the food up. When he finally got to his apartment, he once again planted his large butt on the couch and took a deep breath. "Maybe this is why I shouldn't do any physical activity." He told himself as he took one of the bags and opened a package of donuts, slurping them down one by one.  "This'll show 'em. They're gonna be so jealous when I see them..." Stuffing himself with more and more doughnuts,the feasting continued, and amazingly Ed was once again able to eat all of the food instructed on the diet for one day. Licking the sugar from his puffy fingers he rubbed his overly stuffed gut and leaned back, drifting off into sleep once again.
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Ed decided that he wouldn't leave his apartment until he saw results. He had bought enough food to feed several small armies, after all. It didn't matter that he was absent all week from school; he spent every minute of the day eating. He resisted weighing himself, wanting to wait as long as possible to see how much he had lost. When the weekend arrived, he even increased the amount of food he ate in a day.  After the week of non-stop gorging, he finally couldn't take the excitement anymore. Overflowing with excitement, Ed made his way to the bathroom...slowly, but surly. He didn't seem to notice the ground shaking as he walked along, or his thighs brushing against the door jam as he entered the room. Stepping on to the scale, Ed waited anxiously, thinking about how impressed all of his friends would be once they caught glimpse of the new him."Heh, this will show you guys…"

"450.4 pounds. "

In shock, Ed looked down to see if the machine's display was correct, but he couldn't see anything behind his bulging gut, which stuck out several feet in front of him. "No..." Turning slightly, Ed caught a glimpse of himself in the mirror. His face didn't look too different; he noticed how puffy it was, but overall it was pretty normal. But his body looked more like a hippopotamus than a man, not to mention his saggy chest that had developed. His underwear wasn't even visible from the front; his gigantic belly hung down almost to his knees, his love handles spilling over the sides. Even his legs were getting massive; looking like thick, pink tree trunks. With horror Ed slowly turned himself around, only to find that his butt had inflated to at least five times it's original size. Every slight motion of his body made all of his fat jiggle, even his toes looking plump. As if that weren't bad enough, from his bedroom Ed heard his alarm clock going off. Time for school.

It took almost 15 minutes to go downstairs because the elevator couldn't hold Eds huge weight anymore. Unable to fit into his car, Ed had to walk all the way to school.  "Damn...more exercise...this isn't good for my diet..." he though as he waddled to the school. Ed was very uncomfortable in his way to the school, people seeing him in clothes that barely covered any of him at all. His shirt pinched his fat upper arms, his saggy chest  bunched up in his tiny little shirt. His big belly was accented  with a pair of handles, and his pants fit like tights over his blubbery legs. By the time he arrived at school, Ed was covered with sweat and was bright red, breathing very heavily and doing his best not to collapse from exhaustion. His friends, once again gathered around a table, could hear him coming long before they saw his huge wobbling body rounding the corner. As he approached the table the silverware clattered around and fell on the floor. Ed, still sweating, was barely able to speak, he was so out of breath. "Hey...you... guys..." he puffed. None of them said a word. Almost a minute passed, the only noise being Ed's wheezing and the sound of sweat droplets hitting the floor. Then, instantly, his friends once more broke out into laughter. But this time it was uncontrollable laughter. They were rolling on the floor at the very sight of their huge friend, some of them brought to tears. "Ed...what the hell man! Look at you! How'd you even fit in the front doors?" Ed's already red face turned even redder. "You guys are just....*huff* ...jealous!"As Ed turned to leave he heard a loud rip behind him, and immediately knew what had happened. His  skin tight jeans had ripped down the middle, his huge ass too much to be contained. The seams of his t-shirt also began to unravel as he jiggled in place, mortified by what was happening. His friends just laughed harder. "And we thought you were tubby before! I don't think there's even a NAME for what you are! Way to go, fatty, way to go!"  For the third time that week Ed waddled  away in frustration, the sound of his thighs rubbing against each other making his friends laugh even harder. Ed decided that he needed new clothes now that all of his old ones were just too small for him. On the way to his apartment he spotted a store that sold clothing specifically for big people, so he decided to take a look.

No longer caring about school, Ed waddled his way towards the clothing store, attracting the stares of everyone he passed, his clothing barely clinging to him at all anymore. Even his shoes didn't fit. By the time he got to the Big and Tall store he could hardly breath at all. "...Hi...do you...have...something that...would fit...me...?" The salesman, clearly not sure how to handle such a massive person, did his best to get Ed outfitted with new clothing that actually fit his huge form.
After a while, the saleman returned with a huge box. In it, there was an outfit that was the perfect size for Ed. It took 5XL overalls to hide Ed's fatness, and even that was pretty tight on him. "I'm sorry sir, but this is the largest size we carry..." Ed shrugged, just happy that his fat was hidden from the world again ( although they could now see his huge saggy chest pressed up against his overalls and his huge flabby arms."This will work." Ed mumbled as he touched his belly and left the store, still gawked at by passerby. Back at his apartment, Ed collapsed on his couch limply. The couch simply couldn't support Ed´s heavy ass anymore, and it broke in half. "Ah, man..." Ed, now frustrated, started eating the fatty foods he had left on the couch. "This has to work...it's just taking...a long time..." As he gorged more and more food. His eating became more and more ravenous, as if he hadn't eaten in weeks.All night he continued to shovel food into his gut; all the kinds of foods that the book told him to: cakes,thick milkshakes, plump hot dogs, hamburgers and even fried chicken. He ate and ate and ate nonstop.
Ed's new diet was the most rigorous one yet. For breakfast, he was to have 20 glasses of thick milkshakes, 1 kilo of fried eggs, 50 strips of greasy bacon, 4 ice cream sundaes. For snacks, it was  50 strips of bacon every 30 minutes. For lunch, 20 to 30 burgers with double cheese, 10 bowls of 8 piece fried chicken and 5 liters of creamy pudding. Finally, for dinner,  20 hotdogs and 5 chocolate cakes. Ed didn't even take time to sleep; he was eating every night all through the night. All he cared about was following the diet exactly. In no time, another week had passed.

When Ed woke up on Monday morning to the buzzing of his alarm clock, he couldn't quite remember where he was or what had happened in the last week; only that he had eaten all of the food he had bought. As he looked around, he saw his apartment littered with trash; empty ice cream cartons, fast food bags, pizza boxes...there wasn't a clean spot anywhere. Ed grunted, as he tried to sit up and get comfortable on the broken couch. " Ommf.. what happened here? " After a few more tries, he realized in horror that he couldn't sit up well because there was already something taking up his lap; his gigantic belly!  His gut had even bursted the braces of the overalls. With much effort, Ed somehow made it to his feet, the clothing that fit him yesterday was tighter than ever now, and the overall´s seams were ripping. Ed's billowing fat was once again on full display. Barely able to move his arms or bend his knees, Ed finally had enough. "That's...oof...that's it..." Ed grabbed the weight loss book from the counter and started waddling towards the door. "I'm...returning this...thing...dammit..." Angrily, Ed started towards the door, swinging it open and starting to push himself through it. Unfortunately, his thick thighs and bulbous butt cheeks got stuck in the door jam as Ed tried to waddle out; with a lot of grunting and groaning, he eventually managed to squeeze his massive fatness through and down the stairs, taking up the entire hallway with his now 800 pound body. Almost immobile, Ed only had a tiny part of his overalls covering up his thick legs, showing off his gargantuan torso to everyone. Carefully, Ed went downstairs, the stairs shaking with each step. After finally reaching the exit, Ed worked his way to the bookstore. The people on the street jeered at him, some even taking photos like he was a circus freak. Eds only thought seemd to be: "Why me?!" When he finally reached the bookstore ( almost blowing the doors off the hinges, ) his heart sank.
There, in the middle of the store, were all of his friends. They had begun laughing before they even turned to see him: and it wasn't only them: everyone in the store began giggling at Ed's mammoth form. The jokes started. " Hey, a whale just ran aground, Help!" "Hey Ed, the all-you-can-eat-buffet is down the block!" "Oh no, it's the blob! It's gonna eat us! ha ha ha !"  As Ed surveyed the small shop, he say that everyone was laughing. Everyone except Sonya. She simply looked at Ed with sadness in her eyes. Before she could say anything Ed once again fled, this time not caring that his butt was wiggling out of his pants or that everyone could see his exposed chest. As he jogged down the sidewalk back to his apartment, making light cracks in the sidewalk, Ed's mind was racing. "Those jerks..." It took Ed almost an hour to walk two blocks, and when he finally shoved himself back into his apartment something inside of him snapped. In fury, he picked up the phone ( which wasn't easy, his fingers were as fat and thick as sausages ) and dialed the local pizzeria. "...Hello, Mario´s? I'd like to order some pizzas..."
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Looking down at her watch, Sonya saw that it was almost 5pm. Her classes had just let out, and the sun was starting to set as she walked along the boulevard, walking around the large footprint-shaped cracks along the sidewalk. It had been almost two weeks since she'd seen Ed after the bookstore disaster, and she was worried about what might have become of him. In her hands she held the weight loss book that Ed had dropped before running away that day. As she walked up the stairs to his apartment, she heard a faint noise that sounded like slurping. Cautiously, she started down the hallway to his room, hearing the noises become louder and louder. Finally, she arrived at Ed's apartment, the door very slightly open. It was clear that the noises were coming from inside.
Sonya slowly pushed the door open, gasping softly as she entered. The ground was entirely covered with empty pizza boxes and french fry cartons, bags from hundreds of fast food joints and the remains of several thousand ice cream sandwiches. In the middle of this chaos sat Edward: now so hugely fat that his blubber spread across the floor like Jell-O. In each hand he held a melting blob of ice cream, his mouth covered with chocolate. He looked like he must've been at least 2000 pounds, his belly taking up about half of the entire apartment. His bloated chest sat on his gut as his fat arms shoved the ice cream into his mouth, Ed hungrily inhaling the desserts at lightning speed. Finally, he noticed that Sonya had entered his lair. "...Sonya..."
To her surprise, Ed's voice sounded very low and thick, which matched his extremely massive body. She slowly stepped forwards, still holding the book in her hands. "Ed, wow..." She put one of her delicate hands on his rumbling belly, feeling the fat flow underneath her fingertips. Ed turned bright red at the girl's presence. "That..." Ed did his best to point one of his meaty fingers at the weight loss book. "...I did...everything....it...said..." Ed burped loudly before continuing. "...and look at me...I'm huge...oogh..." An entire carton of the ice cream sandwiches was perched on Ed's huge gut. He slowly pulled more and more out, stuffing his fat face with them as Sonya looked on. "Ed...there's something that I think you should know about this book." Ed, more confused than embarassed now, looked down at Sonya, who held the book up so that he could see. Slowly, she put on of her fingers over the word "Lose". With a very quiet crinkling sound, she peeled off the word, which was nothing more than a label. Ed's eyes grew large. Underneath the tab was another word printed directly onto the book's cover:

"Gain".

"How...to...GAIN...weight..." Ed dropped his ice cream sandwiches to the floor as Sonya edged closer to him. "...Sonya...did you..." Somewhat sadly, Sonya nodded. "I'm the one who put the label on. I'm sorry, Ed...but when we were talking..." Sonya walked to Ed's side, once again putting one of her hands on his fatty body. "...and you told me you wanted to lose some of your weight...I just couldn't bear the thought of it." Ed looked down at the girl, who looked back up at his thick face. "I like you so much, and I think you're wonderful the way you are now." Ed, at a loss for words, felt his heart jump. Sonya picked up the ice cream sandwiches that Ed had dropped. "...Will you let me take care of you? Please?" Sonya's soft touch on Ed's skin made him shiver. His chubby cheeks growing pink, he smiled. "...Of course. I would...love that. " Sonya smiled back before putting one of the sandwiches up to Ed's face. And happily, he began to eat.