To think he was a jock not long ago; star running back on his high school football team, even getting a college scholarship on his skills. The breakup between him and his girlfriend the day of college graduation, though, was the beginning of the end.
No one could have predicted Austin Reed would’ve turned out this way. 27 years old, thinning red hair, 5′ 10, 260 lbs. When he’s not sitting at his desk at work, he’s sitting on his ass at home, trying and failing to stuff his distended gut into one of his many football jerseys in some sad attempt of reliving the glory days– which he knew were long over, but for some reason was never fully ready to let go of– while he gorged himself on various sweets and shakes to pass the time.
Everything was a struggle now; getting his socks on, putting on pants, and when his gut and stomach hairs weren’t constantly getting caught in his zipper, sitting felt like his thighs were constantly fighting for space. What others would call manspreading was him simply trying to adjust to all this new weight, despite being like this for about 6 years now. He’d tried to lose, but any time he got halfway into sliding one of those tight, chic, long sleeve white UnderArmour workout shirts over his bulging form, he’d just sigh and give up, opting for another slice of Pizza instead.