Seal of Approval

III - A Fat Chance

     I woke up to Dr. Lambrick telling me to do so. I remained under my sand blanket for a couple of seconds. "Just stay there. It's best if you can't move right now." She said as a man walked in with a syringe. I'm assuming it's the tranquilizer, and since I can't run away, I just sit there and stare as he pushes the needle into my neck. I start to drift away as everything swiftly fades to black.
     As I start to come to my senses I see a kaleidoscope of the world, then everything starts to fade in, and I see Dr. Lambrick standing over me. "So, it may have looked like nothing's happened yet, so I'll explain what's happening. You see, the average female eleph—"
     "Female?!?!" I yelled.
     "Yes, female, you will be a female seal. Anyway, as I was saying, the average female elephant seal weighs in at around 1,500 pounds. As a human male, you aren't really close to that number. Our charts put you at just under a tenth of that number, actually. So what we need to do is force your body to gain weight. Luckily, we have just the right thing for you. We have designed a special injection that will force your body to convert any waste material into fat, which means you will no longer urinate or defecate until the diet's conclusion. This will make you gain around 35 pounds a week on a normal diet, but in this expedited case, you will be eating much, much more than 2,000 calories a day. This will ensure you will be gaining upwards of 100 pounds every week. Our goal is 1,000 pounds, so you will be in this stage for about nine weeks. This is by far the longest stage of this transition. We've injected the serum into your bloodstream already, so it will start working as soon as you eat something. This means that for these nine weeks you will eat human food, but be prohibited any movement whatsoever. You will not be permitted to move at all. You will also be in the water for the entirety of these nine weeks. Luckily, we also injected you with an 'anti-pruning' serum, which will prevent your skin from wrinkling." She said as she let me off the table. She gestured for me to go back to the terrarium, to which I got on my hands and knees and crawled. We walked through the hallway and into the terrarium room, then she opened the door and I crawled inside. I noticed inside the water was a platform raised.
     "Enter the water and stand on the platform." She told me. Without fight I crawled into the water and planted my feet into the two little slots on the platform, to which two metal straps clasped over my feet, trapping me in that position. A man walked into the terrarium and told me to put my arms up, to which he slid a metal sheet down over my head and fastened it in place, restricting me to the standing position. "You will remain here for nine weeks. Your weight will be constantly monitored until you hit the 1,000 pound threshold. Your first meal is being delivered now." Almost synchronously, a man walked in with a nice grilled steak, mashed potatoes, and green beans. As I ate, I enjoyed every piece of it, every scoop of mashed potatoes, and each and every bean. I savored each bite until the plate was gone.
     "Oh, I forgot to mention that we injected you with a serum that makes you constantly feel hungry. Don't worry, you'll never starve, but you will feel hungry, constantly, so you'll want to keep eating." She adds. As I finish my plate I ponder how long this will really take.