One of the more popular comments/questions I’ve gotten since I booked the Boat Job is, right after, “What are you going to be doing?” is “Aren’t you afraid your going to get fat?”
I look those “Negative Nancys” right in the eye and say, “NO!”
It’s taken me over a year to lose all the weight I’ve lost and if you think I’m just going to pack it back on because I’ll have access to midnight buffets, you’ve got another thing coming.
I have a plan.
As I’m going to be “trapped” on the boat for nine months, without my fat clothes – or access to an Old Navy, Gap or K-Mart – if I let myself go, very simply put, I’ll have no other choice but to go nekkid; and since no one wants to see that I’ll be forced to maintain my current weight; for the record, that’s 178 lbs, a sized 32/33 waist, medium shirt – you know regular sized, like a normal person. Since I won’t be home to go into the “fat clothes bin” if I gain – or for that matter, lose - 10 lbs, I’ll be screwed.
Besides, the last thing the Casting Director told me after out hour-long info-gathering phone call was, “Now don’t go losing a bunch of weight, you are the perfect character guy, what I saw at the audition is what I want on the ship.”
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