When confronted out the front of the gym by a man offering to sell you a large 2kg bottle of protein powder, you felt stupid forking over the cash. You looked down at the bottle with its ridiculous name: ‘2Good2B: MASSive MASS Protein Powder’. You thought to yourself that there is no chance this will help you at all. But is that really what you thought? You did buy it after all, so you must have thought deep down that there is a small chance this can be the missing ingredient that will finally turn your small, lean body into one bursting with muscle.
The bottle read: ‘Stimulates growth and guaranteed to significantly increase mass within a week’. It read exactly like an overpromising scam, but that didn’t stop you from putting into your protein shake and doing your workout as usual. Your gym session didn’t feel any different, and you didn’t feel any different afterwards either, besides feeling a bit deflated after your questionable purchase.
The next day.
It was hard to get out of bed; your body felt like it was filled with lead. You eventually willed yourself up, as you did every morning, to get ready for your morning jog. Once you were on your feet you noticed the heavy feeling still hadn’t gone away. You must not have slept well last night, you thought. It was when you put on your clothes that you finally realised something was up. Both your shirt and your shorts hugged your body tightly like they ever had before. It couldn’t be, could it?
You were a stud. That’s exactly what you thought as you looked into the mirror, flexing your biceps that now barely fit into your sleeves. It wasn’t just your arms, but your chest, legs and butt were all hugged tightly by your clothes. It felt amazing. You couldn’t wait to test out this new body on your jog, but most of all you couldn’t wait to down more of that protein powder and hit the gym.
Two days after using the protein powder.
As much as you didn’t want to get your expectations up too high, you were excited to wake up the next morning and see how your body had changed this time. You felt heavy yet again, and this time quite sweaty too. Your first instinct was to reach for your pecs and feel if they had grown bigger. They indeed had grown a little bigger but that wasn’t all. They were hairy! Quite hairy too!
You rushed for the mirror, and what stared back at you was not someone you recognised. You had a beard to go along with your hairy chest. You had hairy arms and legs too; you were hairy all over. You didn’t know what to think, but you weren’t complaining that you felt a little bigger than the day before. If a bit of hair was the only cost for all this mass, then you didn’t mind one bit.
Three days after using the protein powder.
Hair was not the only side-effect you had to worry about, as when you looked in the mirror that morning you found a soft, hairy belly protruding out in front of you. In a sense, this wasn’t a side-effect as much as it was a part of the main product. You certainly had ‘significantly increased’ your mass overnight.
This protein powder adventure sure had been a rollercoaster, and you were disappointed it had to end with so much damage having been done to your waistline.
UUURRRP! Your belch stunk of that dreaded protein powder. Without even thinking you started rubbing that bloated belly of yours. All that gas leaving your stomach made you realise just how hungry you were.
As you searched your kitchen for something to eat, the cursed bottle of protein powder kept catching your eye. ‘MASSive MASS Protein Powder’. It had truly made you massive. Every time you looked at it your stomach seemed to growl in response. Maybe your protein powder adventure didn’t have to end here. No, what were you thinking, why would you consume anymore of that questionable substance?
However, it was your stomach that won over your mind; you were hungry and it felt like it was the only thing that could truly satisfy your empty stomach. You downed a whole bottle of your protein shake then made another shake for your trip to the gym. You wanted to see if you could find the guy who sold this protein powder and get him to explain himself.
Of course, the man wasn’t there but since you were at the gym it was time to start turning that mass on your belly back into muscle mass.
Four days after using the protein powder.
UUUURRRRPP!
It seemed that your belly had become your morning alarm, set to wake you up as soon as it felt like it needed to be fed. Boy did it need to be fed too, your stomach felt like a bottomless pit of hunger. You knew you had made a big mistake in continuing to use that protein powder yesterday.
You rolled out of bed, and made your way to assess the latest damage. It was a tough decision to go see your progress over filling up your ravenous belly. Maybe it was pointless to look in the mirror as each loud step gave a clear indicator that the news wasn’t going to be pretty anyway.
Yep, you were even bigger. This time however, instead of the mass going all to your belly, your muscles had exploded with size underneath your soft exterior. You felt the need to capture this moment and snapped a photo of your huge, hairy, beefy body in your tight underwear. No doubt you were going to have to do a complete wardrobe do-over.
GRROOOOWLL! It was time for your stomach to take over. You stomped off down to the kitchen, this morning determined to end your run with the ‘MASSive MASS Protein Powder’. You filled yourself with as much food as possible to make sure you would have no protein powder cravings. Bacon, eggs, cereal, yoghurt, fruit, more bacon, more eggs; none of it seemed to be enough.
BUUUURRRRPPP! Your roar of a belch made you realise how awful you smelt. With your increasing size you stopped noticing that your body hair was thickening every morning too. Along with it came a permanent, sweaty stink. You lifted up your arm and sniffed your hairy pit in curiosity. Your nasty odour took your breath away. You really had become a giant, smelly beast of a man.
BUUUUUURRRRRRPPPPPP!!! Your burp felt like it completely emptied your stomach and worst of all, it reeked of that horrible protein powder. Now that you had got a whiff of that protein powder again, your mind was hooked on it. Your body knew that only it could end your insatiable hunger.
You gave in. You gave completely. You didn’t stop until the 2kg bottle of protein powder you bought was empty.
You didn’t know what to do after your feast. Your life had now become nothing but eating and going to the gym, and you had eaten your breakfast already. The only option then seemed to be the gym.
Despite your insecurity about your size and odour, the second you walked into the gym you felt at home. You lifted weights heavier than you had ever dreamed of lifting. Your rank odour soon filled the entire gym but you didn’t care. You just continued lifting weight after weight leaving behind your sticky sweat wherever you went.
After your mammoth workout you hit the showers. As the water rushed over your already soaked body you rested your back against the tiled wall and placed a hand on your belly. You swore you felt your stomach push out against your hand. Then you no longer had to guess, as you could feel your entire body swell up with mass. Belly, chest, arms, legs; they all expanded, encasing the last remnant of your old body in incredible bulk. You had probably at least tripled your old weight by now.
You got out of the shower and put on your once baggy shorts, which was the only thing that still fitted you (they didn’t really fit but it was the only clothing left you could manage to wear).
As you left the gym you caught sight of a familiar man. ‘2Good2B’ it said on his shirt. Huh. You felt like you had something important you wanted to say to this man. Something that felt charged with emotions, yet those emotions weren’t there to harness.
“Wow, look at the size of you!” The man said as he placed his hand on one of your huge arms. “I was going to offer you this ‘MASSive MASS Protein Powder’ but it looks like you might not need it.”
It felt good to have your size recognised and it made you finally feel proud of your humongous body. It feels good to be huge, in fact it’s all you ever dreamt of being. You read the description on the bottle: ‘Stimulates growth and guaranteed to significantly increase mass within a week’. That sounds too good to be true!
“I’ll take two!” You said with a beaming smile. “Even big boys like me need to keep growing!” BUUUUUURRRRRPPPPP!