Your Double Chin
It was only a matter of time until the extra weight started reaching your face, too.
It starts with softer, rounder cheeks. Then some fullness around your chin, widening out your visage to match the rest of your doughy body. It's a fitting addition, since that lonely single chin of yours was the sole harsh, angular feature left across your swelling body. Fitting that it, too, would get a nice plump roll of fat to cushion and subsume it.
It's a little extra roundness at first. Then it's a pillowy crease under your chin, joined shortly by a crease at your neck. A strap of fat where your cheeks seem to melt into your neck entirely, your whole face framed by a ring of dough.
Maybe you don't notice it all the time, convince yourself it's not there. Only when you look down and feel the extra fat squishing into your neck. Or when you turn to the side and feel the flab bunching up on itself. When you chew and feel it moving. The occasional wobble when you take a heavy step.
Could it be that your body is trying to give you a sign?
Puffing up a flabby little barrier to put a little resistance up against all that eating?
Or maybe its there to make you even lazier. To hold up that heavy head, to make one part of chewing easier as the flab pushes at your jaw. Rewarding all your fattening with extra support for your essential, calorie-obsessed mouth.
Seeing the changes in your heavier body was one thing, but the double chin completely alters your face. Inflating your very identity, unmistakably.
There's no hiding this in photos with creative angles, no deluding yourself into thinking that the few people who hold eye contact and don't visibly gawk at your body's size can't tell how greedy you've been.
There's no point in working against it by trying to hold you chin up or crane your neck. Just settle into it. Let your face droop into the warm embrace of your double chin. Let it catch any dribbles of food that escape your mouth. Let your hands cup and wobble it like you do every other roll of fat ballooning out of you.
Thank your double chin for making your fat face catch up with the rest of your body, for making sure that every time you see yourself you're reminded how much of a glutton you've been and that you're right to keep gorging away. You look like someone who eats like that now, don't you?
Maybe the best way to express your gratitude to your double chin is to eat your way into a triple, give it a friend and a supportive cushion of its own.
You'll get used to that, too, as long as there's plenty of food making your fat face wobble with every bite. Eat up :)
