“...but last year I deliberately went out for a gain.” Robert continued, “By the ‘freshman 15' standard, what you see here is my freshman 95!” He grinned at his own joke and slapped his prodigious paunch.

“95!” Jason replied in surprise.
“Yeah, well, it’s a good gain - did half of it by Chrismas, and the rest since then. One week I put on eight pounds, but mostly it’s been a pound or two a week,” Robert said matter-of-factly. “I suppose some people would call the first 50 pounds up to Christmas my ‘freshman 50'.”

Jason, amazed by this calm discussion of enormous growth, asks Robert, “Are you still gaining?” “Sure!” Robert replied, “still lots of space here. This year I’m aiming at