Stretch Marks

Last winter was brutal.

This one's gonna be worse.

I think I'm gonna get one of those snow blowers.

Don't waste money of one of those.

I'll just shovel.

I like it.

Yeah, me too.

We'll see.

One thing I think we should invest in

is a treadmill or something for the basement.

It'll keep you moving.

Keep us all moving.

Yeah, be another thing to collect dust.

Besides I do move, I do my walks.

It's not enough.

And how are you gonna lug that thing downstairs anyway?

I'll just put a blanket on the stairs and boom,

slide it right down.

You can't slide a 500 pound treadmill

down the stairs and hope for the best.

They're not that heavy.

I'll just bring it down by myself, if I have to.

I'm gonna finish upstairs.

He had to ask too many questions.

Which should have been told to a woman.

It won't work out.

I find it today.

Hey, Lye.

Happy Friday.

Hey Alessa.

What's going on?

Nothing much.

Yeah, just hanging out?

Yeah.

I saw how well your shots came out

from the fall campaign.

Uh, I don't know how happy I am with them.

Don't play the humble card.

You know they came out great.

Thanks.

So you think Mark'll give

you a bump up any time soon?

Haven't really thought about it.

I don't think I've tried that one.

Oh, this, yeah they're pretty good.

I like any of the ones that have like caramel in them.

Or any of the other flavors that aren't too dry.

Yeah, me too.

Otherwise they get stuck to the roof of your mouth.

Ugh.

Kinda could go for one of those right now actually.

Where here, take mine.

No, Lyle, I didn't...

Shouldn't even be eating them anyway.

Thanks, Lye.

Hey, Lyle, throw another one in?

Fuck it.

Yeah, why not, it's Friday.

Are you okay?

Everything's fine.

Just let me be.

Tonight's not the night.

Okay.

So I was at the store today

and there was this guy giving out free samples

of this meat and the next thing I knew

I had bought two cases.

I hope it didn't cost a lot.

We're definitely not in the place

to get gypped on expensive meat.

That's all I'm saying.

Lyle, any plans tonight?

Nothing really.

James?

I'll hit the gym after this and probably be out late.

I wasn't finished.

They're cold, you don't want these any more.

James, why don't you and Lyle go to the gym together?

Yeah, right.

Why, maybe I wanna go?

He slows me down.

What?

What?

You said I slow you down.

What does that mean I slow you down?

It means I know where everything is

and I don't feel like explaining to you

where the machines are.

No, I know what you meant.

All right.

All right.

He's all sensitive again.

Don't take it that way, Lyle.

Why do you do that?

Why don't we say anything any more?

He's your oldest son,

we have to start talking about it again.

It's killing me.

Stop.

No.

Let him go.

It's just,

your weight.

We sit here every night

and continue to watch you fall deeper

and deeper down the hole.

Do you wanna be 30 and not be able

to look at yourself in the mirror?

With every extra bite you take you fall further down.

We know better than anybody.

The world is moving faster and faster

and it's not gonna slow down for you.

And after what happened, there's no excuse

for you to follow the same way.

You wanna start feeling good again?

70% of feeling good is looking good.

The beach.

Yeah?

How we doing?

Fine.

You know I remember when you and James were little.

Before all of this and what happened.

He looked up to you like you were his idol.

Everything that you did, he wanted to do.

Everywhere you went, he wanted to go.

If you liked something, sure enough, so did he.

Then it stopped.

Yeah well, we grew up.

I think he's trying to get that back.

That time for both of you.

It's getting late, mom.

So you treated people like me before?

Sure.

And you've helped them?

I'm just a guide.

It's really up to the person.

However long that might take.

The kinda money this stuff costs,

I hoped you be able to fix me in a day.

What is it that you want fixed?

Have you been big all your life?

And your family?

No, not really.

And I take it, they been giving you a hard time about it?

I get what people want out of me,

But I can't stop.

The usual?

I wish I could stop, but I can't.

Those few minutes where I feel this rush, satisfaction

and then it's gone.

You know food is a wonderful thing.

It's a joy to many, including myself.

It's just it's something that

can very easily get the best of you.

Then why do I look like this and you don't?

Control.

It's something you'll learn to work on.

It's something I even need to work on.

See these?

Now these satisfy me.

In fact, I'm gonna have one the second you leave

because I can't wait long enough

to even get outside to do it.

This.

This is just a shitty reminder of that.

We all have our habits, Lyle.

The things that satisfy us

to get us through our day.

There he is.

All right.

You wanna, uh, get the coaster?

So.

What's up with you?

Not much.

Oh, you know I met this girl at my cousin's wedding.

Really? Yeah, yeah.

Have you been seeing her a lot?

I give her my number, so waiting for her to call.

You look good though, man.

I mean did you lose any weight?

It's probably just the shirt or something.

You know there's stuff you could do,

like you could diet, exercise.

Yeah, you know a lot of people

have been bringing that up lately

and ah, it's just not as easy as you think it is.

At least not for me.

It will get easier.

Yeah.

All right.

This place is amazing.

How do you even afford this?

Yeah, I don't.

I don't know if you ever met my old roommate, Ryan,

but he moved out, now I'm left pulling the slack.

TV's sick.

Yeah, ah, again, that's Ryan.

It's um...

You know we're still paying it down

and it's really, it's really expensive.