"Oh, there it is. That's what I get for talking rubbish..."

Russell twists around to check the weight himself, and grimaces as he steps off the scale.

"Nothing like this. I lost and gained some weight at university, but, I know why - I wasn't eating so well."

Alternating between eating his disappointment over things not working out, and undereating to compensate... Unlike the current problem, where he's been obsessively careful about eating more than needed calorically, and yet.