My brother once lost over 100 pounds. Someone said to him, “Now that you lost all that weight, I gotta ask how did you get so fat in the first place?’ Yikes. I think sometimes people think that if someone loses a lot weight that they are a new person. They are the same person dealing with the same issues that led to the weight gain. Someone said to me, “I remember when your belly was way out to here.” What am I supposed to say to that. “You are right. I was real fat f**ker.” I am still that fat f**ker just in a different body.
I really appreciate all of the warm comments that I have been receiving. Maybe I am just senstive because I feel like I’ve lost a lot of my old friends. Col. Sanders. The Burger King. Wendy. I miss them all. People are trying to say nice things. There is one thing that has been said to me a bunch of times that could be taken the wrong way. “You’ve really inspired me. Now that you are getting close to my weight. I feel like I need to lose some weight myself.” So I getting near your weight, a weight which you feel fat at. WTF. I’m not mad at those people in the least. Hopefully people will work to get healthier even if its so I don’t weigh less than them.
I think I might have heavier than I thought. I always say this to my wife. I’m not sure that you can ever have an objective view of the way you look. I mean you look in a mirror and you flop your boobs around and slap your belly like a sumo wrestler. You know you are out of shape. It may be like the ole boiling frog syndrome. You look at yourself everyday in the mirror. You don’t notice the changes. What if you could only look at yourself once a year? Then the reality might hit harder. So when people say you almost weigh what I weigh, it may be more of a compliment. They considered you way heavier then they were. They were comfortable in their skin relative to you. Once those ratios get thrown out of wack, they get dropped in the boiling water.
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