#002 — Reformed Eater

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I see fat people.  They’re everywhere.  They don’t even know they’re fat.  And the worst part is…I used to be one of them.

A year ago I was surprised to discover I was fat. Middle-age spread had widened me so much I had a coastline instead of a waistline.  I knew I was in trouble when I saw a picture of myself and thought, “Whoa!  What was Marlon Brando doing in my living room?”

Thus motivated (and following the example of my loving wife who started her diet about two months earlier than mine) I found an on-line diet site and seriously contemplated losing weight.  For two solid months I contemplated it.  That didn’t seem to be doing any good.  So I stopped contemplating and started dieting.

Which, when you think about it, is a weird concept.  You don’t start a diet.  You STOP eating.  I think they call it “starting a diet” because calling nobody would do it if they called it what it really is….starving yourself. (Full text.)

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