Why Lose Weight?

Saturday, May 22, 2010

If, like me, you are proud to have shed a few unnecessary pounds, you may, like me, be confronted with delightful situations where you can illustrate, wordlessly, WHY it feels good to have shed, say twenty-pounds.

Here is one example.

A friend and I have both lost some weight; she needs to lose more than I, that is, I have reached my goal of moving from 180 lbs to 160 lbs, but she, having shed about 20 lbs, still needs to shed another 15 lbs or so, she says.

I purchased a large carton of kitty-later last weekend, and as I carried it out of the store to the car, she asked “Is that heavy?”.

I placed the carton on the ground and gestured to her to pick it up. “Whew!” she gasped after two seconds. We resumed our trek to the car.

I pointed out that the carton contained 20 lbs of kitty-litter, equivalent to the weight I have shed over the past three years.

I did not need to point out that she was literally lugging that around 24 hours a day, whereas I had but a few more seconds of this burden.

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