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Laughing With Weight Watchers

My Personal Removal from a Baptism in Food

So, it begins...

We've talked about it before, but I always found a reason to take a pass. Then on the spur of the moment, three days ago on Wednesday, August 31, 2018, my wife and I joined Weight Watchers. Yep! She finally found something I felt that I could actually live with as a way of eating. (because I don't do diets) Well, it's been two long, full days on Weight Watchers! I'm thinking I should have lost at least 20 lbs by now! What the hell?! I knew it was a bull shit sales pitch! 😶

No, seriously, it's really easy, and it is really just a negotiation. I can eat whatever I want. However, I have to decide the portion. It makes me think about how bad I want something! Before? Hell! I ALWAYS NEEDED it! It wasn't "wanting" food! I NEEEEEEDED that Texas Sheet Cake! I needed the four scoop ice cream sampler at Handel's! I needed those Little Debbie Swiss Chocolate Rolls...the whole box. I needed the Gallon of Milo's Tea every two days! It was a given! If I wanted it? I ate it!

And let's not forget all the food binge tampering the medication that I have to take plays in this mess! I was happy at 50 lbs. lighter, until Lyrica and a few others came on the scene! This is an uphill battle! I'm the underdog here, at 53 years old! I look like David Tua fighting Lennox Lewis! Remember that fight?! Tua looked like a dwarf with Tyrannosaurus Rex arms! (Non-fight fans? Look it up on YouTube). Anyway! You get the picture. I'm not 6'3" in this picture! I'm the "Mini Me" in this episode! That Double Whopper with Cheese is to me what Pol Pot was to the existence of Cambodians! It's no joke!

All comparisons, and joking aside, I want to do this, and I need to do it! This is as simple as it gets. I can live with this, even after I drop the weight. So! No diet! No fad crap! No sacrificing good food! I'm simply modifying the supply and demand module for my own personal storage facility! See? My storehouse is full! Hell! It's running over! My shed was finished years ago, and I kept building! So, I won't be putting on the winter layer of fat, I still have leftover layers from the last 11 years.

So, it's on! I mean...off! I'm taking it off! Next time you see me streaking, I'll be much lighter, and actually running! Well, give me a little while. Two days may be a "little" too soon to evaluate.So, stay tuned!

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