Opus 2022-238: Weight a Minute

I don’t talk a lot to people about weight and diet.  I will respond but I don’t bring it up.  There are several reasons for this.

The big reason is I keep losing ground myself.  We usually don’t want to talk about our failures.  I track everything I eat.  I have seen my weight change 5 pounds in a week, up and down.  It usually has nothing to do with consumption.  That being said, I have not given up and am still in the battle.

Another reason is that I know how easy it is to distort our small improvement into an overall gain.  My wife regularly announces she is down a pound.  I have come to assume that when she is silent she is up a pound.  If I took her reports as the whole story she would be withered enough to be blown away by a good belch.  We can lie to others.  On weight issues it doesn’t hurt them.  Ignoring truth for ourselves might be a worse situation.

I also don’t like to bore people the way they bore me.  There are times when I have a hard time not rolling my eyes.  I want to do unto others as I would have them do unto me even if they don’t return the favor.

Bon Appetit

homo unius libri