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There was a professor at Temple who conducted like his arms were fat tube steaks, and his hands were big ham hocks that someone had thrust a baton into. This professor was also moderately fat. A portly gentleman, you could say. However due to this man’s slothful nature and ham hock conducting fists, we used to remark of the good professor that he was a “tremendously fat man, trapped inside a moderately fat man’s body.”

Similar words could fairly be used to describe me throughout most of my adult life. Which makes today a proud day. I am still a moderately fat man (although the tremendously fat man inside has been felled, or he is at least trapped in a cave somewhere) but I have become more moderately fat over the past several months. Today, I weigh in under 200 lbs for the first time in over 5 years, a drop of some 15-20 lbs, depending on when you start counting.

“But for a 5 foot 10 inch man”, you are surely remarking, “this still puts you well above the government’s recommended fat-fuck guidelines!”

“True enough,” I respond. But one has to start somewhere, and if I continue my current trajectory, I should weigh zero pounds sometime within the next 5 years, which would be quite a milestone indeed.