The Impossibility of Losing Weight
I recently read with great interest an apology in the Wall Street Journal from WW previously known as Weight Watchers entitled, “The Company That Defined Dieting Is Sorry It Told Us to Have More Willpower.” The CEO of WW also said that there’s no shame in being overweight or in taking new weight-loss drugs. Geez. Thanks?
I decided to experiment on myself during the pandemic because I had the time to do it. I wanted to see how hard it would be to lose twenty five pounds. You know, that proverbial, last, stubborn twenty five pounds.
It was hard.
The timing was good. There were no dinner parties with friends or backyard barbeques because … the pandemic. And I wasn’t going to restaurants, usually an exercise in self-sabotage because … the portion sizes. I also had time to walk for two hours every morning and lift weights for thirty minutes a day. I wasn’t overweight per se and twenty five pounds really wasn’t that much; many people want to lose much more than that. Those are some of the things I had going for me.
I lost the twenty five pounds, but it took almost two years accompanied by an amount of exercise that most people would never have the time to do.
Initially, it felt like I was starving myself. Of course, I wasn’t starving, but it felt that way because we Americans eat such…
