Lose 40 Pounds in 80 Days
> HOW FRIENDS REACT TO WEIGHT LOSSThe "battle of the bulge" is over.
No longer do I have to sit "fat man's style," with legs apart as I squat on edges of chairs.
I can bend down and tie my shoelaces again - without even grunting. I can run up railroad station steps-you can do it with just one suitcase, you know. And I can buy my shirts size 16 - again like a gentleman.
I can follow the "Gigantic Sale" ads once more and go down to the store and pick out "bargains," because I don't require special fittings any longer. That shirt counter clerk doesn't give me the manicured-finger treatment any more while pointing daintily to the Fat Men's Department, and when that snappy salesgirl goes by on her way to the Employees' Lounge she's liable to swing her head around and give me the kind of grin a fellow doesn't mind getting, instead of that "lookit Old Fatso" type of grin.
I can now start eating 2,500 calories a day, but somehow or other that isn't as much fun any more as being able to cross my legs nonchalantly in public and watch the envy on the faces of the fat boys gathered around me.
Their "green" is showing!
MY "SECOND BATTLE" COMES
Having won my first battle, I was not prepared for the second battle. Not of the bulge - but of friendship.
I have hinted all along in these 13 chapters that in losing weight you often lose friends, and now I want to expound a bit on this peculiarity in human nature.
I found that friends can stand your failures, but cannot take your successes.
When you step up to a brass rail and say, "I've given up dieting. It isn't worth it," everybody pats you on the back. "Good old Charlie" stuff. You're a "great guy." "A jolly good fellow." "One of the boys" again.
But slide down from 230 to 186, then see what happens. Here's the kind of conversations you're likely to overhear:
"Old Elmer ain't what he used to be, is he?"
"Nope. I've noticed it myself."
"Oh, well, he's getting old."
"Sure. He used to look like an executive-now he looks like a worn-out bookkeeper."
You get the works from the envy boys.
"Yeah, he had such a nice bay window - now he looks henpecked." - "Wonder if he's really sick?" - "Maybe he's having home troubles." - "He's really a sad sack of skin and bones now, ain't he?" - "Think the poor joker has Virus X, maybe?" - "Probably his business is slipping."
Then they step up, with their green still showing, and demand to know:
"Do you feel any better?"
Say you do, and you lose a friend!
Next: Dropping Clothing Sizes
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