166 A new car parable

My husband broke 200 today - cause for celebration as, for his weight, it marks the demarcation of being no longer "obese." So I said to him, "You've been given a new car." I asked him how it's going to look in a year. "If you treat it like the last car, then it's going to look old real soon." And that's what we're doing with our bodies. I was speaking to him, and then I started thinking about it, and it's true for me, too. I recently found a note card of resolutions dated January of 2008. I weighed 164 pounds then. It's a sad fact, and my resolution that year was to go down to 150. Instead, in a year and a half I put on 15 pounds. It was a very unpleasant year, professionally. And now I am back to where I started. I was given a new car, and I ran it down. And I can do it again, just as easily. So, I'm a year and a half older and, hopefully wiser. Let's do everything possible to maintain our losses.
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