Weight control is something I struggle with.  In my adult life I’ve weighed as much as 225 lbs, shortly after DB was born and as little as 185 lbs, just 2 yrs ago.  I’ve since drifted up to around 205 lbs, and I’m NOT happy.  I have a collection of size 34 waist pants that I can’t wear, I know it’s not good for me (long history of cardiovascular disease in my family, I’m fighting bad genes), and I don’t feel good about how I look.  Don’t let my HNT or Wanton Wednesday pictures fool you, I work very hard to choose pictures that hide my mid-section and how soft I’ve become.

Several years ago I pulled this list out of an issue of Men’s Health magazine.  Obviously I saved it, but I haven’t paid much attention to it, so here it is, as some motivation to drop the 15 lbs I really want to lose.

20 REASONS TO DROP 2O POUNDS

1. Because you whine about it.  Have you ever been wrong about anything?
2. Twenty pounds of warm human fat can fill every bottle in an empty case of beer, with enough left over to fill your blender
3. The statement “There’s more of me to love” has an actual bedroom translation of “There’s more of me to endure”
4. It’s not scaling Mt Everest or writing the great American novel.  You can do it in your spare time.
5. You’ll speak of toaster pastries the way you talk about that blonde from the blues bar in Berkeley, another whiskey-soaked lament over a love too great to last
6. It’s the difference between being thought of as jolly or witty
7. You’ll lose weight everywhere, including the suprapubic fat pad at the base of your penis.  So as your belly shrinks, something else appears to grow.
8. Decreased chances of developing heart disease, prostate cancer, diabetes, sleep apnea, depression, back pain, impotence, gallstones, joint problems, high blood pressure, low sperm counts, and an impressive collection of prescription drug bottles.
9. Increased: your chances of putting four fingers on a basketball rim
10. You’ll literally get closer to women
11. Holy shit, abs!
12. Men who loss weight never have less sex.  They may not have more, mind you, but they never have less.
13. You’ll shock the world at your local pool by being the only “big splash” champ to win the “little splash” crown
14. Research shows that since you’ll have less weight propelling you through the windshield, you’ll also have less risk of dying when your car hits a semi
15. Every time you pick up a 20 lb dumbbell, you’ll remember
16. You’ll be able to reach even more places to scratch
17. The clothing cliche: it’s liberating the first time your pants fall down by themselves
18. More pullups, because there’s less to pull up
19. Wait until you ride a Waverunner, quad, or snowmobile when you’re 20 lbs lighter.  Vroom baby.
20. In our society, people respect weight loss.  Even if you do noting cool or interesting or memorable for the rest of your life, you’ll have done that.