The biggest part of dieting is 'die'

My mother has been telling me for several years, as you get older, the weight just doesn’t come off as easy when you were younger.

I figured this out without her prophetic words as I noticed my waist expanding and clothes getting tighter in recent years. Each time I went up another size, I would say to myself, “I love wearing baggy clothes and soon enough I would go back down to smaller sizes.”

The illusion nobody had noticed my weight gain was shattered over the holidays.

It hit hard I wasn’t the guy who was thirty pounds lighter as recently as three years ago when a friend who has known me f...