I’m sure you’re itching to know how come I’m suddenly talking about losing weight fast. It all started because last week I found myself in a position to climb once of those steep wheelchair ramps, and it did me in. By the time I got to the top, I was sweating profusely, huffing and puffing, my skin was hot, and I was in bad shape. I went into the bathroom, splashed some cool water on the back of my neck, and looked up into the mirror, and that was when it hit me: I have to lose weight fast.

On some level, I’m starting to feel like I’m turning into my father. He was a hugely fat man, with a great sense of humor and a strong, pragmatic outlook on life. But I tell you, he was large. And lately I’m getting huge also. Don’t get me wrong, I love my father, but I really really really want to keep myself from getting to 300 pounds. Because once you get that far along, there’s not really any way of going back.

So I’ve been trying to figure out how to lose weight fast. My wife wants to join me, telling me that she has been thinking about losing weight too, which will no doubt make it quite a bit easier to stick to whichever diet program we decide on. There’s an almost unmanageable quantity of strange weight loss advice out there

I’ll keep you guys in the loop about how good the weight loss program is turning out for us. I realize weight loss will be difficult, but it’s time to make it happen as far as I can tell, so I am going to really be working hard to figure out how to lose weight fast.