While I was going around the center, I saw two people whom I knew well that gave me pause. One was a man who had lost a significant amount of weight over the last year. When I saw him a few weeks ago, I thought he might be gaining it back. I said hello as I waited for the same machine he was using. When he stopped, I had a few choice words for him as I noticed that he was indeed gaining it back! http://uchem.berkeley.edu/forum/read.php?26,500609
“I saw you with your wife a few weeks ago, are you two back together?”
“Yes, we are finally working our relationship out,” he said with a grateful smile on his face!”
“I’m so glad to hear that,” I said, as I moved to use the machine and he walked off.
This is a very important time in his personal life, and there will be more appropriate moments to discuss his fitness with him in the future.
The other person was a young man, as nice a person as you will ever meet, whom I hadn’t seen in a year. He was very obese when I first got to know him a few years ago. Over those years, I saw him work out with a personal trainer and lose at least 75 pounds to where, although still obese, he looked much healthier, and he would walk on the treadmill much more energetically.He looked terrible! He was so obese that he could barely turn his head as he waved back at me. His obesity was oppressive on every part of his body. I felt an overwhelming sadness and anger come over me as I thought about the world we live in and how it offers little assistance to those who cannot win the fitness battle without more help. https://secure.web.emory.edu/forums/read.php?9,2114,2114#msg-2114
I also thought about the readers and especially the commenters on the Dr. J column, and how so many of you fight this battle every day, many quite successfully, and I wanted to say how proud I am of all of you for the hard work that you put in, and for the wonderful example all of you set for others in an unhelpful world!
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