I just re-read the piece and realized that in light of my current condition the opening is very misleading.
I didn’t get roped into the fat-boy program to participate. The paperwork was one of my joe jobs – all LTs get them as part of on the job training. Napoleon was almost right. The army marches on its stomach. It lives, however, on paperwork. The higher you go the more – and more critical – that paperwork is.
For the inevitable digression, my waist is 47 inches. Yes, I know that’s two inches in four days. I’m not surprised – two things.
First, as I noted before sometimes the waist can be off if there’s gas or something else causing the belly to swell. I lost a bit over an inch on that alone – sorry, should have mentioned it. Second, in my experience the waist always makes big gains early but it has nothing to do with fat loss. Instead, the lazy set of muscles in there are beginning to work again, and that pulls everything in. I suspect I’ll lose another inch or two – maybe three – over the next week and a half. THEN it’ll get hard and discouraging.
