Best piece of advice I give my children: Don't get fat.

I'm serious.

Ask anyone who has put on more than 20lbs from eating alone, and you'll find someone who faces challenges taking off the weight.

Find someone who has been at least 20lbs overweight for a least 10 years, and you will see someone continuously struggle.

So why do the overweight struggle?

Gratification is the enemy. Weight loss is one of the few success outcomes that requires outsized effort and discomfort for marginal incremental success.

Additionally, there is never ending temptation to break from the eating plan, and all it takes is a few bad meals and bam, you are back to square one or worse, you can gain for the week.

But when you write the above and apply it for yourself you realize how weak of individual you really are.

Am I saying, that I can't say "no" to ice cream? Am I saying I can't eat salad in the face of BBQ? Because that's what I've done for my whole life. I've said yes to good habits for a only a few meals a week, and the majority of the meals I eat poorly and I'm 42.

That's probably what's so disappointing about this blog because it clearly demonstrates substantial personal weakness to meals.

Does it have a happy ending? It hasn't so far.

I'll check in tomorrow. Maybe I need to commit to daily updates.