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Please Think Less of Me
There’s nothing duller than talking about personal health ailments. Forgive me if you have been following my weight loss exploits on Facebook and have heard most of this before, but lots of people asked about it at Grand Lodge this week. So I’ll repeat it all here. Then I’ll shut up about it.
The truth is, I’m a short little squirt.
Doesn’t bother me, really. I grew up with a “little” brother who wound up at 6’10”, so I never festered with a Napoleon complex. And for the first half of my life, I wasn’t a butterball. But over the last decade or so, my weight has ballooned. Much of it has to do with going from film production work to sitting in front of a computer all day and night, and eating literally all of the wrong things, in industrial portions. (They pack Pringles in a can, so you can drink them.) Until now, it has been far easier to answer a doctor’s demand that I get in shape with quips like, “Round is a shape. Yuk, yuk, yuk,” than to actually do something about it.
The result is that I swelled up like a tick on a coonhound, to well more than twice the size I should be, and along with that have come all the usual suspects: high blood pressure, congestive heart, diabetes, swollen cankles like Hillary Clinton’s, the inability to see my own feet, and invitations to play the “Underdog” balloon in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade. After several years of dieting and losing the same 25 pounds, only to watch them come piling back on again with 10 of their friends like a bunch of sugared-up third graders at a Chinese smorgasbord, I decided to take a different approach.
Besides, I was tired of being followed by 8 guys in a rowboat armed with harpoons.
On May 6th, I went in to the hospital for lap band surgery. Lap band is a kind of bariatric surgery that does NOT have anything to do with stapling your stomach or rearranging your internal plumbing. It is a laparoscopic procedure that wraps a plastic ring, sort of like a wide wire wrap, around the top portion of your stomach to make it look like the first twist in a party balloon poodle sculpture, creating a restriction that only allows about 4 ounces of room at the top to fill up. Sort of like a gastric version of an LA cop chokehold…to read more from Chris follow his blog on http://freemasonsfordummies.blogspot.com/2010/05/please-think-less-of-me.html
Lose Weight Not Hope 
