Happy Weight

~ Gottfried

You can easily tell when I’m happy by the fact that I’ve gained weight. My happy weight changes. Sometimes I eat more; sometimes I play more. I’ll be different sizes all the time, like a modern day shape shifter. Whenever I feel sad, I go to my happy place. The fridge.

Fitness is like marriage. You can’t cheat on it and expect it to work. My body does this thing where if I get over the acceptable weight limit, I automatically fall sick and dry up. The illness will last until I get back to my allowed weight. I don’t know if there’s a scientific term for this activity. Surely I’m not alone?

When you lose all excuses, you’ll find results. Weight doesn’t creep up on you, you literally see it happening. You don’t suddenly look at yourself in the mirror and go ‘Woah!’ The hard part is shedding. Everything else might go except the belly fat. True happiness is fitting into a dress after losing weight. You suddenly feel like buying a standing mirror.

Enjoy losing weight. Enjoy eating healthy, delicious food. Don’t wait until you reach your destination to feel good. Don’t be ashamed to take those progress photos and post them. I promise to keep laughing at you to keep you motivated. Take as much joy as you can from your weight loss journey.

If you really want to stay healthy you have to start where you are, use what you have and do what you can. Looking after your health today gives you a better hope for tomorrow. As I got older, I realized that some people didn’t care anymore about tomorrow. They let tomorrow worry about itself. Smart thinking? Hardly.

For health concerns, a close friend of mine was asked to lay off fried chicken. He was encouraged to eat vegetables instead. In the end it was too much for him. What kind of life would you live if you couldn’t have a piece of fried chicken every now and then? If I need to eat only veggies to stay alive, that’s my cue to pull the plug. I’m here for both the good time …. and the long time.

Who says I can’t have both?

©️ Gottfried. All rights reserved

56 thoughts on “Happy Weight”

  7. SMiLes Mr Gottfried Went to A Birthday
    Party For my Wife’s Young Niece-in-Law
    From Her Sister’s Second Husband As Such

    And The Folks My Age Chatted About How
    Many Class Members From High School Are Dead

    A Long Shelf Life Has Its Advantages Indeed When

    my FRiEnDS Were Getting Stoned And Drunk i Was

    Spending my Friday Nights At the Gym Yet True Miracle

    i Ever Got
    Married That
    Way Never The

    Less LeSSoN of Jack LaLanne
    Towing 70 Boats Across Long
    Harbor at 70 Years Old With

    70 Folks in the Boats He
    Did Say The Water was

    Rather Chilled as He Was
    Swimming Towing All Those
    Boats Yet Never the Less He Greeted
    96 With No Fear From Pneumonia to
    Get That addressed By the Medical Field

    Cautious People Have Their Survival Cache As Well

    All Set in Stones of Traditions With Meat Eaters too Hehe..:)

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      1. “I read it as second hand husband 🤭”

        Oh Dear Lord Mr Gottfried Either You are
        Psychic or You Traveled All the Way From

        Nigeria to Hear the Family History Just in Case
        You Didn’t Hehe It’s True Sadly Her First Husband

        Passed Away From Early Onset Genetic Heart Disease

        His Father Suffered A Similar Condition in His 50’s Yet He
        Was A Retired Military Dude With Plenty of Health Insurance
        And Other Benefits of Course So They Patched Him All Up to Live
        a Couple More Decades No Such Luck As the First Husband was A

        Welder And All Around Construction Dude Who Went Where the Making
        Money Was Good Yet Without the Long Term Health Benefits of A Good Union

        Job And True too

        Her Second Husband
        Twice Used Before as

        Dear Lord How Fortunate
        i Am to Have Worked For the
        Federal Government Enduring
        The Golden Handcuffs Deal for
        A Quarter of A Century For Life Long
        Benefits All the Way Around Never Having
        To Worry About Financial Issues Again particularly
        Life and Health Insurance As such All Paid Up and or
        Discounted Cheap Enough to Carry on in Ease i Came

        From a Place of Community ThiS Way With An Employer
        of Big Federal Government That At Least Offered A Golden
        Parachute if You Got into Harms Way as i Surely Did With Health too…

        The Kind of Benefits From an Employer as a Valued Enough Community
        Member of the Organization is What’s Missing Most in Modernity Now in
        These United Staters in Disarray Yes Community A Tradition That Holds Hands

        Securely Together
        People Are All Going
        Their Own Ways Leaving
        The Rest Behind That Ends
        Up Being Them in the Longest of Runs

        That May End up Falling Off the Cliffs of Life too

        Anyway Still Taking Cliff Notes on ThiS Human Condition Now

        Hopefully the Community of Where You Work Takes Human Care of You…

        As There Are Way too many Second Hand Third and So On Human Beings

        That Basically Get Redirected to A Place Very Much Like A Gehenna Dump of Life

        So Many Lives of Drugs And Many Wives and Girlfriends of the Such Just Lost Boys

        to Men
        Never
        Truly
        Attained
        Sadly Enough

        With Young Women
        And Children Left Behind
        For the Challenge of A Lifetime

        With no Better News Than the Other
        Lion King Failed With Words of Life

        isn’t Fair Little

        One in the
        Distance
        Between

        Mice
        And
        Humans
        Truly Thriving..:)

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          1. Key Mr Gottfried
            Marry Your Dream
            First Only Get Used Once

            So Much
            Cheaper
            ThiS WaY iNDeeD

            mY Father Was Married
            4 Times Twice to the Same
            Woman Buying a New Car
            Every Three Years Still With
            A Mortgage When He Dropped

            Dead Buying 500 Dollars of Lottery
            Tickets into Retirement For the Last
            11 Years of His Life EVERY WEEK Until 81 Even at

            75 He Couldn’t Figure Out How Permanently
            Disabled 47 Me Already Saved More Than Six Times

            His Green
            Mold Bucks
            GRoWinG
            in the Bank
            Enough to Last me
            Years with or without
            Any Federal Civil Service
            Early Retirement Golden Parachute

            True Kept Most of my Cars Used 15 or So
            Years True Still the Same Used First Bought
            Home PAID OFF for 30 Years Worth Four times More

            Than the Asking Price Now God Yes And Key Again Marry
            The Same Dream At The Beginning of the End With SMiLes

            Does the Fact We Don’t Have Any Living Children Count

            Yes Indeed and Many Folks in Modernity are Ending Their

            Line
            in the
            Hot Sands Now…

            Before it Gets BOiLinG Frog Legs

            Yet i’m an Optimist Every Little
            Thing is Gonna Be Alright as
            Long as i Exist and Manage my Own Life…

            That Much i Control Naked Enough Whole Complete

            for now
            at Least With SMiLes…

            Looking Around at All the Hot and
            Cold Rocks in Night Skies With No
            FLoWeRS Dear Lord What Fortune
            to Be Born into this Tiny Sliver of an Opportunity

            For Heaven on Earth

            LucKY OnE
            iNDeeD
            mY FRiEnD
            Both Through
            HeLL And Heaven on Earth
            For Real Happy August 1st (A Day Late)
            8 Infinity Standing Tall All 1 Force oF LoVE iN Peace..:)

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  10. With my type of body, I feel happy when i gain weight cos i loose weight easily… But this is not a complain, I’ve gladly accepted what nature has given me.

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