Weight Loss: Don’t Eat More Than You Can Lift

Weight loss and weight-lifting:

When I determined that I would write this weight loss article, I figured I wouldn’t turn to experts, doctors or classical philosophers. So, I turned to that veritable sage of expert insight and real-life savvyMiss Piggy. Her weight loss counsel? Never Eat More Than You Can Lift.

I am not a weight loss therapist. Granted. But, as a Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeon for over three decades, I’ve done my share of weight loss counseling.

Actually, by the time they needed to come to see me, my counseling was very simple: If you want to live, you better start some sort of weight loss planimmediately.

They usually didn’t like my counsel. I assured them, they would like my surgeon’s knife even less.

It got worse. I would then tell them: The plain fact is this: If you are overweight, you are in danger.

People can take only so much comforting.

Why so direct, you ask? HumIn case you didn’t get it before, I’ll say it again slowly If you are overweight, then YOU areINDANGER. That is the first of four principles about weight loss you must learn.

If the conviction...