You get some bizarre and insistent suggestions from people about dieting. Not just what to eat but also how to eat it.
'You must do Atkins, it's brilliant'. Well, yes, if you want bad breath.
'Have you tried the fasting diet? It's amazing'. Yep, that's fine too if you're okay with not eating, but that's like saying to someone who can't swim, you should set a goal of doing the front crawl across the Channel.
'Have you tried adding shards of glass to your food? It did wonders for me. Lacerated my tongue and larynx so I couldn't swallow. I swear by it'.
'They mean well' comes the gallery. 'Do they?' thinks I. Or is it just a way of exerting some kind of weird reverse feeder control over you? 'I suffered in this way and I'd like you to experience some of the pain I did'.
The other thing about these advice giving folks is that you don't want to end up looking like a lot of them anyway. Aside from their swivelling eyes, many of them are just more haggard looking versions of their fat selves. So they're hardly the best advertisement for the approach they're suggesting.
Well I have modest plans for my end state. It will be Olympian statue style magnificence.
Keep going