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It's certainly gratifying when people start to notice that you're losing weight and putting on muscle. Co-workers started telling me how great I looked when I'd dropped 30 or 40 pounds. One co-worker told me I looked 15 years younger!. Hmmm....did that mean I now looked 39 or that I looked 69 before? Our sports editor started calling me "Schwarzenegger," which is the sort of teasing I'll take any day, thank you!
But it's even more gratifying when you discover you're able to do things you couldn't do before. For me that included being able to do chin-ups for the first time in my life.
But the best experience came the following summer, when my wife and I went to the Berkshires and stayed in our favorite bed and breakfast near Tanglewood. This pleasantly casual inn is located on a lake, and it has a nice waterfront. One of its nice features is a rope swing hanging from a big tree by the lake. In past years, I had jumped on the swing, only to drop like a rock right into the water. Now, not only was I carrying 60 pounds less of dead weight, I had more upper body strength so I could hang onto the rope longer. To my delight, I was now able to swing out to the full length of the rope and sail wayyyyyy out over the water! It was so cool!
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weight loss, upper body strength, rope swing, chin-ups
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