Weight loss advice: Don't give up

 I also enjoy when people tell me they miss my old column, “Misadventures in Fatherhood.” Every now and then I think about bringing it back.I’ll tell you what I don’t enjoy — when the column mug of me that keeps getting used is the one of me about 70 pounds ago. Call me vain, but that other picture doesn’t even look like me anymore — it’s some stranger.I believe there are two separate versions of yourself that exist. There’s how your brain thinks you look, and then there’s how you really look. In other words, how we see ourselves isn’t exactly how we actually appear.

Lemon DietThat’s exactly why people tend to do strange things to themselves in the name of beauty. Like women who spend so much time in the tanning bed they look like lizards, or huge guys who insists on wearing a Speedo.

Lemon Juice Diet

When we look in the mirror, we don’t just see our reflection staring back at us, we also see our memories of how we used to look. Our brain does a crafty job of combining the two, and we just don’t seem to notice how fat we’ve become, how silly our hair looks (I know I’m one to talk) or how very strange our make-up is.We do this to our loved ones, too. When you look at your mom, wife, kid or whoever, you’re not really seeing them for who they really look like —you’re seeing what they look like combined with all your memories of them. It’s half the reason beauty is in the eye of the beholder.I think so, anyway.Anyway, speaking of weight loss, people ask me all the time what I did to lose so much weight — as if I’m going to have some layered, esoteric answer.