A Double Chin
While we on vacation this year in Washington, we were eating dinner one evening when my oldest daughter just blurted out….
“Dad…you have a double chin!”
Imagine, if you will, how that would make you feel…Well, I felt the same way. I mean…I know I was eating whatever I wanted…its vacation!
But at that point, I became determined to lose some weight…keep it off…get rid of the double chin.
So as soon as I came home from vacation, I started back on the South Beach Diet.
Now, you have to understand. I was a McDonald’s child. I grew up with Big Macs and French Fries. We did not have it a lot when I was in elementary school, but it became a lot more common for me as I grew up. Through high school and college, and while on the road with my first real job after school, I ate a lot of fast food. Then our kids came along, and with every trip, game, long day at work…came a dinner or meal out. The majority of which was fast food. I love my fries…my carbs!
But…I was determined. I did not want my daughters to think that their father had a double chin!
I was off to a fantastic start…lost ten pounds just like that. Those are the easiest. Then came the hard part…dinner with friends at “The Burger Shack” in Lawrence. Fantastic burgers and fries. So I cheated…had my fun…and then got back on the horse.
After I lost fifteen pounds, I was feeling pretty proud of myself! Only cheated the one time (and I can still smell that burger….), and stuck to my diet.
So at dinner one evening, we talked about my diet, how much weight I had lost, and after a few minutes of conversation, I proudly asked Emily if she could still see the double chin.
And her reply….
“Dad, I hate to tell you this…but you still have a double chin!”
And then she proceeded to tell me about the spot on my chin where it looks like I have a vertical line dividing it into two halves….a cleft chin!
I could have killed her.
But I’m still losing. I needed to do it, and I am. As of this morning…lost twenty-two (22) pounds. And only between twelve and seventeen more to go!
Thanks kiddo….
