Posted August 4th, 2008 by Jeff J. Snider
I’ve got a great life. I grew up in a very happy home with awesome parents and five wonderful siblings with whom I got along just fine. When I was 26, I married the most wonderful girl in the whole wide world, and five years later she inexplicably still loves me like crazy. We have a beautiful daughter and an adorable son, to go along with countless good friends and just enough great ones. I can’t imagine being happier.
But I sure can imagine being healthier, and while that in and of itself wouldn’t make me happier … well, let’s just say the peace of mind that comes from knowing you won’t leave your wife a young widow will be a wonderful thing.
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Posted July 31st, 2008 by Jeff J. Snider
I remember the first time I realized I weighed over 300 pounds. I was a senior in high school, and the next-largest guy on the football team weighed about 250. I was a lot bigger than everyone I knew, but I wasn’t what I thought of when I thought “300 pounds”: grossly obese, smelly, all that stuff.
After a while, 300 didn’t seem so bad. I was still a very good athlete, and I took pride in the fact that I didn’t look like I weighed 300. I could tell people I weighed 260, and they had no problem believing me. When I went to renew my driver’s license just before I turned 19, the lady at the DMV recognized that I had grown taller since I turned 16 — 5′9″ to 6′3″ — but she didn’t mention the “235″ next to “Weight.” In retrospect, she was probably just being polite, but she didn’t seem to have a problem when I put “299,” even though at that point I was around 330.
Over the years, I have accepted 300. My driver’s license still says 299 — 11 years later — but other than that, 300 has become part of who I am.
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