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Well, after about a year and a half I lost 50 pounds. Here’s my official before and after photo. And yes, I purposefully made it as clichéd as possible, poking fun at the whole idea and myself a bit. I used a lower angle with a flash for the before picture, and higher angle with studio lights and oiled myself up for the after picture. Man, that was a lot of work. (The weight loss, not that photograph) I mean a LOT. I didn’t keep track of the hours, but I’ll bet if I added them up I could have produced a fantastic body of art, rather than a trim body of flesh. See what I did there? So I’m asking myself what was it that caused me to undertake such a project after so many years of being pudgy. Here’s a couple guesses: 1. My brain simply matured to the point where I COULD do it. Before, the immediate gratification part of my brain just outweighed the delayed gratification part of my brain....