One pound a week. It's a common weight-loss goal thought by experts to be reasonable. By that reckoning, I should have lost 780 pounds in the 15 years I tried to lose weight. But I didn't. Instead, I lost a paltry 25 - an inglorious rate of a half-ounce per week. Or that would've been the rate, had I used the entire 15 years to shed those 25 pounds. But that's not how it happened. I couldn't lose them, I couldn't lose them, I couldn't lose them. And then, suddenly, I could. What flipped the switch wasn't a diet or an exercise plan. It was a book contract. Because the day I signed it, I quit my job.
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