Smoking and Eating

I have never smoked, other than a hit off someone's cigarette long ago, just to see what it was like. I smoked weed now and then, never got that interested in it either. I think it would be odd indeed, then, if I purported to know what it means to quit smoking. For example, if I were to opine that the evidence shows that smoking is bad for your health. Therefore, smokers should quit. And those who don't are weak-willed, not smart enough to realize how dangerous it is, or too driven by their pleasure centers. In other words, not as good as I am.

Yet others imply - and some actually say - that there is no mystery to losing weight. We just don't give it enough of a try, we are too lazy, we like being fat, we are weak-willed, we give in to temptation.

Last night Paul mentioned that he has given up taking the bus so he can stay at size 42 rather than get even larger. It isn't the first time he has made a comment that I can easily read as commenting on my weight, or perhaps more accurately demonstrating that he has the will whereas I do not.