The author tells how he lost the weight he'd carried around for 40 years without much effort. "[He] walked more, and [he] ate less" when he moved to New York City two years ago. The "normal daily walk in New York City was about three miles," and thus stopped using his car, the only way he could use to transport himself before he moved to NY. He also "cut back [his] eating," thanks to the disgust caused by the calorie information in menus. However, "this was not [his] fist try to lose weight." He changed his eating and exercised, but would then become desmotivaed because of the inversely parabolic relationship of loss of weight and time. The author ate a 400 calorie pizza with a 50 chocolate bar everyday, but restricted himself to "bran flakes with no sugar for breakfast and salads or other lean, low-sodium dinners." However, after he started losing wegiht, the desmotivating inversely parabolic relatioship of loss of weight and time phantom haunted him again, so he talked with a nutritionist and came to the conclusion that he had to "move even more and eat a little less." After all, it "wasn’t a 'diet'; it was just a better way to live. "
He writes a very interesting title and a starting sentence, which keeps the reader focused and supplies curiosity enough to keep the reader going through the text. He also tells effective anecdotes that exemplify and illustrate his weight-losing story, comparing how it was back home before he moved to New York and after he moved. The author mostly tells things about New York; the advantages and disadvantages of living in a city where having a car is horribly expensive and complicated. He also evaluates the weight loss, saying he feels "almost guilty" on "how hard it wasn't" for him. He tells how he changed from being fat to after; the start, the process, the end and the evaluation. Following in a semi-logical order where he narrates the chronological loss of weight, makes it easier for readers to follow his thoughts.
http://www.salon.com/2011/06/28/how_i_lost_80_pounds/
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