Shortly before starting mywastedlife, I was out to eat with a couple guys from work and I mentioned I was watching what I eat in an effort to lose weight. At the table with me were my buddy Demian – who has the average I’m-over-30-and-not-in-my-physical-prime-anymore 10 pounds he could lose but is otherwise in fine health – and Russ, who’s about in the same shape I am. The conversation went something like this:

Me: “Yeah I’m trying to watch what I eat, lose some weight.”
Demian: “What are you shooting for?”
Me: “I dunno, till I’m not fat.”
Demian (patting his stomach): “You mean really not fat or just ‘Demian not fat’?”
Russ (chuckling): “Do you know what we wouldn’t give to be ‘Demian not fat’??”
Me: “Yeah, I do – cheeseburgers.”

Alot of people say they’re ready and willing to lose weight but the truth is, they aren’t. They don’t want to be overweight or out of shape, but what they don’t want even more is to give up the things that are making them that way. I know from personal experience – I can’t tell you how many false starts and crash diets I started and stopped, or worse, intended to start ‘tomorrow’.

I bring it up, because I check the links in my blogroll fairly often (once every other day or so) just to see how some of the others ‘diet bloggers’ out there are doing and throw my support in whenever I can, and unfortunately, it looks like a couple of them have stopped posting (one never made it past her introductory post).

I’ve known for a while now which links were effectively dead and which weren’t, but I kept holding off removing them in the hopes that they’d suddenly post a back-dated flurry of activity with some awesome story of how they’d been unable to write and how much weight they’d lost. Sadly, I don’t think it’s going to happen – so I’m removing the links. I wish them the best of luck, and hope that even if they aren’t posting about it, they’re making changes in their lives for the better.