An old friend

Time for the pack this afternoon. The holiday is fast coming upon us.

I rang an old childhood friend last night to see if he was free to join us at the hotel the night before our flight. He really didn't sound well. For years he has been massively overweight. For the last ten years or so he has been fighting valiantly to lose weight, not easy when he's on the road a lot of the time as a sales rep & so eats out a lot. When I last spoke to him, he'd got down to about 17 stone, but now he's down to just 14 stone, which the doctor reckons is too light since he is over 6ft tall. He's been suffering from a virus that affects his metabolism. He's now been put on a diet full of cream & other fattening stuff to put on weight! (Oh what an excuse to indulge in chocolate with a free conscience!)

I'm glad to say after our little chat & knowing we're meeting up later this week, he sounded considerably more positive, stronger. The call obviously gave him a morale lift.

I wonder if he'll look like the extremely slim man he was in his teens/early twenties before he got married & piled on the inches. We'll see.