I really enjoy shows like "Big Medicine" not only because of my morbid fascination with the cripplingly obese but also because I identify with the frustrations that come of changing one's body on a wholesale level.

To a degree, I can see how one might allow himself to grow to 500 pounds. After all, both the gain and loss of body weight occur slowly and gradually, and for most people, the former is a far more passive process than the latter. So, depending on whether you lift weights every day or eat five bags of Doritos every day, you're going to wake up a few months down the road and suddenly discover that your body has changed - either for the better or for the worse.

I wonder how antidepressants and mood stabilizers play a role in these people's lives. Surely anyone who's disrespected her body to the point of severe obesity is struggling with a psychiatric disorder of some kind. How else could you explain the lack of self-empowerment characteristic of those who just can't seem to drop the pounds? And I'm not being critical here; I'm all for improved living through pharmaceuticals. I'm just wondering if antidepressants are routinely considered when devising an extreme weight loss plan.

Anyway. Just a few random musings on a Friday morning.

Today's Morning Transformation can be found here. Some guy went from 630 pounds to 220 pounds. I don't have any other details, but the photos are incredible (albeit somewhat explicit). I hope this inspires you!

Also, I can't find my camera charger, so I haven't been able to take any pictures, shirtless or otherwise. Hopefully I'll come across it this weekend.