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This can serve as a before picture, though it's from three days into my Thing. You people are making me fat. As has been mentioned, we had 13 sets of visitors spend time at our house over the course of 4.5 months. Three more sets of friends and family have trips planned for October (we'll call them the smartest of the bunch, though you're all special .) People are obviously drawn to us. That creates a good problem for this guy because people want to eat out when they visit and food has always been a challenge for me. I weighed 235 pounds the summer before 10th grade and still have stretch marks to prove it. Then I stopped eating. The "diet" was ridiculous. I skipped breakfast. Skipped lunch at school. Then I came home and had two Healthy Choice dinners, a sandwich and a Diet Coke. I was an idiot. I see neck fat! Back when The Wife and I were merely dating, and broke up, I lost about 40 pounds. Over the course of our eight-plus years of marriage, there's been a

No, we do not live in perpetual spring. These fall-blooming bushes make the transition to winter a little easier. The low black clouds were seemingly just a few miles west of us when Daisy Duke and I went out for a mid-afternoon run. Better get in a quick couple of miles before the rain comes. We hoofed it for the first half mile up a hill. In Utah, going 10 or 15 minutes up a hill constituted gaining 1,000 feet in elevation. We top out around 300 feet here, but it's still enough to knock the wind out of you – especially when you're a chocolate Lab who can't sweat. The humidity is around 80 percent and the dew point is at 66. Sweat is quite literally in the air. The leaves started going red two freaking weeks ago, when this picture was taken. We passed Ruski's, the dive bar populated by actual blue-collar people on weekdays and ironic hipsters with tattoos on weekends. I watched them open at 6 a.m. one morning to let in an old-timer who just got off the night shift. I l