50 Pounds

Nicole and her diet/fitness guru co-worker

My friend Nicole lost fifty pounds and was pictured on Facebook holding up a 50 pound bag of giant carrots to illustrate the significance of her achievement. She lives in Toronto but I live in a smaller city where I suspect it's more difficult to find 50 pound bags of giant carrots. Frankly, I don't know why they exist. Perhaps for feeding your horse.

Or maybe eating jumbo carrots is how Nicole lost fifty pounds, I don't know. I didn't ask.

I tried to figure out what large fifty pound object I could hold up for a photo to illustrate the 51 pounds of fat I shed in the last four months. I couldn't think of anything interesting so I looked around the house until I found something suitable, then I made a short video, because a picture doesn't do it justice.



Update: I came across a fifty pound bag of carrots by accident in a grocery store that caters to restaurants. Each member of my family lifted the bag and couldn't believe that that much left me.