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Sorry, but I think this one’s just too good to keep to myself. Sometimes I really amuse myself, if no one else.

So one of my friends has resolved to lose weight. Although she’d be happy well short of this goal, she exclaimed that she could lose a hundred pounds and still be healthy.

A bit later, we were talking about the difficulties she has doing things like exercise, step aerobics, running, and so forth. In order to put it in perspective for her, I came up with the following image…

Of course it’s going to be hard! An extra hundred pounds is a lot to carry. That’s the equivalent of nine or ten adult cats… Imagine trying to climb a set of stairs with ten cats strapped to your body! Or twenty kittens, for that matter…