About 20 years ago, I began scheduling a physical exam each year. I still do. I’ve even outlasted a couple of my doctors. But their message is always the same. “You don’t exercise enough, you’re eating the wrong foods, and as Paul Simon sang in "You Can Call Me Al,” you’re getting "soft in the middle.”
Guilty on all counts. Each year I pledge to exercise more, make changes in my diet (except for my weekly Whopper, come hell or high water), and tighten up that middle. And each year I fall short of those goals.
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