Re-thinking weight loss, animal style!

I've been "trying" to lose weight for a few months now, and getting absolutely nowhere. My weight has fluctuated up or down around 2 lbs but has been hovering right in the same neighborhood. There are several potential reasons for my apparent failure:

1. I haven't been working out enough and therefore haven't been burning enough calories
2. I'm genetically predisposed to gaining weight quickly but losing it slowly (I like this option because it takes all of the blame off of me! I can just shake my fist in the air and say "damn genes!" and be done with it.)
3. I don't have the discipline/will power to avoid the delicious-yet-unhealthy foods that surround me daily.

Of course, in reality it's a combination of all those things.

Or maybe - just maybe - "weight" is just too abstract a concept. It's just a number, right? What is a "pound" anyway? Weight? Mass? Force? Currency? It's all too confounding. Despite being a supposed "engineer", even I have trouble picturing a pound in my head. 

Maybe that's the problem...maybe since we as humans have trouble with weight loss, because all our data and goals are based on this abstract number. 

Maybe instead of using pounds as a unit of mass, we should use something a bit more....tangible. Something that we can all easily picture in our minds.

I've got it!

Here we go, an In-n-Out Double Double, animal style. It weighs 330g, which is 0.727525465 lbs.

Which means I weigh ~217 Double Doubles (DDs). And I need to lose about 8 DDs.





Well that doesn't seem so bad!

Now, if you will excuse me I have a craving for In-N-Out