People looked at me but it didn't matter after a while because I knew that I was accomplishing something and they weren't." Things were working, marvelously. I came down from 225 to 197. Then from 197 to 184. I felt ten years younger. People remarked about how good I looked. Everybody except Harry the truck driver. Of course, he was just jealous because he never got into Sarah's panties. His tough shit. One night on the scales I was down to 179. I said to Sarah, "Don't you think we've come down enough? Look at me!" The things on my sides were long gone. My belly hung in. My cheeks looked as if I were sucking them in. According to the charts," said Sarah, "according to my charts, you've not yet reached a desirable size." "Look," I told her, "I'm six feet tall. What is the desireable weight?" And then Sarah answered me quite strangely.