FlexRex: Fictional Blogger

The principle for Day #79 on the 101-day book report says: "Comparison is not success."

We all get to define our own success. And if our lives were like a publicly held company, we'd have to do it quarterly.

So imagine that your analyst keeps calling on you to lose 25 percent of your mass. You blow him off as long as you can, citing various statistics that show that such cuts are not necessary. But one day, you realize you can't go on without liposuction.

Luckily, there are ways around this. And when Wall Street wakes up, they'll realize that the best way to look thin is to hang out with fat people.