@northoftheborder
Thank you. Actually, I was lost in the woods when my partner - let’s call her Ann - found me. My wife of 22 years had left me the previous year, I was obese and working an office job I detested. I met Ann in a singles group for middle aged people and I was smitten. She was an athlete, a cyclist, tall, blonde and fit. She wanted nothing to do with me because I had too many issues but she later found out through the rumor mill that I had once been an athlete so she pulled me off the rejection pile and decided she would make me her project. She had me join Weight Watchers and monitored my progress. I lost 63 pounds in two years. She then encouraged me to hire a coach - toward the end of my athletic career, I had been a short track speed skater - and I found one who was a retired marine DI. By age 58, I was back on the circuit and winning in the masters division and I owe all this to Ann, who believed in me when I didn’t.