In cardiac rehab, we like our patients to weigh in at least once a week, or even everyday if they have heart failure. This causes untold amounts of teenage angst from my 80-year-old patients. I like to think it keeps them young.
Today, one of my patients (who works his jaw muscles more than anything else) seemed overly exasperated at the thought of stepping on the scale. When he saw the brutally honest number pop up on the screen, he let out an exaggerated groan. As he wandered away, head down, I heard him mutter, "I hope it's all muscle."
Ah yes, don't we all.
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