Losing Weight

Way back in the Bronze Age, I worked Saturdays at a Mom & Pop grocery store. I'd tell Leo: "I gotta get home in time for the The Jackie Gleason Show!". He (Gleason) went on the drinking man's diet and lost an astounding amount of weight - I watched it melt off in a few short months on my little black-and-white TV set.

But I think he missed the carbs after awhile, because he slowly put weight back on (though not as heavy as he had been). I think I remember an interview where he explained that some doc told him his liver, then heart were gonna go if he kept at it. But then, he was in his late 50's by then.

You might remember him as the Sheriff in the Bert Reynolds 'convoy' movies. Big fella by then.