Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for March 27, 2025

A bad strip, Arlo

Arlo, take the hint. Think of it as a Venus Mars moment. You might be her biggest fan but Janis is her own harshest critic.

I still have a few things that I’m waiting until I lose X number of pounds to wear but that hasn’t happened so I guess I should give them up too.

Been there, done that, got the souvenir T-shirt.

I have resigned and faced reality. My culled wardrobe is now at Goodwill.

House cleaning again? Didn’t they do that over the last couple years?

I had the opposite happen. I lost 45 pounds in a little more than a year, and now nothing fits me. I had recently bought quite a few t-shirts and some shorts that I liked, and now they’re way too big.

I’ve had to cut my belt down and add new holes, and also get new shorts and jeans that fit. Still slowly working on the shirts though.

Dang carbs!

Dressing according to your CURRENT weight – which Janis does – helps you “look great” as Arlo says. She’s a sharp-looking lady, in any case!

Sorry Janis, but watching my wife try on clothes is a spectator’s sport for me.

My wife had a whole drawer full of such clothes for years, with more on the “mending pile” (awaiting minor alteration). She didn’t get rid of them until a couple months after her “inoperable liver cancer” diagnosis. Hope dies hard.

Janis still likes to impress it looks like she has a thong on in frame 4.

Poor Arlo…he gives his wife a compliment and is told to leave. She didn’t even say thanks!

I’m about 25 pounds lighter than I was in recent years. Still keep some “fat clothes” around just in case.

I’ve got about 40 shirts and 20 pair of jeans I’ve been saving. For some of those I’d have to lose 40 pounds… but I’m working on it. Atkins seems to have stalled, but I’m staying with it… but it sure isn’t easy to pass up deserts.

What, no afterglow moments from last night

Like your spouse? lol

“Oh, HËLL no! I’ma be right back with some chips and a beer!

Arlo wants to cull all her clothes… At least, temporarily… ☺

Well, at least we now know that Janis isn’t the “Commando” type and possibly eschews thongs. Not a darn thing wrong with “granny panties”….

Arlo, you can stay in the room with the occasional partially naked wife. You just have to either keep quiet or limit your conversation to more small-talk-type subjects.

Get cancer. Quick 40 lb. wait loss plan.

We saw Paris,We saw France,We saw Janis in her underpants!

This time Arlo really needs to listen to Janis.

My contribution:

Three years ago, I decided, at an advanced age, that I should quit eating like I was a teenager. It was a “portion control” diet. Breakfast, for instance, was one egg, one piece of toast, and two bacon slices. Water became my daily drink with meals.

Now, three years later, I’ve lost 35 pounds. That’s only about one pound per month – Very boring! The weight I lost was not where I expected and not in the sequence I wanted. My fingers and arms were the first to slim down – I can no longer even wear my wedding ring. Thanks to a daily walking regimen, my legs are great, but my upper self is all muffin top and my beer belly, only a bit smaller. still remains.

I’m still at it – I do feel better at least. And I’m amazed that I’ve lost the equivalent weight of two bowling balls.

When you have a pile of clothes for when you ‘lose that baby weight’ and baby is 30 years old!!!!

I’ve kept myself in shape and have clothes from 30 years ago that still fit and that I still wear. Much to my wife’s chagrin.

It seems that I am always in the room when the wife is trying on clothes. Funny that.

Yeah, Babe.

When we go to the doctor for annual exam we get weighed. Doctor looks at the number (which is on the HIGH side especially since I am short) and reads it – and I remind him that I weigh the same as I did in high school – I came across paperwork from same when we cleared out the family home a decade plus ago.

The fact that it is the same as it was decades ago back then seems to change his thought on what I weigh and how bad it is.