The Incredibly Shrinking Man

I have lost five pounds since the birth of my son. This is directly due to missing meals and eating less. It wasn’t intentional. It’s just easy to miss meals when you arrange your wife’s breakfast, feed your son, change his diapers, and soothe him sleep. The next thing you know, it’s lunch time.

It’s also easy to be in the middle of a meal, and your son has some urgent need, like he spit his pacifier out, and you have to drop everything and take care of it. So your food sits uneaten, getting cold, while you sit next to the bassinet holding the pacifier in his mouth.

There was a running joke when we were leaving the hospital. My mom asked me if I ate a single warm meal during our stay. I did not.