Satch Sullinger was driving across town last week, thinking about food.
As patriarch of the Columbus, Ohio, Sullingers, this former high-school basketball coach is a big eater, and generally proud of it. But in the process of steering his son Jared into better dietary choices with a family intervention, Satch had a personal epiphany.
“I lost weight,” he said. “My question, to myself, was ‘How can I ask Jared to do this if I don’t do something myself?’ He motivated me. So when he and I talk now, I’ve got skin in the game.”
Only the fat is melting.