"All because of you bud"

Me: "Hey Jer, you've lost some weight."
Jer: "Ya, I thought about what you said and I told myself I'm gonna lose 25 pounds."
Me: "So how's it going?"
Jer: "I did it, I'm down 25 pounds and it's all because of you."
Me: Big grin on my face, gave Jer a high five, and went into a meeting.

I hadn't seen Jer in about 2 months so when I bumped into him, I noticed his belly wasn't hanging over his belt and his profile looked svelter. Jer is in his early 60's and we've known each other about 2 years. Jer always asks me about my triathlon and ski races and what my next race is gonna be. I told him about all the different types of people of all shapes and sizes that I see at the races and kinda joked to him that he should do a sprint tri sometime just for fun. He hasn't done any races yet but he's looking better than ever and I hope I see him again soon...at one of the races.