Everyone knows that a fit person does not pant with fatigue after going up a flight of stairs. Have you ever stood beside an obese person and heard them breathing as though they just ran a marathon? First of all, it’s a horrible feeling to “suck air” after a few seconds of any activity. I should know because that used to be me. I used to feel the effects of walking from the bedroom to the kitchen sink for a cup of water during the middle of the night. It might be a different issue if my name was Paris Hilton and I lived in a mansion and the kitchen was 100 meters away. Sadly, I lived in a small basement suite and there were only two rooms. The worst part about being out of shape is that it will kill you. You only get one heart unless someone donates one to you so treat it like a Ferrari. The more work that you make your heart perform, the less that it can last for you. Sort of like “no shirt, no shoes, no service” if you don’t take care of your cardiovascular health, “no heart, no fun, no life.”
My heart rate used to be over 70 beats per minute and now it hovers from in the high 40s to 50 beats minute. Decreasing your heart-rate by 20 beats a minute may seem to be something that isn’t too great to brag about but it adds up fast in the long run.

20 beats per minute
60 minutes per hour
24 hours per day
365 days per year
35 years until I’m an old man
= 368 million heart beats!

368 million heart beats is an astronomically large number, one that most people can’t even grasp. That’s like every man, woman, and child in the United States has to add one extra heart beat for one person’s adulthood of sedentary lifestyle.
You don’t have to do anything drastic to get into better shape. Just use the stairs instead of the elevator when you can. Go for a walk during nice days.
Or eat at Subway like Jared. Too bad for Jared no amount of weight loss will make him less of a poindexter.