I freak out if I go a little too long without being in the gym. For a long time it was all about getting the weight off because I was 240 pounds at my heaviest, and now I'm around 175, so the majority of that weight loss was due to diet and exercise.
It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.