In the current issue of Men’s Health: Saving Kelvin Deupree: “This man was a lot like you. Too busy, too stressed, and on the verge of losing control of his career, his marriage, his waistline, and his health. Until our crack commando team stormed in and overhauled his entire life in 8 hours.”
The ‘overhaul’ claim is more than a little overstatement, but an interesting project anyhow.
Here was a man awakening to what his life had somehow become, noticing for perhaps the first time that he was losing control — of his waistline, career, marriage, health. . . . But he wasn’t too far gone. Unlike those other sorry souls, this was a guy we could still save. And as you’ll see, we did. In just 8 hours, we had a nutritionist clean out his fridge, our fitness editor install a home gym, a career coach lobby his boss for a raise, a sex expert take his wife shopping for lingerie, our style editor supply a new wardrobe, and his minister recharge his soul. We even waxed his back, mowed his lawn, repaired his balky garage door, and trained his dog. By the end, 14 different experts had visited and rendered almost $13,000 worth of services. Kelvin was not only a new man, but also a somewhat stunned one.
Most of the strategies deployed seem sensible, including the sex life-spruce-up (he wasn’t on the verge of losing his marriage, though). But those for his career, mind, and soul are so thin as to be laughable. Evidence: Not one of the questions in the Online exclusive followup: See what Kelvin looks like now piece deals with those.