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Goooaaaal!
I always wanted to say that--ever since the days my Guatemalan manager the days snuck into the stockroom to watch hand-held TV soccer and sip from his flask. We all knew about the soccer. He knew that. He didn't think we knew about the flask. Still, some matches lasted longer than other's and he'd have trouble staggering out of the stock maze without the smell of cheese, but that's another story. This story is about...
I never did like soccer. I'm fine with American football, but soccer? Naw, not for me. I would never told my manager that.
"That's great Oscar."
I guess I'm dieting. NutriSystem says I need one: a goal. Something I can jump and scream about when I reach it. I thought I was doing a great job at that over a good hamburger. They say that's not what they had in mind. I need a new goal.
To live through the next 30 days w/o eating my neighbors?
"Have you seen Timmy?"
"No, but you can come in and search. I recommend the kitchen…"
Nope, that's just not good Neighbor relations. No matter how good Timmy might look on a spit with an apple in his mouth. See? I'm using my fruits? Dietary! If I smother him in cottage cheese, I'm losing weight just looking at him, right?
See? I've taken their advice. I'm rethinking my eating. They say that's not enough. And my goal not to eat my neighbors? They say that's a start, but I need something more concrete, more daily, more observational.
I see me not eating Timmy. So far so good, what's the problem? They recommend I use other goals to keep Timmy from meeting the inside of a fry vat. That way I can watch and celebrate as I get closer to my goal, and won't even consider Timmy tar-tar as an option.
Whether my goal is fitting in my favorite college sweater, or climbing on a scale that doesn't sigh; I need specific goals.
So why am I doing this? In the end it's about health. I don't mind being heavy, it's more about losing energy, and mobility, and the feeling that my mind can't even walk a mile without gasping for a donut. So if it's something that needs to be reduced to something I can see, it's something about weight, something about being fit.
If I eat the right foods, I give my body the nutrients it needs to keep active. I've never been about diet for diet's sake, but I can see it's benefits for giving the engine the proper fuel. So that's what I'll do. I'll diet to keep moving. I'll step on the scale, and set a goal.
I'll do that in a bit. Right now I need to go let Timmy out of the cage.