The Football Fan’s Diet

By Matt DeReno
On The FFD

PITTSBURGH – I am at my Carnegie Mellon office now relishing the fact my pants, which I had purchased at Old navy last fall, should be flung to the breeze like some giant battle flag. Well, if you can call defeating cheeseburgers a battle of some sorts, then I suppose that would hold some relevance. However, “the mission” is not yet accomplished. I don’t’ want to be known like George W. Bush for standing on the deck of a warship proclaiming “mission accomplished,” when the hard work truly remains to be done.

I surely have made great progress, there is no doubt, but the season is not even halfway over. We are surely where we want to be at this juncture, but there is still a heck of a lot of football, a lot of “mission” if you will, to accomplish in the coming months. Then, even if we do accomplish our goal, which could happen, then we have to find a way not have a Super Bowl hang over. We have to find a way to maintain it or it is all for naught.

Okay, there I am getting ahead of myself. We are in week 7 of the Regular season. There is 9 more weeks until the playoffs. It won’t get any easier and here is why: with the nice weather come plenty more opportunities to drink beer, eat like a pig and pack on the pounds.

You see it is easy to be relatively secluded in the arctic doldrums of Pittsburg in January, February and even March to some degree. But, now that more temperate climes are arriving, there will undoubtedly be more outdoorsy type of opportunities to grill food, drink beer and bask in the sun. After all, we both know the summer holidays will be here before we know it.

Already, we got March Madness upon us and “Pitt could be it” this year. I mean they beat the number one team twice already. Towards those ends, I plan on joining a friend this Sunday at the Rochester Inn in Pittsburgh to watch Pitt’s second round game (Here’s hoping that Friday’s first round game is merely a formality). I have to find a way to come away with a victory on that day.
So, this Sunday there will be beer. And, it will not get any easier as the spring rolls forward to the lazy summer.

The Mission is not accomplished and I have to keep that in my mind and stay focused. Sometimes success can get to your head. Just because I am slightly more than halfway toward my ultimate weight loss goals, I can’t rest on my fat laurels. I have to stay hungry for thin! I have to remember the Super Bowl champions play at the higher level week in and week out.
As we approach the midpoint of the season, this is what I want to focus on: Mission not yet accomplished!

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