The Football Fan’s Diet

By Matt De Reno
On The FFD

PITTSBURGH – Okay, I have had my ups and downs this past month, but mostly it has been a zero sum game. I have pretty much maintained my losses from the previous months and now I am sort of hovering at a weight level that I am maintaining.

I have some good days and some hard-hitting days. I have had a lot of days where my inner fat slob has got the best out of me. I have had some victories too. All in all, I am happy I am holding firm.
But, I have to have one more big push because the season is rapidly moving along. I thought this damn thing would take forever when I started way back in January, but things are really picking up now. There is only 5 weeks left of the Regular Season. That is not a lot. Then, there is 5 weeks for the playoffs. Then, it is over. Finished will be “A Season on the Drink.”

And such, I better get going. I can’t hold steady for 2 more months and say “Well, that was fun…. Time to get fat again.” I mean I have to have another big push toward the finish line—to win that Super Bowl of Health.

In retrospect, perhaps I needed an April to sort of chill out a bit. I did hold onto what I lost. That was great. But, how do I put it into high gear one last time to get down to my goal? That will be very difficult to do.

However, today I am feeling good and up to that task. I got some energy stores. I worked in the yard and bicycled during the past couple weeks, which is great. Nonetheless, I can’t escape the thought: it is time to put it all back together for one final push where I am not only getting good physical activity but eating healthy and being productive too. If it sounds like I am psyching myself up here, well, I am.

It is a bit on the cooler side today and Pittsburgh was a little wet the last couple days. However, there was some very nice summerlike weather to be enjoyed the past couple weekends and it is not even May. I have to remember that I got 2 more months. The weather will be nice. There will be some great chances to golf badly. Did I mention I golfed this past weekend?

I can’t call it exercise, but man, the sun was shining and there is nothing better than golfing with good friends, nursing an ice cold six pack when the sun is beating down on your brow and all your shots are heading off into the woods—and you simply don’t care what your score is be it on a golf card or any FFD Box score. That is when golf is fun. That is when drinking beer is fun.

I don’t want to get too much into a golf analogy here (Hmm. I am wondering if there could be a golfer’s diet.), but I think driving a golf cart while drinking beer is the last place on Earth where nobody bats an eye at a people behind the wheel of a motorized contraption when one guy has a hand on the steering wheel and another on a can of Iron. You can even smoke if you want too. That all can’t last too long can it? But enough about golf for now—let’s get back to some football banter. The Steelers had their draft the other day and that is worth discussing.

I was okay with their picks, which were nothing terribly sexy but then the Steelers are never sexy when it comes to drafting anyone. Nonetheless, the Steelers seem to know a good value when they find one. We have had some remarkable drafts as of late and it is my hope that pattern continues this year. Speaking of patterns, it is my hope I can find that pattern I was into now over a month ago. Do I have it in me? Come on. I think I do. One last big push is all I need. Oh, and more golf balls and a cold six pack of Iron wouldn’t be bad either.

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