Feb 02 2010
Football Fan’s Diet Prediction: New Orleans will hoist the Lombardi
By Matt DeReno
On The FFD
PITTSBURGH – I won’t belabor the point because on a Tuesday, things are usually smooth sailing for me health wise. As testament, I chalked up another wining day yesterday. However, it is the end of the week that presents the biggest challenge.
As it is now, I took a day off from exercise yesterday but it was well needed if not outright deserved. Today, I will get in about a half hour of walking—at least. Maybe more, if I walk the dog. Even more than that, if the dog walks me. The nice thing is we have the Super Bowl too look forward to this weekend.
As the Super Bowl approaches, I can only dream about what commitment, dedication and passion it takes to hoist the Lombardi. But, like the New Orleans Saints and the Indianapolis Colts – dreams are formed in training camp. And so to it goes with health.
You have to work hard in camp if you want good things to happen. If you want to be healthy, it starts with practicing each day. Practice makes perfect. Practice enough and you develop skill. Work hard enough at that skill, you will be a champion.
For the record, The Football Fan’s Diet is pulling for the New Orleans Saints. My prediction is for a close Super Bowl. New Orleans 35 – Indianapolis 28.
PITTSBURGH – I won’t belabor the point. This week the game is moving much too fast to think about how I dropped the ball yesterday. I could only watch as my Inner Fat Slob took it in for a score.
The parallels to football are amazing in that respect. How many times have you seen your favorite NFL team just give up an easy score after they built a comfortable lead? Next thing you know, the swagger goes to the other team and you all you can do at this point is hope to hang on for a win. It goes to prove a point: no lead is too comfortable.
PITTSBURGH – Last week was another pathetic effort on my part. I lost and barely noticed. I suppose if there is any good to be taken out of what looks to be a debacle of a preseason it is that the FFD does not lie. If I don’t score well, it is clearly because I have decided to ignore health and exercise. And, The FFD is serving to remind me of what I need to do and how far off the beaten path I have stumbled. I didn’t just stumble off the beaten path. Rather I was bushwhacked along it. 

