Weighing in
again
By Rich Fisher
After the first month of my diet I reported that I had lost 15 pounds!
Later I reported a total of 24 pounds lost.
This past week I lost squat.
I knew that was going to happen sooner or later. Every diet is that
way. You go on week after week, losing a little here, or a lot there (relatively
speaking). And then BOOM! You step on the scale and … squat, zip, zero, nada.
I think I’ve lost a total of 30 pounds from the first date of my
diet. Of course, that is on my very temperamental bathroom scales that seemingly change
with the weather. I think they are actually scales that rely on a combination of my weight
and the barometric pressure.
Return visit
This Friday I will make my first return visit to Dr. Miguel Topalov and
we will have a very definitive report next week. I’ll compare some of my original
pre-diet numbers for such things as weight, blood pressure, etc.
I still have all my "life lines" just in case. You remember,
taking off shoes, emptying pockets, and finally removing items of clothing.
I haven’t done any of those things yet. It depends upon how
impressed or unimpressed Topalov is Friday, as to whether I’ll use any of those
tactics.
I know I’ll be a little lighter after my Kiwanis luncheon
Wednesday. I missed last week’s meeting and the prior week we didn’t meet so
that our members could support the Sidney Sunset Kiwanis’ Pancake Day. So, my fines
for appearing in The Sidney Daily News will cover three weeks. But then I’ll help
Ralph Bornhorst (our able president) and (let’s see … hum hum hum) Cindy Helman,
Dave Bemus, Gary Carter and my good friend and co-worker Mark Kaufman lose a little
coinage, too. Just for having their names here, they get the double bonus of losing the
weight of a quarter AND helping the Kiwanis worldwide project of overcoming iodine
deficiency syndrome!
25,000 doughnuts
In the meantime, I have continued to stick to my Dr. Atkins Diet with
unusual doggedness. I think I may have weaned myself of almost all sugar and tons of
carbohydrates. I am not easily tempted. I’ve had a surprisingly easy time in shaking
my head "no" and moving on from the nearly 25,000 doughnuts that have made their
way through Amos Press since the end of January. Pasta, rice and breads … ha! I laugh
in their faces! (Quietly of course).
Food days have come and gone with no real temptation. And what’s
impressive about that (and this is not bragging) is that we have some amazingly good,
creative and talented "cooks" on the staff of The Sidney Daily News.
But when you’re as public about your diet and weight-loss efforts
as I have been, well you simply have no choice.
Rewards of diet
There are rewards of course. Previous mention of my improved tennis
game being one. This past week I was pitted against a 22-year-old German fellow. I
don’t mean his ancestors were German. He is from Germany, spoke fairly good but
limited English, and was a collegiate volleyball player in his native country. Although
his tennis-playing experience is more recent, he is (as I mentioned) 22 years old.
His legs still had a whole bunch of "get up and go." We
battled to a 5-5 score before I was able to break serve and win 7-5. I then took advantage
of the German sense of how things work to easily win the next set. You see, while he was
trying to logically understand how a 48-year-old man, still 60 pounds overweight and with
legs that "got up and went" could beat him, I found my serve and won 6-1.
It turns out that he was unaware that I had been used to playing with
an additional 30 pounds of weight hauled around the court. He vows to beat me when we are
scheduled to play again in the middle of July.
What he doesn’t know is that by that time, I should be another 15 or
20 pounds lighter. Don’t tell him! |
