I get questioned often about any special diet or eating habits I have because of all the training I do. I know all the sayings about your body is a temple and food is fuel for your engine, but I pretty much eat what I want. I figure with all the calories I burn running I should be able to eat a shrimp poboy on occasion.
Now don’t get me wrong, I don’t eat poorly at all. Christine cooks very nutritious meals, so we eat a well balanced diet. But I do not starve myself or deprive myself of something just because it may not be the best thing for me. I just lump those things into the “I earned it” category and enjoy them.
Being an engineer, I understand the one simple rule of weight gain or loss: calories in versus calories out. As long as I am burning a crap load of calories running ridiculous miles, then I am safe. Plus I like to keep it simple.
But wait a minute…….I haven’t run more than 15 miles total in the past 3 weeks. And this is prime time eating season with Thanksgiving, birthdays, Reese’s Peanut Butter things, etc. And we are heading towards Christmas and New Years! Aaaaggghhhhhhh! So that is why I look like a little Buddha!
Great. Great. Great!! So now I have to learn how to run again on my gimp leg and lose the 5 to 7 pounds I have gained in the last 3 frickin’ weeks! So much for my damn engineering diet. Just leave out one little part of the equation and it all goes to shit!
How did that saying go? This little piggy went to the market, this little piggy stayed home, this little piggy had roast beef, this little piggy had none, and this little piggy cried “Wee Wee Wee” all the way through the woods of Huntsville State Park for 100 miles while being chased by the big bad wolf who wanted to blow the house down while offering him some cold, hot and just right porridge and My what big eyes and teeth he had and, and, and………..I think I might just go for a run. Okay. Tomorrow, I WILL GO FOR A RUN.
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