WHAT NOW? with a Healthy twist...
By mark rogers
February 21, 2011
Now that the Super Bowl is over...Auburn is the champ...the Pro Bowl sufficiently bored us (unless you were there)...and signing day is over...you might just wish there was a "hibernation" pill that you could take and awake again on August 20th, right before the 2011 season.
Since there is no such "hibernation" pill (trust me, I've been searching for it since 2001), we must use our brain capacity for other things and stimulate the pleasure sensors in our brains in different ways.
For those who love football for the competition? Sign up for a marathon or triathlon no more than 3 months away. It doesn't matter what kind of shape you're in, or if you don't have all the right equipment. Signing up will make it real and force you to train and prepare or risk losing your investment.
Training and thinking about a half-marathon, marathon, or triathlon will keep you from trying to memorize the junior verbal commitments your school is getting, reading a play-by-play rundown of your team's spring practices every day, and getting into it with a Texas A&M fan who thinks they will actually have a shot this year.
All those things are unhealthy for even the most die-hard football fan and should be avoided. The only people who should care about those things are the media, the coaching staff, and any single men who don't have families and can afford to waste four hours a day on www.collegefootballismylifewhichisalsowhyIcan'tfindagirlfriend.com (that's not an actual site btw).
Another thing you can do to occupy your mind is start being more intentional about what you eat. Most of us have just come out of a season in which every weekend is filled with bon bons, guacamole, bean dip, bratwurst, nacho cheese, carbonated barley drinks, high fructose corn syrup and bacon grease.
Take 30 days to "detox" by not eating ANY processed foods. Go ahead...thirty days. That's shorter than the number of days between the SEC championship and the National Championship...you survived that span without many good football games. You can do this.
No sugar, fried foods, soft drinks, packaged candy, most cereals, cookies, cakes, ice cream, and on and on and on.
Try eating whole, real foods for 30 days and see how good you feel: whole wheat bread, fresh veggies and fruits (that are in season), lean meats, fish, eggs, walnuts, almonds, pecans...you know, stuff you'd find out in nature.
You don't go out for a walk in the mountains and happen upon a bush growing GoGurt. It's not real...so don't eat it.
Am I starting to sound a little like Oprah? How dare you even think it.
I just want all those crazed, shirtless, body painted football fans to stop jiggling so much when their team scores a touchdown. I want those body-painted Neanderthals to look like they don't belong on the field or in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade attached to a string flying high over 5th Avenue.
That's all I ask.
And if you pick up a healthy habit or two over the next few months of football wasteland...that'd be good, too.
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