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On The Football Fan's Diet, you award yourself Touchdowns (e.g., 7 points - extra point is automatic) for doing healthy things, which you establish as a scoring system to help move you toward "The Super Bowl of Health" - whatever that might be for you - and away from a super bowl of, say, mashed potatoes or, perhaps, some other culinary entity of something that makes you a big fat tubby.  Those so-called healthy things are limited to your imagination.  You could give yourself a TD for not smoking on anyone particular day.  You could give yourself a TD for simply refraining from some behavior which you are trying to kick for good.  

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On The Football Fan's Diet, you optionally award yourself Field goals  (e.g., 3 points) for doing smaller healthy things, which you establish as part of your scoring system, all of which is designed to help move you toward "The Super Bowl of Health".  On my version of the Football Fan's Diet, I give myself 3 points for every time I exercise at the gym.  Conversely, I give my "Fat Butt" 3 points on days I drink beer.  In fact, I have this personal challenge of seeing how many days I can go without having a beer.  Not sure how many winning days I strung together, but it is not more than a week. It is a record I should probably try to break.

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Time For A The Lifestyle Reboot On The Football Fan's Diet

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Published on Friday, 27 January 2012 09:55
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I need to reboot my lifestyle to become healthy. What do I mean by this? Let me explain what rebooting means first.

Wikipedia defines rebooting in computing as "the process by which a running computer system is restarted, either intentionally or unintentionally." Another form of rebooting relates to the craft of fiction. Consider how Wikipedia defines rebooting in fiction: "The verb reboot, in serial fiction, means to discard much or even all previous continuity in the series and start anew with fresh ideas."

Do you see where I am going with this

Now here is what I mean by rebooting my lifestyle. With one fell push of a button, I want to get rid of all the garbage thinking and bad habits accumulated from a system that has been up and running far too long. There is a compelling need to erase the past and move forward with a fresh look at everything I do in terms of my lifestyle.

Rebooting my lifestyle might involve running around the block in the morning instead of loitering in my driveway sipping coffee.  Perhaps rebooting my lifestyle is going to a coffee shop to hang out and read books instead of  planting my butt on a barstool? Rebooting my lifestyle could involve cooking at home instead of grabbing food on the go. Maybe I should go catch football instead of shoot the bull about it.  As I am largely (literally and figuratively) a one-man-show when it comes to me, my ego, my butt, I will have to learn how to bootstrap my health and do a full cleansing, an all encompassing health reboot on my own.  Lastly, rebooting me involves taking a fresh look at everything, even how I view myself in the world in which I frolic. 

Anyway, let's talk a little Football Fan's Diet.

Last week, I won the week on The Football Fan's Diet, yet I had a few losing days and my weight progress showed a gain.  I was miffed about the whole thing as I had this notion that this  year would be the one in which all poor unhealthy behaviors are eliminated. Optimistically, I envisioned running roughshod over my health opponents on The Football Fan's Diet. I had this image in my head of a a young David Hasselfhoff trotting on the beach with all the babes of Baywatch close behind me.  What the? Did I just mention "The Hoff" and the show Baywatch on a blog about football and dieting?

As I type this, however, I am back on track and I think Coach will be happy. This week on the Football Fan's Diet so far has seen me reclaim the momentum lost last week against my Inner Fat Slob  As I begin Friday, I am going strong.  I still have to face coach about my poor play last week. Will he be understanding?  After all, I did "reboot" myself.  I am sure Coach will be pleased.  Right? 

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