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Climbing physical and emotional mountains

July 30, 2016 by Jody 5 Comments

I’ve been going through a rough emotional time recently. The reasons aren’t necessarily important for this blog. Just know that I ended up crying while sitting on the bathroom floor fairly early in the morning a couple of days ago.

Before I proceed, please consider three things:

Yes, it’s OK for dudes to cry.
Dudes shouldn’t do things that make the people they love the most — or themselves — cry.
Dudes, if you do cry, pick a more comfortable spot than the bathroom floor.

So with my butt resting on the hard, tile floor, my back against the hard, tile bathtub surround and my heart between a rock and a hard place, I found myself deep in painful thought and experiencing raw emotions about regrets. I was playing a gut-wrenching could’ve-would’ve-should’ve game when I felt some inspiration.

Pull yourself together.

Pick yourself up.

Go for a walk. [Read more…]

What it’s like being the fat guy on a plane, The Happy Sequel

July 21, 2016 by Jody 11 Comments

(I’m at the Salt Lake International Airport, waiting to get on a flight to Austin, Texas. It’s been three months since I’ve flown. While I’m excited to go on a trip with my wife, I’m also a bit nervous. I don’t get the nerves to fly. I’m often on airplanes during the NBA season, following the Utah Jazz around the continent — for my job, not because I’m a groupie.)

I’m nervous — and curiously excited — as we stand in Terminal C. I’m wondering if I will need the dreaded seat-belt extender. I wrote about this in March. Being able to sit in an airplane seat without that annoying and kind of embarrassing accessory is one of my goals.

We’re about to board. I think I won’t ask and see if the weight I’ve lost is enough to let me buckle without the extra belt.

Here we go …

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A 300-pound man steps on the scale. You’ll never believe what happened next!

July 18, 2016 by Jody 18 Comments

Right around Thanksgiving 2013, I weighed in at a svelte (for me) 264.5 pounds. By the next time I stepped on the scale to record my weight, I had lost all momentum on the diet I was on and had gained almost 40 pounds.

That was a tasty four months.

There’s a reason why that is significant for me today. Somewhere between that November weigh-in and March 10, 2014, this out-of-control guy passed a number on the scale I’d vowed I’d never go above again — the dreaded 300-pound mark.

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My Diet vs. Las Vegas

July 15, 2016 by Jody 3 Comments

This is the happy face logo outside of the SkinnyFats restaurant in Las Vegas. I love their motto: “Life Healthy. Life Happy.”

I was driving around Las Vegas earlier this week while here for work — and, yes, writing about sports is work! — when I had a very distinct thought.

“This is hard.”

I was discussing my plight with a fellow sports writer last night as we killed time during a boring basketball game and he put it this way, “Las Vegas is a city of temptation.”

Ain’t that the truth!?

While most of the Las Vegas temptation revolves around hedonism, gambling and carnal desires, it’s also an incredibly tempting place for one’s stomach.

There’s a good reason why it’s nicknamed Sin City and not Slim City. The culinary options here are amazing.

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Some potty talk

July 9, 2016 by Jody 5 Comments

Speaking of waking up early, I had the pleasure of being interviewed about the Utah Jazz and about my weight loss on Ch. 4 in Salt Lake City on the Fourth of July. Thanks Birthday Girl, Emily Clark!

Speaking of waking up early, I had the pleasure of being interviewed about the Utah Jazz and my weight loss on Ch. 4 on the Fourth of July. Thanks Birthday Girl, Emily Clark!

I had to wake up and leave the house earlier than I usually do Friday morning. I got volunteered, uh, I mean I volunteered to chaperone my son at a scout camp. This meant I also had to step on the scale about an hour or so before I normally do on my weigh-in day.

This, by the way, is very important.

If you know my bladder like I do — and when you drink much more than 100 ounces of water and diet soda a day, I know it well — this means I missed out on one trip to the bathroom.

Disaster! Do you realize how much pee weighs!?!

I’m really excited about dipping below the 300-pound mark, so I was a bit disappointed in my second-lowest weigh-in of my four-month health revitalization journey. [Read more…]

Batman vs. Ironman

July 1, 2016 by Jody 6 Comments

I have a fun memory within one of my fondest memories that happened five years ago from this past Sunday.

I was jogging down a street with some other people in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, when a man sitting in a front yard partying with friends saw me. His eyes about popped out of his socket and I’m guessing he spilled some of his beer as he started cheering for me.

You know how sports fans go bonkers when one of the heavy-duty linemen gets the rare opportunity to carry the football into the end zone on a running play or on a great defensive play?

On this day, I was playing the role of the fat lineman and this cheerful guy who looked like he belonged in a motorcycle gang was the rowdy and jubilant football crowd.

A few hours later — after swimming 2.4 miles, biking 112 miles and walking and jogging 26.2 miles [Read more…]

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