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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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Live from New York, it’s Man vs. Travel!

November 18, 2013 by Jody Leave a Comment

For someone who lives 2,000 miles away from New York City, I’ve sure had some incredible experiences in the Big Apple.

I once watched David Letterman’s Late Show in the Ed Sullivan Theater green room as a guest of his guest, an amazing 90-year-old great-grandma powerlifter named Effie who did push-ups for him in a dazzling black dress. Another time, I had the opportunity to shoot free throws at Madison Square Garden. I even made one. I was at the world’s most famous arena for the first home game of the “Linsanity” phenomenon in 2012 when Harvard grad Jeremy Lin captivated the city with 28 points for the Knickerbockers against the Utah Jazz.

I also took part in a Midtown photo shoot when I was featured as a success-story centerfold in the Weight Watchers magazine a few years and several dozen pounds ago.

And there was the time I got arrested at a Yankees game, but that’s a blog for another day.

The highlight of my most recent trip to New York City happened in a subway at about midnight [Read more…]

Man vs. Diet: Lost weight, found a calorie-free bakery

November 16, 2013 by Jody Leave a Comment

My life has been pretty nutty lately, and I spent a lot of time writing a novelette about why I was shocked the world didn’t end when I finally made it to Toronto, Canada, so pardon me for posting this “Wednesday Weigh-In” on Saturday.

I was pretty dang happy when I stepped on the scale in my bathroom the other day. Much happier than the bathroom scale was to have me step on it, no doubt.

Despite a week of heavy travel, I managed to drop one and a half pounds.

Not to pat myself on the back, but that’s quite the accomplishment considering how I spent time in four fattening places: [Read more…]

Man vs. Diet: Holy moly, I said no to cannoli!

November 6, 2013 by Jody 3 Comments

Baby Jack gets his will power from his dad.

It’s been a month since I started writing about my weight loss again. If I was on The Biggest Loser, I would be reporting a 50-pound loss right about now. And possibly crying because Jillian is so mean to me.

But I’m not.

No cameras track my every move. No huge loss. No tears shed.

I don’t have an up-to-date weight, either, seeing as how I’m on the road — Boston today, New York yesterday, Chicago tomorrow — and didn’t pack my bathroom scale for this business trip. For that matter, I didn’t pack my VISA card that hasn’t expired or a debit card, either. Always an adventure.

Before flying to NYC on Monday, I did weigh myself at home. The numbers then: 267.0.

That’s a loss of 1.6 pounds in the five days since my previous Weigh-In Wednesday. I’ll happily take that, especially considering Thursday was Halloween and I traveled to Phoenix over the weekend. [Read more…]

Man vs. Travel: Living the life in L.A.

October 25, 2013 by Jody 8 Comments

Sometimes my job takes me on the road. For seven or eight months a year, I travel wherever the Utah Jazz go. I’m kind of like a groupie. Only I write stories about NBA players for a newspaper and get paid instead of hitchhiking, partying and throwing my bras at these celebrities. I should add that my professional stalking doesn’t include parts of their lives spent in Cabo or southern France. But this week it did take me to a destination that sounds just as glamorous and fun: an airport parking lot. And then to Los Angeles.

In retrospect, the airport parking lot might’ve been the highlight. [Read more…]

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

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