Portly and portage
I’m getting pretty chunky, which is a wound to my pride and health and — oddly enough — travel sensibility. I like to travel light. I can spend a week about anywhere (if I’m not preaching) with a small carry-on and a modestly packed laptop case. (With no lap-top.) Hardly revolutionary, but a developed skill none the less. But what’s the use of packing light if I’m packing twenty or thirty extra pounds at my waistline.
Then it hit me.
I want to go to the UUCF Revival in November. I want to lose weight. I’ve made a deal with myself. I hope I don’t regret it. I will carry only as much luggage as the weight I loose between two weeks ago and then. If I loose twenty pounds, I can pack like a normal person. If I loose a half a pound, it means a change of undies in a plastic bag.
Silly? Perhaps. But I hate feeling like a sausage and I like a contest. I’ll let you know how it turns out. Of course, the Revival participants will know first.
19 July 2006 at 9:52 pm
If you lose half a pound, you have to wear a Speedo for the whole conference. If I only lose half a pound, I have to wear a string bikini. Deal?
This could be like Celebrity Fit Club, only with ministers.
19 July 2006 at 10:03 pm
Oh, no no no. If those were the rules, I’d get lipo today. Perhaps a DIY gastric bypass.
22 July 2006 at 8:41 pm
Some people find that eating lots of vegetables helps. Vegetables have all sorts of good stuff in them, and furthermore you can eat a large serving at lunch time and it will not make you sleepy. Additions can make this more interesting - hot sauce, grated cheese, seeds and nuts, etc.
Walking a lot helps.
Good luck!!!!
ps the font on this web site is very small, hard to read
23 July 2006 at 12:02 am
The size of the type is not hard-coded; it can be adjusted from your browser.