Rick The Stick – a comic on the Interwebs

	I couldn’t believe my eyes! Three little kids pointing their guns at me demanding candy!! And I was already running for my life!!

Good morning – Happy Humpday!

I hope you’re enjoying the crazy kids. The names are official – from left to right – Buddy, Louie and Ruby. Thanks to my friend from college Denise for naming Ruby and RAlonzo for Buddy and Louie. If you didn’t catch his comment from yesterday, Buddy and Louie are homages to my the two comedians my great grandfather, John Grant worked with – Abbott and Costello. You can read up on my post about it here or check out my great grandfather’s Wikipedia and IMDB pages.

To recap our last five ‘Rick the Stick Diet’ posts:

Water – Drink plenty of it.
Eating – Smaller portions. Use your ‘sane brain’ to your advantage.
Motivation – Set a goal and find the mechanism that gets you going – and keeps you going.
Focus – Remember where you started, where you’re going and why your headed there.
Phases – Comfortably look to avoid foods that are bad for your diet.

Last week, I rambled on about what foods I’ve basically phased out of my diet. This week, I’ll blather on about what I’ve enjoyed – EVERY WEEK for the last 18 or so weeks and still almost lost 50 pounds.

These are all true:

Pizza. That’s right. Love it. The difference is, instead of eating a calzone AND four slices of pizza from Cappy’s Pizzeria in South Tampa, I’ve enjoyed just the four slices of pizza with extra meatball. Frequency: once a week.

Wings/Zingers. Another staple of my diet. My wife and I have been together 15 years this week and for the last 10 or 11 years, other than a handful of nights, we’ve had wings every Friday. I love mine with extra bleu cheese dressing. There isn’t much choice for quality wings here in South Tampa, so we were getting Hooters wings but recently have just switched to Publix Supermarket’s chicken tenders that I drench in hot sauce and smother with dressing. The difference? I used to drink a few pitchers of beer with my wings and scoff down a sandwich afterwards. Now it’s just the buffalo style tenders. Frequency: once a week.

Note: if you’re not familiar with Publix – it is without a doubt the best supermarket ever.

Five Guys Burgers and Fries. I have witnesses. Two large burgers and cajun fries. Mayo, ketchup, tomato, lettuce, pickles and mustard. Fries with mayo and ketchup mixed. Superb. Difference? Nothing. Still loves me the 5 Guys Burgers and Fries. Frequency: twice a month and I wish more.

Ravioli. Fresh Ravioli. From the single greatest place on earth. The Ravioli Company in South Tampa is amazing. Freshly made whole wheat ravioli that is sooo good, I recommend eating it without any sauce. They feature whole wheat ravioli with Eggplant, Pine Nuts, Goat Cheese, Spinach, Artichoke and tons of other great ingredients. Each one is incredible and the people who make them are awesome. Difference? I used to have a glass of wine or two, but now I have water and eat a smaller portion than I used to. Frequency: once a week.

Those items I haven’t given up have replaced the items I did. Including random trips to McDonald’s, Taco Bell, Burger King, Quizno’s and other random sandwich shoppes in the downtown Tampa area. I’m at 47 pounds as of last Friday. I would like to hit my goal this week so next week I can bust past it. I had the Ravioli last night – it was good and when I bust my butt this morning by getting up at 4:30 am, riding to the gym and playing basketball and jogging in between games, I’ll remember that it was worth it.

Thanks for dropping by!
Ken

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