Prevent Defense

If you'd ever watched a Green Bay Packer football game with my dad, you would have heard a couple "complaints" oft repeated:

1. Green Bay can't #"*% tackle! You can't grab them around the @#$^ shoulders! You gotta get'em at the @#$^%^ knees!
2. That @#$*&* PREEEE-vent DEEEE-fense (pronounced just this way) is a crock of @(^%^$! They're gonna let'em march right down the &$#$ @&*# field.

For those not in the know, yes, my dad had colorful language and a prevent defense is where the defense hangs back, letting the offense (or OH-fense if you pronounce it like my radio play-by-play man dad) "have" short-yardage gains in an effort to force them to burn time off the clock and prevent a spectacular, big yardage play that winds up with someone in the end zone.

It seems to me that smart eaters treat the day before Thanksgiving like prevent defense. Make some concessions today so that tomorrow doesn't end up knocking your whole program out of whack.

Here's my playbook:
1. Ate normally today, focusing on vegetables. Small portions. Salad for dinner. You get the drift.
2. Exercised a bit more today. Did a 3-mile run this morning and a 1.5 mile swim this afternoon.
3. Going to run tomorrow morning before the big event. And lift a few weights.

Those three things will allow me to enjoy all there is to offer on my favorite day of the year.

Hope you and yours have a wonderful one.