Perhaps it’s too late to make a new year’s resolution.
Oklahoma City mayor Mick Cornett doesn’t think so.
Cornett launched the “This City is Going on a Diet” campaign several weeks ago, and Dave Garrett and I had a chance Tuesday to talk to him about it on my radio show, “The Home Stretch.” He came on the show to talk about the March 4 vote to improve the Ford Center, but we had to ask him about the big diet plan, too.
Mick’s going on “Ellen” to talk about it, after all. We figured we’d better get him first!
Cornett is urging Oklahoma City residents to lose a combined one million pounds this year.
That’s a lot of Oreos.
Cornett wants folks to go to the campaign’s website, www.thiscityisgoingonadiet.com, sign up and get involved. I know we don’t talk a lot in sports about individual health, but really, this is something that’s important to all of us. It’s even more important than — gasp! – Oklahoma and Oklahoma State sports. A healthier city is not only good for the collective but also good for individuals. We’d all feel better if we lost a couple pounds or spent a little more time on the elliptical. We’d all feel better if our significant other/sister/brother/mother/father/son/daughter/friend were in better health, too.
So, go to the website and sign up.
Everybody’s doing it.
January 15th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
Have you sign up Jenni???? Didn’t think so!!!!
January 16th, 2008 at 7:41 am
John Boy asks a good question that I meant to answer in my blog. I have signed up. I’d actually been on a health kick for the past couple months, having adopted better eating habits and regular time at the gym. I’d already dropped a decent amount of lbs. before the Mayor issued his challenge — it isn’t Bob Barry Jr. weight loss, but it’s made me buy smaller-sized clothes! — but I’m ready for the rest of my weight loss to count toward the city’s total.
Thanks for asking, John Boy. Now, have YOU signed up?
January 16th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Well, john boy, it looks as if the response you spent so much time composing was wrong. But your use of exclamation points really accentuates your clever and cutting humor. You are certainly a funny man.
January 17th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Right, Mr. Runyon!
March 29th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
Stratumseind Club De Rechter Eindhoven…
I almost exclusively drink Mountain Dew or Dr. Pepper. (Or on rare occasions, juice, milk, plain old water, or on very very rare occasions, something with a bit of alcohol in it.) Maybe it was the years of youth- oriented advertising that hooked me on …