Skinny Frodo

Reading through the Lord of the Rings again I have trouble picturing Elijah Wood as Frodo. He’s much too thin for a hobbit, don’t you think. And while we’re on the subject, Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd are way to thin to be Merry and Pippin. Sean Astin as Sam was the only one to even closely resemble a hobbit, and even so he looks more like I picture Sam after all the adventuring and lack of food. I imagine hobbits to be short and round, more like Tolkien describes them. The movie just made them out to be short and left out the roundness. Of course the movie also left out the move to Brandybuck, the Old Forest, Tom Bombadil (still a bit miffed about that one), and the Barrow-Downes, about 150 pages of great stuff.

Anyway, speaking of roundness… I’ve joined a Biggest Loser Contest. You can read the details about it, and follow my progress at http://citpodcast.wiki.zoho.com/Biggest-Loser-Contest.html. At the moment there are 15 people competing. Each person has put $25 into the pot, and whoever wins the most weight (percentage, not actual pounds) gets the pot. The competition is amongst the group of Church IT RoundTable people. My wife has really gotten on board and come up with a healthy menu and is still keeping me well fed, I’m just eating food with less fat and fewer calories. I’m also cutting out the Mountain Dew. I normally consume large quantities of the stuff on a daily basis. I’ve switched to water. I may be grouchy for a bit, but the pounds should fall off just from that switch. The competition started last Monday, while I was stuck in Tulsa, so I got started a little late. If you notice I didn’t lose much this week it’s because I didn’t get started until Friday.

I suppose at some point I should start exercising as well…