Dell Hall ... Focus and Sacrifice
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Look at Dell. Only beer for 40 days. For lent.
He has given up everything .... except beer. Maybe not as great as giving up beer and nothing
else, but still pretty impressive. If this guy played
hockey, he could certainly be on the Chaos. This is a great
sacrifice and certainly allows him to focus on only one thing.
Let's learn from him. For Nashville we must be single minded,
sacrifice and focus. Focus on hockey. Don't let
anything else get in the way. Focus on proper hockey ... like
passing the puck to Pete when he is open. Like diving in front of
slap shots so we don't have to rely on Crawford.
I suppose that in hone of Dell, we can also focus on drinking some beer.
Read the article. It is pretty funny. He is doing
it to be like a Monk. I guess drinking only beer is
better than giving up what all Monk's give up forever. It is also about breaking his
addiction to food. Hall said he's "pretty addicted" to carbs and
sugar and has poor eating habits. Poor eating habits?
I never would have guessed that a guy who drinks only beer for 40 days
would say he had poor eating habits. Let's follow this one.
Hopefully he will survive. |
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CINCINNATI — A Cincinnati man is taking fasting for Lent to
a whole new – and boozy – level. Del Hall, director of sales at local
brewery Fifty West Brewing, is giving up everything for his Lenten fast.
Except beer.
Hall plans to spend Lent fasting, using beer as his only calorie intake.
Friendly reminder: Lent is 46 days long. Traditionally, it includes 40 days
of fasting and six Sundays, on which fasting is not practiced. Usually,
people just eat fish on Fridays.
Hall decided to do something different this year. Instead of giving up fries
or social media for a month and a few weeks, he decided to take a step back.
Way back.
"Just like the monks used to do it back in the 1600s, I'm going to do the
same thing," Hall said in a Youtube video announcing the fast.
"It's not necessarily about the weight loss as it is the challenge of
replicating what the monks did."
That part of the challenge is what's fun, Hall told The Cincinnati Enquirer.
He wants to see if it's possible to replicate and to push himself to the
limits.
"Fasting is a big part of being human and we don't really do that anymore,"
he said.
Hall has tried intermittent fasting, where one eats only during a small
window in the day, and the ketogenic diet, a low-carb, high-fat diet similar
to the Atkins diet.
Not only is it about proving the monks right, it's also about breaking his
addiction to food. Hall said he's "pretty addicted" to carbs and sugar and
has poor eating habits.
“I hope when this is done… when I’m hungry and there’s bad food available, I
opt to not eat anything at all," Hall said.
He hopes "Future Del" will “opt for a healthier option tomorrow” instead of
stopping for drive-thru food or an unhealthy option, he said.
“It’s not about the weight loss, it’s about the journey and learning about
yourself," Hall said.
Hall knows it's a pretty drastic idea but after he started thinking about it
in the fall, he let himself go over the holiday so he'd have enough to lose
during the fast.
“My pendulum doesn’t swing toward moderation," Hall said.
It's all or nothing for Hall and this fast is no exception. So now, with an
OK from his doctor and a daily multivitamin, he's a week into Lent and feels
great.
“I feel amazing. I feel like this mental fog has been lifted," Hall said.
"Day two and three were pretty rough. I wanted to bash some Taco Bell after
a few beers because that's what we do."
Instead, Hall buckled down. A week into Lent and he's lost 15.2 pounds.
"The last couple days I haven’t been hungry at all. I hope that’s going to
be a good sign and I maintain this level of clarity," Hall said.
The hunger does come in waves, around noon or 1 p.m., which is when Hall has
his first drink. Then he'll have a few after work. As for beer, Hall is
drinking plenty of Fifty West but wants variety. He's also allowed to have
black coffee, unsweetened tea and sparkling water.
"I'm a typical human, I want variety," Hall said. "I don’t eat the same
thing every day. I don’t want to drink the same thing either."
On Tuesday, he had Spare Parts as his first meal replacement. The chocolate
maple and tasted almond stout is 8.1 percent ABV.
"I haven’t been able to feel one beer since high school, but I can
definitely feel it now," Hall said.
The fast has also made him realize something quirky about the Queen City. He
said his sense of smell is "crazy right now" and it made him realize just
how close he lives to Pleasant Ridge Chili.
"Our air in Cincinnati is permeated with the smell of Cincinnati chili. It's
delicious," Hall said. "There are so many different parlors … I wonder if
our sense of smell isn’t in tune to it because it's everywhere." |
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