"Dieting is murder on the road. Show me a man who travels and I'll show you one who eats"
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Dieting doesn’t lose to weak willpower here; it loses to geography. Bruce Froemming’s line lands because it treats travel as a kind of moving buffet line, where the rules that make “good eating” possible at home - routine, familiar groceries, your own kitchen, even the quiet accountability of being seen by the same people - evaporate the moment you’re living out of a suitcase. “Murder on the road” is blunt, almost locker-room dark humor: the road doesn’t merely tempt you, it kills the plan.
The second sentence is the clever twist. “Show me a man who travels and I’ll show you one who eats” sounds like an old coaching maxim, half challenge, half shrug. It’s not just that travelers eat more; it’s that eating becomes the easiest, most available form of comfort and control in a day built from delays, strange beds, and borrowed time. Airports, diners, hotel breakfasts, gas stations: travel culture is engineered around convenience calories and “treat yourself” logic. The road sells indulgence as necessity.
Coming from an athlete, the subtext is especially sharp. Athletes live in the tension between discipline and environment; they know the body is managed as much by schedules and systems as by motivation. Froemming is quietly puncturing the moralism around dieting. If a plan can’t survive real life - a late bus, a team trip, a tournament weekend - maybe the plan is the fantasy, not the traveler.
The second sentence is the clever twist. “Show me a man who travels and I’ll show you one who eats” sounds like an old coaching maxim, half challenge, half shrug. It’s not just that travelers eat more; it’s that eating becomes the easiest, most available form of comfort and control in a day built from delays, strange beds, and borrowed time. Airports, diners, hotel breakfasts, gas stations: travel culture is engineered around convenience calories and “treat yourself” logic. The road sells indulgence as necessity.
Coming from an athlete, the subtext is especially sharp. Athletes live in the tension between discipline and environment; they know the body is managed as much by schedules and systems as by motivation. Froemming is quietly puncturing the moralism around dieting. If a plan can’t survive real life - a late bus, a team trip, a tournament weekend - maybe the plan is the fantasy, not the traveler.
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| Topic | Travel |
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