The Gloves: A Boxing Chronicle by Robert Anasi

Author:Robert Anasi [Anasi, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biography & Autobiography, Sports
ISBN: 9781466800472
Google: nVNS1JkShEgC
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2003-02-05T21:14:13+00:00

Salads, sprouts, protein bars, pickles, low fat and no fat, sugarless candy and uncreamed coffee, a few spoonfuls of peanut butter (all natural) to fool the body into thinking it had eaten. At parties, buffet tables beckoned me. My hand would stretch out, return to mouth, stretch out, return, repeat until I sat licking nut fragments and salt crystals from the bottom of the bowl. I was addicted to food. In a fitness book, I read that a well-trained athlete’s body will immediately convert sugar to energy following an intense workout; I took this to mean that every night after the gym I could drift toward the candy rack in the local bodegas: gummy jellies, spearmint leaves, orange slices, coconut clusters, licorice. I found myself spending unseemly amounts of time pondering whether to eat “just one more” cracker from my cupboard. The dancer always overordered in restaurants, never finishing more than half her entrée. I would hover above her plate. I understand why boxers cheated, now, why they fell. After bottoming out at ’23, I slowly began to drift upward. By the middle of the month, I realized 119 was impossible.

Milton, I said, I’m afraid I have some bad news. I can’t make one nineteen.

You can’t? he said, disappointed. You would have been killing those crazy little midgets.

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