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  By an exercise-loving Registered Dietitian

Ouch

9/28/2010

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Check out what I had for lunch today. I've been eating canned soup every weekday for several months, so I decided that it was time to "summer-ize" my lunches. I figure that I'll pick a theme for my salads every week. This week, for example, I picked a Mexican theme. I went to the grocery store on Sunday and bought mixed lettuce, red capsicum (translation: red pepper), avocado, corn, black beans and a massive chicken. I also added on a spoonfull of salsa at the top, which I already had at home. I brought the ingedients to work on Monday so that I have stuff to use for lunch every day. Friday is always the exception, because that's when we get sushi. This week, however, we're getting sushi tomorrow and then doing something different on Friday. I'll get to that on another day.

I also experienced a massive cuture clash while grocery shopping. I searched all over the beans/legumes area for black beans. Finally, I managed to find one product. There are a gazillion varieties of chickpeas, whitebeans and so on, but I could only find ONE kind of black beans. They were also organic and more expensive than anything else around there. When I brought them to work yesterday, nobody knew what they were. They stared at my salad and asked what the black things were. They probably think I'm weird.  It's a sad, sad life without Mexican food.

Now, onto the OUCH! I found this article while browsing the news this morning. If you live in Australia and are planning to have a wedding this Saturday, it sounds like you might be in trouble. Since the Grand Final is happening all over again this weekend, it seems that some people would rather miss out on a friend's wedding than miss the game. Again, OUCH!
One of my coworkers has a wedding to go to this Saturday, so they're hoping that they keep the ceremony short and sweet so that they can go watch the game right after. The bride and groom are footy fans, too.
If you are sick and tired of my Aussie Rules Footy posts, I completely understand. I have posted a lot of them in the past week. However, you might enjoy this if you want to know more about the sport. This post won't have many pictures, but it will be full of sport-ilicious facts. As requested by one of my dear friends Meredith, I am lauching my one-time only edition of Australian Rules Football 101: A Tutorial for the Footy-Deprived.
 If my one-time tutorial isn't satisfactory (there may or may not be a second class), please look here for more detailed information.
This is the most important thing in the game. This is a football.
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GOAL: Like many sports, your team wants to score the most points in order to beat the other team. You do this by scoring goals with the football. You do this by kicking the footy through this:
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WHAT YOU DO WITH THE BALL: Throw it to other players, kick it, bounce it (hey, it is a beginner class)
PLAYERS: 18 on the field per team at one time, 4 on the bench per team as subs

SCORING: A kick through the middle two posts scores six points. A kick between the first and second or the third and fourth posts score one point.

TIMING: There are four quarters; each one is 20 minutes. They stop the clock for free kicks (penalties), so the quarter effectively lasts around 40 minutes.

UNIFORMS: Short shorts, knee high socks and a sleeveless top. There is no padding or protective gear other than a mouth guard.

POSITIONS: Forwards, defenders and midfielders. You can move around wherever regardless of your position.

HOW TO PLAY: Once the game starts, it's basically just everybody going for possession of the ball. That's all it is; fighting for the ball and trying to score a goal with your team. There is a lot of body contact. You can run with the ball, but you have to bounce it every 15 meters. Otherwise, you get a penalty. It's like running with the ball in basketball but not dribbling.

There are more things to cover, but I can't go into too much detail for a group of footy-deprived beginners. Overall, footy is known for being fun and fast-moving. The clock hardly ever stops.

Of course, let me know if you have questions. I (or my fiance sitting over my shoulder and making sure I don't butcher my sports explanation) will answer them. It's an easy sport to understand. If you think this is difficult, try cricket! Stay tuned for that this summer.

**After proofreading, Al said that my post needs 10 more pages. He wants you all to know that my explanation is very, very, very basic.**
I just found a short video that sums up a lot of what I just said, so watch it! It's very good. Before you watch it, Al wants all of you to know that the people in this video are "crap". These are Americans playing AFL (footy) in the US.
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Barbara link
9/29/2010 12:37:52 pm

Jenny, I could not stop laughing! Australian Rules Football and the way you describe it and the way Al reacted and the video are hilarious! Are there any leagues in Chicago yet?

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    ABOUT jennifer Martin, MS, RD, LDN

    I am  a Chicago-based Registered Dietitian working primarily in Acute Clinical Care. I started this blog in 2010, before I even knew that I wanted to be an RD! Now, as an active dietitian, this blog will become part of my life again. Read about my current healthy habits, but please peruse my old posts (from 2014 and before) to read about life as an RD student and my previous years in Australia!


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