All I knew was that I was surrounded by people who did things like yoga, weight-lifting, and running marathons (barf). I didn’t feel like I’d hit rock bottom-eating pizza and drinking orange soda is objectively fun as hell. I didn’t have some massive revelation or life-changing moment. I thought to myself, “Maybe tomorrow, I won’t do this.” The next day, I resolved to take the small step of eating healthier meals and getting some exercise. I was double-fisting a Domino’s pizza and orange Fanta. I was pondering these questions at the beginning of August 2018, while watching Nawazuddin Siddiqui make it rain on the Netflix show Sacred Games (the first time I’d ever seen an Indian man do that on television). ![]() ![]() That last one was always purposefully nebulous: Would getting fit mean that I could rock my Sawgrass Springs Middle School volleyball t-shirt again? Or would it mean looking like the chubby-turned-impossibly-well-chiseled Rohan from Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham? Here’s a sampling of the meager goals I’ve had in my adult life: kiss a girl, write a cover story for Sports Illustrated, and get in shape.
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