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By Sports Editor

This may sound weird, because the Biggest Newser is a weight-loss competition, but my biggest problem as we head into the home stretch seems to be getting enough to eat - or at least getting enough of the right things to eat.

I’ve been working out like a fiend, and I’m closing in on my target weight, but Fabulous Trainer Becky Wenner says I need to increase my protein and green vegetable intake.

Unfortunately, as Becky repeatedly tells me, potato chips are not a vegetable. She has spent weeks gently encouraging me to eat Romaine lettuce, spinach, chicken and fish, and I have failed to live up to her expectations. So now she is getting tough.

“Protein!” she wrote me in a recent email. “Or you will lose muscle. Period, end of story. Eat the damn protein or so help me God, I will make you do 100 roundhouse kicks until you beg for mercy.

“Each day you don’t have two servings of green veggies, I am going to make you do 50 pushups,” she added. “Don’t test me. And with each pushup you will say, ‘I will eat veggies, I will eat veggies.’”

Her email also included this command: “Get drinking my friend!!! NO EXCUSES!”

I hope she is talking about water, because the last time somebody told me that, I woke up in that jail in the bowels of Veterans Stadium.

Becky has posted some suggestions on healthy grocery shopping on her Web site.

-By Michael O’Keeffe

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