Mayor Rob Ford returned Monday to the radio station where he announced Sunday that he had quit his diet. His message to NewsTalk 1010 listeners this time: I haven’t quit my diet.
In the latest odd twist in his ever-more-tumultuous “Cut the Waist Challenge,†Ford said Monday he didn’t mean he was abandoning the challenge when he said Sunday that he had stopped dieting and doesn’t care about his scheduled weigh-ins.
No weigh-in was held Monday morning, Councillor Doug Ford told reporters he would now be weighing in by himself, and Deputy Mayor Doug Holyday pronounced the challenge a mistake.
But the mayor then took to the airwaves to say he would weigh in once more, at the end of the challenge on June 18, and had simply been frustrated on Sunday by Doug Ford’s jokes about him.
“He just kept buggin’ me and buggin’ me and buggin’ me,†he told John Tory.
“I know I can do it. It’s just mind over matter,†he said. “It’s just frustrating. Everyone just keeps harping and harping and harping. I said, ‘Enough’s enough.’ I said, ‘I haven’t quit one thing in my life, I’m not gonna quit.’ Obviously I have to ge down, and I will. Somehow, some way, I will figure this out.â€