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A Long Time
By Administrator | November 20, 2006
I haven’t posted on here since August - and we’re now starting Thanksgiving week and the “Silly” season. This is the worst time of year (for anyone who celebrates these holidays) if a person wants to lose weight. I’ve always been a real fan of holidays because they lead to large family gatherings and even larger family meals; and that has been a factor in my large waistline and the large numbers on my scale.
Those numbers really shouldn’t be important to me, but they are. I should be much more worried about my health and physical/emotional well-being than I am about how my clothes fit or how I look. The trouble is that society has brain-washed many of us into focusing on nothing but the numbers and the way our clothes fit. This country has also evolved into a more sedentary fast-food society where we are told that we must work, work, work and just grab whatever as we rush through our daily existence. Whatever happened to quiet Sunday dinners with the family? To a warm stack of home-made pancakes and steaming hot chocolate on a snowing morning? Those are memorable meals…not the ones you grab in the car as you rush little Jimmy from school to Pop Warner practice.
I’ve taken the first step in slowing down my life by taking a remarkably stress-free job in a very positive environment. My kids are all grown now so I should be able to step back and take a look at my own life and make the required changes at home that will help me to be around for another forty years or so.
I’ve got a lot of life left to live and a long time to work on my health. Now that I’ve come back to this realization after being in limbo mentally and emotionally for such a long time, I’m going to do my best to really focus on what I need in order to be healthy. Hopefully, that will lead me to “scale back” and be a healthier person all-around.
Topics: Health/Wellness |
