Good Monday morning - I hope you survived the Saint Patty's Day celebrations. :) I made green velvet brownies (sugar and starch free, of course) which were a huge hit with some funny after experiences. (green food coloring not only caused the brownies to be green, but OTHER things - oh well, change is good) My son came for the weekend and laughed so hard, after eating almost the entire pan of brownies, at the "green after effects." Enough said. :)
I have been thinking about a line from the movie Pearl Harbor that I want to share this morning. If you remember after the harbor was bombed, the Japanese were celebrating and the commanding officer turned and looked at his leaders and said, "I fear we have only awakened a sleeping giant." Here's what I want us to keep in the center of our choices today - while eating 2 cookies, or a McDonald's hamburger, or a candy bar may not show up too terribly on tomorrow morning's weigh in - the greater picture is the awakening the "sleeping giants" of heart disease and diabetes and other weight-related issues (I could make a list.....)
These are not possibilities - these are definite issues that bad food and living choices awaken. And no one forces us to make those choices. BUT......we CAN choose the correct refueling items and leave those food-induced diseases sleeping. Just because my family struggles with cholesterol issues, doesn't mean I have to. My family lived for the next gathering and eating ritual of seeing who could "out cook" the other. The more decadent the better - the more unhealthy - the better! We would laugh and pat each other's bellies after stuffing ourselves and make jokes about how fat we were. (all while our children watched) And yes, I awakened "sleeping giants" and found diabetes, arthritis, reflux, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure had "bombed" my life and were destroying me.
BUT GOD - whose spirit is bigger than any "sleeping" giant gave me the courage to fight back. Loosing weight and keeping it off - choosing to eat right DAILY - keeps these sleeping giants SLEEPING.
We are bodies of flesh and these enemies lurk and wait......come on fam, let's choose health and keep these giants from stealing our lives. We CAN win! But, we can't be asleep and look the other way while eating that doughnut and not expect these giants to position themselves for destruction.
Enjoy the sunshine, add a slice of lime to your water, take a stroll in your neighborhood tonight and continue to affirm yourself by saying, "I AM WORTH IT!" PK
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