One whole week without access to a computer!!! My cell phone never rang, no e-mail, no weight loss buddies OMG! After I recovered from my lack of computer access withdrawals, I settled down to enjoy life in the country. Now that I’m back, I realized that everything I needed to know about healthy living I learned last week from my mama.
I learned:
Yesterday is gone, forget about it. You can’t do anything to change it so why sweat it. I was afraid my mother would be beating herself up for becoming a diabetic, but she says she cant go back and change how she usta eat, so why sweat it. Let yesterday’s mistakes go and go on with you life.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life so what are you doing today to make the rest of your life better? Every morning Mom, tapes a blank sheet of paper on her refrigerator. She writes on it in big letters ” Today I Will Do Something Good For Me” beneath that heading she writes out everything she eats and the exercises she does. Three times a day she reads it all out loud to herself. No matter what kind of day she has, the last entry at night is “I Did Good Today”.
You are never to old to learn something new. My mother didn’t know what a carb was until a few weeks ago when she was diagnosed as a diabetic, now she is the carb counting queen. She has learned to read the label on everything she eats and make substitutions based on her total carb intake per meal.
If you slow down you really can smell the flowers. Mom puts fresh flower on the kitchen table before she sits down to eat. She arranges her food on her plate like a fancy restaurant work of art. Her ice water is in a fancy glass with a lemon twist. As she slowly chews each bite she inhales the scent of the fresh flowers, pauses between fork fulls to admire their beauty and smiles. She eats longer, and feels fuller, while eating smaller portion of food.
All this from the lady who raised me on biscuits, gravy and fried chicken. Will wonders never cease!
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