Conditions are never just right.
Tonight your roommate is cooking for you.
In one week you are home for Christmas.
In two weeks you are celebrating 2010.
In three weeks you are unwinding after a stressful week at work.
In a month it is your anniversary.
In two months you are on vacation.
In six months you are hosting a barbecue.
In a year you are celebrating the new job.
In five years you are too busy with the family.
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There is always an excuse if you want one.
It is always someones birthday, some random holiday, or something you just HAVE to celebrate. There is always a reason why “just this weekend” you won’t eat right.
The stars don’t all have to be aligned for you to start eating right . Because guess what…. they never do.
I know you are truly committed when, on a “special occasion”, you say “I know it is Christmas, but I’ve committed to a plan and I’m going to stick to it”.
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well said jon. excuses be damned – we all have to own up!
And this is why I told my mother I need to do all the cooking when I go home for Christmas. She actually said she likes to see me eat crap (not literally, Happy Gilmore!) because she thinks I need to gain weight. What she doesn’t get is that it’s not crap that makes you gain weight…and she also doesn’t understand how eating too much sugar can induce hypoglycemia and can be a precursor to alcoholism (she eats way too much sugar – think a bajillion Mtn Dews a day and, lo and behold, has been an alcoholic for probably all her life). Get the Sugar Out is a great book – the intro to it explains all the ill effects of sugar. Not that people who read this blog don’t already know all this stuff, but it is always interesting to see how bad it really is…
For example, we ate 12 lbs of sugar per year in the early 1800s and in the 1990s, we ate 130-140 lbs per year. Our bodies have not evolved to be able to handle that. Seems like we’re killing ourselves with sugar. And poor nutrition.
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