How Healthy Are You?

Today is day 26 of changing my life.  I started a diet July 1st and am sticking with it.  I needed to start eating right and stop grazing at night and it's working.  I feel much better and friends are starting to notice which always leads to trying harder.

Hi Nannette!  I'm a huge health nut.  I could probably write enough for a small book if I tried.  There is so much that people DO NOT KNOW when it comes to eathing healthy.  There are so many lies out there, things we are being told to do by "professionals" in the medical and food industries that are just bogus.  Here is an example of something I heard recently (I wrote it down immediately so I wouldn't forget)...

The American Heart Association Diet - After 4 years, only 6% were better; 15% were unchanged; and 79% were worse than before they changed their diet.  Anyone see something wrong with these numbers?  Obviously, we are being some things that just aren't true.

Our bodies take care of themselves if we take care of our bodies.  Our immune systems can fight off almost any disease.  Diseases are preventable, and they are reversable...this is a proven fact, but you will not hear this information from your doctor or your nutritionist.  I wrote a blog on this subject and there was so much material...let me just say it was too long.  It is almost impossible to write anything on this topic and keep it short while still giving people important information they need to know.

I changed my diet/lifestyle over 5 years ago.  I was headed in a pretty bad direction, on my way to diabetes, and possible heart trouble, things I now know after over 5 years of research.  My phone is always available to anyone wanting info, as is my email.  Feel free to contact me.

Nannette- Ummm this is a timely Post.  I stopped smoking on Dec. 26th....exactly 7 months ago and some days I wish I was still smoking.  Yes, I said it, but at least when I was smoking I had clothes that fit and I didn't look like a slob.  I've gained over 20 pounds just from eating junk. It was pitiful.  Then maybe 8 days ago I had had enough......enough of the junk food, enough of feeling horrible because of my new weight, and enough of the whole thing.

Out went the cookies, the ice cream, all the junk and I stopped eating at midnight while I blogged.  I have made myself eat breakfast, drink a whole lot more water, and cut the portions way down....pretty hard when my body now craved all that extra food.  But I'm a strong person, and I'm doing it.  In 8 days I have already lost 5.5 pounds.

Now this part is funny....yesterday when I weighed myself I was ecstatic over the loss, and came out singing a little ditty while yahooing that I'd lost these 5.5 pounds.....

My grandaughter  (5 years old) looks at me and says very seriously " Well, it doesn't look like it!" :( :(