Get Healthy - Live Longer

Are you ready to get healthy and live longer? In the newspapers, magazines, the Internet the headlines are forever telling us to lose weight. They all have different methods from programs like Weight Watchers, taking diet pills and prepared frozen food, fitness programs, and much more.

There is no excuse not to lose weight and get healthy if you want to. That is the key... I WANT TO LOSE WEIGHT AND GET HEALTHY!

Even when the doctor tells us to diet and eat healthy foods or die we still have a hard time doing it. Everyone who smokes knows it could kill them but they still do it anyway. It is SO HARD to quit a bad habit.

Attention 20-40 year olds... If you don't do it now it is almost impossible to lose weight after age 40. Oh, some do it (like me) but believe me it is MUCH HARDER after 40. And harder to keep it off once you've lost it.

My daughter, Nancy, came from Southern California to visit us for a week here in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is a director on "The Simpsons" television show. We had fun. Went to a Tea Room Cafe, ate at nice restaurants, it was awesome.

I figured I'd gain a couple of pounds, and I did. :-) Now I will work off the 2 pounds by eating Oatmeal in the morning. It is amazing how that meal works. It is better than dry cereal. I'm just guessing but I think it is because dry cereal has sugar in it even though I get the lowest count. But also it doesn't have the lasting power of Oatmeal. I get hungry faster if I eat dry cereal.

This was my first test at socializing and eating out more than one day since I lost my 18 pounds. Actually Nancy and I shared a salad and chicken dish. I highly recommend sharing if you eat out. You eat much less and as you lose weight you won't need as much food.

When I feel full now I feel guilty--like I ate too much. Then when I think about it my "full feeling" is light compared to last year when I would eat everything in sight!

Enjoy eating with friends and family and "eat oatmeal" the day after. You will be okay.

(c) Joan Clout-Kruse