Doing the Right Thing

I don't like eating right. I really don't. If it were left up to me, I'd eat crackers and candy and that's all. Shocked? Sorry.

I get tired of all this thinking and planning. Besides, it totally goes against my nature to plan ahead. I have to really, really work at it.

But it all comes down to the same rule: just because I don't like doing it doesn't mean it isn't right to do it. Did you get that? Let me say it another way. Not liking something does not give me a free pass. For example, since I'm being candid here, I don't like to brush my teeth. Nope, I don't. I'd rather go to bed without the extra trouble of scrubbing the dentims. It's true. But I brush my teeth anyway! Why? Because I don't like the result of not brushing them. So, I brush them whether I want to or not. Period, the end.

Some of the results of not eating right are horrific. Excess weight is just a minor side effect. Heart disease, diabetes, some kinds of cancer, hypertension, all these are linked to dietary concerns. As much as I don't like eating right, I don't like disease even more.

So it's probably best I just get over it and do what's right.

Because I must decrease,
Aileen