And not a moment too soon. Get set for summer with a tour of "The Beautiful Island Beaches of Florida"; find out about the "Plight of the Honeybee" - complete with video; get recipes for "Cool Treats for Hot Days"; investigate "Bits and Pieces" in Healthy Life; read our review of "Skinny Bitch";gear up for this month's weirdness in "Randomonium"; let us know your suggestions and comments in "Speak Out - Speak Up".
All this in this month's issue of our free magazine! Whew - are we tired!
So, off I went to visit my daughter for a week. I don't go there very often because she and her brood affect me negatively - calorie-wise, but I missed them all terribly and figured, wrongly, that I wouldn't do anything stupid in just 5 days.
No. 2 grandson has a lofty position in a classy seafood restaurant, so we went there for dinner the first night I arrived. The food was fabulous - as was the two glasses of wine I consumed. Please understand that I no longer indulge in my favorite pastime of a glass or two of wine each evening at 5 PM. It had actually been over 4 months since I had anything stronger than green tea, but this was an occasion!
The trouble with wine is not the alcohol, it is what the alcohol makes me do. No, I don't tear off my clothes and dance with abandon around the room, but I make very poor choices food-wise. But, as I said, this was a special occasion and I knew that tomorrow I would return to my close-to-vegetarian ways and be redeemed. I even brought much of my food with me to daughter's house to be sure that I would follow the path to health.
This really worked for the next two days, then friends came to visit and it would have been unsociable to not have a drink with them - or two. That's really all I had, but it was enough to lead to an orgy of pretzels, pizza and three really tasty chocolate donut holes.
To make a long story short (I know, too late) in 5 short days I managed to pack on two pounds. I also did not sleep well and had heartburn. I sincerely hope I learned my lesson and will, in the future, be able to resist that second glass of wine. I'm back home again and back on the stay-skinny wagon, never to fall off again (you read it here).
Want the scoop on fiber and its role in a healthy functioning body? Check out the story in this month's Life-Style magazine.http://www.rstylelife.com/
The United Nations reports that raising animals for food (including grazing land and land used to grow feed crops) now uses a mind-boggling 30% of the Earth's land mass. Over 260 million acres of U.S. forest...see more http://www.rstylelife.com/
Well, we're late with our magazine again. Come to think of it, last month was late so it's really been a month. This is called rationalizing. Or BS'ing, take your choice.
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