Are You Ready For Some Football?

Good Morning all,(THIS WAS WRITTEN THE DAY OF THE SUPER BOWL, BUT I FORGOT TO PUBLISH IT SO I AM PUBLISHING IT NOW)

Super Bowl!! Yep, today is the last chance we get this season to see some football - well, I guess there is still the Pro-Bowl, but the Super Bowl is the one we most anticipate. I am sort of a football fan, but both of my daughters, my two granddaughters and my sons-in-law are avid fans, so I find myself watching the games just so I can be part of the family. We have season tickets to see the Houston Texans play and we don't miss a game. I don't have a favorite team in the Bowl - I would kind of like to see Eli Manning put a feather in his cap, but I would also like the Patriots pull off an undefeated season, so I guess I'll just watch and root for both teams.

Today will also be a day to made a decision to "pig out" on all the good food, especially the dips, chips, nuts, crackers and cheese, all all those other really good snack foods, and beer and whatever else there is, and that is probably what I am going to do, only in some sort of moderation. I find that since I have started really listening to my body and not eating after it tells me that I have had enough, I can stop eating and not be tempted to eat any more. Now, I was not always that way. No sireee, I could put it away with the best of them, and maybe even better. My boast would be how much I could eat and drink and still move - and my body showed it.

Super Bowl games were not the only events where I would eat myself silly - almost every meal was that way. I would get up from the table and then a few minutes later be right back there again, snacking and eating what was left. Thank goodness I learned that if I really listened to my body, it would tell me when I had had enough and then I would quit eating, go off away from the food for a while and then when I came back to the table I found that I really didn't want any more to eat and I was fine until the next meal.

This control did not come upon me all at once. I had to work on it, but it was worth the effort. I don't have that stuffed feeling anymore. That was the strangest part of not eating after I had had enough. I felt funny - sort of empty inside, until I finally figured out that it was that stuffed or overstuffed feeling that I was missing. I made up my mind that I was not going to abuse my body any longer with this juvenile behavior - eating until I popped. One of the books that I read, The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace Wattles spoke of how to eat properly by chewing your food, each bite slowly and enjoying the texture, the taste and the pleasant sensation that you experience while eating, and listen to you body and quit eating when it told you to. I decided to give it a try and after a few days of wrestling with my appetite and habit of stuffing myself, I found that eating was indeed a pleasure. From that point on I have truly enjoyed my food, my new found discipline and my new, slimmer, trimmer body.

Anyone want to give it a try? Wallace Wattles book "The Science of Being Well"- it is on the internet as a free download. You can get it at this address:

Wallace also wrote The Science of Getting Rich, which was the basis used to make the film "The Secret".
So, hope your teams wins and remember you too can become a winner if you choose to.

Talk at ya later,

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