Quote for a life time!

This past weekend I attended my high school class reunion. While we had our 50th anniversary reunion last year I thought that a year later was way too soon for another one. I suggested every 5 years but got voted down on that idea. Everyone said, "we may all be dead by that time." My reply, "well we had the 50th and many of us had not seen each other since we graduated 50 years ago, so what does it really matter." Plus if we die and we have been good we will go to a better place as promised by all of the Christian ministers, and whatevers. At any rate I did attend about half of the functions and voted again for every 5 years and I really don't know what they decided. But I did decide for myself that I will go again in 5 years if I am in town. What I did come away with from this reunion is that yes, we have all grown older, with the average age around 69 and some are healthy and some are not. But, I did notice that there was a lot of thought put in to what, when, and how much we were going to eat, with little regard for how much we were going to burn off. So, I came up with me quote for a life time in regards to eating, "we should eat based on the hunger in our gut, not through our taste buds!" We should always do the math on calories in and calories burned. While I have never been a big calorie counter I am silently aware of what I am taking in and how much I am burning. Kind of like my Explorer that has a capacity of 22 gallons in the tank and approximately 440 miles of driving range on that tank. Our bodies are similar and when we have a glut of calories going in with only the minimum burn, we have excess fat in our systems and then obesity.

For today,

Mike Greer