Tax Day

It's everyone's favorite day of the year - tax day ;-).  Happily, we don't owe any taxes this year so we filed our taxes a month ago.  In years when we've owed, we've waited until the last possible day to file, and when we've been entitled to a refund, we've filed our taxes as soon as we possibly could! 

When it comes to our health, a day of reckoning generally comes, too, because our bodies, like Uncle Sam, have a way of keeping track of what's coming in and what's going out.  When I was diagnosed with diabetes in September of 2005, I realized that my years of morbid obesity, bad habits, and a genetic predisposition had finally caught up with me.  I had been "investing" in this for years, and the bill finally came due.

Sometime we think we can avoid the long-term ramifications of bad habits, but most of the time they eventually catch up with us.  To be sure, there are always the exceptions - people who live healthy and die prematurely of a heart attack, someone who smokes 2 packs a day and lives to be 100 - but those are exceptions, not the rule.

The good news is that our bodies were created with a wonderful ability to heal, and it's amazing to see how fast concerning health conditions can begin to reverse themselves when we begin to take care of ourselves.  Diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol - conditions often resulting from being overweight - can and are being reversed as people get on this program and begin to lose weight.  It's exciting!

You're here because you've made a commitment to invest in your health, so keep up the great work and don't let anything get in the way of getting healthy, because you're worth it!  Take it one day, one meal, and one choice at a time - and choose wisely :-)