GO AWAY!

As previously stated, Geeg and I have tried to make some healthy life style changes. Significant amounts of weight have been lost because we eat less than we used to. A key factor towards that end is to have less food in the house.

We have become legendary in our efforts to save money by buying clothes and furniture in Thrift Stores. Rest assured that none of the money saved is used to buy groceries. While our refrigerator and kitchen cabinets remain better stocked than Amy's, they no longer bulge with goodies.

We have simplified. We are minimalists.

Unless we are with people. Unless we entertain or are entertained. On those occasions, chips, appetizers, hearty meals, wine, dessert, after dinner drinks - the whole nine yards.

And, if we are the entertainers, leftovers, the scourge of the serious dieter.

We had a guest for dinner Wednesday night. We faltered, we flashbacked.

I was ashamed and appalled when Geeg came home early from choir practice last night, and caught me red handed in bed with a bag of chips. Oh, the humiliation, oh how far the mighty have fallen.

So, it is with heavy heart the that I request that you all just go away and stay away. Tempt me no more with the opportunity to indulge in the heady aroma of chicken parmigiana, Italian butter cookies, tortilla chips with just a hint of lime.

No, wait. Who am I to contradict Barbra Streisand? People, people who need people, are the luckiest people in the world!

Bring your appetites; I'll curb mine. Was it Nancy Reagan who encouraged me to "just say no?"

I can and will live wthout gluttony. Family is the bread of my life, friends the water.

(Which explains why I'm thirsty all the time, but rarely am I hungry.)

So, we'll walk this morning, maybe a little farther than yesterday. We will eat a little less. We will enjoy the memories of occasions with family and friends, and look forward to many more.