Mortality

You know what sounds so good right now?  Waffles.  Waffles slathered in butter and drenched in warm maple syrup.  Also, a big bowl of captain crunch (with crunch berries) filled to the brim with ice cold milk. 

What if someone said to you: "if you eat that, you will die."  Would you eat it still?  Well, I did.  I have known for years - YEARS - that I had to proactively avoid the onset of diabetes.  My grandmother, great-grandmother, grandfather and uncle all have (or had) diabetes due to diet and overall health.  Although very strongly genetically predisposed to diabetes, I kept telling myself I had time.  I kept telling myself I wasn't unhealthy enough yet.  Well.  Time is up.  And yes, diabetes is not the same as a death sentence, but it can cause all sorts of issues that shorten your life span.  So, today my answer to the "would you still eat it" question is: no. 

I have successfully completed a 7 day detox diet designed to flush out my system and help promote healthy circulation and lymph system operation.  I will no longer be taking my detox supplements, but I will need to keep eating the way I have been eating.  No sugar, no flour, no white bread, no artificial sweeteners for the foreseeable future.  

It is really sad that it took me this long to get with it.  I let excuses like stress, time, money and will power get in my way of eating healthy.  Now I am eating healthy and it is not easy, at all.  But I can do it.  Also, you know about all my weight loss complaints?  Yeah, in the past week I have lost just over 9 pounds.  How much of that will stay off post-detox I do not know, but I doubt if I keep eating as I have been this past week that I will gain a bunch back. 

I am not immortal.  I am not excluded from suffering disease.  I am responsible for how the rest of this plays out.

On a better note, I should be back up and running in about a month.  So I am back out to search for the next 5k!  Stay tuned!