Seems like everyone is into some kind of Diet these days. The lazy way is to take Xenical.
The new way is to go into a Protein Diet. The old way is to stop eating. The dangerous way
is to throw up after eating. The hard way is to exercise regularly.
Let me share with you some thoughts on Exercise.
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was 60.
She's 97 now & we don't know where she is!
I joined a health club last year, spent about 400 bucks. Haven't
lost a pound. Apparently you have to show up.
I have to exercise in the morning before my brain figures out
what I'm doing.
I don't exercise at all. If God meant us to touch our toes, he
would have put them further up our body.
I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who
annoy me.
I have flabby thighs, but fortunately my stomach covers them.
The advantage of exercising every day is that you die healthier.
If you are going to try cross-country skiing, start with a small
country.
I don't jog. It makes the ice jump right out of my glass.
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Heres a story dedicated to Coch. Its a story written
by Mike Buetelle entitled "As a Man Soweth".
When I was in junior high, the eighth-grade bully punched me in
the stomach. Not only did it hurt and make me angry, but the embarrassment and humiliation
were almost intolerable. I wanted desperately to even the score! I planned to meet him by
the bike racks the next day and let him have it.
For some reason, I told my plan to Nana, my grandmother - big
mistake. She gave me one of her hour-long lectures (that woman could really talk). The
lecture was a total drag, but among other things, I vaguely remember her telling me that I
didn't need to worry about him. She said, "Good deeds beget good results, and evil
deeds beget bad results."
I told her, in a nice way, of course, that I thought she was
full of it. I told her that I did good things all the time, and all I got in return was
"baloney!" (I didn't use that word.) She stuck to her guns, though. She said,
"Every good deed will come back to you someday, and every bad thing you do will also
come back to you."
It took me 30 years to understand the wisdom of her words. Nana
was living in a board-and-care home in Laguna Hills, California. Each Tuesday, I came by
and took her out to dinner. I would always find her neatly dressed and sitting in a chair
right by the front door. I vividly remember our very last dinner together before she went
into the convalescent hospital. We drove to a nearby simple little family-owned
restaurant. I ordered pot roast for Nana and a hamburger for myself. The food arrived and
as I dug in, I noticed that Nana wasn't eating. She was just staring at the food on her
plate. Moving my plate aside, I took Nana's plate, placed it in front of me, and cut her
meat into small pieces. I then placed the plate back in front of her. As she very weakly,
and with great difficulty, forked the meat into her mouth, I was struck with a memory that
brought instant tears to my eyes. Forty years previously, as a little boy sitting at the
table. Nana had always taken the meat on my plate and cut it into small pieces so I could
eat it.
It had taken 40 years, but the good deed had been repaid. Nana
was right. We reap exactly what we sow. "Every good deed you do will someday come
back to you."
What about the eighth-grade bully?
He ran into the ninth-grade bully. |