Fw: Hay to you who are new to the list.

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Hay to you who are new to the list.

Hi! I'm the gentlemen pig as I enjoy referring to me self. I at this time of

my life weigh in at 302 last week, so I figure half of me is a gentlemen and the

other half is a pig with piggish ways. I mean I am a man right? well I know

plenty of men who aren't pigs and certainly not saying that. now I got a kind of

different way of expressing my self in post. I certainly hope and Pray I don't

offend any one or embarrass any one either. If I do step on your toes or cause

you to wish to plant your foot up my pig butt, then please email me off list or

let Dave know so he or you can fill me in on what I said wrong. I do in a way

make fun of my self and make a joke about my diabetes. I do this because for me

it is much easier to laugh at one self. crying about my problems never has

helped me, but laughing about them has. I've been a part of this list for many

years, but hardly ever posted much until just the past few months. grate advice

on the list and these guys know what they are talking about when they try to led

you in the right direction. the problem with me when I heard there advice was I

made the choice to ignore it and think like most people do that the bad health

issues only happens to the other guy. this was a very stupid choice in my case.

I've had nothing but bad health issues over the past 5 years do to mainly bad

sugar control. I was a over eater for most of my life and eating was my biggest

enjoyment in life so I thought at the time. I bet I tried every silly diet out

there that said take this pill and lose pounds with no exercise and no giving up

what you dig eating. well all these kind of diets are lies and out to make a

dollar.

well now I'm on the right track after 5 years of trying to kill my self at a

young age. had a heart issue a few months ago that finally got my attention. you

would think the past heart trouble would have done the trick, but some pigs like

me are also hard headed like a mule. maybe I'm really half mule and half pig?

now I'm going to have to figure out which half is which? Ok any way, I weighed

in at 317 the need of February of this year during the last hospital stay for my

A Fib heart condition and to day I weigh in at 302 last Friday. I weigh in every

second Friday and I post my weight here on the list for all to see. I think of

it as a journey that I'm on for the rest of my life. not just until I get down

to 185, but from each day I continue to live on this earth in this body God gave

me. Now I will admit to you all the good book said for me to treat my body as

God's temple and I done it a different way by ignoring good advice once again.

but the truth is I can't change any of my yesterday's. I can how ever make good

choices to day and to morrow when it gets here of course. I can control to day

and I will make better choices to day one meal at a time. to morrow will as well

be a success for me simply because of good choices to day. yesterday and all the

bad choices that was a part of them are long gone and now only a bad memory.

I make a game out of losing weigh and controlling my sugar. now every one

can do this or will do this, but I'm serious when I need to be. I know I got a

lot of extra weight that I have to run off. so I look at it as evicting the

pounds I don't want. I serve them a eviction notice to move out. they way I

serve this notice is through eating right all day long and doing some kind of

exercise each day. I'm not losing more then 2 pounds a week, but I look at this

as a 4 pound swing for me. losing 2 and not gaining 2 is a 4 pound swing. I only

weigh every second Friday because I know from my past that you can weigh to much

and lose your focuses if the pounds aren't falling off as fast as you think they

should. some times our bodies won't lose pounds as fast as another time. my A1C

2 months ago in the hospital was over 13. my numbers have been grate the past 2

months. I will know in June how low my new A1C is going to be. I've been testing

six times a day for 2 months. out of the last 4 weeks I haven't had but 2 test

be more then 120. the rest have been under 120. this can't happen with out

eating right at every meal and not skipping exercise daily. It is simply a

attitude change that I have come too. maybe when I'm a older man and can spell

better, I will write a book. going to name this book The peace diet. or maybe

the diet of peace.

Now I know you new guys who haven't been here on list long is just holding

your breath waiting until I tell you what the word peace means? well I'm

certainly not going to ignore this question because most people can't hold there

breath to long or they will pass out. P stand for Prayer. I strongly believe in

Prayer and I do it every day and it is through Prayer that my attitude has

finally got to where it has to be in order to achieve the control that I now got

over eating and diabetes. Then the E stands for exercise. I'm here to tell you

guys right now this pig is lazy by nature and getting out of any kind of

exercise is ok with me! however, eating right goes hand and hand with exercise.

they work together and can't do the job with out one another. Then the letter A.

this stands for attitude. if your attitude isn't where it needs to be you won't

do what ever it is you set your mind on to get done. thinking of what you will

do and knowing what needs done, isn't the same thing as your attitude. then we

got the letter C. this stands for choices. how many of us have different choices

we must make in daily life? all of our choices will have some thing to do with

the out come of to day and to morrow and those day's will be come our

yesterday's very soon. if we make good choices to day, then this means your

yester's will be made up of good choices. nothing happens to us in life that a

choice of some kind was involved. then we got the last letter of E. this stands

for eating. we all have to eat to live, but none of us got to live to eat. all

over eaters live to eat and this is backwards. eat right to day and yesterday to

morrow will be a good day of eating, which was made from a good choice made. we

each control how much and what we eat at every meal. eat right and increase your

chances of life. eat wrong and decrease your chances of living. it is just this

simple. so as you can see if you follow these five small words that make up the

word peace, you will live a life of peace.

I don't understand why they always call it a diet anyway? your diet is how

you eat all the time. everything we eat is our diet. most what they call a diet

is only a bandade anyway. it isn't fixing the real problem. you got to get your

attitude right and then make good choices if you plan to increase your chances

of a quality life and good over all health. this goes on for the rest of your

life on this earth. a diet as they call it has a end, but a life style change

has no end until you pass from this world.

Well as you new comers can see I love to ramble. don't blame any of you when

you see my name pop up if you just hit the delete key. my feelings won't be hurt

even if you tell me you did this. I just can't help my self. I guess when I

retired from 33 years of working I now have no life? well I do hope you all go

with me on my journey of controlling my T 2 diabetes and drop only 132 pounds by

June 25'th of 2013. this is the day when my wife wishes me to get in front of

the minister again and tell him again what I told him I would promise to do 24

years ago. I didn't say I do! I said I will! not sure what I will have to

promise this time, but knowing that I will be standing in front of God and my

fellow man making the same promises and weighing in at 185 is just to cool for

words! I've been over 300 for way to long. the highest I ever got that I can

recall was 337 and this is way to much pig!

It's really been nice talking to all you to day and especially you new guys

on the list. these old timers here like Pat and Dave for example, well better

add Harry as well know there stuff. most of them are T 1 and have to be very

careful, not like a T 2 who can slip from time to time and get away with it. I

believe I joined the list in maybe 2005 or sooner. can't be sure. if I would

have listened to them and took there advice way back then, well I may not have

had a heart attack in 2007 and all the problems I have had since then, but this

no one can know or prove. Only God knows for sure and I plan to ask him when he

takes me home some day. I don't figure I will be as hard for him to carry when

that day comes because I plan on losing 132 pounds of me that I don't really

need or desire to keep.