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All or Nothing Personality

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Sugar Snacks

I know that I have an all-or-nothing type personality.  I remember realizing it when I was in college.  I had a snack machine right outside my dorm room suite door. I passed that machine every day and didn’t even think about it.  But then one day about two weeks prior to the year ending, I decided to have a snack from the machine with a friend.  That did it.  I thought about a snack every time I walked by, and in those two weeks I had a snack from that machine every day.  No will power for me. I either can’t think about something or when I do, I will fight it till I give in.  Thank goodness I didn’t try it at the beginning of the year. Can’t imagine what I would have looked like.

I have known this about me for years, yet never really think about it too much.  However I recently read and article by Gretchen Rubin on her blog about the One-Coin Argument.  One coin doesn’t make you rich, yet at some point one coin will make you rich. A great paradox.

Over the last couple of years I have been changing my eating habits due to health issues.  6 months I stopped eating sugar in order to stop my dependency on sugar.  I love me some sugar, but I knew it was causing some of my issues.  The first three days were tough, but then I felt so much better when I wasn’t eating sugar.  It made a huge difference, but I thought I couldnt’ NOT eat sugar always, so I have been trying to figure out how to incorporate it back into my diet in small amounts.

Ice Cream

Well that hasn’t gone so well because of my all-or-nothing personality. I was telling myself one, small sugary snack wouldn’t make a difference.  I did well at first, but then I travelled a lot in March and found that “one” didn’t make a difference but that I was regularly adding that “one coin” to my day. Before I knew it, “one” turned into “four”, I was back to being addicted to sugar.

So I am trying to re-regulate my body, and I am spending some time trying to figure out how I change my all-or-nothing personality when it comes to sugar.  I can’t go on being addicted to sugar, I just don’t feel good when I do and it affects my family.  Yet I am not sure how to incorporate a little in my diet without totally crashing and eating too much.  Oh the joys of life. :)   I just know I am going to keep trying.

So what about you?  Do you have a One-Coin mentality on something that you are working on getting out of your life or making it a habit?

Oh and yes, the photos are of some of my favorite sugar snacks.  I have mostly given up Coke, but the other items still get me.

Our Wish For You, Z

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How can 16 years have gone by so quickly.  They all say it goes by in a blink of an eye. We didn’t believe them.  No one does, but oh, it is so true.  Maybe there is a lesson there, even if no one believes it, that doesn’t change what the truth is…truth.

Sweet 16.

So on this day when you were born 16 years ago, we look at you with pride of who you are and who you are becoming.  God knew what He was doing when He gave you to us.  You are perfect for our family.  We hope you have learned half as much as we have learned from you.

Yes, we want to wish you all the happiness, warm water, blue skies, and never-ending hot tamales bowl in the world.  You deserve all good things.  You are a special soul.

But what we really are wishing for you is everything you need to become the person God made you to be.  You need the good and the bad. The happy and the sad.  Times of need and times of abundance.  The balance of all good things.  As you grow into adulthood, we pray that you will revel in the good, happy times.  Grab on, savor those moment.  May they be the majority of the times in your life.  They will be, if you look for the good in all things. 

If you don’t know about pain and trouble, you are in sad shape.  They make you appreciate life.  Evel Knievel

However, we wish you just enough struggles to make you appreciate the easy life when it comes.

We wish you a few tears to realize how life is so good when there is sunshine and life is rolling along.

We wish for you to know that your Mom and Dad are here for you through it all. We are your biggest fans and will cheer you along the way and boost you up when you need it.

The other day a man asked me what I thought was the best time of life.  “Why,” I answered with a thought, “now.”  David Grayson

So we pray that you grab on to this year, revel it in.  You won’t be 16 again.  Enjoy, laugh, try something new, expand your horizons, go for the gold.  Just remember, dear son, don’t forget to smell the peanuts along the way.