Day 3 has been pretty good. Took the kids swimming at the Y and wore my swimsuit. I weighed my options: Cheat a little and have an enjoyable day with the kids or be a legal eagle and go stir crazy in the house and break my promise to Viv. I voted to cheat. Everyone is happier because of it.
On a good note, the tight jeans from yesterday are much more comfortable today.
One interesting part of the day was doing the Muscle Toning class at the Y wearing my Converse. I mean, it could have been worse. But boy was I ever thankful that I usually have the option of wearing some nice running shoes. The Converse weren't terrible. But they were very flat and my toes were all squished. Plus, this is my vain side coming out, I looked a little ridiculous.
In the end the shoe thing is meaningless. There are children in parts of the world that walk many miles every day with bare feet just to get clean water or food or to get to school.
Lord help me to stop thinking about myself so much!
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Sunday, June 3, 2012
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
I'm reading a book right now about a young woman who moves to Africa to serve and care for the people of Uganda. It comes as no surprise that the book talks about starvation, lack of food. At one point it describes a woman making cakes of mud and salt just to have something to fill her children's hungry stomachs.
Yesterday I was listening to NPR and they were talking about the First Lady's new book, "American Grown". A book about gardening. The discussion led to the poor diet of most Americans and the "Obesity Crisis".
The contrast between these two bites of information collided! I mean, it's not like it was news to me that there are people in the world that are starving, or that there are a large number of people in America that are fat. The piece that struck me is that the problem in America is that we're eating too much. And the problem in Africa is that they don't have enough to eat.
We're dying because we're eating too much food. They're dying because they don't have enough food
We're trying to keep our kids from getting fat. They're trying to keep they're kids alive.
Some of us have to force ourselves to drink a few glasses of water per day. They're dying because the nearest watering hole is 6 miles away.
I am not pointing the finger, and if I am it's at myself. (This is coming from the girl who downed 5 s'mores last night) I'm just saying that this is CRAZINESS! If we consume less, and give to them, doesn't everybody win? We won't die from heart attacks and diabetes and other diseases linked to obesity. They won't die from starvation.
And I know about all the food processing and how that factors in. But I'm just thinking about pure quantity. We have much, they have little (if any). If we give out of our abundance, they have what they need.
Yesterday I was listening to NPR and they were talking about the First Lady's new book, "American Grown". A book about gardening. The discussion led to the poor diet of most Americans and the "Obesity Crisis".
The contrast between these two bites of information collided! I mean, it's not like it was news to me that there are people in the world that are starving, or that there are a large number of people in America that are fat. The piece that struck me is that the problem in America is that we're eating too much. And the problem in Africa is that they don't have enough to eat.
We're dying because we're eating too much food. They're dying because they don't have enough food
We're trying to keep our kids from getting fat. They're trying to keep they're kids alive.
Some of us have to force ourselves to drink a few glasses of water per day. They're dying because the nearest watering hole is 6 miles away.
I am not pointing the finger, and if I am it's at myself. (This is coming from the girl who downed 5 s'mores last night) I'm just saying that this is CRAZINESS! If we consume less, and give to them, doesn't everybody win? We won't die from heart attacks and diabetes and other diseases linked to obesity. They won't die from starvation.
And I know about all the food processing and how that factors in. But I'm just thinking about pure quantity. We have much, they have little (if any). If we give out of our abundance, they have what they need.
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