Four things
Dr. Oz says there are three things that important to a good and healthy life.
- Exercise – do something physical everyday.
- Eat food as close to the way it was grown as possible – reduce the amount of processed food you eat.
- Have a purpose – doing something important to you. The popular phrase is: what is your passion?
My girlfriend quickly added the fourth thing for a good and healthy life:
4. Have good people around you – family and friends to support you.
He’s right, and she’s right.
Getting these four things into your life isn’t easy. If they were easy, we wouldn’t need to talk about them. Everybody would just naturally do them.
And then, of course, once you have them in your life, life is easy. Hmm. Maybe not easy, just easier.
I think I experienced some of this on Saturday night. It was my girlfriend’s annual year-end gathering. It was all about the friends and the food. I couldn’t have any of the food because of my pre-op diet, but I could enjoy the company. And I did, a great deal.
I was going to say that not having any my favourite foods was difficult, but you know after the first little while it really wasn’t. I concentrated on talking to people, and taking photos. The night passed pleasantly, with the curious aspect of having a lot of conversations about food. I never grabbed the cheese tray and waddled out the front door yelling “It’s mine! All mine!”
I hope that I can concentrate on my four things in the next while, and that the losing weight portion will be a pleasant, engaging experience.
Finally, I’m reading another great book, The 4-Day Win, by Martha Beck. I’ll give a short review of it in another blog. She has an interesting angle on the eat less/move more diet thing. I’m liking what I’ve read so far.
Tags: diet
