Where She Goes On A 'Just Do Better Diet' (And Other Stories)

While Tom and I waited for Naomi's gig to begin last Sunday, I shouted into his ear (music was playing), "Hey. Since we both look pretty decent, maybe you could take a selfie of us." 

So he whipped out his phone and spent the next five minutes figuring out how to attempt this great feat. (Heh. He's not a picture-taking kind of guy.)

Well, the first three photos were disappointing. Mr. CamerasLoveHimEspeciallySinceHeLostFortyPounds looked fantastic, but the woman next to him appeared old, grey, heavy and tired (and here she'd imagined she glowed). He snapped one more photo and yes! Perfect. His face looked angelic and just one-eighth of my face showed.

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And that was the night I decided it was time. Time to go on a Just Do Better Diet.

That's where you do not--

count calories,

weigh yourself daily,

drink powders and potions,

take a ton of vitamins,

exercise yourself into an early death,

starve and despise yourself.

No, instead, on The Just Do Better Diet you--

actually do your exercises (rather than think about them),

you eat less bad stuff and more good,

you take walks,

you don't sit at the computer all day, 

you don't stress-out if you messed-up,

you skip your favorite sport if that sport is Snacking While Reading

and you love yourself through it all.

Yep, that's the diet for me. It's much better than doing nothing constructive at all and just maybe it'll help me lose a little weight, say, seven or so pounds from my face.

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Yes, I can do this. Grace is here to help me with this now and I know better than to tell her, "Come back again next Spring when I'm 

thinkin' it'll be more convenient." 

With Christ and Grace I can do anything, especially this Just Do Better Diet.

Stay tuned.

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And here is my 'before photo' which I re-sized at this free site here.

Oh! Tiny, tiny photos. Now, there's the way to go.

"But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me."... 1 Corinthians 15:10

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re: Commenters--some of you will be happy to see that I changed "Eating While Reading" to "Snacking While Reading." There's a difference between eating a meal you need to anyway while reading and mindlessly snacking for hours--and I'd forgotten it.  :)

Oh and nothing like a few special effects, plus, my buddy, Judy, suggested taking selfies from weird angles and hey! It works. I actually didn't hate four out of the five photos I took this morning. Thanks again, Judy---

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"Well, that's an improvement. It's better--and better is better."  What Debra has often been heard to say around her house.

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Finally I joined Goodreads and wow, color me addicted. 

I'd used this site for years to read synopsis of books, but I'd never signed-up to create my own lists of books I've read and what I've thought of them. You can compare your book lists with your friends', find books you'd love to someday read, take reading challenges, write reviews and even add books which Goodreads has no record of (I've done that once already and need to do so again. Really, I read such funky books which not even huge enterprises like Goodreads has heard of).

If you're there and would like to be my Goodreads friend, email me at GladOne4@yahoo.com and I'll send you my link,ok?

Oh, and speaking of books, here's the latest one I'm loving so much--

So funny, yet detailed, deeply felt and with some tragedy, as well. It pulls you into the Chicago of 1911 and reminds you that unkindness existed, yes, even back in the good old days and measures being taken Today against bullying, especially in schools, is good. 

Ol' Debra gives it 5 just-what-she'd-needed stars.

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And here's what I shared yesterday at Facebook--

Part of me feels sad, but the other part is so excited for Rev. Billy Graham and all the wonder and joy He's experiencing now with Jesus and millions in Heaven, our real home. Mr. Graham fulfilled the special calling God gave him here and now's a wonderful time for us to ask ourselves if we're faithfully fulfilling our own God-given calling. All callings, huge or small,
matter because each comes specially-designed and given from God, Himself. 

 “Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord…that they may rest from their labors, and their works follow them."   ... Revelation 14:13

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