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I’m back from some un health.  Today I started with a cheese string.  Yes, a cheese string.  I like them and better yet my bodies okay with it to.  I followed up with my ‘breakfast’ around 10:30.  

For breakfast I have gotten on to green smoothies.  They consist of almost three cups of water in a blender with two overfull stuffed cups of spinach with baby kale, or spinach with chard.  I blend them then add two Splenda or Stevia.  I am going to try to get away from Splenda later.  I also add to the blender one and 1/2 cups of frozen fruit and eight or nine ice cubes.  Just blend the heck out of this then you have your very healthy and delicious smoothie for one.

My Plan is for a smoothie at 7, and maybe 1/4 cap mixed nuts (no peanuts) at around 10-10:30.  I'll pre pack the nuts so I can just grab them and go.

My body is a little temperamental in the mornings and I can not handle much food at seven a.m.  but I know, or at least I have heard 20 million time how important it is to eat first thing.  This combo gives me the protein and nutrients I need and is oh so satisfying.   I do love Splenda but recently have heard it may affect stomach bacteria negatively.  I have to follow up on this.

I am restarting after some months.  Unfortunately the ill health and medicine helped me regain that delightful fat that I had lost.  Well, not all of it but, too much of it.  I heard something wonderful of late:  

You are not fat,  you have fat but, you are not fat.  You have fingernails, but you are not a fingernail.

I thought that was great.  For all of us who identify as fat or obese to remember we’re people too or maybe people first.  I mean you don’t want to be cruel to a person.  You don’t want to be destructive so they run and hide and take refuge in sloth or gluttony.  You want to be kind to people and help them lose that extra fat they carry and become healthy. 

Another new piece of information I picked up is fat breeds fat.  Okay it doesn't get together and make fat babies but, it still protects itself and leads to more fat.  Fat is not just a benign tissue it is (in mass) a hormonal  organ that help create more inflammation and illness and can adversely affect the brain.  So the problems with fat go far beyond appearance and the strain they cause on organs it can actually affect your hormones and your ability to stay well.

I knew I didn’t like the stuff anyway.

So today’s messages are: 

Healthy morning foods to you!  Find the right breakfast and snack in the morning and it’ll set you up right for the whole day.  Whatever you choose make sure it works for you meaning: you enjoy it, it has some protein and nutrients, it keeps you satisfied, and it makes you feel good.

You are not fat.  You are a person who may have a little extra or in my case a lot of extra fat but, you are not fat.

Fat sucks! Okay a little bit of fat a healthy amount of fat is healthy but a mass of it is way destructive and will harm you in many ways.

The last message I have not yet eluded to.  I need fat buddies to help keep me in line, who I can then help as well.  I am going to check out spark pages again which I may go on about them tomorrow.

Thanks for visiting.  Your thoughts are important here.