Good vs. Bad

Why is it so easy to be bad and so hard to be good?  This statement can apply to many things but today I am referring to eating and drinking.  I always had some of the worst eating and drinking habits of anyone.  For over 15 years I ate 3.2 pounds of peanut M&M a week for breakfast and lunch, I drank at least 2 rum&pepsi's a night and smoked cigarettes.  At the time, I was so proud of never getting sick and I would tell people “When germs come into my body they would say, there is nothing left and leave”, so I never got colds, stomach flu or anything…that is until I got this thing called cancer. 

Now, I am trying real hard to be good, I stopped eating M&M in 2005 and stopped smoking in February of 2009.  I can’t remember when was the last time I had a rum&pepsi or even a Cosmo.  Mostly staying away from alcohol because of the sugar, remember as I said before “sugar does not cause cancer but if you have cancer, it feeds from sugar”.  Water to me is disgusting, I have a new water filter thanks to ‘Robert L. Ewing, Inc./Shaklee’ and it makes it a bit better but I still have to put some fresh squeezed lemon and ‘xylitol’ instead of sugar.  Fresh fruit juice is pretty good but it needs to be fresh and can’t have it between days 4 to 14 from chemo because of bacteria.  When you are going through chemo, your white cell count goes down and you are not able to fight bacteria of any kind so fruit and vegetables, even organic is a big NO unless you can boil the life out or it.

Talking about organic, yes I am trying that too.  My goal is to start buying organic as my current food supply runs out, but some of that stuff is hard to swallow.  Again, I am trying but I can taste the organic green bell peppers and they are not good.  The organic meet and chicken is very expensive, so far I have not had to buy it since my supply was pretty big.  Hopefully when is  time to buy more meet or chicken, my palate has gotten use to the organic vegetables.  In the meantime, we do eat and enjoy ‘wild fish’.

And finally here come the pills and other medications.  Back in the days, a multivitamin was all we took, now I take extra vitamins that my ‘over 55 multivitamin’ lacks, such as A, E, C, Be…, plus breast cancer pill, plus pills to soften effects of the chemo, plus my alternative medicines like the Essiac Tea (which does taste like dirt) and the  Aloe+honey.  In total about 16 in the morning and another 6 in the evening.

Please know that eating and drinking healthy is not a guarantee that you will not have an illness.  So the ‘knowledge transfer’ is, start eating and drinking healthy today so that it is easier to go from ‘bad habits’ to ‘good habits’ when you have no other choice.  Once you have conquer this, then you can start applying the ‘bad-to-good’ life changing event to other cases such as judging others, or bad language, or even forgiveness…

Be good today and every day, just saying.

Love y’all

ME