Eat not to dullness, drink not to elevation.
I spent the first day trying not to eat much, until my father pointed out that this one doen't actually apply to me. Not really. I can eat whatever I want to and my metabolism can take ANYTHING. That's admittedly a bad habit, but I've basically been told I may as well enjoy calorie invincibility while it lasts. (I suppose I could've changed the focus to "Graditude" in that case.) So how I took it this week as a focus on health, or, really, not scarfing down piles of candy like I usually do. It's bad for my teeth, if anything. And I didn't even go through with that. So I give myself a "T" for effort this week, not that it mattered.
Um, yes, your springy teenage digestive track may be slick and well greased NOW, but ten/twenty years down the road, this may no longer be the case. Good habits are always good.
ReplyDeleteAnd not eating too much may not necessarily imply gaining weight. Ben Franklin said "To Dullness," not "To twenty pounds heavier."
As in, scarfing down *one last* piece of chocolate cake that will totally incompasitate you for the rest of the evening. How you feel physically really affects your sensitivity to the spirit.
And "drink not to elevation" could also be applied to energy drinks.