Thursday, March 4, 2010

Getting the Lead Out

I don’t know what I love more, writing my posts or reading all the other wonderful, insightful blogs out there! There are so many that help me look at myself and inspire me!  Tony-the Anti-Jared  wrote an analogy about a Corvette and low-fat, snacks.  It took me back to my first road trip.

Just before Christmas of my senior year of high school, I was able to buy a brand new car on my own.  A  Red Mustang Hatchback.  I was only 17 years old and so proud of myself.  My freedom!   I did it on my own.  My proof that it was what I was suppose to do all boiled down to the fact that Sammy Hagar came on the radio with back to back hits, RED and I Can’t Drive 55, as I drove down the highway.  I told myself it was a sign that this was the perfect car for me.  Hey, I was 17.

Just a few months later, I took my first road trip during Easter Break.  I drove from Northern California to Phoenix, Arizona.  I had friends that lived there and I was looking into a college in Phoenix.  It started out as the best thing ever.   My travel partner got hurt shortly after we arrived and her parents had to fly down to pick her up.  I was left to drive home alone.   My first obstacle – fuel.  This trip was back when they were just making the switch to unleaded gas.  All the gas stations were out of the unleaded.  The nozzles for leaded gas would not fit in the gas tank.  I had been warned sternly by my Dad that if I put leaded fuel into the car, it would ruin the engine. After numerous calls back home, I went in and asked the clerk to help me.  They couldn’t do it for me but gave me a funnel so I could put gas in my car.

Anyway, the whole memory and Tony’s post made me look at my current situation a little differently.  Food is just our fuel and food can be the first obstacle.  I can be all out of the healthy stuff and just keep pushing it until I nearly run out of gas.  Then, I could reach for the funnel to just pour in the leaded foods because by then my tank was empty.  It doesn’t matter what my parents have taught me or told me.  I am alone on this trip.  I can ask for help and suggestions but no one can do it for me.

Doctors have told us that the leaded stuff can screw up our engines and yet we do it anyway.  I just need to start taking care of my body like I  care of my car.  Wish I had an owner’s manual for that.  But I do know, their should be no emotions involved in putting gas in my tank.  It is a matter of a certain amount of gallons to go a certain distance.  No more, no less.  Let the fear and all the alone feeling just be a feeling and then fuel my body with healthy stuff that will make it last longer and run smoothly.  Taking the lead out of my diet.  Too much sugar and too large on the portion size cause clogs in the engine. Exercise is the movement it needs to head on down the road and get to my destination.

Thanks Tony for a new road trip!

And speaking of thank you’s.  I want to thank Salina and Christina for my awards this week.  The Creative Writer and the Sunshine Award.  I will get to those posts soon.   And if you want to learn a little bit more about me, Paul at The Blogging Teacher featured an interview with me on his blog.  I am a fan of his.  He has a lot of GREAT information about blogging and Word Press over at his neck of the woods.  Stop by.  Tell him I sent you!

What is something you can do to take the lead out?  If you treated your body like a car you always wanted, what would you do different?

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Thursday, March 4, 2010