Emerson said "The first wealth is health."  I believe it.  I am so happy to be feeling a little better.  Just having come through something like that has almost inoculated me against even wanting sugar.  Okay, I admit Megan's description of that Costco cake got me salivating, but I am too close to the effects of one of my binges right now.

Have you ever seen El Dorado?  It's arguably the best John Wayne movie ever.  In one scene, one of the characters mixes up a concoction of cayenne pepper, gunpowder etc. and makes a concoction to sober up the town's drunk sherif.  He claimed it did something to the stomach so it wouldn't tolerate liquor for a while.  It worked and the town was saved.  This Flu has had the same effect on me, but I can feel that I'm to the point where I will once again be willing and able to make some really wrong choices again and I want to make right ones instead.

I just turned on Pandora, and right there at the top is an ad with a gorgeous taco and huge orange words that say GIVE IN, you know you want to.  Aurgh.  The world is against me.  I know I want to give in and the nation's advertisers know it too.  But they say that nothing tastes as good as slim and healthy feels.  Take that taco guys.

Now to find something healthy to eat while the voice in my head is saying "taco, taco, taco, taco."  

Hey Megan, any interest in doing the addiction recovery program published by the church?  I started it last year, loved it, and I would really like to try doing it again.  Just a thought.

Here's to slim and healthy thoughts all day long.