Edra’s Healthy Eating
We tend to blame some of our over-eating of unhealthy foods on stress. We’ll Grandma Edra ate healthy all her life. Did she have stress? Over her long life of over 90 years, she had three husbands pass away on her! He first husband died very young leaving her a widow with a baby girl and it was during the Great Depression. When asked about it years later, what it was like living through the depression, she said, “I didn’t know there was a depression. I thought that was what it was like for a young widow with a baby.” Bill first met Grandma Edra when he was 13 and Rhonda met her when she was 25. Edra always made healthy eating choices for herself. Yet she always played the role of grandma for the rest of us by providing the usual things grandma’s provide. Once she turned a can of government surplus cheese into the best cheese cake we have ever tasted. But while we gobbled down that, as well as cookies, cakes, ice cream, and root beer floats, she continued to eat healthy. When she married Grandpa, her healthy eating also cured Grandpa of his diabetes! Once she came over to our house and we naively supposed she was bringing us some fresh baked cookies. She was actually dropping off a cucumber she had just picked from her garden. "Why, YEAS!"
We tend to blame some of our over-eating of unhealthy foods on stress. We’ll Grandma Edra ate healthy all her life. Did she have stress? Over her long life of over 90 years, she had three husbands pass away on her! He first husband died very young leaving her a widow with a baby girl and it was during the Great Depression. When asked about it years later, what it was like living through the depression, she said, “I didn’t know there was a depression. I thought that was what it was like for a young widow with a baby.” Bill first met Grandma Edra when he was 13 and Rhonda met her when she was 25. Edra always made healthy eating choices for herself. Yet she always played the role of grandma for the rest of us by providing the usual things grandma’s provide. Once she turned a can of government surplus cheese into the best cheese cake we have ever tasted. But while we gobbled down that, as well as cookies, cakes, ice cream, and root beer floats, she continued to eat healthy. When she married Grandpa, her healthy eating also cured Grandpa of his diabetes! Once she came over to our house and we naively supposed she was bringing us some fresh baked cookies. She was actually dropping off a cucumber she had just picked from her garden. "Why, YEAS!"
This week we were right on with the program. We both lost two pounds since last week!
Here are our points from this past week:
Rhonda: (S)91 (M) 87 (T) 75 (W) 99 (T) 90 (F) 90
Bill: (S) 93 (M) 95 (T) 98 (W) 100 (T) 95 (F) 95
Bill: (S) 93 (M) 95 (T) 98 (W) 100 (T) 95 (F) 95
This week's numbers are impressive!
ReplyDeleteYou guys are doing wonderfully! I can't wait to see even less of you next week.
My favorite thing to eat at Grandma Edra's was Bread and Butter. I had some the other day and it took me back to when I was in Kindergarten and would stop by Grandma's house after school.
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