Running on one cylinder...

Upon observing our clock, I was reminded of a book that I've read twice. My clock is running on one of the three weights. For some strange reason, the outer two weights are not working properly and the one in the middle is doing all the work. This reminded me of a lesson I learned from "Healing By Design" by Dr. Scott Hannen. In this christian health book, I learned that...'while carbohydrates are burned by the body for fuel, they yield less energy to the body than fats do per molecule..." In the long run, I learned that as a carboholic I needed my body to burn stored fat for energy rather than the instant carbs I consumed. Like my clock, I'm running on one cylinder and have power that I am not utilizing. Well, it's time to crack this book open a third time...so here goes...

"Carboholics are easy to pick out in a crowd. Most of them have dark circles under their eyes and fatigued or 'wiped out' look. The reason they fail to maintain weight loss is that they are not beating their addiction....It is an improvement when people try to better their diets by eating less sugary foods and refined carbohydrates, but that is not the answer. If a person smokes five packs of cigarettes a day, for example, we consider that person to be addicted to nicotine. If he or she cuts the smoking down to five cigarettes a day, that is definitely a healthy improvement, but the fact that he still needs cigarettes shows he is still addicted. The only way to beat an addiction is to abstain from the addictive substance completely. Sugar addictions are no exception."