I had to give up drinking for health reasons. At the end I was downing about a third of a bottle of whiskey as soon as I got in the door at night, and would drink the rest of the bottle before I passed out. If one bottle wasn't enough, I opened another. I always had a full cabinet.
I had to quit drinking because of the health problems I was suffering from after 4 decades of drinking poison. At the end I was having chest pains, tightening of my throat when I ate, gall bladder attacks where I would wake up with my lungs and throat on fire, couldn't breathe when I slept, and had blood pressure so high they tried to send me to the ER every time that they took it.
When they asked about my drinking I told them that I only had a couple of shots of whiskey when I got home at night. This was true. I just didn't tell them my shots were big.
My doctor was cute and surprisingly young, so I listened to what she had to say. She told me that I had to go on a diet, and said that all good diets should stress eating right over exercise. She told me that I had to stop poisoning my body, and included excessive salt, bleached sugar and flour, and alcohol as the main poisons.
I told her that I used to be a runner, and missed the days when I could eat and drink whatever I wanted, and burn it off.
"But imagine how fast you could have ran if you didn't take in poison," she answered.
That was all it took.
I am running again, and I watch most of what I eat. I stay away from poison, including what is in the water and air. I have a taste of wine and a beer once in awhile, but whiskey is in the past.
I also try not to take in poison mentally, emotionally, or spiritually either.
Last year I read a book on getting ready for the army. It taught me the correct way to run, with my body leaning so far forward I am almost falling. The first time I tried it, I felt like I was shot out of a cannon. Now I can run so fast it scares me, and I haven't even hit that back beat of energy yet.
If I had known how to run correctly in highschool, and had known how to eat properly, I would have gone to the Olympics.
I guess God has other plans for me.
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Sherwood Forest
Literatura FaktuWe moved to Sherwood Forest in the summer of 1980, just as I was going into the seventh grade. The first friend I would make would be a girl named Candy. I have been in love three times in my life, and Candy was the first.
