Just for Today” was always the motto or mantra. My new plan was to abstain from any
sugar in any form for one day. Twenty-four hours. Just 1,440 minutes. My mind accepted
ten minutes at a time easier than thinking of the whole day. I could do it. With God’s
help.
There is a wonderful quote by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, Swiss-American psychiatrist
and author of On Death and Dying (c1969), which expresses her theory about the five
stages of grief that made greater sense to me at this time: “It is only when we truly know
and understand that we have a limited time on Earth and that we have no way of knowing
when our time is up that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only
one we had.”
I had to develop a plan, one that was simple and I could follow.
My Plan... Step 1 – faith
Step 2 – wisdom and self-awareness
Step 3 - preparation (the development of A blueprint)
Step 4 – execution of the blueprint
I went to bed that evening with the full realization that there would never ever be
enough food to fill the emptiness I felt, regardless of the support and love of my dear
family members and precious daughters.
Step 1-faith
I prayed to God that night to give me strength and courage as I embarked on this new
journey
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