“Listen to me and eat what is good....” Isaiah 55:2
May 28, 2018 - Last week Pam and I went on the Dr. Adkin’s no-carbohydrates diet. Pam thinks she needs to lose and I know I do. (She needs to lose five pounds and I need to lose 25). She got the program off the Internet and we drove to the Nacogdoches Wal-Mart Superstore for the steak, pork chops, bacon, sausage, cheese, eggs, tuna and salmon needed for the big diet. We even bought a gas grill to assure its finest flavor.
Our first meal of grilled sausage links and pork chops was pretty good, but for three successive mornings, I awakened with the nauseous thought of cheese and meat. On the fourth day of the diet, I unconsciously picked up a pecan in the yard and began eating it. “Stop!, Pam hollered. “You can’t eat that!” And our next door neighbor added to our pain by bringing over a coconut cake.
We spent hours cooking this stuff every day and the more we cooked and ate, the less we smiled and laughed. When I told Pam that I’d had a couple of dizzy spells, she immediately decided that the diet wasn’t worth losing our health over. I peeled an over-ripe banana and let it melt in my mouth and she took a bite and sighed, “Oh, how wonderful.” “Bring out the cake!” I laughed. We happily drank kiwi-orange drink and gobbled down grapes as our world became beautiful again. Our house was filled with laughter and whistling.
A warm sense of well-being swept over us tonight as we ate purple hull peas and cornbread together. Tomorrow morning I’ll make Pam a cup of hot chocolate and I’ll eat a big bowl of Wheaties with a banana in it. Tomorrow night, we’ll have microwave popcorn. Boy, are things looking up!
It’s great to have the good life back again!!!
