Susan Merrill

I eat chocolate and I don’t exercise.  That’s my reality.  These are my constants – my joy and my sorrow, shall we say?  What I don’t want to do, I do and what I do want to do, I don’t do.

There is a verse in Romans about that, you know:  “I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.”

So I do want to exercise but I don’t, ever.  It’s really bad.  And I don’t want to eat chocolate, but I do every day and I shouldn’t.

Confession, I am eating Lindt Chocolate right now and yes at this very moment I am paying the consequence with a hot flash!  What is that???  Don’t know why and I am too young (not really) but I have hot flashes from chocolate.  It is some kind of cruel physical manifestation of my inner depravity.

I should exercise but I don’t.  I shouldn’t eat chocolate but I do.  It is very clear.  But there is more and it is not so clear.

What else do I do or fail to do that will have much deeper consequences for me and my family?

Dr. Peter Armstrong has some good advice to make sure your kids are safe when they’re weightlifting.