Larry Winget — Money - Personal Development - Business

You would not believe the number of emails I am getting about my political affiliation.  Some of you reading this are probably some of the people who have written me.  I kept my politics out of my blog for a long time but ever since I came out on a FOX News interview saying I was a Democrat voting for Obama, the hate mail has been steady.  Let me make my position clear. 

Yes, I voted for Obama.  I don’t agree with all of his views in terms of the bailouts, but I do agree with many other things he endorses.  I am a social liberal and a fiscal conservative.  There are some things where I have extremely conservative views and some of my views would be considered quite liberal.  I am not one of those stupid one issue voters.  I have lots of irons in the fire just like everyone else and I want to cast my vote on what makes sense to me based on many issues, not just one.  I also understand how desperately America needs hope right now and obviously others agree with me based on the overwhelming turnout at the polls.  Obama represented hope to millions of Americans who are afraid and in trouble.  We are tired of the fear and the negativity and the politics of politics.  We want to believe in something again.  That hope he brings is just as important as are his views on the GM bailout.  And please realize that many Republicans voted for him too.  Democrats alone didn’t put him in office.  Nor did African-Americans alone.  Or Hispanics.  Or people under 30.  Or women.  Or white men.  There was a consensus of many groups of people who believed in him as a MAN and were able to get past the small disagreements they had with some of his politics.

Next, to write me and tell me that I am a hypocrite and a socialist because I voted for him is stupid.  To write me and tell me that Obama is a socialist is also stupid.  You are too ignorant to be writing anyone if you believe that.   Put the computer down folks and turn off Sean Hannity for a minute and think!   I recently listened to a speech by Ronald Reagan.  You can Google it and find it just like I did.  It was the speech that Sarah Palin pulled an excerpt from trying to talk about how America was losing its freedoms.  The speech was a strong one talking about how socialism was about to take over America and our freedoms were at stake and that something had to be done to stop this horrific new program that was about to ruin America.  The speech was putting down Medicare.  Yep, Medicare was our first step into socialism.  So you ignorant dipsticks that write me and tell me that Obama and I are socialists, tell your parents and grandparents who are using Medicare to pay for their medical treatments that they are socialists and should turn down the help because Medicare is a socialist program.  After all, Ronald Reagan said so!  Seriously folks, get a freaking clue before you say something stupid.  Read a book.  Do some research.  Watch a variety of news coverage.  Watch some FOX and some MSNBC and some CNN.  Watch them all so you actually get some balance because they all have a bias of some sort.  Listen to someone other than Rush and O’Reilly.  Know your history before you open your mouth and prove what an uninformed dumbass you really are.  

Also, for of you who have written me saying that Obama is a Muslin,  please, never contact me again.  Don’t post on my blog and don’t contact me in any fashion.  You may be too stupid to live on this planet, so please just keep your stupid opinions away from me.  A church in Wichita, Kansas this week put on it’s marquee “America, you have elected a Muslim as President.  That is a sin against God.”   In an interview, the preacher said, “It’s not whether he is or isn’t a Muslim, it’s that he isn’t a Christian.”  My Bible says no man knows another man’s heart.  And that man should steer away from the whole judgment thing and leave that to God.  Guess this idiot didn’t get the same Bible I did.  This ignorant, uninformed so-called “minister” feels it his duty to proclaim to the world that Obama is a Muslim.  No, he isn’t.  Period.  And what if he was?  Why is this important?  Did you see Colin Powell talk about this subject?  If you didn’t, google it and listen to him talk about the American soldiers buried in Arlington with a crescent on their tombstones.   (By the way, Abraham Lincoln was an atheist.  As were Madison, Jefferson, Taft and Adams.   Would they be elected today?  Not a chance.) 

Then you have the church in North Carolina whose marquee says, “Obama – Osama :  Could they be brothers?”  I am ashamed and so should you be.  This is hateful, sad, and should make every American cringe.  Be sickened too as the busloads of elementary kids in the South chant “Assassinate Obama.”  All of this hate-mongering MUST STOP.

By the way, every church that says one thing about ANY political figure or promotes ANY political agenda should be taxed. One of the core founding principles on which our country was founded was the SEPARATION of church and state.  So separate or be taxed.  Taxing churches who spout politics from the pulpit would raise a lot of money so I am totally for it.  Churches should preach what the Bible, the Koran and every other religious book teaches:  love your fellow man.   And sadly, I am not seeing much love come out of some churches or their ministers or their congregations.  And they wonder why church attendance is down and giving is off?  Spread a little love – teach what Jesus REALLY said (love one another) and see if you don’t see an increase!

And for all of you who have piously told me that you are never going to spend your money on my books again.  Thanks.  I’ll be fine.  But let me ask you:  If my advice held value for you in the past in terms of handling your money, running your life or your business, why would that change?  Did my advice suddenly go from good advice to bad advice because I believe in stem cell research, healthcare reform and other social programs?  I am still a gun-toting, fiscal conservative who is anti-bailout.  You can be both.  No one candidate or political party will make anyone happy in every circumstance, that is, if you have any kind of a working brain at all.  Be smart enough, informed enough, and open enough to having views that cross political lines.  Be able to agree on some issues and disagree on others and vote for a total package.  I didn’t drink the Kool-Aid folks, I voted.

This was an election that was held in a Democracy.  We had record voter registration and turn out.  That should be encouraging to every American.  People actually CARED!!   And Obama won.  It’s over.  If he sucks as President, then I will be the first to vote against him in four years.  I will lead the crusade to elect someone else, even a Republican if their views are in alignment with mine.  In the meantime, chill people.  He was elected fair and square, unlike our last president.  Give him a chance.  Because if he does turn things around, all of you ignorant, redneck hate-mongers will be the first in line to take advantage of the SOCIALIZED medicine you will need because you don’t have any insurance because you didn’t set aside enough money to pay for it - and the SOCIALIZED handouts you think our new MUSLIM president is going to force on us, you will be there with your hand out to get them.  You will also probably be right there to take a job to rebuild our infrastructure based on an economic stimulus program you will call a redistribution of wealth. 

By the way, I am in the category of people who will end up paying MORE taxes.  I am fine with that.  I’m glad to do my part and then some.   Most of my rich buddies feel the same way.  

To sum up in case I haven’t been clear.

I voted for Obama.  I’m a Democrat.  If you think my advice is now bad and don’t want to hear it, then please go elsewhere.  Don’t write me.  Don’t threaten me.  Don’t tell me you aren’t going to buy my books, somehow I will survive without your purchase. 

The election is over.  Like it or not, agree with him or me or not.  You have a new President.  I put up with George Bush for 8 years and you can put up with Obama for at least 4 years.  After all, he can’t be any worse than what we have had.  And Republicans and Democrats both believe that:  74% disapproval rating.

Lastly, before you spout off to me or to anyone else, become better informed.  Be smart enough to know WHY you believe what you believe.  Read.  Listen.  Do some research.  Broaden your views.  Think before you speak.  Please.

Thanks!   And thanks for voting regardless of who you voted for!  

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DID YOU SEE ME ON FOX WITH CAVUTO THIS WEEK?

In case you missed me, check out my video vault later this week to see my latest rants on the topic of the economy and what people should be doing with their money.  

MASTER MINDS OF BUSINESS 

Maybe you got an email blast about this from me.  If you didn’t get a chance to check it out yet, let me give you an idea what this program is about.  It is six experts in the field of Customer Service providing 15 minutes of training plus a 3 minute lesson every week for six months.  I know all of these people and can vouch for each one’s content.  I am one of the experts and I know my stuff is good!!  You get all of this for $29.95.  This is a cool program and worth the money for sure.   We are finding that people are using this program in a variety of ways.  Either for their personal use or managers/leaders are buying multiple copies so an entire remote sales force or management team can get one consistent bit of training at the same time.  They can then do a conference call for discussion or just have the confidence to know that their entire team got the same training.  There are many creative ways people are using the training and I am sure you can figure out even more.  If this group of people showed up at your office to do their bit for your people, the collective fee for this information would be well over $100,000.  Yep, I know what all these folks charge to show up and that is what it would be.   And while you only get a short lesson from each of us, you get to view it when it is convenient for you AND you get the weekly reminders and updates.  This first one is Customer Service but there will be more programs to follow - you will have new programs coming along soon on Sales, Money, Leadership and more.   

GO VOTE!!!!!!!!!!!

The election is this week.  Go vote.  No excuses.  Just do it.  Vote for anyone you want to but take the time to voice your opinion by casting your vote. 

THE TRUTH BE TOLD 

Not only is it the name of my new Member’s Only Site but it is also the name of my brand new DVD/CD combo just released this week.  You get 90 minutes of me live on stage in front of an enthusiastic audience doing all my best stuff and about 45 minutes of all new stuff.  It’s a little pricier than my past DVDs I know, but this one contains both a 90 minute DVD PLUS a CD. 

COMING SOON 

The new book, People Are Idiots And I Can Prove It will be coming out December 30.  It can be preordered now on Amazon.  But I would suggest that you wait until my big push happens the first week of January.  Why?  Because if you buy during my special promotion, I am going to give you some great free stuff and you don’t want to miss out on the free stuff. 

Also coming soon is another new DVD/CD combo called Larry: Unleashed, Unplugged and Out Of Control.  This was also recorded in front of a live audience when I shot the PBS special.  I have gotten off on rants before from the stage but this is all brand new stuff that you won’t want to miss.  I think this is the best stuff I have done from the stage.  I think I will bring it out next month so keep watching for it.  

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Okay, the truth is that I am way beyond mad or angry.  I am totally pissed off.  You should be too.  They sold us a bill of goods.  They screwed us.  I knew it would happen.  I said on television that they could have me back on the anniversary of the bail out and I could say, “I told you so.”  They said that the  market would fall apart if we didn’t pass the bill.  The market is crap anyway.  It will get worse.  Yes, it will go back up but it’s still crap right now.  Now Bush is saying, “Give it some time.”  No kidding.  How convenient to say “give it time”  when we were told that it HAD to happen or the economy would collapse - remember, George?  Speed was the issue and now we are told to give it some time.  We were also told that this would help the regular guy.  That is a lie.  It will eventually help the regular guy . . . maybe . . . possibly . . . probably not.  They are saying that it has to “trickle down” first.  The regular guy doesn’t have time for it to trickle down.  The regular guy is hurting big time NOW.  Add to all of this crap, the $150B of pork - wooden arrows, American Samoa, the woolen industry, Hollywood, rum exporters, etc.  and one more time, they saddled us with PORK that was not needed or wanted.  Both sides did this one to us.  Not just Republicans or Democrats - they ALL screwed us.  Thanks guys, we appreciate it!  

Next.  I’m mad about the dirty politics.  Low blows - cheap shots.  Let’s talk about anything rather than what’s wrong with our country.    Facts?  Who needs them!  Questions in a debate where you agreed in advance to answer the questions?  Why answer them?  I’ll tell  you what I want you to know whether it’s what you asked or not.  April 8: “I promise I won’t involve myself in dirty campaigning because the American people don’t want to hear it.”  Oh well, I’m losing now so that doesn’t count any longer: here is my bucket of mud.  ”The fundamentals of the economy are strong.”  Oops, maybe not.  No problem, I’ll play the hero and solve this problem - in fact, I’ll take credit for getting the bailout passed.  Oops again - because it didn’t pass.  I’ll still vote for it with all the pork I say I won’t vote for and then I’ll say Bush ought to veto it.  Wait, tho I voted for it, the people don’t like it so I’ll say, “It’s time to turn the page on the economy and move on.”   Oops, that ain’t working for me either because people actually care about the economy, oh well, back to the mud-slinging.  ”Paling around with terrorists:”  And we all know you can’t spell PALING without Palin.  I find that insulting to the American people. We’re not THAT stupid.  Obama was eight years old.  They aren’t “pals.”  The Keating 5 - get the hell over it Democrats - it was twenty years ago and McCain was found innocent of any wrong doing.   The American people want answers to their issues.  Can you imagine that?  People are losing their jobs.  They either don’t have healthcare or can’t afford it.  Gasoline?  Holy crap! Cut the subsidies and tell the friggin’ oil companies to kiss our collective asses and lower the price so people can pay their mortgages!  I am all for free enterprise but billions in quarterly profits when our tax dollars help subsidize you is rape!  The oil companies should be ashamed of themselves!   Foreclosures are at 9% and still rising.  Yes, it’s primarily their own fault but something has to be done somewhere.  Lock down interest rates at a fixed rate for thirty years like they should have been to begin with.  Stop the ARMs from happening to give people some breathing room.  Put a moratorium on foreclosures for 90 days to help people have a chance to gather up some money and try to fix their situation.  Is this a cure?  No, one more time, none of what I am talking about here is anyting but a band-aid  but it’s a band-aid that directly effects the American people.   And it is the American people who need to get pissed off about the crap that is going on.  Where are the protests?  Where is the indignation?  Joe Six-Pack can’t even afford a damn six pack any more and yet few are being as vocal as they should be.  And typically, only about 40 % of Americans are even going to vote!  

The problem with Americans from Wall Street to Main Street, from the break room to the board room, from bad loans, to bad customer service, to bad politics to bad business is a lack of integrity.  People either have forgotten or don’t care any longer about what’s right and what’s wrong.

Americans arrogantly say they want honesty and integrity from their government officials, yet 20% of them cheat on their taxes.  Hypocritical?  You think?  People lie.  Politicians lie and we re-elect them.  Millions of Americans lied about how much money they made so they could qualify for a house they knew they couldn’t afford.  Now they don’t have the money to make the payments.  What is the REAL problem?  It’s not the money, or the predatory lenders or the economy,  it’s the lie that got them in trouble.   They are now paying the price for their LIE.  Clinton got impeached.  Why?  Was it because he had sex in the Oval Office?  No, it’s because he lied about the sex.  Bush’s approval rating is the lowest of any president in history?  Why?  A lack of trust.  People don’t believe him.  But why should we?  He lied to us.

When a guy says he will be there at noon and at 3PM you haven’t heard from him, he is a liar.  When your daughter says she will be home from her date at 10PM and she isn’t, sorry, but your little princess just lied to you.  When people say one thing and do another, they are lying.    In each instance, it is a lack of integrity.

I watched a woman on The Today Show this morning talking about her latest book about telling the truth in various situations and when asked about why people lie, she said, “Lying is such an ugly word, let’s call it editing the truth.”  What a load of happy horseshit.  Editing the truth?  Are you kidding me?  Let’s not call it what it is and then we won’t hurt anyone’s feelings.  Let’s put the lipstick on the pig one more time!  Let’s dress it up and make it look pretty instead of calling it what it really is.  And that’s the problem.  When you don’t confront people with their lies, the result is they don’t think they have done anything wrong.  Unless, you call them a liar for lying, they might not think they have actually lied - they might just think they edited the truth.  Bottom line:   We have a nation of people who either don’t know they are doing wrong or they don’t care.  Either way, they lack integrity.  I am going to save the rest of this rant for The Truth Be Told site because I am really getting fired up on this one and there isn’t room here.  Thanks for reading…………………

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I got in a discussion with some friends of mine this week over the topic of money.  I commented about the people who write me and others in the “money” business about how we have become way too focused on money.  Many write me to say that my books and some of the other books that are also very popular are more about greed than anything else.  Can you believe what people will say?  I actually do get these kinds of letters.  It seems that when you tell people to be as successful as they can be and to earn as much money as they can earn then you are considered greedy and money hungry.  Tell people to live up to their potential and then get put down for doing it.  Amazing, huh?  These folks tell me they are offended by my constant focus on success.  

I recently got a letter from a woman who told me it was more important for her to spend time with her kids than to be out “becoming more successful and rich.”  Holy CRAP!  I will bet you this woman who “talks” about how important her kids are spends the bulk of her time sitting on her fat ass watching TV (maybe with them) and doesn’t have a dime saved for their college education.   Unfair?  Maybe.  She might be a wonderful mommy who really does spend time with her kids and if she is, I applaud her and apologize for my generalization.

But never shake your finger in my face telling me how altruistic you are and talk about how success is NOT about money.  Success is about money.      The Peace Corp - Habitat For Humanity - The Red Cross – The Salvation Army – the Susan G. Komen Foundation – and my personal charity of choice, Feed The Children.  All of those charities are about money.  Money drives every charity.  Money builds hospitals and homeless shelters and habitat houses.  Money fights cancer.  Money feeds those children.

(Warning:  these next few paragraphs will possibly offend some of my more sensitive readers!  HA!)

Money also builds churches.  It even builds the churches for those pious, small-minded people who belittle the rest of the world for focusing too much on money.  Ouch!  Yep, I slammed the church folks!   I did a radio show last week where I was being interviewed about debt.  A guy called in and told me that while my ideas were good I had left out Jesus.  I said, “What???”  He said, “As long as you keep your hand in the hand of Jesus, you will be fine.”   I asked him if he was in debt.  ”Yes.”   I asked him if he was in trouble financially.  ”Yes.”  I asked him if he spent more money than he earned.  ”Yes.”  I asked him if he was behind on his credit card payments. “Yes.”   I said, “When you reached for your credit card last time you were at the mall, I guess you had to let go of Jesus’s hand to do it, didn’t you? Let’s not involve Jesus in your stupidity!  Jesus didn’t make you spend more money than you earn.  Jesus doesn’t get the blame for that one.  You did that all on your own!”  Let one of these good folks get in trouble financially because they spent more than they should or bought too much house or can’t make their payments and they want Jesus to bail ‘em out.   Drop to your knees and beg God to help you out of your financial problems!  Oh yeah, that makes sense.  I consider that a huge insult to God.  I know that God will forgive you for your stupidity and your insult. I won’t, but God will, and that’s the difference between God and me.  I think begging God to bail you out of your stupidity when you KNEW you were being stupid is a slap in the face to God!   While I have no idea what God would say or even if She would say anything, I would speculate (and hope) that God might say, “You got yourself in this mess and you can get yourself out of this mess.” 

So for all the pious who call me and the others who consider it our OBLIGATION to earn as much money as we possibly can, I want to ask you:  What paid for that building you call your church?  What pays for the missionaries your denomination sends to “save the souls” of the people in foreign countries?  What paid for that church pew your big butt sits on?  What paid for the Bibles and hymnals and ………okay, I’m tired of this.   MONEY paid for all of it.  MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY!!!!!!!   Whew!  I feel better! 

Back to my original question.  Why do you work?  I know why I work.  I work for the money.  Period.  I recently gave a speech where the president of the company approached me when I was finished and said how lucky I was to be able to experience my passion like that.  I asked him what he was talking about.  He said, “Your speech.  That is your passion, it’s obvious.”  I said, “Thanks but that speech is NOT my passion.  That speech is my JOB.  I am really good at my job and I’m glad you enjoyed me doing my job, but what you just witnessed is anything BUT my passion.  I enjoy it but I’m not passionate about giving speeches.”  He was incredulous.  I told him my passion was my wife, my boys, my bulldogs and my free time.  I told him I was passionate about sitting on my back patio with a glass of fine scotch in my left hand, a great cigar in my right hand, my bulldog Ralph on my lap, my wife by my side, watching the sun go down over the mountain while Willie Nelson plays in the background.  That is something I can get passionate about.  The rest is work.   I do what I do for the money.  I do what I do to pay for the life I love.  I do what I do to finance as many nights sitting on my patio as I can get.  That is why I work.

Why do you work?   If it isn’t for the money - you are a liar.  Yes, you may find what you do extremely satisfying.  Yes, you may love it.  But if the money wasn’t there, you couldn’t survive on satisfaction and love - you would need to go do something less satisfying that you didn’t love so you could get paid.  While I love what I do, if I didn’t get paid well for doing it, I could fall in love with something else that did pay well.   

I am tired of people pretending that money doesn’t matter when it comes to work.  It is the ONLY thing that matters when it comes to work.  And the way to make more money from your work is to be better at what you do.  The better you serve others, the better others serve you . . . with their money.  It all ties together:  Service is tied to money.  Charity is tied to money.  Excellence is tied to money.   Why does bringing money into the equation make it dirty for some people?  

Money is the result of serving people well.  Serving people is an honorable thing.  Money is the result of hard work.  Hard work is honorable.  Having money is a wonderful thing in your life.  It pays for college for your kids.  It pays for healthcare when you and the people you love get sick.  It takes care of your mom and dad when they get old and need help.  It feeds the homeless and helps those who are less fortunate.  It pays your taxes to build roads and provide fire and police protection.  It is to be appreciated, saved, invested, and ENJOYED.  

Yes, it is okay to earn money and then enjoy it!  Live up to your means - not beyond your means - but up to them.  I read a posting this week on Amazon where a guy who hates me, hates my books and was kicked off my blog here for hating all of you, made fun of me for having so many pairs of cowboy boots and for selling bobbleheads.  He said I was sitting a poor example for spending money on things I didn’t need and for selling things that other people don’t need.  What a frigging idiot this guy is!  I can’t wait for the People Are Idiots book to come out to see what he says about that one.  I should have dedicated it to this moron.   There is no shame in working hard for your money, investing it, saving it, paying your obligations and then ENJOYING the rest in any way you see fit.  You are HELPING the economy by doing so.  Besides, it is WHY you WORK HARD!   Enjoying your money is your reward.  As for selling bobbleheads - I really wanted my own bobblehead.  I only wanted one but I had to order a thousand in order for me to get ONE.   I got my one, then sent my Mom one and didn’t have room to store the rest so I  decided to see if anyone else wanted the rest of them.  They did.  They are all now sold.  If people choose to enjoy their money by having a bobblehead of me on their desk, then it isn’t my fault.  And yeah, I made a buck of two doing it!  Good for me.

Bottom line.  Money is important.  If you don’t think it is important, try going without it for a while.  You won’t last long.  Want more of it?  Work harder to serve others!   Money is your reward for doing that.   (Go buy You’re Broke Because You Want To Be for more ideas!)

Okay, that’s my rant and I’m sticking to it! 

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I have said for years that I only have two prejudices:  stupid and fat.  Those are my only two because those two are choices.  Don’t argue with me, they are choices.  Stupidity is a choice:  read a book!    As for FAT:  don’t whine glandular problems ’cause that ain’t the case!  Less than one out of a thousand can even remotely use that as an excuse.  And don’t blame your genes: chances are that you haven’t fit in your jeans for years!  People are fat by choice!  Period.  Did you ever eat anything by accident?  No, you chose to eat it.  No one held a gun to your head.  You went to the store, put it in your basket, paid for it, cooked it and stuffed your face with it.  You went to the restaurant and chose it from the menu and paid to eat it.  Your choices made you fat – nothing else.

Now that I have properly offended a good number of you reading this, let’s move on to one of my points:  a new study that came out just this week says that if Americans continue eating the way they are now and maintaining their sedentary lifestyle, that in twenty years, 86% of our society will be obese.  Argue with me all you want folks.  Say I am wrong and unfair and have a heart of stone.  But you are killing yourselves.  Not with a knife or gun but with a knife and fork.  People are eating their eyes closed!

Here is the second point of this rant:  Food Portions.  Just this morning, I went to a restaurant for breakfast.  I ordered a short stack (two pancakes.)  Seemed like a reasonable breakfast.  The short stack was short, only about an inch high but the pancakes were bigger than the ten inch plate they were served on.  They had enough butter on top to lather up a fat boy at the beach.  Sadly, most people would ooh and ah and talk about what a great place this breakfast restaurant was for that reason alone.  In fact, it is lauded to be one of San Diego’s best places to eat breakfast.  Yet I always wonder whether restaurants are being praised for the quality of their food or for the quantity?  Seems like in America, for a restaurant to be considered good, it has to serve ginormous portions – to hell with quality.  My wife and I ate at a popular Italian restaurant recently that everyone said was just the best place ever!  When they delivered our food, there must have been 10,000 calories in front of us.  Seriously, there was enough food for 6 grown people.  My piece of lasagna was at least 8X8 and 4 inches thick; enough to serve four people alone.  It was disgusting.  It tasted okay but holy crap, what one person needs that much food?????   Yet, if they brought only enough food  to fill a person up or to be healthy, they would go out of business for being stingy and serving skimpy portions.  Instead they load you up with mediocrity and astound you with their huge portions.   I have been lucky enough to travel all over the world - no where does this happen except in Amercia.  In Europe, the focus is on how good the food is, how tasty it is, not about how much of it you can stack on a plate.  They don’t concern themselves with calories . . . yet Europeans aren’t fat like Americans.  Why?  Portion control.

Americans are idiots when it comes to food.  Not because of what we eat but because of how much we eat.  I am as guilty as anyone.  I  eat stuff that is bad for me.  I could also afford to lose ten pounds and be much better off.  Don’t think I am standing on my soap box preaching what I don’t need to hear myself.  I LOVE food.  I love food that is bad for me.  I love biscuits and gravy and chicken fried steak and all things greasy.  I COULD eat it every meal and be happy.  Instead, I just try to eat it every once in a while to remind me of my roots and satisfy my grease cravings.  Even then, I try NOT to clean my plate but to just eat enough to get full.   Try that yourself - eat until you are full then push the plate away.  Ask the waiter to take the plate away.  Even if you only had two bites, if you are full, stop eating!!!

I could write much more on this but instead I am going to summarize:

1.      Don’t eat so much.  Eat whatever you want, but eat smaller quantities of it. 

2.      Judge restaurants by the quality of the food and not the quantity.

3.      Take care of yourself.  You have people who love you and people you love in return.  Live as long as you can so you can enjoy them.

4.  Try to burn more calories than you consume.  Take a friggin’ walk!!!!!!

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