Sugar? The Struggle is Real! A common staple in our lives in the South is a big bag of sugar. We make preserves, candy, cakes, ice cream, cake icing, homemade breads, and baked goods with it. We put it in iced tea, and we put it in all of the healthy things we can find to make them, well, BETTER! But not so fast! That was true for my grandpa Smyly, whose favorite song was "We'll Work 'Till Jesus Comes". He meant it too! The same for my granddaddy Piggott, who was a blacksmith by trade. They never knew an "easy" job, nor could they be accused of being lazy! They burned more calories in a day than most of us do in a weekend! I'm talking "butt crack of dawn" until the sun dropped it's drawers on the horizon in the west, they were knocking it down! Peddle to the metal! That was how one scraped a living out the land, and the world around them. There was none of this, "I better get to the office, so I can sit and stare at a compu...
In the back of my mind, I could hear ring announcer Bruce Buffer saying, "It's Time!!!!!" Yep! It is really past time for me to grab this by the horns! I have to lose weight, and I know it will not be an easy journey. More than just losing weight, I want to be healthier. So, I'm really telling this for me, but I hope that it helps someone else in their journey as well. So, laugh with me, or at me! But laugh! ~Stephen Smyly