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Originally Posted by angiefox10
As a rule, when someone says "with all due respect" they don't respect the person... In this case it would be incorrect. I respect your knowledge on the subject of food and healthy living. I try to live a healthy lifestyle and for the most part I do. Just not like you. I rarely eat meat of any kind but on occasion do. I do eat fish. I eat an occasional dessert.
When people like you write... I read... and take baby steps to change my habits. I don't try to do it all at once so that my body doesn't notice what I'm doing.
I hope to be an example as people have been for me. By being an example, people will change.
Your comments indicate that you don't think they will change. Sometimes, it takes a jolt like a heart attack for someone to make that change. We all know people who have been brought back to life and changed the way they live. I've seen people eat better, start working out, and stop smoking.
Most of them had to die and be brought back to get there... But they did.
I wasn't trying to insult you. I was trying to get you to see through my eyes. Maybe you can... Maybe you can't
Peace....
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Thanks for clarifying your position, it sounds like you have a healthy outlook. Unfortunately, I haven't known anyone who changed for good. Perhaps a couple of people on this website, but not anyone I've known in person, like neighbors or relatives. In fact, I have witnessed plenty of examples of the opposite.
For example, I had an overweight neighbor-friend who suffered a really bad stroke and had to live in a nursing home for several months. When he finally came home, I asked him if his doctor had recommended any special diet. He said, "yes" but quickly pointed out that he had no intention of following it. So it was only a few months before he suffered a second stroke and went back to the same nursing home. His wife said she doubted that he would ever be coming home again. He was only 50 years old and had two teenagers at home.
I have lots of these stories. There was even one person who made a good effort to eat healthy, got his arteries cleaned up, then got bored with eating healthy and went back to his old ways and had to get bypass surgery.