Lemons and Lemonade

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Sometimes life throws you lemons — which kind of hurts if they come at a high velocity. But then, lemons are quite useful: lemon juice can be used to clean tarnish off of copper, take the odor out of your kitchen sink, brighten dull blonde hair and, of course, make lemonade.

Last April, life through me a doozy of a lemon. Those of you who have been reading this blog since then know what I’m talking about. For those of you who are new, I was hit by a minivan and fractured my tibia.

Anyway, since that time, my recovery has been slow and annoying. The latest repercussion has had be rethink how I live my life, especially as it relates to food. You see, I was 165 lbs and loosing when that van hit me. But, since I haven’t been able to be as active since the accident the weight loss has turned to weight gain. This past week, I hit 200 lbs. The most I’ve ever weighed in my life.

My bras — which, I might add, I just purchased last month — are so tight they dig into my skin. The swelling in my ankle, which has been a recurring problem since an injury several years ago, has increased so much that the swelling sometimes reaches into my thigh. Yuck. I’m very uncomfortable and unhappy in the body I currently inhabit.

So, since exercise is still a challenge (I’m back to using the cane when I go up and down stairs and my ankle hurts most of the time), I’m going to take a stronger stance with my food intake. I’m going back on the Nutrisystem plan.

OK, this means some of my cookbook ideas will just have to wait. But that’s OK, I’ve got plenty of non-food related projects I can work on while I loose 57 lbs.

So, back to lemonade. The accident may have been an experience I’d rather not have gone through, but the challenges it has made me face have helped me focus my life and really concentrate on those things that are most important to me. Not that I’d recommend everyone go out and get hit by a minivan.

Until next post …

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Carma Spence is an award-winning, bestselling author of nonfiction, however, she has been writing fiction and poetry for much longer -- just not publishing it. She plans to change that sometime soon.