My New Burger Bar–You are All Invited

Look how crazy I am.  I just opened my own personal burger bar!  In all seriousness, it is a new Facebook page and it is dedicated to women who have gathered around out of a love for books…but who also want to be healthy and eat right.  Being healthy and eating right when you sit in front of a computer all day is as much of a job as the writing.  How easy is it to snack on all the wrong things?  To feel your bones begin to cement into a sitting position because you’re on deadline and you never get up?

The thing is, I don’t like to deprive myself.  I like food, I like burgers, and I don’t want to be prohibited from eating them because I am constantly worried about being fat.  So I, like everyone else, have fought the battle of the bulge for years.  I gain a little, I diet.  I exercise to keep the potato chips I ate yesterday from taking up permanent residence.

Four years ago in April, I was out for my daily walk, and I decided to see if I could run to the end of the block.  I did, but I heaved a lung in the process.  I tried again the next day, and the day after that.  I got some running shoes.  In the last six months, I have run in my first two half marathons.  I am slow, and I easily qualify for the Clydesdale divisions (they really used to have this–bigger runners were called Clydesdale).  But I do it, and when I do, I get to eat a cheeseburger and fries and feel no guilt.

And isn’t that what we all do?  We either forego calories or exercise so we can eat the cheeseburger.

Well, I talk about it enough.  I know there are like-minded people out there, so I set up a new Facebook page called Running for Burgers.  Why?  Because that is what I do.  And it was too hard to fit “Running, Cycling, Walking, Swimming and Aerobicizing for Burgers” on the graphic.

This site is for camaraderie and support around a common goal.  And to make it worth your while, each month, I am going to select someone who as earned their burger:  They will get a silver hamburger charm and a signed book from me.  How fun is that?  I hope you will check it out and consider joining the support team.  Remember:  You do NOT have to run to be included.  That’s just my poision of choice :-.  Come like, come hang out.  You can find Running for Burgers right here

How do you stay healthy?  What’s your poision of choice?  What do you “earn” when you’ve been really really good? 

 

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