Granny knows best
If you wait long enough you’ll find out everything your parents and grandparents told you is true.
Be honest: How many times has some well-worn admonishment or word of caution from your mother filtered through your brain when you least expect it?
When I read the recent headline saying “Extra weight might not be all that bad,” I had to laugh. My grandmother has been telling me that for years!
She was one of my best cheerleaders as I tried to lose weight last year. However, when I took the weight loss a little too far (in her opinion), she felt duty-bound to say something.
We all know that our wise parents and grandparents always feel duty-bound to say something about the way we live our lives, so I listened patiently, of course.
“Don’t lose too much weight. Any thing could come up and you won’t have anything to fight it with it,” she said, frowning at my baggy clothes.
By this she meant a little “extra” weight that might help me battle certain diseases. I would be considered pleasantly plump or something to that effect.
Anyway, I lost the weight because I needed to eat healthier and to lower my risk of falling prey to certain ailments that run in our family.
But I’ll chuckle all week about this. And I bet my grandmother has already cut out that article to show me … that she was right.
At 81, she’s lived a long time and it looks like she doesn’t always need doctors to tell her what’s what.
Granny does indeed know best.
If you enjoyed this post, please consider to leave a comment or subscribe to the feed and get future articles delivered to your feed reader.
Comments
No comments yet.
Leave a comment