Memorial Day Doesn't Mean Noshing on Junk Food: It's About Honoring Our Fallen... Today's A Great Day to Tackle Projects You've Procrastinated Tackling

Many Americans -- certainly not readers of this blog! -- may think of Memorial Day as a time to laze around, guzzle soda, chomp on chips, grab popsicles and frolic in the sun. But let's remember the real meaning of today: It's about honoring those who've fallen in the service of our country.

So I invite you to do just that. Check out MSNBC's information-packed Honoring the Fallen section. Then, you may want to visit the official Memorial Day site, too. And you also can learn what President Bush said.

For those of you with loved ones who've lost their lives because they fought for our country, my heart goes out to you and I wish you a peaceful Memorial Day.

For the rest of us, if you're not having fun in the sun, please use this day off work to do something healthy or constructive like taking a bike ride or going on a long hike. And after your fun physical activity, then consider tackling a project you've been putting off for a while.

Which is exactly what I'm doing. This Memorial Day weekend, I'm tackling the rather unpleasant task of cleaning my office -- something that I've been successfully procrastinating doing for a while. And, I'm embarrassed to say that this is a massive, massive project! Ugh!

When you write a non-fiction book, especially one as labor-intensive as SUGAR SHOCK!, you tend to gather mounds of research studies, notes from many interviews with health experts, and many news articles about your subject.

Suffice it to say that working on SUGAR SHOCK! wreaked complete havoc on my office. A plethora of papers piled up. We're talking three or four stacks of papers that are three or four feet high. Ugh! And I absolutely must continue to clear through these stacks as I have for the past couple of days.

Yesterday, for instance, I tossed out lots of e-mails in which I coached dozens of sugar addicts. (Don't worry: I'm keeping important stuff.) Today, at long last, I'm battling the stack of papers directly next to me.

By the way, speaking of procrastinating, if you've been putting off getting on my mailing list, I recommend that you do so right away. If you subscribe now to my free, weekly Stop SUGAR SHOCK! Minute, you'll get come on board just in time to get my special before-summer weight loss issue, which will contain:

• A fun article about how you can use procrastination to kick your sugar habit. Seriously!
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