{"id":1919,"date":"2012-10-30T07:04:30","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T11:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beyondgorgeous\/?p=1919"},"modified":"2012-10-30T07:04:30","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T11:04:30","slug":"hopscotch-habits-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondgorgeous\/2012\/10\/hopscotch-habits-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Hopscotch Habits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remember the hopscotch we played at recess in fourth grade.\u00a0 The school had seen generations of kids come and go \u2014 and hopscotch had been a staple game for those thousands of kids.\u00a0 The board had been drawn in the dirt, but had been retraced for so many years that the lines were deeply engraved into the ground.\u00a0 Rain, snow, wind \u2014 nothing could obliterate it.<\/p>\n<p>Habits \u2014 good and bad \u2014 are like that hopscotch pattern.\u00a0 Each time we \u201ctrace around\u201d a bad habit, like getting discouraged and bingeing at a slump time, we are making that pattern deeper and deeper. Tomorrow it will be even harder to break that habit \u2014 so hang on and do something different today.\u00a0 It WILL make a difference.\u00a0 Eat something healthy and go do something you enjoy instead of eating that treat that will make your blood sugar skyrocket and give you a lousy afternoon and evening.<\/p>\n<p>What you do today DOES matter!\u00a0 Keep on the road to life beyond gorgeous.\u00a0 You\u2019ll get there!<\/p>\n<p><em>Eating to live and living for Christ,<\/em><br \/>\nSusan Jordan Brown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember the hopscotch we played at recess in fourth grade.\u00a0 The school had seen generations of kids come and go \u2014 and hopscotch had been a staple game for those thousands of kids.\u00a0 The board had been drawn in the dirt, but had been retraced for so many years that the lines were deeply&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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