My sweet wife, Jeana, has made me a Red Velvet Cake for Valentines Day for many years. She even makes it in the shape of a heart. There is nothing like it folks. I like it cold in the refrigerator accompanied with a cold glass of milk. Wow!

This year, Jeana and I have been very diligent to go to a local fitness center in our region in order to work out and train. Even though I have been running about 3 miles a day five days a week, I needed to add some resistance training, plus vary my workouts. So now, we have been going to a RPM (Spinning) class two days a week. Therefore, I am running three days a week, doing RPM two of the other days, and doing resistance training a couple of those days.

Why am I telling you this? Well, we have done so good until this past weekend. The Red Velvet Cake got me. It always does! Yet, I was back at it even on Sunday morning running and yesterday carrying on my schedule for fitness. The Red Velvet Cake was gone by Sunday night and thank God! Now, I will just deal with the normal temptations before me in food. Those I can handle most of the time.

So, I must get ready now for my birthday on November 11 . . . another Red Velvet Cake may be coming. Therefore, it is imperative for me to seize the moment for these next few months trying to restrain myself from eating wrongly too much, and at the same time, working towards better health and fitness.

I am often asked, “Ronnie, do you like to do all of that?” My response is simple, “No.” Yet, it is a necessity. It helps me physically and mentally, which also makes me handle matters better emotionally and spiritually. My God has blessed me so much with great health and I am so very grateful to Him for it.

I am grateful not only for my Red Velvet Cake, but most of all, for my health.