It has never been so clear to me and my mom at this moment that our life's upmost priority is our health, nothing can compare to a healthy, well-functioning, happy body, nothing, not even all the money in the world. so we become a pair of diligent gym-goers,four days a week, rain or shine. okay, we had our weak moments when we hesitated to leave the TV, but there would always be one of us managed to drag the other person out of the door and reminded her that in order to have a healthy, and fit body, and not to waste the $40 membership fee, we have to! now my mom is the chubbier one among two of us, so she is now under my intense food-intake supervision, now we are having a very healthy diet, breakfast: whole grain toast with no-hydrogenated-oil peanutbutter, 2% fat milk, and whole grain oatmeal. lunch: mostly vegetables and rice with little meat, dinner: lunch leftover... I also incorporate the concept of "polymeal" into our diet, which is recently proved to be linked to longevity, consisting wine, fish, dark chocolate, fruits and vegetables, almonds and garlic on a daily basis. yup, lots of stuff, but we manage to have a little of everything. again, we also become gluttons once in a while, thanks to my mom's soaring cooking skill after acquiring different ethnic recipes. but, after all, we can always get on the treadmill to burn off those fat. besides physical fitness, mental health is important too, so whenenver the silence is unbearable, we put on some light music. Overall, life is short and full of surprises, and we need a strong body and psyche to survivie.