What if we started making excuses to do something about our health, instead of making excuses not to?

My intentions were to write a blog on the excuses we make, but in light of recent events, I decided to make it into why we should make excuses to do something about it.

Did you know that if you carry your weight in your midsection, that you increase your risk for heart disease and diabetes? What about arthritis? Just think of your poor bones trying to carry the excess weight. With every 10 lb weight loss, your risk decreases.

 One of my family members recently had a stroke, in my thoughts she was way to young.  I am under the firm belief, if she lived a healthy life style it would have been preventable. 

I have plaque built up in my blood and have been on medications for it. Leave it to me to be in the less than 1% to have a reaction that degenerates muscles. Fortunately, we caught the symptoms the first time through, before any irreversible damage had been done. When they switched my meds, the same thing happened.  If I would drop my weight to a healthy level I probably would not have to take meds. My levels would drop naturally. Right now I am taking 6 pills of fish oil, and because my heart rate is abnormally fast, I have to take an aspirin everyday, and pay attention to any changes that might precede a heart attack. Not a way to live when you have young children and haven’t even hit your mid-life crisis yet.

So my plan of attack drop the weight. I hope that you find a reason to live healthy, whether it be for you family or because you want to live life to the fullest.

Have you done your cardio today? Oh yeah, you should probably be drinking half your weight in ounces of water on a daily basis. That would be almost 100oz. for me. I have a lot to drink in a short amount of time.

fairie