We all want to be healthy and not just a pack of skin and bones. At this point in time, and for most of my adult life I have been considered obese. Even for about the past few years, I have been in a size 14, I have still been considered obese. I have always gotten away with it, so to speak, I have always dated guys that were younger than me, I was 35 and dated 25 year olds, doesn't that count for something? Maybe I'm just immature? Marilyn Monroe was said to be a size 14, yet I am obese!
Since I am approaching my 50's, I am more concerned with my health. I am concerned with my blood pressure, more of my friends have knee surgery and wear those sleep apnea masks to bed. I hear people talk about Botox and Juvederm and women especially are thinking about or have gotten plastic surgery of some sort, whether it be fake breasts or their eyes 'done'. I think I have lived more of my life than I have left. Health is a concern for me. I know carrying extra weight is a negative thing and it concerns me. It concerns me like it never has before because I am there now.
In this society, we seem to question everything, should we smoke or not smoke? Drink alcohol or not drink alcohol? Eat organics or not eat organics? What about vitamins? Should we lift weights or walk? What are the right answers? I think we just have to do what is best for us and hope we don't get killed in a car wreck or plane crash! There seems to be data to support everything. One report says one thing and another report tells us something else. Stress also plays into it, can we handle it or can't we? Do we want to? It seems like we have to be able to handle a lot, eh? Yeah, so what else is new?
Some things can be environmental and some things tend to be genetics, it just boils down to what does good health mean to you? To me, good health means being able to do what you want to do, when you want to do it. It means living everything in moderation. I haven't been doing that, I have been living very large! I need to stop it now because it has gotten me nothing but trouble, in the form of diabetes, a couple of strokes and who knows what else is on my horizon? I am not even 50 yet and I have to deal with some major health issues, that are not so easy to turn around! All I can do right now is try to make changes and the correct decisions from here on in. I thought that I had awhile before I had to make choices but guess what? My decisions have come earlier than I planned!
Good health is my choice. It is not easy for me but I am going to go for it, what else do I have to do?
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