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It’s time to get serious.  I’m not happy that my doctor finds it necessary to double my cholesterol lowering medication AND add in a new one to handle my triglycerides.  Plus, she tells me that my fasting blood sugar was 150 in my latest blood work.  It’s been hovering around 130-140.  Can you say “metabolic syndrome”?

My latest blood test was completed shortly after my mom left for home.  She had been visiting for a couple of weeks and I had been eating all the homemade cookies, brownies and cakes she loves to make.  Of course, I don’t understand moderation when it comes to her baking and my blood test revealed the dirty secret that I had overindulged when I was in no position to indulge at all.

Before I received these latest results, I’d been telling myself that my diet was pretty good.  I’d been telling myself that I would start working out again tomorrow.  But I’d been lying.

My diet was crap.  Eating some fruits and vegetables, drinking my protein shake in the morning, and taking supplements didn’t make up for my daily afternoon chocolate intake or the cakes and cookies I ate at work whenever they were available.  And I’ve been telling myself since the beginning of the year that I was going to restart my exercise program that I let lapse in the winter due to a lack of motivation.

So I have a choice to make.  Do I continue my bad habits and slowly kill myself?  Or, do I get serious about my diet and working out again?  If I want to be a role model and help others in my baby boomer demographic, then I need to get my ass in gear.  I need to get serious.

I would like to retire in a few years and I want to enjoy it.  I don’t want to have diabetes and its complications.  I don’t want to struggle to climb a flight of stairs.  I don’t want to be on multiple medications because my diet sucks.  If I transform my diet into a healthy one and work out regularly and still need medications, so be it.  But taking meds because I’m too lazy or it’s too hard to change my lifestyle is not acceptable.

Besides, I’ve been interested in the health, fitness and diet fields for years.  There’s a lot of information stored in my head and I’m constantly reading and learning more.  That’s why I started this website.  So I could impart this information to others.  What better way than by using myself, my struggles and my progress as an example to others my age.

My plan of attack is threefold:

1.  Take my meds as prescribed by my doctor with the goal of being able to eliminate them at some point in the future by improving my diet and exercising; take supplements that may have a positive impact on lipid and glucose levels.

2.  Improve and overhaul my diet.

3.  Exercise to build muscle, lose fat and improve glucose and lipid levels.

I’ll go into more detail on my plan in my next post.  If you have issues similar to mine, follow along.  We can do it together.

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