Health Update: Day Whateva’
I’m not certain where I am on the health train, traveling in Atlanta. My first week’s goal was to establish a walking routine. I actually snickered while I wrote it down, thinking, “This is easy, how can I mess this up.” As of date, I’m still not consistent with exercising. One would think it was easy, but I’ve proven to myself that I need to put more effort into it. I think since I’ve started I’ve walked 3 times and did Tae Bo 3 times. It’s been a couple of weeks so that’s not going to work.
Zombified
On another note, I got some high-blood pressure pills from my doctor. They do have one side effect, which is causing me to walk the earth among other zombies! This pill is making me more drowsy than I normally am, so I called my doctor (to my surprise I was actually able to talk to him) and he told me to stay off the pills for 3 days and see if my symptoms change. This is day two off the pills and I already don’t feel as drowsy.
I’m normally tired at the end of the day and drop asleep around 21:30. Some times I go to sleep with the kids at 20:00, but while taking those pills last week, I was dozing off around 19:00. It affected my work, I noticed that I was being as productive. I think it was in the middle of the week that I associated it with my new high-blood-pressure-controlling/blood-thinning drug.
Eating
“Eating healthy is hard!” There I said it! The concept is easy, but putting it into action has proven to be more difficult than I expected. My whole life, I’ve eaten like a Jamaican – lots of startch, heavy on the meat, and “what the hell are vegetables doing here!?” So; my biggest challenge is eating the proper portions. The trick is with eating proportional meals, I have to have snacks in between and I’ve noticed that a lot of snack ideas are NOT appealing to me. How many times am I going to comsume assorted nuts!? Oh well; I’m officially 240 lbs, so I need to get that weight down and the key, for me, is eating the proper proportions and exercising. Time to get myself back on track.
June 24th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
Well at least you realize what you need to do and your current situation, unlike many people who always blame their weight situation on anyone but themselves. Take baby steps and you’ll get where you want to be. Also, try finding snacks that you enjoy but are also healthy. I know it can be difficult but it’s the only way… Good luck!
June 25th, 2009 at 7:56 am
Thanks bro. I’ve learned to be real with myself.
You seem to be in good shape. What’s your routine? Ice chips with a side of beating up your neighbor’s lawn-care specialists?
June 25th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
LOL. Recently I’ve been so tired that I sleep right through those noisemakers! As for me, I lift weights and do martial arts. I think it’s important to find something you enjoy doing. A lot of people just don’t like lifting weights and get discouraged and quit. Whatever sport/activity you like doing is what you should do to get to a healthy weight. If you enjoy it it’ll give you further incentive to keep doing it. It’s just a matter of time/consistency/eating healthy and then you’ll be where you want to be.