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The Health Journey

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Joanne Reid

Joanne's Journey to Health

I am very happy but also very out of shape. Don’t you love euphemisms. I am 100 pounds overweight, my blood pressure is scary-high, and I start puffing after I walk a block. Yep, that qualifies as out of shape, I guess.

On May 30,2011, I watched the debut of Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition. The star is Rachel, who at 21 weighed 369.

Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss - Rachel

Rachel lost 161 pounds,

It was encouraging to see what she went through and what she achieved. Meanwhile, I spend my spare time reading and writing about health and holistic health and am consulting with Kasandra Harfield on my health issues.

While I am getting ready to learn what I should be doing for my health, I take vitamins and minerals and I drink lots of water — 16 eight-ounce glasses a day.

I follow this program. Well I just started to. It’s free and available at http://pgx.com. It’s about busting your vices.

Just a side note — PGX is a plant fiber and the site recommends it but you don’t need it. Just sign up and get the ebook guide and the weekly encouragement. The site says, “The PGX program does not require you to use PGX. You can be successful without the use of PGX – if you carefully follow the program and stick to it. However, PGX can truly help, by giving you extra willpower as you change your eating habits and by magnifying the impact of your efforts.”

This is a free program.

I started weeks ago and I have it all set –EXCEPT — yes except for 2 things. One is that I do not get out and walk for 20 minutes a day. I don’t even get out and walk for 5 minutes a day.

And the other thing is portion control. I am so out of tune with normal portions that it is no wonder I am double the size I should be. So are my portions.

PGX

Get healthy by breaking your bad habits

So here I plan to do a little daily blogging on one of my favorite topics — why humans get in their own way. I know I would feel better, have more energy and live longer if I ate less and moved more. But do I?

No.

Not yet.

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Life is Good, Life is Also Short

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I have blogged here about writing and health and being the mayor of Souris. This year, finally realizing the finite nature of life, I decided to get to the heart of the issue. Why haven’t I written a great novel? Why do I weigh 100 pounds more than I did in high school? Where did the time go? and of course, the best question — what am I going to do now?

I am going to prove wrong the old adage that old dogs cannot learn new tricks. Woof. This old dog is learning. The first lesson is to stop trying to be perfect in everything. Pick your battles, your passions, your goals. This blog has become my way of keeping track of my efforts to improve my life. The first step is health. When you get to your sixties you realize you are lucky to still be alive.

Being alive is one thing. Staying alive is another. In my case, staying alive means getting my blood pressure down. The best way to lower blood pressure is exercise and eating properly.  Being 100 pounds overweight is not a good thing if the old blood pressure is through the roof.

I just took a break to take my BP — oops.  179/114. Heart rate 70. The BP numbers are terrible. I was going to get on the scales too but — surprise surprise — the battery is dead in the Tanita body fat scales. Guess I have been avoiding them for a while.

Okay so if my first goal is to stay alive, some changes are going to be made.

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