Setting Personal Goals for 2010
How have I come to this stage of my life? Not as healthily as I could have, I guess. So for 2010, my goals will be to lose weight and work to on reducing or eliminating the medications that I am currently taking.
My nurse practitioner says that I can reverse the effects of the blood pressure and blood sugar problems through diet and exercise. Although I have been in this state for over a year now, I have not “followed the doctor’s orders”. Why is that? Why do you hear the information and then not follow it? Better yet why have I not followed her well-informed recommendations?
Oh the first three months I was amazing, well not with exercise, I lost about 15 pounds. I maintained a diet of 75 carbohydrates and 1500 calories per day. But then apathy and circumstances, a weakening of my resolve started to set in. Stress and a hundred other excuses derailed both my diet and weight loss targets. So now a new year is on the horizon. The catastrophic events, as well as the tragedy and loss of the last two years have given me a sense of there just isn’t enough time left in my life to put off anything.
My hope is that if I blog about the ups and downs…I am hoping for mostly “downs” that it will motivate me to continue to do what I need to do most, which is make sensible choices and exercise. Hopefully this writing will serve as a mirror for me to keep doing what is before me.
I think that the answer is more complex than “using my will power” (after 50 years of being told it just takes will power, I am not sure that this will be that simple). We’ll see.
This morning I read the following: “Perhaps one of the best ways of reducing your risk of type 2 diabetes is by doing what doctors have been preaching for years. McLaughlin says the Diabetes Prevention Program, a major clinical study in the United States, found that by following just two healthy lifestyle habits can cut your diabetes risk by almost 60 percent:
- Exercise for at least 150 minutes a week
- Follow a reduced-fat and low-calorie diet that promotes modest weight loss of 5 to 7 percent.”
- From the link: http://www.everydayhealth.com/type-2-diabetes/can-coffee-ward-off-type-2-diabetes.aspx?xid=nl_EverydayHealthManagingDiabetes_20091227#continue
We’ll see…