Everything is going fine and then you.......

find out that it really isn't.

I have had such a hard time getting motivated to lose weight and to get healthier. When I was in my 40s and before I had motivation, but in my 50s it is hard to find. Weight seem to go on so easily and goes off so slowly.

Vanity, outgrowing my clothes, etc haven't been motivations. Several months ago I found out that my cholesterol is 300. Now I am facing more than external things to motivate me, I am looking at my mortality. I have joked for years that I doubt if I ever have to worry about cancer. With my family history I will be dead from a heart attack a long time before I will be diagnosed with cancer. Suddenly it doesn't seem like a joke. I am taking medication for high blood pressure and now for high cholesterol. I seem to be on the road to heart problems. Actually, death doesn't seem that bad, but the possibility of surgeries, being a burden on others, etc. does.

So, now, I realize that playtime is over. I have to get busy. I have been researching and planning my attack on the fats that are trying to shorten my life.

I am starting my journey. I don't plan to give up. I will use this blog to record my successes and failures. This is where I can report on what I am doing and how it is working.