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By Ken
So why am I writing this?
I developed type 2 diabetes when I first got married in 2000 because of the weight I gained. I wasn’t diagnosed until after our honeymoon when I finally went to the doctors to find out why I always fell asleep after eating and I would get shaky if I didn’t eat routinely during the day.
It is now gotten to the point where there’s been a few times that I haven’t eaten in time and have become very lethargic, confused and close to passing out.
It’s called hypoglycemic and it’s dangerous. Also with the situation with my wife Erin, I think with the extra stress I’ve developed a weird feeling in my chest as if my heart flutters for a second or two. I got this checked out and was told its heart palpitations and could be related to stress, too much caffeine energy drinks or something more serious. I was told to relax and eat better and “try to get out and enjoy life a little more with the joy of walking.”
So now at the age of 37 it seems like I don’t take people’s advice to often including doctors and my health and fitness level have dropped dramatically over the last six years.
So I’m writing this to scare the shit out of myself and convince myself to start exercising more and cut out the fast food that it seems like I live on lately. Oh sure I get a gym membership. I’m paying $75 a month for Boston sports club and have only been there a few times in the last four months. Getting out first thing in the morning and taking a walk or going over to the apartment health club and getting on a treadmill or elliptical machine would do great for me and my health in the morning.
Even my son Jakob says he wants to go over to the gym and work out with me.
How much more motivation do I need?
So as I sit here in my apartment living alone I turned on the TV and strangely enough the Shawshank Redemption movie was on HBO and it was at the park where Morgan Freeman’s character says “get busy living or get busy dying.” I shut the TV off right away sat in the dark thinking for 20 minutes and decided to write this post and start this website to get my ass out of bed tomorrow morning and work out and start making some changes.
If you care I’ll let you know here how it goes.
Colleen
November 5th, 2009
Ken,
I am curious to know how you are doing on your weight loss journey. I’ve had lots of success coaching folks through this difficult process.
I see the last blog entry was in July, what has happened since?
Colleen