There is nothing interesting about being a cliche.
I am now 49 years old and proudly presented myself to my physician for my annual physical.
My pride was not entirely appropriate.
My total cholesterol is 258 and my LDL (“bad”) cholesterol is 184. Ignominy.
Doc says in order to avoid meds, I have 4 to 6 weeks to “get religion”. So, while my little weasle mind tried to figure out ways to avoid tending to myself holistically or tried to convince myself that “hey 49 and cholesterol meds isn’t a big deal” . . . I realized I was completely full of donkey dust.
Here are my options as I see them:
(1) take the meds and acquiesce to the middle-age cliches and schlepping myself to the Upper East Side for montly blood tests (that is simply not interesting),
(2) do nothing (could be uninteresting, could be kamikaze – don’t like the odds),
(3) take this thing in hand, make it interesting and fun, and blog about it to help others (and keep myself motivated).
I refuse to eat tree bark or to get on a gerbil wheel at the gym. Hey, that’s just my take on things. What I am interested in doing is eating a variety of delicious foods and doing a variety of exercise I enjoy.
I have a blog called VintageAWESOME for pity’s sake and a neighborhood farmers’ market and an Urban Rebounder and a magnificent park with HILLS across the street!
I’m very interested in your feedback, questions, comments, suggestions (all except for the website that recommended Metamucil 3 times a day).
January 14, 2010 is 6 weeks from tomorrow.
OK, here we go . . .
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