Women, Phenomenally

Although my eating habits are pretty healthy most of the time, I tend to slip off into some not-so-good eating habits sometimes.. .so, once again, I am weeding things out that are not good for me and trying to add in some that are. For instance: I finally went to the doctor and got my blood pressure medication changed to one without a diuretic. Now, let's just keep our fingers crossed that it actually relives some of these crazy symptoms. And, I have once again eliminated soda pop out of my diet. I have a hard time feeling guilty about drinking caffeine free diet coke but still I want to be rid of it. I am trying to eliminate one thing at a time to see if I can find a way to feel better. At my age I know there are some aches and pains that go along with age but I should feel better than I do. My goal, as usual, is optimal health not weight loss - I have pretty much given up on weight loss. Optimal health comes with having an immune system strong enough to fight off whatever is not supposed to be going on in your body. As you age, your immune system gets weaker .. unless you keep it feed lots of nutrients.

BUT.. I have had a revelation, well, it is really not anything new but it has kind of hit me in a new way.

Bottom line is that if I don't start and maintain an exercise program I am never again going to have optimal health. I don't care how healthy I eat, it is not enough.

So, I am at this teetering point of making that happen or just giving up. That's how bad I hate to exercise and I am not a lazy person, I just hate to exercise, always have. My sister talked me into going to an aerobics class with her a long time ago - I would get drunk and go or get high and go and it was always just a joke to me. I made fun of the women and their leggings and cutesy outfits... Trudy finally made me quit going with her :)

I read tonight that joint aches are yet another symptom of menopause and it may or may not be arthritis that is causing me to hurt so bad. Mark thinks that is good news, I'm not so sure.

The next thing to go will be my stick pretzels. This one I dread. The pop has been easy to do without, the pretzels I will miss!! It means I just flat cannot buy them or have them in the house because I cannot resist them.

Getting old just SUCKS.