People have lots of different reasons for making changes in their lives. Sometimes we make changes just because we want to, other times we make changes because we’re forced to. And sometimes we need to make changes, but because change is often difficult, we don’t.

In my case, I needed to change the way I was treating my body. While I wasn’t terribly overweight (although I wasn’t exactly a lean, mean machine), my world view changed with the blood test taken as part of a routine physical last year: my cholesterol was over 300 (shouldn’t be over 200), with a triglyceride level that was just over 1200 (which shouldn’t be over 150!). That’s bad. Very bad.

I had always had marginal cholesterol, but that took the cake. I think it scared my doctor more than me. I had tried some medications before, but they didn’t seem to work very well. But that was because I couldn’t be bothered with changing other aspects of my life.

So, I was a heart attack waiting to happen. Not good. It was time to do something about this. Read the rest of this entry »

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