After a pile of great presents and cards from my Lovelies this morning, I managed to get a last minute booking to have my blood pressure tested.
A year ago my weight was touching 200 lbs which for my height is way too much. My blood pressure was consistently over 170 and that puts me in the red zone for stroke, heart attack and organ failure.
At work I was getting acute back pain which stopped me in my tracks. Walking up stairs puffed me out and I was run down and fed up.
So I changed my diet cutting out all the sillies and started to gorge myself on homemade veggies soup and mountains of fruit.
I started to walk around local roads and can now comfortably do ten miles in 3 hours.
I have a fitbit too which nags me to do 5 miles a day.
The result? My weight is under 13 stone at 180 lbs and today the clinic signed me off for six months after a third consecutive BP reading under 140.
I think the shock of what the doctor said worked for me. The motivation of not seeing my girlies walk down the aisle was enough to get me moving.
I will keep going. I want to be under 12 stone – 168 pounds – and stable not up and down.
The presents this morning were fab but walking out the clinic this morning was fantastic!
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