Out in the open

Last night, I made a decision.

It was a good decision. Really it was.

So, what I decided to do was to begin losing weight. I am going to be 38 years old in less than a month and I am so terribly out of shape that I’m using sayings like “round is a shape” to make excuses for NOT being healthy.

I take 80mg of Zestril (alpha blocker – lowers the pressure by thinning the blood) a day. 25 mg of Coreg (beta blocker – lowers my heart rate). An 81mg aspirin. I weigh over 300 pounds. I’ve been in the hospital once already for chest pain…that turned out to be gastrointestinal instead. I have NO idea what my cholesterol is because all the meds that my doctor wants to put me on (statins) have caused problems with me so he doesn’t do the test. No point I guess.

I’m a walking time bomb of a heart attack.

So, last night I got onto the treadmill that we got from Meagan and started the 10,000 steps program. My plan was to start off slow, which is recommended, by only walking 1,000 steps a day for a week and then upping that by 1,000 steps every week until I reached my goal.

Well, that plan failed.

Tonight, I set the treadmill to go the 1,000 steps that I wanted at about 2.4 mph and walked. When I was done, I felt like I wasn’t done. So, I set in for another 1,000 steps and proceeded to double my goal for the day.

It felt good.

It looks like I’ll be starting out at 2,000 steps first and then going up from there.

My goal is to eventually get my weight down to the typical 225 pounds that I should be near and lower my cholesterol and my blood pressure. By my birthday in 2010.

I’m going to do it. For myself, my wife and the rest of my family.

Till Next Time,