Rough Month

Since I wrote the post on the Color Run, we ended up not being able to go because I had to have a procedure done the day before that made walking painful so we had to sit it out which made me  really sad.  I have slowly been getting my speed and my endurance back up since the weather started warming back up and hurt my ankle due to some tight calves on April 15th doing a group run with one of the local running stores.  I made an appointment for the Campbell Clinic for April 18th but ended up going up to Nashville a day early because my father had a heart attack so I had to cancel it.  I have rescheduled with a physical therapist for Wednesday of next week to hopefully get some exercises, stretches and things I should do to help alleviate some of this pain.  I'm also going to have them check on arm and shoulder since it is giving me some issues as well.

I don't have a memory of my father being sick so seeing him in the hospital was a surreal experience and has put some of my own health perspectives in line.  In February, I went to the doctor to have an all around physical done and found out that my cholesterol was a little high as were my triglycerides so I made a conscious decision to start changing and being more diligent about my eating habits and the foods I put into myself.  After this weekend and the family scare, I want to make even bigger and better changes for myself and my little family.

I've been doing a lot of reading on heart healthy diets, diets that seem to be the best overall for losing weight, and those that are good for long term, lifestyle changes.  One of the major things is that it needs to be something that is sustainable in the long run.  It has been interesting to me that many of these diets share the same underlying principle: lean meats, dark leafy greens, variety of colors for your vegetables along with a variety of colors in your fruits, and minimizing grain intake, soda consumption, and sugar consumption.  I'm glad that I am already doing some of these things but I can't wait to incorporate more healthy living and eating choices into my life to have a healthier way of living.