This year has been one of my busiest ever. culminating in my realising that I had locked in activities on more than half of every week. This is NOT good. Not for me and certainly not for my health and fitness. SO – time to forget extra research and more shooting out to help with this group or that. Time to focus on what I need to do for me as well as everyone else.
FIRST Update my wall chart to include both my commitments for others as well as my new commitments to MYSELF. Which are :- Walk for at least 1 hour, three times per week. There are beautiful walking areas in my area, some where I can start to use the hiking poles I received from my son as part of my Christmas present. Even though the weather has started deteriorating and summer has definitely flown, I have the gear to be able to accomplish this.
NEXT Eat good, home cooked food regularly, avoid the foods I shouldn’t eat. (Not easy that, I slipped up again as recently as yesterday. 🙁 OOps. I promise to do better). My last check up was very good, my health, as usual up to par. I continue to take the medication I need and also the supplements I have found that work for me. I have been and continue to be, aware that I need to care for myself first before I can be of use to others.
AND With that in mind here are my latest thoughts, “Darn it!! You’ve reached the big 5-0, or 6-0, or even worse, 7-0 – gulp! What to do now? Do you retire to the sofa as some did in the long ago past? Prepare yourself for “OLD AGE”? – Horrors! Perish the thought. But – if you are anything like me, you’re not READY for old age yet. So, what do you do? Well, when my other half left me a widow, and after the first very long months (of which I have no real recollection) had passed, I suddenly found I was a single person again. A ‘mature’ single person who didn’t know what to do with myself now that I was no longer part of a couple. I tried reclining on a sofa, but I couldn’t sit still long enough, so the only alternative was to sit up and think. As a result I have spent plenty of time researching ways of staying healthy and fit. For after all, I am now responsible for my own health and fitness. My first forays took me out walking, weather permitting and after a while it no longer took half an hour just to walk into my local village and back. And after an even longer time, I was walking for up to an hour and a half, sometimes covering 5+kilometres. Today is the day I resume living my life with a healthy work/leisure balance. Today is also the day I commit to updating my blogs more frequently.