So to get my triglycerides lower the doctor has me on a medicine called advicor,
as well as diet and exercise. My Beautiful Wife wants me off this
medicine as soon as possible. It has a laundry list of side effects. So
if I am going to get off this medicine I need to focus on the diet and
exercise part. The diet part is going good, I have a support system at
work, of people who will slap me in the back of the head (I hate
being slapped in the back of the head) and take away the
donut, and then cross there arms and give me the, “We are very
disappointed” look. Of course my Beautiful Wife has been just awesome,
like I said early she is basically eating or not eating all of the same
stuff I am. In fact yesterday we had a phone conversation about
how much we both craved sugar, and a coke. We talked each other down.
Having someone that is going through the same thing you are
and being able to talk with them about it is so helpful. So
the diet part is going pretty well.
Well the exercise is the thing I need some work on. I really don’t
like to exercise just to exercise if you know what I mean. I love
playing sports with the family. However I’ll never be a gym “person”.
I’ve tried, I’ve joined a gym and figured that the amount of money I
was paying each month would help me to go more often. I went three
times that year. So I have to find something I love to do for exercise.
Well, I love cycling, so I have started do that again. Again my
Beautiful Wife being the amazingly supportive person she is, has
bough me a new mountain bike.
It’s really nice and lets me ride in a more upright position so my
back doesn’t hurt so much. The bike I’ve had since I was 17
doesn’t fit my 32 year old, 225lb self as well as it fit 17 year
old 165 lb self.
This morning was the first of many morning rides to come. I
got up and 4:30am and finally talked myself in to getting
dressed around 4:45am and actually riding at about 5am. It was
quite nice, riding down quiet streets, hearing the buzz of the tires
against the asphalt and feeling the brisk fall morning air on my face.
Being that this is the first ride I’ve done in a while I took it easy
and decided to only go for a couple of miles and to say on well lit
streets since I don’t have a light setup yet. It was a nice ride only
has hard as I want to ride, I had to keep reminding myself that it was
only me and there was no need to go faster, to just spin a good cadence
and I get back home when I get there.
This whole life style change of diet and exercise is something I
wanted to do but felt I didn’t have the time do do before the
doctors visit, however after that doctors visit, I realized I didn’t
have time not to. My family means to much to me not to do it.