Good Health

 

When I was 40 years old, I gave up smoking, drinking alcohol eating red meat, fried food, and sugars.  In order to keep me honest, I eat 1-2 cheeseburgers a year, 3-4 pizzas a year, eat a couple of snickers each year, and have maybe 1-2 glasses of wine around Christmas.

I also started a daily exercise routine (seven days a week) that included walking outside or on the treadmill, working with strength machines for an hour.  

My routine also included a healthy diet where I tried to eat less than 2000 calories/day but never over 2500 calories/day.

This diet included:

• fish
• chicken 
• turkey
• colored vegetables
• a variety of beans
• onions
• bell peppers
• garlic

My total cholesterol (both good and bad) was 84.

However, all my exercising and diet, did not stop me from experiencing a triple bypass level heart attack while walking on the treadmill.  It did not stop me from experiencing spinal stenosis that resulted in me having L2-L3, L4, L5, & S1 fused together two years ago.

While my exercise contributed to my problems, my good health saved my life, and my overall health kept my physical condition from BEING WORSE than it was.