So the first picture is my log of blood pressure measurements when I first started taking them at the beginning of May. Obviously red is bad -too high, green is spot on and then orange and yellow in between. As you can see I had a lot of reds and oranges but now it's massively improved - more yellows and even a green or two thrown in! I was ecstatic when I got a green! This is all down to walking. I walk home from work as much as I can and actively look forward to it! Who knew??
When I'm walking I tend to listen to podcasts and they are generally about health/weight loss/exercise etc. I found one that has different experts on and discuss why diets don't work. It's all about eating normally and not labelling food good or bad. It's about being healthy so things like not smoking, reducing alcohol, moving your body. And embracing the shape and size of the body you have. And it's not meaning eating normally as in stuff your face with chocolate and cakes, as let's face it that's not very normal. It's all about being healthy not thin. I've always believed that diets don't work. Well, no, all/most diets do work in that if you follow the plan (red days or green day's/counting points/living on cabbage soup or grapefruits or hard boiled eggs) you will lose weight but where they ALL fail is that you always (apparently 95%) put the weight back after some period of time. But wanting to be thin (for whatever your reasons are) is ingrained. Whether it's from the media, or the health professionals, the views of the Western world for the last 60 years or just people we know - being overweight/in a larger body is thought of as 'bad' and being thin is 'good' even if that thin person is actually very unfit and lives on cheese sandwiches! If I lost 5 stones I suspect that everyone would be delighted for me. I can't imagine a single person who would say 'oh dear Gilly what have you done? You look awful and you should have stayed fat!'. Because even though I agree that diets don't work it's almost impossible to believe that being fat is ok. Maybe things are changing and I certainly enjoy the debate but for now I, for one, will still go to sleep hoping I wake up thinner!
For those who do not have time to exercise will one day have to find time for illness.
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