Take Back Responsibility for Your Health!

Every time you turn around there is talk about our healthcare system. Affordable Care Act or not, our healthcare system is facing many big problems. In fact many say it is broken and beyond repair. I tend to agree.

As I speak to clients, friends and other professional peers, there is one trend in common. It is getting harder and harder to find good healthcare.  The responsibility for our health is shifting back to where it belongs, ourselves.

For the past 20 years, I have chosen to practice lifestyle habits that help keep me out of the doctor's office. Yes, at any age, your lifestyle habits can have a significant impact on your quality of life.

And the funny (maybe ironic) part about it? It's really much easier that you might think to take care of yourself. I stay well rested, well hydrated, eat in a moderate and balanced way and enjoy the same health-based activity programs I create for my clients.

I am 57 but what about if you are older? Here is an example of a client of mine. Jean is a 75 year old woman that had been having problems with congestive heart failure. She felt tired all the time, was overweight, over medicated and depressed about what she saw was her "sad state of health."

All of her doctors wanted her to exercise but she did not because she never really liked it. She continued to refuse to move not believing that health-based activity would make any difference in how she felt.

Well, after three trips to the hospital emergency room last year for fluid retention she called and asked a simple question. "Can you give me an exercise program I will like and be able to practice at home."

I said, "I can do better than that; I can give you a health-based activity program that will make you feel better and stop the trips to the hospital. When do want to start?"

Jean and I have been working together now for almost a year. I created a health-based exercise program that takes her 15 minutes a day to complete. Sometimes she even goes longer because she finds the activities fun and challenging.

To compliment her activity, I have asked her to drink more water and get plenty of rest. Now she has more energy, she has lost some weight and her doctor took her off some of her medications. The other day she said, "Why did I wait so long? To that I said, "At least you started; there are many people who do not."

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