Hi ,

So I’ve learned that I have high cholesterol, including a high cholesterol risk ratio. I’m pretty certain I’m not the only one of those reading this that are in the same boat. Can I first say that I don’t wanna change my diet *lol*. I want to eat as much as I want. I want to be able to relax in the evening and not have to go and do a brisk walk.

I want to stomp my feet that my body is no longer cooperating with how I was doing things before. But, alas, tis not meant to be. I need to change things or my body will change for the worse. I just stood on the scale and weighed in at 147, which is the biggest I’ve been outside of pregnancy. Of course, it’s not too bad, but I can see it in my hips, stomach, arms and face. At 47 years old, I don’t have the luxury of letting myself go anymore.

In an attempt to change things for the better, we’ve set up the Ring Fit for the Nintendo Switch in our basement. This can add quite the exercise regime into our daily life. I would love to pull out my VR, but the computer that has the VR is in my son’s room; it has Beat Saber and a boxing game, which do give you a good work out as well. We also want to pick up a cross trainer so that on the rainy days, we don’t have to go outside to work out. There is a park nearby that has a lot of stairs, but my knee after my last car accident hasn’t been wanting to play nice, so hoping to strength the surrounding muscles, which should hopefully stabilize it a little.

Then comes my diet. I’m a bad one for potato chips, pop and sometimes alcohol, so it’s time to write those out of my diet….mostly. *lol* I don’t know if I can give up all those completely, but I’m going to do my best and maybe my subscribers can be my accountability partner, especially if you are also on this journey.

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Enjoy!

xo,

Patricia Elliott

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