Obsessed.....

There are many people out there, that I meet and greet everyday, that may think I am obsessed with the whole fitness and health picture. Maybe I am. One of best friends told me I was, yet she is somewhat the same, she just keeps it to herself. Her tag line to me, is always the same, "you can't change people".
I know she is right, but can we motivate people to change?

As a nurse, I have seen how poor health can effect an entire family. A man comes to the ER with chest pain, he is having a heart attack. He is taken to the surgical suite for a heart cath, and they find 100% occlusion of a vessel. No, we can't open it. We have to do bypass surgery.
Now this man, is in the OR, getting a Cardiac bypass, and will be unstable for while, and it will take weeks to recover, should surgery go well. He can't work, he needs time to recover. This disease is preventable.
The family is effected due to his inability to work, financially but also, their leader is compromised. The family has to come together to get through this, emotionally.
The man's wife is thinking all the What if's? What if he doesn't make? What if he can never go back to work?  How will we survive?
This in just an example.


Facebook is a medium of social networking, and gives you a glimpse into peoples activities that they do everyday. I love FB, I check it all the time. And many times, I hate what I see. I see people posting what restaurant they are eating at, pictures of them eating and drinking, and having a great time!!
You ask why I hate that?? Because, everything should be in moderation, and when I see the same people over and over, who I know, are not healthy, because I know they are diabetic, or overweight, or at risk, I get very sad!!
I try to educate people and tell them that Soda is bad, or fast food is bad. But they call me obsessed, and they shut me out.
They don't want to hear it. I get it! I will stop telling you. But it makes me SO SAD!!  I will just have to be sad for you.
IF you don't want to work out, ok, that's your choice! But I am so sad for you.
Exercise, releases feel good hormones to the brain, ironically, just like fatty food and sugar!
There are studies that prove this. So, yes, believe it or not, you can get the same "high" from exercise as you can from that Super big gulp!!
The difference, the brain will become tolerant of sugar, and it will take more to get the "feeling". With exercise, you don't get tolerant!! And if you get addicted to working out, I am really ok with that.

I will say it again, it's your choices that make your destiny. Which path are you going on?
I might be able to lighten up a bit. Live and let live, right??? There is something in me, that makes that very difficult.




But in the end, my calling remains to try to help others. To educate, to motivate, to facilitate!
Yes, I am obsessed with it. Call it what you want, I am what I am.