Grateful I am healthy

Grateful that I am healthy 

In this week's series about gratitude I am writing about being grateful for being healthy. I know that with so much going on during this last week before the holidays, we forget to take time out for ourselves and to be grateful but that is what I always do, I am grateful I am healthy enough to be able to exercise.

I have always been a gym nut starting from high school where me and Clara (my 6 foot black friend) would work out with all the boys. Back then not many women worked out especially in a gym.

This was before the whole exercise crazy, even before Jane Fonda and Olivia Newton John  (Dinosaur reference... that just dated me didn't it? As some of you are saying who the hell are they?)

I took weight lifting in college as a class, I did dance classes, I've done yoga, belly dancing, kickboxing, zumba classes even pole dancing classes. 

I bike ride, I've learned to surf for my girls, I did a marathon and a triathlon, I have always been active and worked out.

I get up at 5 am every morning and I am at the gym by 5:30. Most of my friends think I am nuts but that is who I am. I have a family history of heart disease on both sides and I decided a long time ago I wasn't going out like that without a fight.

Even with all that, even with eating right for the most part (Hello, I am Italian and do love pizza, so I am not perfect) 

Last year I found out that I have plaque in my heart, I thought are you frigging kidding me, with all that I do? I eat egg whites every morning, I never eat fast food or fried foods. I eat fresh salads, brown rice and vegetables. I don't smoke anymore what the hell else can I do, eat grass? I will be trying that the beginning of the year...more to come on that too.

But I am grateful I can still exercise even if my body feels older, even if I am stiffer, even if I have plaque in my heart, I still refuse to go down without a fight.

So I decided to start doing yoga on a regular basis again, I use to do yoga 5 days a week and was in the best shape of my life, mentally and physically. So this week I am on my third day and I feel old as shit.I can't touch my toes anymore, everything is tight and hurts and basically this sucks.

I know how good I use to be and am mad that I am not still there. I know it will come back in time but sometimes I have no patience, I want it now, like most people. But I continue on past the hurt and the pain because that is what you do. I will also be adding swimming into the mix again one day a week and I still suck at that! I remember when I started to swim, I was so out of breathe it sounded like I was 90! I could only do 10 laps and that was pushing it! I felt like they needed to call 911! Are you kidding me?

When I was training for the triathlon I swam 2 or 3 times a week for 30 to 35 laps no problem.

But again I haven't swam in a while and I know that it is what happens. Still I am grateful that I can swim, that I can walk when so many people can't. I am grateful that I have a mind set to keep going, that I refuse to give up, to quit.

I am grateful for each extra day I get to spend with my girls, my family and my friends because most of my family was gone from heart disease before the age of 60. I am grateful that maybe I can be a role model to my girls or someone out there reading my blogs, to be healthier, to change their lives at any age, it's never too late.

So today my friends remember when you start something it may be hard, it may suck and you may want to give up, but keep fighting, you'll get better. You'll do fine and as long as you have the mindset of gratitude, that you know that you are at least healthy enough to do what so many aren't able to, then it will come.

Never give up...I can...I must...I will…

** I know this is a tough time of year so I will be putting this number out there for all that needs it...I have been there and I know how dark it may seem especially during the Christmas season, there is help, it will get better...I am living proof of 

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