Good Doctor visit

Today was my three week follow-up, after having my physical for being a new patient. I have been blessed health wise but it was quite some time since I had a complete physical. As the results came back from the blood work I was reading about different items in my body which I never really considered or knew I had.

I heard other people talk about their cholesterol and blood pressure but when I looked at the various makeup in my body I said, "Wow!" Of course when I heard the nurse practitioner talk about medicine to control these two items I said, "Whoa!" Now that I know these are problems let me see what I can do to correct them. What was kind of humorous to me was I was thinking if it took 66+ years to get it like this how long do I have to work at reversing what was done?

As I stated in the beginning of this blog, I was doing my three week followup. My cholesterol check will be in three months. What I started to do as soon as I left the doctors office three weeks ago was read food labels. I knew the main item I had to watch for, with my blood pressure was sodium. Everything I looked at was mainly filled with sodium. If it was low on sodium it was high in fat. But I was determined to solve these medical problems without medicine. After all I have been so blessed that I rarely have to take an aspirin.

The first item of course was to talk to the Lord about this. I thanked Him for bringing me to a new doctor and also for all the previous years of good health. I then asked Him to guide me and the doctor's to keep me healthy so I can continue to do His will in my life.

Next it was off to the store to buy healthy food. Did you ever notice that when you do that your food bill is about a third higher than non-healthy. Fewer items to buy also. No wonder our country lives off of junk food, that's about all you can find. I use to love chicken noodle soup but when I read the label one can has almost 900mg of sodium and that is just for 1 cup. Well, I bought a lot of frozen veggies, celery, and lean meats. I told myself you will like rice cakes. I am back to eating cereal (Quaker oats), just don't make it with water, blah!

So what it all meant was in three weeks, blood pressure was going back down, and I lost a couple more pounds. I know if I stay at it in three months my cholestral will be close or in the normal range. Can I grab a chicken wing now and then, sure but just one or two and more then than now.

Life is all about choices. Just as I asked Christ to take control of my life, it was my choice. Sin is like all the junk food, seems good at the time but you will pay the price sooner or later. Jesus is the healthy food. He gives me what I need, not just what I want.

"Give us this day our daily bread!"

From God's heart, to mine, to yours,
Ed Shagott