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Now this is not to countenance mediocrity
and appeasement with regards to personal
health matters rather it is an attempt to
create an environment where we can be more
honest with ourselves and at the end of the
day accomplish more of what we set out to do
at the very start.
I make this comment as somebody who can talk
about this matter with a fair amount of
experience. In my own personal case it was
after being diagnosed or being told that I
suffered from malignant hypertension and if
I didn’t start to take better care of myself
sooner rather than later then I would have
to confine myself having to rely on some
fairly serious and powerful drugs for the
rest of my life and all that entailed.
I had to make the lifestyle changes and
looking back after some five years some of
them turned out to be fairly drastic ones
but at least some five years later those
lifestyle changes have started to develop a
routine of their own.
It wasn't easy and I wouldn’t want to start
by saying that it was but in my case I
started small and built gradually. Going
back to the maxim “success by the yard is
hard”, some of the lifestyle changes took
several years to accomplish while some of
them took several weeks.
The important thing is that at all times
stay focused on the big picture and expect
that in some cases that for every two steps
forward you take, you wind up taking one
step backward. In my case my initial blood
pressure reading was 216/160 (the generally
accepted target level should be 120/80) and
so I fell fairly and squarely into the
middle of the bracket entitled “Malignant
Hypertension”.
Here we are five years later and as a result
of an entire campaign of lifestyle changes
some bigger than others and conversely some
smaller than others I now find myself with
that ideal blood pressure reading of 116/76.
As I said some lifestyle changes were easier
to accomplish than others but in all cases
the end result has been worth it.
So the message of all of this has to be if
you are confronted by necessity of a
situation where you have to make lifestyle
changes then plan your changes across the
board and if necessary start slowly and
build up.
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