As I sit here writing to you, I have a basal cell carcinoma just above my left eyebrow, and a red mark over my right eyebrow where a precancerous growth was recently frozen and removed.
In addition there is a 2 inch upright scar--an “A” in the middle of my forehead that reaches up to my hair line. This brand resulted from a near-fatal motorcycle accident in my 20s. It seems that my face has become a roadmap of the poor choices of my youth.
As younger people we don’t fully realize that we are going to be 40 one day, but I think at 40 we should fully understand that we will be 60 and beyond. Just as the choices of our youth directly affect us at middle-age, the choices of middle-age directly affect our older-age.
I can’t help but wonder what I might be like at 41 if I hadn’t chosen this healthy lifestyle 8 years ago. After years of excess stress, alcohol consumption, processed food, pots of coffee instead of bottles of water, and daring and dangerous activities, I might very well be excessively diseased or debilitated at 41. Did you know that mice with continuous access to running wheels developed 32 percent fewer skin tumors than inactive mice? Who knows how many cancerous growths I might now have if not for that powerfully healthy choice 8 years ago—and every day since!
My client Elizabeth made a healthy choice, too. She decided to hire me 2 years ago. At that point her life wasn’t going so well. With multiple prescriptions and various afflictions she was mostly home-bound and withdrawn. Now, just 2 years later and at 60 years of age, she is perhaps more beautiful than she’s ever been (the turning heads and dropping jaws are too numerous to count anymore). But more than that, she is completely vibrant. She has the energy and interest to be in a new relationship, to be traveling extensively, and to now be running (she never ran before meeting me) 10-15 miles every week. She was told by an examining physician that she has the health of a 16 year old. He happened to mistake her for one of the athletes at an event she was recently attending.
My client Laurie made a healthy choice as well when she decided to hire me. While gaining more and more confidence she began to trust our workouts and look forward to the results, dropping from a 2XL to a size 14 and being able to shop in designer stores for the first time in her life. After beginning to feel light on her feet she started running more errands and conducting more business each day and discovered that she no longer needed her daily naps. She, too, has jaws dropping all over the place. People who haven’t seen her in some time don’t recognize her. She made the powerfully healthy choice to get healthy and now has a new and exciting life. Her doctor, too, has been totally impressed with her medical progress. Her health is now exceptional!
And Monty has made a powerfully healthy choice. Monty was exhibiting signs of having some sort of neurological disorder. His speech was slurred, he was stumbling into things on most days, he was extremely forgetful and seemed dazed and confused most of the time. After a brain scan determined that his brain was fine, be began working out with me. In addition to beginning exercise, Monty began sleeping on a different schedule, began eating, and began drinking water. We determined that he was severely sleep-deprived, starving, excessively dehydrated and was probably in adrenal failure due to existing on a dozen double espressos each day. Now Monty is sharp and vibrant and has a new career. Monty made the healthy choice to begin taking care of his baseline health and like the others is now living a new and exciting life.
Have you exercised and eaten well today? Rest assured, today’s choices will affect you tomorrow.
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