Routine Maintenance Along the Way!

Every one knows (or at least I hope that everyone knows) when driving a vehicle, you have to perform routine maintenance on your vehicle to make sure that it is running in proper order! The same goes for your body as well! That means going and having regularly scheduled checkups/physicals etc. Well I have started the annual checkups and have heard that all of the lifestyle changes that I am making are really making a difference! Recently I went for my yearly vision test. I told my eye doctor that my newer glasses just hadn't been working right and that I could see better out of glasses that were a few years old. She ran all of the tests and was excited to tell me that my vision had improved! That is something that NEVER happens with me! My eyesight has progressively gotten worse over the years to where we were going to have to consider bi-focal lenses soon. I wasn't too happy about that thought. So I was able to go back to a prescription from like 3-4 years ago which was amazing to me! Today I went for my annual mammogram. One of the ladies in the room asked if there had been any changes in my weight in the last year. The other lady in the room, Susan, smiled when I said yes. Because Susan has seen a majority of my transformation to getting healthy because she has been assisting with my mammograms the last three years. I was able to talk with them about how much better I'm feeling and how much weight that I had lost etc. It was the most enjoyable visit (if a mammogram can be enjoyable :o) )that I had! As I was leaving, the lady told me that I was truly an inspiration to her and that I was just an inspiration. That was hard for me to hear because this was the Breast Cancer Center and I see people there that are battling breast cancer every time that I am there. She then told me to keep on going and continue to keep getting healthy! No matter if you are just thinking about trying to get healthy or you have been, like me, on this journey for several years, make sure that you are having regular doctor visits. That is a huge indicator and such an exciting thing to see as numbers that were once border line high or high dropping down into the normal ranges! Make sure you are taking care of yourself! You are the only you there is and this world would be lonely without you! Keep on keeping on!