Three years ago when I decided to retire, it was brought on from many changes in my company, my new responsibility of just having lead our home delivery teams nationally through Covid, and the training and education I was responsible for for a national delivery team, coast to coast.
That added work load and not enjoying things for a few years lead me to incredible stress and just bad living habits that involved lots of added alcohol.
It also lead to high blood pressure, high cholesterol and firmly into type two diabetes!
After I left work, moved across country back to my home province, my stress did diminish and as much as I tried, I couldn’t get those three issues under control… bring on sobriety to start this year.
It brought a renewed focus and interest in working out and eating healthy and in a caloric deficit. Focus on proper rest and nutrition.
In the scheme of things, it hasn’t been a long time for sobriety, only 116 days…
Last night I got my blood work results and of the 7 pages and literally probably 100 test results, everything came back as NORMAL!
Specifically my cholesterol is firmly in middle of normal range and Hgb A1c, is just below mid range of NORMAL! No diabetes, no pre-diabetes. Add to that my blood pressure past couple weeks has been running the normal range as well…
Now, I need to still follow up with doc to see if 1 test means medication stops or changes, but it’s all back to normal, and that’s better than I could have hoped for!
Sobriety has given so many gifts to me in this short time, and I am excited to see where it leads as I continue my fitness/ health journey into the future, but I do know I am so appreciative of this new lifestyle and of course all of you that have been part of my support, even if that just meant reading my rambles… it helps me to write things down and that someone out there is hearing me…
Lots of love today 
and appreciation/gratitude 
to all I have found since beginning this quest.
It can be done, and it doesn’t have to take forever. It just takes one foot in front of the other. One step at a time. One day at a time… we can get there.
Be well and if you are still reading,
I big congrats on these wins!!!
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, the emotional support and gym advice from my son (Nate), as well as some fantastic friends that have helped me along this journey also, specifically Peter with probably way too many emails to him on advice and his help with some specific targeted training towards what I needed…As well Theresa, with some early designs of a workout routine that has morphed a bit since I began…Thank you all, and if not mentioned, you know who I’ve called upon for support when required, helped me immensely as well.