Healthy
It is a day off. I WANT to go get a pedicure, go to my eye exam and get new contacts and glasses, go running, go get coffee, smoke, talk to friends in Portland and watch more premieres on TV tonight.
What I will ACTUALLY do still remains to be seen. As soon as I get done with this, I will go get coffee and talk on the phone (I hope...are my friends up yet?) Smoking...hmmmmmmmmm...I have been sick this last week with a really bad cold and now I am at the stage where it is all in my chest and I can't breathe very well. Not sure smoking would be good for me. Plus, I really REALLY want to quit. For real this time.
I was watching the Rachel Ray show this morning and they had this 25 year old woman on. She was talking about being exhausted all the time, not sleeping well, etc and so doctors gave her this quiz to find out how quickly she was aging. Turns out she was aging 3x's as fast as other 25 year olds. Her age chemically was 38! Her lifestyle didn't seem that bad to me, but the doctors said all of her aging issues were due to the way she lived. She is slightly overweight, drinks frequently with her friends, smokes, takes sleeping pills because she can't get good sleep, is going to school AND working so she has lots of stress...and no boyfriend. I said the last part because it is healthy to have sex or to be in love. The doctors said it had to do with the immune system.
Interestingly enough, they said the most unhealthy part of her lifestyle was her sleep schedule...interesting, huh? They told her to set a bedtime and to stick to it and to make your room dark. Then, of course, the smoking. The doctors said everything could be corrected so all hope was not lost...the weirdest, most impactful thing to me was that they had a makeup artist make her up to look like what she would like in 20 years if her lifestyle didn't change and it was SCARY.
I don't know. I have seen all the lung cancer commercials and they are sad and I don't like to look at them for obvious reasons...for some reason this show hit me pretty hard and I am pretty positive I CAN quit. And finally, I am very sure I am READY and WANT to quit.
Now is the best time to quit...away from my friends who ALL smoke (except Emi) Makes sense I NEED to do it now so when I move home the idea of smoking will not be appealing anymore because I will have been away from it for so long. Also, I am 30 and I have always wanted to quit at 30 AT THE LATEST. I must quit. I must. My health is seriously on the line here.
That was quite a rabbit trail, huh? I thought I was going to talk about my day off, but it didn't turn out like that...oh well. Guess what we blog about is what is at the forefront of our minds and it is good and healthy to get that stuff out.
What I will ACTUALLY do still remains to be seen. As soon as I get done with this, I will go get coffee and talk on the phone (I hope...are my friends up yet?) Smoking...hmmmmmmmmm...I have been sick this last week with a really bad cold and now I am at the stage where it is all in my chest and I can't breathe very well. Not sure smoking would be good for me. Plus, I really REALLY want to quit. For real this time.
I was watching the Rachel Ray show this morning and they had this 25 year old woman on. She was talking about being exhausted all the time, not sleeping well, etc and so doctors gave her this quiz to find out how quickly she was aging. Turns out she was aging 3x's as fast as other 25 year olds. Her age chemically was 38! Her lifestyle didn't seem that bad to me, but the doctors said all of her aging issues were due to the way she lived. She is slightly overweight, drinks frequently with her friends, smokes, takes sleeping pills because she can't get good sleep, is going to school AND working so she has lots of stress...and no boyfriend. I said the last part because it is healthy to have sex or to be in love. The doctors said it had to do with the immune system.
Interestingly enough, they said the most unhealthy part of her lifestyle was her sleep schedule...interesting, huh? They told her to set a bedtime and to stick to it and to make your room dark. Then, of course, the smoking. The doctors said everything could be corrected so all hope was not lost...the weirdest, most impactful thing to me was that they had a makeup artist make her up to look like what she would like in 20 years if her lifestyle didn't change and it was SCARY.
I don't know. I have seen all the lung cancer commercials and they are sad and I don't like to look at them for obvious reasons...for some reason this show hit me pretty hard and I am pretty positive I CAN quit. And finally, I am very sure I am READY and WANT to quit.
Now is the best time to quit...away from my friends who ALL smoke (except Emi) Makes sense I NEED to do it now so when I move home the idea of smoking will not be appealing anymore because I will have been away from it for so long. Also, I am 30 and I have always wanted to quit at 30 AT THE LATEST. I must quit. I must. My health is seriously on the line here.
That was quite a rabbit trail, huh? I thought I was going to talk about my day off, but it didn't turn out like that...oh well. Guess what we blog about is what is at the forefront of our minds and it is good and healthy to get that stuff out.