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I've just discovered this amazing video, I hope it goes viral!
I was told, approximately 18 months ago, that there were going to be so many things that I can no longer do, an won't ever be able to experience, because medical science has collected statistics that say I can't do things. What we need to know about doctors is that they are given medians in terms of recovery or out come of illness or injury to the body. There is no one set rule. They give the average. It's not that you're super human if you recover quicker, or super unhealthy if you take longer, it will depend on what your body has to fight off in the first place. Your body is individual, it can cope with different stresses in life, physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual! How your body reacts to these factors is quite different to how mind would react.
So all these cardiologists have told me that I can no longer do certain activities! My heart may not recover from my illness to the 100% use that I had before. They are surprised that I have been able to take to my medication so well. They were surprised that I was almost to where I was before the hospital stay. But now that's not good enough for me!
I want to be a million times better than what I have ever been.
I have never been a healthy person, never ate right, never truly exercised. I gave up on myself too often. But now, this video has lit a fire in my belly. I have started slowly changing the way I eat, small steps, cutting out some foods or reducing my intake of them. I know I have relapses back into eating simple take away! But I don't punish myself. I just recover and decide that the next meal should be something that I enjoy but greener!
I have learnt that in any stages of change, there's always bound to be chances of relapse! Relapse doesn't mean you have failed! Failure will only happen if you never get up and try again, maybe not straight away, but ever! Relapse just means that you've taken a short detour but the end destination is still the same, your journey may have just taken a little bit longer than others on a similar path. Enjoy your journey no matter how many detours you have.
Now I've come to this impasse! Do I stay to course which is leading me to early death, according to the doctors, where limitations and hardships and life seems to have the cream skimmed off the top, so that I can live in a lack lustre longevity, or do I follow what I feel is right, follow what my gut has been saying all along!
I'm going with my gut and just persevering!
