The Road to Hell is Full of Good Intentions

Given I have spent the last fifteen months going backwards and forwards with my GP, doing the right thing given my age had clicked over to 42 (now 43 and quickly closing in on 44) in assessing where my overall health is at, the time was going to come eventually where I had to try and make the final step.

Those fifteen months ago, almost everything on my radar was bad. Uric acid level - bad. Blood pressure - bad. Good cholesterol - bad. Bad cholesterol - bad. Kidney function - bad. Liver function - bad. Weight - bad. Anything else that I've forgotten? Probably, but the result would have been the same - bad.

So I've been ticking things off as I go, trying to get everything back in order. My kidneys were given the ultrasound treatment, and given the all clear following that. My liver came back to almost normal levels towards the end of last year. My blood pressure has been slowly coming back to an almost normal level, but as of my last checkup was still higher than normal. I started taking Progout for my uric acid levels on New Year's Day, and after a couple of hurdles appears to be going OK. Though my cholesterol dropped a little due to changing some of my eating habits, it was necessary to go on medication for it back in January, which to this point has worked, but at the detriment to my liver, which seems to have faultered again.
Of all of this, I will know more at the end of next month whn I go back for more blood tests.

However, the one thing I have not yet stuck to is an exercise regime. With my eating habits, my weight has fluctuated between 105kg and 102kg without any real chance of it going further. I've know for months... years... that I need to get into gear, but with work and kids... well, most people will know what I'm talking about.
So I need to cut down the crap I eat, and I need to exercise. My alcohol intake has slowed to almost negligible amounts. I guess in the long run, it may not happen, just like the other times I have started. In theory my supposed ideal weight is 78kgs. That isn't going to happen. I'd like to think 88kgs could be a possibility, which is what I was back in 1995. It isn't likely. My doc would like me to get to 95kgs, which is a minimum for which I should be aiming. I haven't been 95kgs since I stopped smoking ten years ago (though I got close three years ago when I made 97kgs). More than anything else, I would like to get rid of this stomach that has expanded in the last two years, without any weight increase.

Anyway, today being my father's 71st birthday, I decided it was a good enough time to begin. I'm somewhere between 104-105kgs right now. I leave for Bali in four months. It would be nice to have reached that goal by then.