I turned 50 a couple of years ago and I always had it in my head that when that happened I would be healthy and fit. Of course I did that when I was turning 30 and then 40 and then...well you get the idea. It didn't happen, in fact, I think I'm probably a little heavier, have a little less energy and hurt a little bit more when I walk on a treadmill for 30 minutes (not that that happens much either).


I'll be 52 next month and I've been thinking that I should probably get some help to becoming healthier. But I haven't really done anything about it, except sign up for some websites that are bombarding me with so many newsletters I can't get one read before the next one's in my mailbox. Either they really want you to succeed or the webmaster is trying to justify their salary.


So I was at a conference last weekend and decided to take a golf lesson. The pro was great and suggested the best way to analyze my swing and guide the lesson was to....you guessed it.....video my swing. So I hit a half a bucket of balls and we go to the classroom to look at the video. After the third swing, I looked at the screen and said, in my outdoor voice, Oh My Gawd! Now Dave the pro looked at me and said, "well you know, your swing isn't really that bad." But of course I wasn't looking at my swing, I was looking at what was swinging, my arms, my belly, my legs, my butt. All I could think was it's a good thing Dave wasn't standing nearby, he could have gotten hurt. That was it. The video did it. I had an epiphany and decided at that moment, I did not want to see myself looking like that in another picture.


Now I had to choose what I was going to do. I've been on every diet ever invented and then some. I've been on the eat nothing but grapefruit or protein, or brown rice diet. I've had sheep urine injections, supplements and drops. I wasn't interested in anything that was only related to weight loss and I didn't want to belong to a group effort.

After researching different organizations I've hooked up with Dr. Nathalie Beauchamp, a Chiropractor in town who is also part of an organization called a Creating Wellness Centre. It is a program that through a comprehensive evaluation process determines an ideal weight and fitness level for me and then provides the tools to achieve the goals I set in consultation with Dr. Nathalie.


So wish me luck. I plan to blog my way through the process complete with pictures and maybe even video.