Someone asked me the other day, why now. Why did I decide I needed to start on this healthy path. It was real simple. I was at a conference at Deerhurst and during some time off I took a golf lesson. The pro suggested I start hitting a bucket of balls and he would film me with his videocamera. So I teed up the ball, tried to ignore his camera and away I went. He shot straight on and from the side. Great idea, I thought, this way I can see where to improve my swing.

Once we were done we moved into the classroom where he put the film into the VCR and turned the tv on. Right there in living colour was the best reason in the world to get healthy. I watched myself hit a few balls and then said with my outdoor voice, "Oh my God!". "You know, your swing isn't that bad," said the pro. Of course, I wasn't talking about my swing. I had just never seen myself from these angles before and I sure didn't like what I saw.

So that's how this all came about. I'm hoping next year when I attend the conference and have a golf lesson, the video shows a different side of me :)

Well I went for my first meeting with Dr. Nathalie and in fact didn't spend any time with her. She has a nurse working with her on her Creating Wellness program and Leslie is who took me through the testing. It was interesting the things they were measuring, like different areas of strength, my hips (44.5") and my waist (this was the one I was most shocked at, 40"). In addition, they scanned my back to find trouble areas in the bones and the muscles. No surprises there. I use a computer most of the day, I'm right handed and that's the hand I use for my mouse, I carry my purse on my left shoulder, I play the banjo, I use a rotary cutter for quilting and live a very sedentary lifestyle. Why wouldn't I have problem areas in my back.

Then I was asked to complete a lifestyle questionnaire, that was a comprehensive look at my eating habits, physical activity and psychological outlook. I wonder if anyone is 100% honest with their answers. I probably could have gone back and made changes if I thought that no one else would read the answers, but I'm just not comfortable having someone know that much about what I'm thinking and feeling. I'm going to start a journal where I can feel safe with what I'm writing.

After all of the testing was completed, I got the results, but don't really understand them, so I'm about to watch a DVD that will explain the program to me and then on Thursday I'm back to see Dr. Nathalie and Leslie to get started on the program.

That's it for now.