Hubby got his blood checked and found out he has high cholesterol and high blood pressure. Doc says he needs to go on a diet and do more cardio. This actually makes me smile, not because he is at risk for heart problems!!!  but because I've been trying to get him to eat healthier and exercise more for a really long time. He's not overweight or anything, he just doesn't eat healthy and doesn't do any cardio. He lifts weights and says that's all he needs. Now that I have a doctor backing me up, food in our house is going to change.

 I already have a lot of healthy things, because I like to eat healthy. Problem is, hubby doesn't like too many veggies unless they are loaded with something fattening (like cheese or butter) and he loves fried food, especially okra. I told him today that when I go to the grocery store, I'm getting healthy stuff. He said that was fine (YAY!!) He works at the middle school, so he is always eating the food from the cafeteria (which is in no way healthy!) so I told him that I am going to start packing his lunches (I've offered to do this before, but he turned it down.) He said that would be fine as long as it is something he would eat. We are just going to have to work on a meal plan, then.

Let me give you an example of how he likes to eat. He stopped by the grocery store the other day because he wanted steak for dinner (I wasn't able to get to the grocery store yet.) He comes home with steak, pork chops, Cheetos, and two boxes of Fiddle Faddle!!! Ugh! He decided he wanted pork chops for dinner, but he wanted them lightly coated with flour. Had no problem with that. I started on dinner and put just a little bit of canola oil in the pan. He tried to convince me that that would not be enough and I needed to put a lot more oil in. Good thing I know how to cook! Those chops ended up being the best we have had!

Okay. I will have to confess, we BOTH have a sweet tooth. While hubby will be more than willing to eat something sweet from the store (ie. Fiddle Faddle) I, on the other hand, like to make my own sweets. I usually bake my own cookies and substitute the oil in recipes with applesauce. I usually make my own pudding with low fat milk and make jello at home, instead of buying it in those little convenient tubs. I am now going to start incorporating more fruit into our sweets. I know I have a cookbook somewhere that shows you how to bake with out sugar, instead using honey and fruits as the sweetener. I'm going to have to pull that out and start using it. An exception to all of this is dark chocolate and licorice. Oh man! I love my dark chocolate and licorice, I just don't eat it all the time.

As for the exercising, hubby has chronic back pain from an accident almost 10 years ago. That pain makes all other body pain even worse. This I know. His feet have been hurting him lately and the doc thinks it's also attributed to his back pain. I'm going to convince hubby to start stretching his muscles (he says it's just not possible) and get him to start walking with me after work. See, we live on a mountain so even just walking for a little bit is a lot since we would be going up hill. We will have to start out slow at first, but I think he will be able to do more quickly. Now, if only I can convince him into getting a treadmill!!!

Well, we'll see how it goes!!

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