Disability and Diet; Why a Need?
It is a new year filled with new opportunities for all of us. If you, like me, have a Chronic Disease that you are managing, you might fact the same problem that I am currently facing. I AM OVERWEIGHT. No, to be completely honest with all of you, I must admit that I am obese.
How does this make me feel? Well, to quote teenagers, "it sucks"! It is one of the reasons that it has been hard for me to blog as much as I did last year. My committment to all of you is that I won't ask something of you that I haven't tried (and succeeded in) myself. So, in asking you to adopt the concepts of "Chronic Disease Self-Management", I had to first master it myself; in asking you to become an "Expert Patient", I had first to become one myself; in asking you to help your Doctor(s) join you in the new medical practice of "Patient Centered Health Care", I had first to practice this new health care with my doctors. (Note: all of these concepts are described in detail in previous blogs within this series.)
So, we come full circle back to Chronic Disease Self-Management. While I modeled this concept for you in understanding, documenting, communicating about, and achieving financial support for your Chronic Disease with my Disability Workbook and the www.disabilitykey.com blog, I have NOT modeled the part of this self-management that deals with maxamizing what health I have left.
Yes, my current quality of life is excellent, it will be significantly better when I loose the weight that I have gained since my diagnosis in 1997.
So, I come clean with all of you. I have been researching weight loss plans and programs. I have been researching the types of excercises that are optimum for folks with all types and conditions of Chronic Disease. I have selected a program, and have succeeded in loosing 6 pounds during my first week on my diet!
These next few blog enteries will provide you with the research that I have done for myself on both weight loss plans and programs, and on exercise programs; I'll share with you the challenges and successes I have along my journey; and, if you write in with questions, I'll share your successes and challenges too.
Tomorrow the journey begins! I sincerely hope that my journey diary helps motivate you to begin one of your own.
How does this make me feel? Well, to quote teenagers, "it sucks"! It is one of the reasons that it has been hard for me to blog as much as I did last year. My committment to all of you is that I won't ask something of you that I haven't tried (and succeeded in) myself. So, in asking you to adopt the concepts of "Chronic Disease Self-Management", I had to first master it myself; in asking you to become an "Expert Patient", I had first to become one myself; in asking you to help your Doctor(s) join you in the new medical practice of "Patient Centered Health Care", I had first to practice this new health care with my doctors. (Note: all of these concepts are described in detail in previous blogs within this series.)
So, we come full circle back to Chronic Disease Self-Management. While I modeled this concept for you in understanding, documenting, communicating about, and achieving financial support for your Chronic Disease with my Disability Workbook and the www.disabilitykey.com blog, I have NOT modeled the part of this self-management that deals with maxamizing what health I have left.
Yes, my current quality of life is excellent, it will be significantly better when I loose the weight that I have gained since my diagnosis in 1997.
So, I come clean with all of you. I have been researching weight loss plans and programs. I have been researching the types of excercises that are optimum for folks with all types and conditions of Chronic Disease. I have selected a program, and have succeeded in loosing 6 pounds during my first week on my diet!
These next few blog enteries will provide you with the research that I have done for myself on both weight loss plans and programs, and on exercise programs; I'll share with you the challenges and successes I have along my journey; and, if you write in with questions, I'll share your successes and challenges too.
Tomorrow the journey begins! I sincerely hope that my journey diary helps motivate you to begin one of your own.
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