Are You Too Busy to Take Care of You?

Being healthy is an ongoing challenge, how are you doing with it? You are a busy woman!


There are always more things to do in a day than I can even try to accomplish – meeting clients here and there, keeping up with the housework, the lawn, my business, taking time for my family and eating good nutritious meals. But most important is taking time for ME. All of these things are important. Keeping them in balance is sometimes a challenge!

We all like to feel healthy, have lots of energy, and be able to accomplish our tasks and desires of each day. However, in today’s fast-paced world, do you become so busy that you often eat fast or prepackaged foods? Do you forget to exercise? There’s usually no extra time to take care of YOU when there’s so much on your plate.

After a life changing experience a few years ago, my health was compromised. I began eating better foods, exercising on a more regular basis. Fortunately I was able to reverse most of my health issues. I realized a very important thing. In order for me to enjoy my family, be a better person, and accomplish my mission in life, I needed to enjoy good health! I had to place a high priority on making healthier choices.

Take a moment to evaluate yourself and see how important you are to YOU. If you aren’t important enough to YOU, it may be lessoning your importance to others as well. Rate yourself 1 to 10: 1 being least importance, 10 being greatest importance.

1) Have I taken time to set goals for myself?

2) Do I take time each day to plan my schedule?

3) Do I take time each day to meditate, pray, think or take me time?

4) Do I take time out each day for myself to read, learn, or grow in some way?

5) How important is my health?

6) Do I place a great importance on healthy eating to maintain and improve my health?

7) Do I make healthy meals and snacks for my family?

8) Do I have a fitness program that I follow daily or at least 4 times each week?

9) Am I overweight or experiencing unnecessary health problems due to my neglect or lack of ME time?

10) Do I allow my daily tasks, schedule or work take precedence over some of things I really should or need to be doing for myself?

You are most likely on the right track if you can answer 7 and above to most of these questions. If most of your answers are under 6, then you may be neglecting yourself in many ways. Again, how important are you to YOU? And then, how important is your health to YOU?

Now you may be thinking about right now, “Well it’s easier said than done. If you only knew my schedule, my work, and my ….!” But we all have the same amount of hours in the day. And it’s not that we should always put our own needs above everyone else’s, but we do need to take time out for ourselves. Women’s health issues are important as we carry a big load each day, and if our needs are not being met and we are not fulfilling our body’s needs, then how will we be able to help our family and others fulfill their needs?

Life is busy! But don’t be too busy to take time out to be the best YOU that you can be! Your health is important, your education is important, your life is important to you as well as those who love you. So take time out to serve you! Make a plan and stick to it so you can be the best you can be!

National Cholesterol Education Month

Get educated and know what your levels are and what they mean to you.  Many years ago, I went through a health crisis in my life and I thought I was having heart attacks, it turned out to be esophageal spasms and hurt as much as a heart attack.  During the course of being transported to the emergency room, testing and going through the treadmill and heart workup at my cardiologist appointment, we found out that I had very high cholesterol.  At the time I didn't know my mother had heart disease and eventually died from complications of it and diabetes. 
I spoke with the doctor and he said everything else was ok and that I needed to see the nurse to get a prescription for cholesterol lowering medication.  I reluctantly saw the nurse and told her I wanted to try to lower it without taking the medication, she was not too happy with that statement and said I would never be able to do it.  I then said I would like to try it and if I am unable to lower it naturally, I would come back and get the medication.
I then left and went to the store and bought the book, Controlling Cholesterol the Natural Way by Dr Kenneth H Cooper.  I read every page of that book and made the changes I believed I could work with.  My cholesterol was 239 and in 3 months I lowered it to 161.  When I went back to the nurse, she couldn't believe it.  I advised her that she had not encouraged me to give it a try. 
Now I will say I wanted to try it the natural way first and keep in mind, all the other tests came out perfect, if there had been other complications I may have tried it their way. 
I believe we should try to stay off as many medications as possible until it is apparent that medication is the only way.
Get yours checked and do what needs to be done.