03/02/2014
Another Mommy success story:
Like most mommy's out there in our busy world, yours may be smilar to mine. Over worked, tired, stressed, needs to lose weight, has high blood pressure, thyroid issues, and other health problems, the list goes on...
Over the past few months my mom had taken my lifestyle eating habits advice and she lost weight. About 15 llbs/7 kilos. Not bad considering it has stayed off and she doesn't do any exercise consistently. Like most, she wanted to lose more, but asking her to stress her body more with exercise when she is already stressed to the max is a no go... and the only thing you really want her to do is sleep, heal, and rest from being a mom, which is a job that never ends.
So what could should she do to maybe help lose weight or at least improve her health that made me SO happy I had to share?!
Here it is... my mom has been waking up tired every morning from since I could remember and coffee was her best friend. Although, I noticed it didn't really benefit her energy. I have known the benefits and harm coffee can bring a person but have always been encouraged to not be a bully to coffee addicts. I decided it was time to step things up a notch and make my mom realize her coffee habit wasn't improving her health because it only made it worse, it was so obvious she had adrenal fatigue and every possible 'fatigue' that exists. My mom was a little hesistant... so I said why not give it up for 60 days and I will do it with you (lucky for me, I don't drink coffee the way she does so it was a lot easier for me then her). Still she was a bit hesitant and then I told her about research that showed how coffee can increase your blood pressure... and then she got more convinced. She started the week with no coffee on a Sunday and a giy ftom her work told her he quit coffee to help lower hos blood pressure. She got mpre motivated. Two weeks go buy, she goes to the clinic to get her blood pressure and for the first time in YEARS it is 128! This is jaw droping as she has never seen it lower for years then 138/9 and it was an average of 140-160 depending over the past few years. My mom is filled with joy by taking on the coffee challenge now as it hasn't even been 30 days yet. She is less stressed, has lower blood pressure, and hopefully other areas of her health will slowly improve now with this small change. And to think I almost decided to NOT push her into doing this challenge because I felt I was being too bossy or pushy making her go cold turkey. I can assure you I am not now :)
I will keep you posted on her further progress. Feel free to share thebsiccess story to any coffee addicts out there who have high blood pressure! Of course many things can affect blood pressure but if something this small can help someone out... it's worth a try ;)
