Trizepatide Times
The Unexpected Road To Health and Happiness…
Just as the Pandemic settled into our lives, I had a job offer that moved me from Boston to Los Angeles. For various reasons too dull and predictable to recount, I decided to pack up my life and take the challenge.
If you have never been to California, my description is ‘Paradise with a Price Tag.’ The weather is nearly perfect, the people are as fun to watch as they are to talk about, the shopping is fantastic, and the beautiful scenery and inspiring activities are seemingly endless. As I said, all of that comes with a price tag. The obvious price tag is purely monetary, but there was another price tag for me: an entire country between me and my family and friends during a Pandemic.
I only mention this to give a little context to my journey. California was an amazing and cathartic experience for that moment in my life…the Pandemic, not so much, but that is another blog post that we have all written and read before. My journey to health and longevity (late start in my 50’s) began in California. I embraced all that California had to offer in terms of outdoor lifestyle, abundantly healthy food options, and the sometimes “woo woo” culture, including manifestation, the stars and crystals, meditation, and mental health.
I realized I had not lived authentically (to use a full-on California phrase) for the past 25+ years. Anyway, one of my big takeaways from this new lifestyle was that I wanted to be sure I had as much time as I could eke out of my time on earth to live a fully authentic and fulfilling life. To that end, I decided it was time to get my mind and body on a new track.
Squeezing every ounce of fun and new-found freedom out of my time in LA, I decided it was time to head back east. California had ruined me for any more cold winters, so I headed to Florida for six months while I figured out my next steps. I had time and space to concentrate on my health goals, relationship goals, and new career goals. There were so many things to manifest!
I walked four miles a day, no alcohol, no sugar, no TV before bed, and daily meditation - it was my own personal retreat for a couple of months. Fantastic - but obviously (or at least for me) unrealistic or sustainable. I am not independently wealthy, nor do I want to spend all of my days in “planning” mode; I am, at heart, an ideas and action person.
My body started to change, not overnight, but I felt another shift in my physical and mental health. I should mention that my father had Type 2 Diabetes, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure. My mother had dementia, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure. Both of them have passed away in the past 3 years. This weighed heavily (literally and figuratively). I knew I had an uphill battle trying to combat family history, years of misinformation, and the American lifestyle (which I love and loathe equally).
Enter a new and fabulous relationship! I fell in love!
