I haven’t had my cholesterol level checked but I’m pretty sure it is high. High cholesterol seems to run in the family. My Mom has started a low-fat diet, which has made us decide to cut back on the fat, too. It will be hard but we have so many reasons to want to be healthy for years to come.

Luckily we haven’t had any real health issues so far and haven’t needed to use any monitoring devices like a pulse oximeter that measures the oxygen in your blood. Low oxygen stats would be a symptom of something really wrong. Hopefully if we can change our eating habits now, we won’t have serious health problems for a long time.

I went to the grocery store today to buy some food. I bought a lot of fruit and whole grains, so that should give us a healthy start to our new way of eating. I’m sure we will backslide but if we can keep focused on the big picture, I think we can stick to it.