Mid-year Healthcheck

So far, it has been a great year.

It turns out, get diabetes was probably one of the best things that happened to me. It was a great catalyst to enact some great changes in my life.

In addition to everything I had started doing, most recently, I quit smoking, well cigarettes. I still have a couple cigars a week, but I was a two pack a day guy and I feel much better. I am 4 weeks in to being cigarette free.

I had mentioned this before but I am eating better and I am floating between 185 to 190 lbs, which means I have lost a solid 40 lbs since the change of my diet. I am still biking 2 to 3 times a week and my resting heart rate is about 55. I think a lot of the changes in my life has motivated my wife to enact positive changes in her life as well. After a lot of family discussions she finally quit the job that has been driving her nuts for the last two years and she she is by far the most mentally sound she has been since I have known her. She has been excising like crazy, like up to 3 times a day. In the last couple of weeks she has lost almost 20 lbs herself. I am so proud of her.

In other positive news, I have finished my associates degree. It's through the University of Phoenix and I will be completing my bachelors degree within the next year to a year in a half. I still don't know if I should finish up with a degree in business focusing on in IT or a degree in IT focusing on Networking. A lot of the core classes are the same so I do have a little time to think about it. The University of Phoenix is a bit more expensive, but with my already hectic life it is the best option, coming out of this I feel far more accomplished and I am looking forward to shooting for the stars, even thinking about staying in for my masters degree too.

Coming up is our family vacation, it has really been a long time since we have taken one. This time we are going on a cruise. It's a 5 night cruise on Carnival. We are spending 3 of the nights on the ship but it should be great, there are tons of things for the kids to do. The two day trips we have are a day in Progreso on the Yucatan Peninsula and a day in Cozumel. In Progreso I would like to take the kids out to see the Mayan ruins. In Cozumel I am thinking about swimming with dolphins. That has actually been a life long dream, and I think the kids would totally be into it.

That's it for now. I am off to go ride my bike!