Today is my husband's 61st birthday and I am taking this opportunity to wish him a VERY happy birthday! John and I met my freshman year in college - I was 18 and he was 19 - started dating a year later and married two years after that. It is hard for me to believe that he is celebrating his 61st birthday . . . I am shaking my head in disbelief. I told him that while our commitment was to grow old together, I just didn't expect to get here so fast :-).
Even though he is starting his second year in his 60's, my husband is healthier than he's been for most of his adult life. When we got married in 1973, he was overweight - pudgy probably best described him at that time. I cooked up a storm that first year of marriage and managed to pack another 20 pounds on him (and a few pounds on myself, too). We did a couple of crazy diets together and while I dropped the weight and was fairly successful in keeping it off until my mid-30's, other than a brief period of time when he adopted a rigid diet and took up running to lose weight, John was overweight his entire adult life.
That all changed four years ago. He watched me lose weight beginning in June of 2007 and by January of 2008, he was ready to try this program for himself. In three months' time he lost 50 pounds and has maintained his weight loss. By losing weight, he was also able to get off his blood pressure medication. Heart disease runs in his family and both his father and his older brother had heart attacks in their early 60's. Had John not gotten healthy, he may well have been facing heart disease himself by this point in his life.
Four years ago he made the choice to get healthy, and I'm so thankful he did. Because of that choice and all of the choices he's made since that time, Lord willing, I look forward to celebrating many more birthdays with him!
Have a great Monday, and remember to choose wisely :-)
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