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Tuesday's with Kim December 9, 2008 The other day an acquaintance at a dinner party asked me why it was important for him to exercise. He explained that he is of average weight, has a lot of energy at work and could eat anything he wants and not gain a pound. He went on to say that he had many friends who worked out but were overweight. The implication, it seemed, was to imply that the only point to working out was to lose weight. My first instinct was to get to know him better by asking questions related to his lifestyle. Years ago, I might have pontificated on everything I knew about the benefits of exercise. He would have been bored and I would have been seen as a bore. Typically, I don't like giving people this impression! What was different? Here's what we need to understand. There are gaps in information that we all have. In the area of health and wellness it is especially important for these gaps in understanding to be filled. However, equally important is the manner in which information is conveyed and then used to assist the individual to make lifestyle changes. My acquaintance of average weight turned out to have mild hypertension, and was recently diagnosed with pre diabetes. His blood pressure was 135 over 85 and he had a fasting blood sugar of 109. His doctor said that he needed to exercise and eat a healthy diet to reduce his elevated numbers. My dinner friend said he thought he was eating correctly since his weight was fine and he got plenty of exercise walking at work. He is a building inspector. He'd wait until the next doctor visit to see what happened. Until we talked he did not realize that these numbers would only change if he adhered to implementing specific types of exercises and also consumed a very different diet. A gap in knowledge was filled but how would he use this information to make the necessary changes to affect the critical numbers important for a high quality of living? We Need to Face the Hard Facts Gaps in understanding how to repair our air conditioners or fix our cars are unlike gaps in understanding how to repair our lifestyles. Accurate health information is critical, vastly important, and absolutely necessary for continuous independent high quality living. We can always hire competent service men and women to care for our homes, our cars, our boats and our planes. What we can't do is hire someone to do the work of living a healthy life for us. And although we can't hire people to do the work of living our healthy lives, what we can do is hire the partnered collaborative assistance of wellness consultants. They are professional coaches with extensive backgrounds in the health field and specifically trained to fill not just knowledge gaps but to provide the most crucial elements to lifestyle change success. Wellness Coaches often make the difference between success and failure in bringing about the needed collaborative support, accountability, and strategic implementation needed to improve healthy lives. Wellness consultants are partnered with you in your health, and always striving to make your life even better. They are dedicated to your success and to facilitating the best possible outcome for your healthy life. If you or a family member have been diagnosed with hypertension, high blood sugar, elevated triglycerides, elevated cholesterol, arthritis, weight gain or osteopenia and have failed in implementing a lifestyle plan that brings about needed change then go to my website at www.http://bodysmart.tripod.com or call 904 501 2847 for a complimentary consulting session that will determine your readiness to make healthy lifestyle changes.