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What I Found Out About Lowering One’s Chances Of Having Alzheimer's
My mother has this disease and I will fight like hell not to!
I’ve never been one to exercise. That sounds terrible, I know. But, I was underweight most of my life — probably until age 45. I wore size zero as a high schooler and while in college. As a NICU nurse, my scrubs just hung on me. I was as “skinny as a rail” as the saying goes. This revelation might make you hate me, although it shouldn’t. Or, it makes you think I don’t know how it is to worry about your weight but truly it was very hard to be extremely thin. I had to hunt for clothes (it was never fun) and was lucky my grandma made most of them for me and my sister. And, I was teased (today, this would be called bullied) about my size. But it was my body type and I dealt with it mostly by shedding a few tears while I was growing up.
Being thin did have one consequence, I didn’t “need” to exercise. I’ve never really enjoyed exercise. Between not having to exercise to keep my weight in check and not enjoying it, I never got into an exercise routine. Nothing ever stuck for long. I did pilates and tried aerobics when my boys were young. I recognize that now as more of an effort to just get out of the house.
