But can you over-do a good thing? My response is yes you can. I took responsibility for my health last year, getting on a mission to drop some weight, and improve my cardio health. Typical for me, when I get interested in something, I tend to get a little over-focused for a while.

Let's just say the mission was very successful, but true to the theme, I ended up making such a shift that the better health actually caused issues with my blood pressure and beta blockers (to keep me from going into A-Fib) dosages. Has had me a little out of sorts the past few weeks with some lightheadedness, dizziness and messing with the pressure and rates, disrupting my exercise plan. More soon in a longer post, but the cliff notes are that I take the beta blockers to lower my heart rate to stay within normal limits. Well, in the past year, the exercise has now dropped my resting heart rate from around 85-90 bpm down to a MUCH healthier 62 bpm. Now sometimes dropping into the 50's, and blood pressure dropping also down to dizzying levels since the exercise is bringing me to normal rates and the meds now taking me too low.

Anyway, these meds have issues if you just stop them cold turkey, so trying to test and adjust now so I can get back to my exercise. I've had to cut back the heavy exercise the last two weeks and really missing my little adrenaline boosts.

On another note though, I do have strong feelings about government involvement. We need to keep ALL government involvement out of this health topic. While great for them to fund and provide education, they should keep out of other. Everyone's health and medical needs are different and individual, government regs can only scale by being standardized which is a direct conflict.

Keep the government out, but take up your own challenge, build your goals, and work towards them. Or choose to be a couch potato and bake. Freedom to exercise is a good thing, but more important is individual choices to choose other.