Walking With Bob

Summer was always the time to take a vacation, getting away from routine and responsibilities. Vacation meant to vacate, no commitments, no routines, and absolutely forgetting the diet that wasn’t working anyway. That was my lifestyle until that day I chose to change my way of living. Talk about a transformation!

June 12, 2006, I started walking every day. I really started WALKING like never before. I recorded my steps with an internet company called walkertracker.com.  At first I counted almost all of the steps, and then in January, 2012, I started “Brisk Walking” between 20 and 40 minutes every day and do about 8,000 steps which is about two miles. The goal is to do this in less than 20 minutes a mile. This works for me. 

Since the 1990s my blood pressure has dropped from a high of 204/105 and varies between 95/53 to about 126/ 64. The North East Texas Health Department put my picture on Bill Boards and said “If I can lower my blood pressure, YOU can too.” Our health system is built on a business plan that makes money treating sickness, illness and chronic disease. It is over a trillion dollar business. 

My passion is to not be a part of that system, but to disrupt it. We all can shift from accepting sickness, illness, and chronic illness and work toward a community of healthy living.  

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