My 15 minutes of fame have arrived! There’s a piece about me in the February 2017
edition of Better Homes & Gardens magazine.
I’m sure it will be a small snippet – the only questions are how small?
And which picture was chosen, if any?
(Literally as I was typing, my sister called to say she
received her February BH&G and I am in it!)
Back in October I was so motivated by the #GoRedGetFit group
on Facebook that I changed the focus of my blog (KindCleaning.Blogspot.com) to
identify my heart healthy motivation and goals. Read about it here: http://kindcleaning.blogspot.com/2016/10/gored-getfit-why-its-my-new-catchphrase.html.
A couple of days later someone from the
American Heart Association posted on the board about contacting women who were
beginning to get healthy and finding out their “why” for a magazine
article. I was one of the first few to
respond with a link to my blog.
Pretty quickly I was emailed by the AHA person and then
connected with the writer. We emailed
and had a telephone interview. I had to
send her a handful of photos of myself.
Since my interview I’ve continued to spread the news about
Heart Disease with daily exercise Facebook updates accompanied with some Heart Facts; I’ve
arranged for both schools my children attend to participate in the Wear Red
for Women’s Heart Health Day on February 3rd; and I’ve taken the
advice offered by the panel. The writer has stayed in touch along the way. Go buy the magazine!
And I'm actually looking forward to visiting my doctors this month. Not the exam part, but I know they will see a weight loss and hopefully improved blood pressure. Coincidentally I visit my Primary Care Physician on February 3rd! So I'll be wearing Red and handing out stickers and flyers to everyone I meet.
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