Having not been been in touch with the family for about 10 years I found it a bit worrying after I talked to a relative who I discovered on the and he told me that my fathers brother had a triple bypass operation and his sister had a pace maker fitted.

Because the pair of them had heart problems immediately placed me on code red for any potential issues that might signify a possible heart condition. My first instinct wasn’t to instantly go out and purchase a Zoll M defibrillator on the off chance my chest went into fibrillation but I did get a bit paranoid.

I had just put my sole trading company on hold and had been grazing on , which had layed the pounds on, 14 stone at 6 foot for me isn’t a good weight. Call it psychosomatic but I began to worry about a ache that I was feeling in my chest.

Anyway a blood test at the doctors later told me that my blood cholesterol were to high and the Doctor told me I was borderline needing a prescription to reduce my cholesterol level down because of my bloodlines of heart conditions (though she informed me there was no evidence that a parents brothers and sisters effected their progeny).

Wake up!!!! I instantly cut out butter, cheese (love cheese!) and didn’t eat chocolate or anything that had a elevated cholesterol content. Started eating food that reduced cholesterol (stuff from the supermarket nothing stating super powers) and began Mountain biking to the then newly started job (ten miles there and back cross country, 14 miles by tarmac).

I bought a set of scales that initially recorded my fat levels being 25 or 26 which was much to high I now have it down to 20-21 which is what it should be. I am now 12 and a half stone and back to my normal athletic self. I haven’t been back to the doctors and am not renting a Zoll M defibrillator just in case, because I am confident my cholesterol levels are back under control even allowing myself chocolate, cheese and butter in moderation.

When believe that you weigh to much or have a very sedentary life and suffer from being without energy think about what you consume and begin exercising it doesn’t take long (about a year for me) to have a real benefit to your life.