Health Scare made me do it

Welp...it's time to get off my fat butt!!! I have been slacking and making excuses all over the place.  Then I went to the dentist.  I went in for a deep cleaning, it's the year of trying to work on me.  So after almost 10 years of not going to the dentist but taking fairly good care of my teeth, I finally went. (Bonus:no cavities) The deep cleaning did not start without the hygenist first taking my blood pressure which was a little high.  To be expected, I hate needles and they were going to put a big one in my mouth to numb me up.  They waited, took it again, even higher and it just was not right.  Something wasn't right.  So I postponed the appointment and made an appointment (after having to find) a PCP.  Got in, and was determined to have diastolic hypertension.  My father has hypertension so I knew this could be a possibility. I mean I am not at a healthy weight right now.  I was put on blood pressure medicine and I immediately took myself off soda.  I have tried a soda in the last week or so but it just tastes funny now.  I am much happier with my ice water.  That is about one full month of little to no soda!!! I got back on the Kroger version of my slim fast shakes and inherited an elliptical from a family member that was no longer using it.  I am overall glad to have gone to the dentist to get the warning and get myself checked out.  Now more than ever I am working on this with the hopes that I may be able to eventually get off the blood pressure meds.  If it sticks with me the rest of my life, oh well, but now I know and am making the most active effort to get down the 80 pounds I feel I need to lose.  I will be going through all the same emotions and cravings as before but I predict I will be a little less whiney because I did this to myself and I don't want my kids to see me this way for the rest of my life.  I am done having children and can't use that excuse any more.  I want my daughters to see what healthy can be.  I want to be happy to see myself with them in pictures, not shying away from the pictures.  It would also be really cool to go to my cousins wedding next spring being a whole new me ;)