Carol Kirkwood said a recent group of mature health assessments left her disappointed after they put her fitness at average. She discussed the results on Good Morning Britain, saying she had expected to score better and had decided to check her health now rather than wait until something went wrong.
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Kirkwood said the checks were prompted by a simple calculation: she wants to live well into old age and keep doing the things she and Steve have planned. She said, "I did recently a group of mature health assessments. Now, the reason I did that was because, for me, the best is yet to come. I want to live life well into old age. I want to be healthy. I want to do all the things that we have planned. Travel is a big one."
She also said the results were not all bad. "I thought my cholesterol was going to be horrific because my body is full of chocolates. This is not a temple. But my cholesterol was fine," she said. The contrast between that result and the fitness score was what bothered her most.
Steve and Kirkwood
Kirkwood said, "And I thought that my fitness would be really quite good... I walked tons and exercised. But it was just average. So I was really disappointed." She said that living with a better evening routine now means she and Steve can go out and do things, after a period when she used to stay awake all day and go to bed between 7pm and 8pm.
She said, "But the nice thing that really has changed is that Steve and I saw each other for about four hours a week between Sunday and Thursday. So now we've got our evening. And it's really nice." For readers, the practical point is straightforward: Kirkwood treated the checks as a reminder to act before a problem appears, and she is now focusing on keeping the routine that lets her travel and spend more time with Steve.
