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What Happens When You and Your Fiancè Wear Matching Pants?

You take  it to Instagram. And you have a Who Wore It Better competition.

It was a Saturday. I made it a point to start my Instagram story off strong with an #ootd

And then he walked in. Wearing the same pants.

We made coffee and laughed. We walked the bulldog. I mimicked what people might think of us as we entered public territory on Insta story.

Nick: “We should play a game of Who Wore It Better”

Sarah: “Accepted.”

We take any and all opportunity to be in competition with each other. And so the competition began.

We posted our competing pictures and off we went.

We polled our Instagram friends @socialwithsarah_

Immediately voted poured in for Nick.

I decided to take this competition to the street, welcoming any and all votes from bystanders.

I asked our first encounter, the Sandwich kid from Bread Zeppelin. And unanimously everyone in Bread Zeppelin agreed. Sarah.

We were head to head, Instagram voting continued for Nick.

More. Votes.

I was on a roll. And clearly, onto something with public voting.

We continued on our way through stores.

Wearing our matching pants and in some way, turning heads.

We landed to the Motherland. Costco. Where the matching pants were born.

We immediately recognized others wearing the SAME pants. Glorious.

More votes.

We asked more bystanders. Even the food sample ladies.

The competition continued.

We posed in the pants. More votes.

And finally.

The votes were in. Watch video in the beginning of this blog post to see the winner announced.

“Sarah, how well do you know your heart health?”

In the 27 years I have been on this planet- I have never once thought about my heart health. Zero. Not once.

I’d like to say I am health conscious. I think I live a fairly healthy lifestyle. Though, I’ll admit, I thoroughly indulge in ALL foods. No restrictions. Chicken fried steak with EXTRA gravy is a favorite of mine. I am a routine Starbucks drive-thru customer and proudly have maintained my gold card status.

Day-to-day I feel good. No concerns.

Recently my dad shared with me he got his heart checked. For the first time, I realized this is a “thing”. People go and get their hearts checked once they hit a certain age.  He also shared he has little bit of plaque in one of his arteries. Plaque? What is that? Concerning?

I did a little bit of googling around and I’m ready to dig deeper and find out for myself:

Questions:

How is my heart?
What exactly is heart disease and how does it happen?
Is heart disease genetic and if so, how far away am I from this disease?
Any stats of how many people have beginning stages and don’t know it?
Is age truly a factor?
What’s the best lifestyle to live for my heart?
How much of a risk is my son to heart disease?
What kind of preventive measures should I be taking?

How well do you know your heart health?

Well, this is something I’m willing to explore and document my mini journey on Instagram Story and uploading to my Facebook page. Part 1.

I learned I have a family history of heart problems and thankful I can find out ways to prevent while I’m young enough to make some changes if I need to.