Baby did a bad, bad thing
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samsomThough, it's not as sexy as the title makes it sound.
Last year, my cholesterol was 238 and my....God, I know I'll spell this wrong....triglycerites were something like 306. Bad, right? I think a package of bacon every Saturday and Sunday for months had something to do with that. So anyway, my doctor told me to change my diet and start taking Omega 3s. He even gave me a free sample box of sixty pills.
I gave up the bacon and soda and fast food almost entirely (not cold turkey though because that's a receipe of failure right there), began to power walk during my two fifteen minute breaks at work, and ate oatmeal every week day morning. I also ate a lot more mixed greens with just olive oil, vinegar, salt and pepper, and cut down my carb consumption.
I went back to him for other things during that six months and we always came back around to my cholesterol and I always told him I was doing everything he told me to do, including taking the Omega 3s.
I finally took the blood test last week, and went back to see him this last Friday. My cholesterol is down to 199 and my triglycerites are at 99.
He thinks it was the Omega 3s that clinched it. It wasn't. I took maybe six of those pills when he first gave them to me and then shoved them into a cabinet and never took them out again. I hate taking pills. I already take too many and taking another two a day on top of it would have been too much for me. I'm lazy, I admit it. *shrugs*
But I did it my way and it paid off so I feel very vindicated. Pills aren't the answer for everything. Well, not in this case anyway. My lungs would deflate if I didn't take my Singulair.
And after almost four years of very high blood pressure, it's been holding steady at normal for the last few months. I have a prescription for that too, but I haven't filled it in five months.
I realize it's wrong to lie to my doctor but to be fair, he thinks exercise is useless in losing weight.
*lets it sink in*
Yes, he actually told me that.
So any qualms I feel at being less than truthful are easily stifled.
In other news, it's been raining off and on for almost a month now, and it's going to keep going for another week, at least. I know we need the water, and the hills certainly need the water, so I forebear. March 14th sees the beginning of Daylight Savings again, so summer is close at hand. Or at least more chances of sunshine.
When I was a tween, I loved stormy weather, it fit my moods and my (really, really awful) attempts at poetry. About soulmates and finding my soulmate, and, heh, imagining that my soulmate was searching for me.
I was FIFTEEN, okay?
But in the last few years I've realized that clear skies and a cool breeze are incredible mood enhancers. I'm not sure I could ever live in the Pacific Northwest. I know it has an amazing food scene, and art and music. But, hey, we have all that here too. Plus sunshine.
I wonder if Anthony Bourdaine is on today?
I picked up a book at Borders last week with an interesting twist for a premise. Instead of the woman protagonist being stalked and/or tortured and stalked by a male antagonist, the protagonist of this book is a male detective that had been kidnapped, tortured, and released by a female serial killer. So he's preoccupied by her while trying to solve some killings that bear her M.O. I'm only a chapter in but it's holding my interest. It's different, and I like the idea that a woman can be every bit as smart, cunning, dangerous and evil as a man. I don't know if this book will end up being any good but I like the trend. Sweetheart by Chelsea Caine.
Last year, my cholesterol was 238 and my....God, I know I'll spell this wrong....triglycerites were something like 306. Bad, right? I think a package of bacon every Saturday and Sunday for months had something to do with that. So anyway, my doctor told me to change my diet and start taking Omega 3s. He even gave me a free sample box of sixty pills.
I gave up the bacon and soda and fast food almost entirely (not cold turkey though because that's a receipe of failure right there), began to power walk during my two fifteen minute breaks at work, and ate oatmeal every week day morning. I also ate a lot more mixed greens with just olive oil, vinegar, salt and pepper, and cut down my carb consumption.
I went back to him for other things during that six months and we always came back around to my cholesterol and I always told him I was doing everything he told me to do, including taking the Omega 3s.
I finally took the blood test last week, and went back to see him this last Friday. My cholesterol is down to 199 and my triglycerites are at 99.
He thinks it was the Omega 3s that clinched it. It wasn't. I took maybe six of those pills when he first gave them to me and then shoved them into a cabinet and never took them out again. I hate taking pills. I already take too many and taking another two a day on top of it would have been too much for me. I'm lazy, I admit it. *shrugs*
But I did it my way and it paid off so I feel very vindicated. Pills aren't the answer for everything. Well, not in this case anyway. My lungs would deflate if I didn't take my Singulair.
And after almost four years of very high blood pressure, it's been holding steady at normal for the last few months. I have a prescription for that too, but I haven't filled it in five months.
I realize it's wrong to lie to my doctor but to be fair, he thinks exercise is useless in losing weight.
*lets it sink in*
Yes, he actually told me that.
So any qualms I feel at being less than truthful are easily stifled.
In other news, it's been raining off and on for almost a month now, and it's going to keep going for another week, at least. I know we need the water, and the hills certainly need the water, so I forebear. March 14th sees the beginning of Daylight Savings again, so summer is close at hand. Or at least more chances of sunshine.
When I was a tween, I loved stormy weather, it fit my moods and my (really, really awful) attempts at poetry. About soulmates and finding my soulmate, and, heh, imagining that my soulmate was searching for me.
I was FIFTEEN, okay?
But in the last few years I've realized that clear skies and a cool breeze are incredible mood enhancers. I'm not sure I could ever live in the Pacific Northwest. I know it has an amazing food scene, and art and music. But, hey, we have all that here too. Plus sunshine.
I wonder if Anthony Bourdaine is on today?
I picked up a book at Borders last week with an interesting twist for a premise. Instead of the woman protagonist being stalked and/or tortured and stalked by a male antagonist, the protagonist of this book is a male detective that had been kidnapped, tortured, and released by a female serial killer. So he's preoccupied by her while trying to solve some killings that bear her M.O. I'm only a chapter in but it's holding my interest. It's different, and I like the idea that a woman can be every bit as smart, cunning, dangerous and evil as a man. I don't know if this book will end up being any good but I like the trend. Sweetheart by Chelsea Caine.
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Date: 2010-02-21 07:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-21 11:13 pm (UTC)Ugh. Did he give you hydrochlorothiazide (HCTZ) for blood pressure?
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Date: 2010-02-22 12:53 am (UTC)And I agree sometimes too.
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Date: 2010-02-22 01:08 am (UTC)I'm glad that you've taken control of your health. It's good to know what works for you and that you've taken steps to discover it. :)
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Date: 2010-02-22 12:51 am (UTC)He's also a member of Doctors Without Borders so he's regularly in third world countries and disaster areas, so even though his waiting room is too slanted religiously, I know he puts his money where his mouth is.
Then again, if he throws any more of that kind of fuckery my way, I may just go ahead and start shopping.