I don't know what that's from. I do know that I got the results of yesterday's bloodwork and that my cholesterol is 160.
160!
All I was hoping for was low enough so I wouldn't have to change the cholesterol med I'm on. Which I achieved, certainly. And my bp yesterday was actually 95/70 on my left arm, so he cut that med in half too. The incredible thing here, of course, is this:
Changing your diet actually does impact on your health. I know! I can hardly believe it either!
Aside from the W8 Watching, which is to lose some pounds and probably not what brought this about, what I did was to watch the sodium in what I was eating, and especially to try to avoid foods with high -- or any -- trans-fat content. I read labels. I understand that within the next year, all food will have to have their trans-fat content on their labels. What's trans-fat? Uh ... it's that stuff that's bad for you. It's bad fat. Other than that, I couldn't tell you. Before I started the WW in March, I had tried a nutritionist in February, and she was a stuck-up snot, but she did tell me about the trans-fat, and damn if it didn't work.
I'm not turning into some kind of health wacko. I haven't taken a walk in over a week (my knees hurt, okay?) and I've done my wonderful new exercise routine ... once, that's it, once. It's just that it's so unlike me to be remotely succesful in any health and/or food area of life. I never have been before. Still can't believe it.
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