Ketchup 2 of n - Health
Sep. 30th, 2014 12:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
f4f3Health seems, and I stress the seems, to be doing ok.
I dropped 10 pounds in two months of the 5/2 diet, and then took a break from it because I was under quite a bit of stress from quiet a few sources, and wanted to be on top of my game as much as I could.
I weighed myself when I got back from holiday and found, much to my surprise, that I'd lost another 4 pounds and am now down to 14 and a half stone. That works out to 92 kilos, the lightest I've been in about 8 years. I actually had to look at the scales twice, since I was reading it as 15.5, which has been my default for a lot of years.
Anyway, that's good news. I think it's propelled more by exercise than diet (I averaged almost 13k steps a day for 100 days, and I've kept that up). My goal of being under 14 stones seems sort of achievable now, if things keep going in the right direction.
I'm into the cycle for my annual diabetic review now, so I need to arrange for blood tests and then a half day of appointments the week after. I'm curious to see what comes up. I've cut back on booze, again, but the downside of that is my tolerance going down, and a tendency to binge when I do drink. Having said which, I seem to be able to to do a day of sparkling wine tasting and a night of cocktails without disgracing myself, and the unlimited availability of booze last week didn't lead to any binging.
I do have a handy way of calibrating my health worries. My friend Bill arrives from Prague on Thursday, which will be an encouragement in itself to good living (he doesn't drink, and he also likes to walk a lot) but the reason for his visit is to have bone-marrow matching done with his sister. Angela is undergoing chemotherapy just now, and any time I catch myself thinking, hmm, this tickly cough is a pain, or drat, my back is sore, or hey, feeling a bit liverish... Well, I think of her and count my blessings.
I dropped 10 pounds in two months of the 5/2 diet, and then took a break from it because I was under quite a bit of stress from quiet a few sources, and wanted to be on top of my game as much as I could.
I weighed myself when I got back from holiday and found, much to my surprise, that I'd lost another 4 pounds and am now down to 14 and a half stone. That works out to 92 kilos, the lightest I've been in about 8 years. I actually had to look at the scales twice, since I was reading it as 15.5, which has been my default for a lot of years.
Anyway, that's good news. I think it's propelled more by exercise than diet (I averaged almost 13k steps a day for 100 days, and I've kept that up). My goal of being under 14 stones seems sort of achievable now, if things keep going in the right direction.
I'm into the cycle for my annual diabetic review now, so I need to arrange for blood tests and then a half day of appointments the week after. I'm curious to see what comes up. I've cut back on booze, again, but the downside of that is my tolerance going down, and a tendency to binge when I do drink. Having said which, I seem to be able to to do a day of sparkling wine tasting and a night of cocktails without disgracing myself, and the unlimited availability of booze last week didn't lead to any binging.
I do have a handy way of calibrating my health worries. My friend Bill arrives from Prague on Thursday, which will be an encouragement in itself to good living (he doesn't drink, and he also likes to walk a lot) but the reason for his visit is to have bone-marrow matching done with his sister. Angela is undergoing chemotherapy just now, and any time I catch myself thinking, hmm, this tickly cough is a pain, or drat, my back is sore, or hey, feeling a bit liverish... Well, I think of her and count my blessings.
