cardio

"Cardio" is not just a term for weight-loss.....

For me - it is retraining my heart.

Before I started blogging, my heart rate was like 30 to 40 

Beats Per Minute...and not from being healthy. 

I had some kind of condition. Zombie-ism, perhaps.

I wonder if I had gone to the doctor, what they would have said!

My blood pressure was like 90/50 on a good day.

Even now, it's like 110/60...

With all the Monster, coffee, guarana and sudafed I could take

to raise it up. I was missing every 3rd beat or so....

I felt dizzy and sick and faint all the time.

Even climbing the stairs was hard for me.

I bought a bouncer (mini-trampoline) and at first, 

I could only SIT down on it to bounce.

The first full year of blogging - I only 

had 10 beats before a missed one.

Well, as I am getting healthier, so is my heart!

My labs are great. My diet is great.

And I am doing ok at the gym.
Slow and steady, eh?

But still, I feel a little puny.
The other day, I felt some PVC's.
And a little a-fib.
And I am still a little anemic!
Not only is oxygen carried by red blood cells,
But so is glucose! Like the H A1C.
Which can't accurately measure what is not there.
I'm so anemic I was even rejected from donating blood.


I've been taking a more scientific approach
to food... not just for weight loss.
And not just for taste or for fun.

Thanks to Paleo Track, (link)
I did the numbers on my vitamin supplement.
I took 5 minutes and input the numbers myself.
And there is no iron in it. NONE!
 I was in shock. (Alive brand)
Even with all the eggs and meat I eat,
I was still getting only 3 mg or less - of iron a day.
This (above) is 9 ounces of beef and 6 eggs. 
I - even I - do not eat that every day.
All that still is about 6 mg of iron.
So much for getting it all through diet!
The US RDA for a woman over 50 is 8 mg. (link)
And forget about spinach. From Wiki: (link)
"However, spinach contains iron absorption-inhibiting substances, 
including high levels of oxalate, which can bind to the iron to form ferrous oxalate 
and render much of the iron in spinach unusable by the body."
I was the Nurse who knew everything.
I was certain I was getting enough nutrients.
Maybe lack of Micro-Nutrients help us crave food.
That's not a good thing for healthy weight-loss.

SO..... back to the learning board!

And back to tracking everything.