"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?
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.
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.
