Thursday, February 21, 2013

Just been thinking.


I guess you could say that I have been doing a lot of thinking and crunching the numbers lately. I went under 205 in January of 2012 and at the time I had changed my first goal down to 200 because I believe I could go lower and stay there. Then on March 2 2012 I decided that I was not going to be able to keep my weight down to below 200 and reset it back to 205. I have had some ups and downs sense then but I have stayed below 205 every month sense going below 205 in January of 2012. I have also gone back and research the fact that at the time I finished boot camp in 1969, that I had stayed at an average of 205 up until I was about 45 years old then I just stopped exercising and working in the yard and became a desk worker and that is when my weight started going up. I did try a lot of times over the years to lose weight only to regain it due to being on a “Diet” and not making a “Life Style Change”. So what I am saying is to hack with the BMI charts and everything else I am going to work at staying below 205 for the rest of my life and keep on my “New Life Style” and just be happy with who I am. I am getting too old to sweat the stuff anymore. With that said I will not be unhappy if I do lose a few more pounds but I am no longer going to be in a fight to do so. My exercise routine is working and I am going to stick with it, also my food concerns are with keep my calories at around 2000 calories eaten on the average, and keep on walking and do the little bit of weights that I do. And of course bike riding whenever I can.
Do not worry I am not leaving the LoseIt site, for my life style depends on me logging what I do.

Friday, February 15, 2013

Life is a strange thing


We always have our good times and bad times. If we go to the doctors and listen to them we get conflicting information a lot of time. At my age I have been to a lot of different doctors from coast to coast, good one and maybe not so good one. I was in the Navy for just over 8 years, and for the most point back at the time I was in the Navy about all they cared about was making sure you were doing your duty. I got out of the Navy back in the late 70s and about a year later I went to the doctor for very bad headaches. The doctor took my blood pressure once and put me on blood pressure medications and I was on them up until I went off of them here in the last month. I ever since that time I have always kept a record of my blood pressure myself. I had very seldom ever gotten a measurement of more than 135/90, but every time I go in to a doctor’s office it will always be over 140/90 and it has not been until the my doctor that I have just lost due to a promotion that I was said to have white coat centrum. And what is bad there are doctor that still will not except that there is such an issue.
I can take my blood pressure myself and get normally 115/75 then step into the doctor’s office and it will be 142/92. This makes it look like I have high blood pressure, and for the longest time I was so upset about that and just could not get a good explanation from anyone. So if this happens to you do your best to talk it out with the doctors. It just may say you a lot of issue to. And as I do I believe you should always go in the your doctor’s office with your on chart of where you take your own blood pressure every morning when you first get up.