Starting to relax a bit

but now is not the time to relax on the changes I made.

‘Whatcha talkin’bout Dio?”

My diet changes I made a couple weeks back, ’cause I was getting worried about my BP,,, Was averaging 13X/80-90ish,,, Dropped the salt (except for the cooking side, Dropped the “add to taste” side and switched to Potassium Chloride for the table salt.) and killed the caffiene with the exception of my coffee, dropped the HFCS completely, (reeds real ginger ale to take the place of those ‘pops’ I had been drinking. Found I drink much less when I am not pushing fluids through my system with the caffiene: a diuretic if you didn’t know,,,)

Its been five days running, BP is back under that 120/80 set of ‘normal’ and even after doing things on the Erg, it stays down, with only an uptick in the pulse,,, To be expected right?

Sucks gettin’ old, but you gotta do what you gotta do to keep the body moving without breakdowns,,,

And its not like it was a horror show to make the changes, just a touch of ‘nope, we ain’t killin’ ourselves just yet,,,’ to the hindbrain, with images of people on lifesupport to ‘impress’ the “Feelz” on the hindbrain. I was surprised (shouldn’t be, but am) how well that worked,,, Rational brain told Feely brain ‘sit down, shut up and do as you’re told’ and with very little tantrum throwing,,,, Have desired a coca-cola now and again (my weakness, I admit) but was able to appease the demand with one of those Mexican cokes made with real cane sugar, not the HFCS crap (and the price tag on those hurt the wallet enough that Hindbrain isn’t grumping about it.)

Stick to the plan, stay active, and I may make it past the days my uncles expired in,,, Not saying thats the case, but, I look at my Da and his age and that his Cardiologist stated “his heart is in better shape than MINE” Maybe some of that genetic code carried over to me,,, (fingers crossed,,,) And Da still fries EVERYTHING,,, despite our encouraging him to change his diet a bit,,,

At least he cut down the salt as well, and that didn’t take any arm twisting,,, At least not from me. His own body did that for me by giving him head rushes everytime he stood up, and when he cut the salt, those ceased,,, (similar to what I was feeling and decided to cut the salt out. And the Potassium Chloride IS helping with the leg cramps (And I could get that through my diet but I can’t stand Nanners,,, blech!!!!)