Blood pressure

I have high blood pressure. Been researching how to lower it.

In just two days of barely eating any salt, and eating a healthier meal, the systolic and diastolic both dropped, by ~10 to ~15. I'll have to continue to monitor this to see if it drops any further from diet alone. Seems like it's just to maintain this lower pressure.

120/80 is normal
139/89 is prehypertension
159/99 is Stage 1 Hypertension
160/100 is Stage 2 Hypertension


I'm at Stage 2 with diastolic and Stage 1 with sistolic.

Methods: • lower salt below 2400mg, or below 1500mg is even better. eat more potassium (mushrooms, spinach, yogurt, bananas)
• fat loss, every BMI point increase is a hypertension increase of 6%.
• healthy eating can drop it from 1 to 6.4 percent
• no alcohol
• meditation??
• EXERCISE. drops for even healthy people.

15 lbs loss 3 weeks

Diet and regular sleep can help you lose weight. For the late half of 2013 I usually only slept about 5 to 6 hours a day, sometimes 3 or 4. During vacation I upped it to the regular 8 to 10. Regular amount of sleep for 8 days - loss of 5 lbs. Diet and Regular sleep for 8 days - loss of 10 lbs. Diet, Regular sleep and exercise 8 days - ??? lbs. Every two weeks I should mentally recommit to the weightloss so I can be pumped for the next two weeks. No expectation of current results as it will slow down, but an expectation of loss.

Stay hungry stay foolish

Step 1: Don't eat for 24 hours. result: your stomach shrinks and you get REALLY REALLY HUNGRY. Step 2: Go buy healthy food from the supermarket. Like vegetables. Step 3: Eat it without any dressing. IT TASTES SO GOOD. Step 4: Eat until you're 80% full. BECAUSE IT'S A JAPANESE SAYING. Step 6: Sleep 8 hours Step 7: Reduce stress Step 8: Join a Gym. Step 9: Lose 11 lbs Step 10: Lose 60 lbs.

Back again

Well, it's time to get healthy for good. New experiments, this time with technology!

Last time I tried, the only assistant I got was the gym. This time it'll be no gym, but apps! Let's see if that works better. Last time I lost 40lbs in 2.5 months. This time I'm going to try to make it a steady loss (if I can).

I'll be using the Myfitnesspal to calculate my caloric intake and I'll be using Zombie Run app to have a little fun on my jogs.

Let's see how it goes!

removal of one thing a day

the idea is to get rid of one thing from my diet a day for three months. let's see what's left.

9/7 - Soda
9/8 - Boba Tea
9/9 - Candy Bars
9/10 - corn
9/11 - beef
9/12 - fried chicken

ate it

Today, the eighth day, was supposed to be a 4 mile jog. I got so dizzy I almost ate it on the treadmill. i will reach it tomorrow.

I will always be a fat person

I'll always have the mindset of a fat person. I love eating, most of the time over eating. I love junk food, I love, not necessarily soda, but sugary drinks. I'm lazy and take the elevator upstairs. I eat big meals instead of little snacks.

BUT I can always pretend to be a thin person and DO what a thin person does to GET thin. I'll never BE a thin person, in terms of how they think and how they act, but I can look like one.


3.5 mile run today. pretty pumped considering it's the eighth day since I started!

almost on schedule

monday - 1 mile run
tuesday - 1.5 mile run
wednesday - 2 mile run
thursday - 2.5 mile run
friday - nothing
saturday - 3 mile run
sunday - .25 mile run

I made it to 3 mile. then sunday, i feel fucking ILL. i feel like i'm going to puke, my stomache hurts. whine whine. it's probably because i drank two large coffees at 10PM. STUPID.

Falling Down

I suppose part of staying healthy is the falling off the wagon part and how to get back on. It's been three days since working out everyday and knowing that I did it once before is a pretty good motivation that I know I can do it again.

I did it once before and I know I can do it again.

This time I am going super fast paced. I ran 1 mile first day, 1.5 miles second day, 2 miles the third day with working out at the 1 and the 2. I know that once you get to 3 miles a day to 4 miles a day, the weight drops rather rapidly. The objective is to do the 45 lbs loss, twice as fast. I wonder if it's possible.

A year ago

The plan was to lose weight quickly and keep it off. After a year, it almost worked.
About a year ago I set out to lose some weight. At the height, I lost 45lbs dropping from 235 to 190. Now I'm back up to 220. It was a slow progression back up as I kept exercising steadily for six months. Then it slowed to a crawl and I haven't gone to the gym at all in one month.

Well, it's time to see if my advice and notes I wrote to myself actually works. I'm going to learn from the past and do it again. This is what I learned before:

RELY ON YOURSELF
There is no one but YOU. Personal trainers DON'T work. Conquer your own fears. It's more rewarding. When I was asked, how did you lose 45 lbs? I responded with "I ate nothing but good healthy shit and I worked out every single fucking day for two to three hours sacrificing dates, social life, parties, and personal hobbies, sometimes til 2AM if needed". It's simple, but it's up to you to make it happen!

ORGANIZE YOURSELF
Create a schedule of your regiment and the promises to yourself. Read your plan everyday. I am going to try the original plan AGAIN since that worked just fine for me.


MOTIVATE YOURSELF
You have to WANT to exercise. There can be no ulterior motives. You can't lose weight because you want to be healthy, or get a girlfriend, or have stamina for better sex, or to get a reward, or to win a bet. No ulterior motives will keep you doing something you don't like. so you have to learn to LIKE exercise. These other motivations however WILL get you to start, but after a couple of weeks, it HAS to be your enjoyment of exercise that keeps you going.

CHALLENGE YOURSELF
Try different activities, it's good for the brain. Courtney taught me that and it works. The daily routine of the same activity is boring. On another level if you ARE going to do the same activity, then push yourself and challenge yourself to go faster, go longer, lift heavier weights, etc. It's incremental goals that are ALWAYS achievable. It's honest fairness in this game, the more you work hard = the more weight you lose.

OPTIMIZE YOURSELF
Do not eat four hours before you exercise and SLEEP WELL. This is the most crucial component to getting a good workout.
Plenty of sleep + food four hours prior + exercise in the afternoon= optimum

motorcycle, death, and losing weight

well, it's a fact that it takes longer to stop with more weight on a motorcycle. Losing weight can save my life more now

belly fat

http://www.freep.com/article/20090106/FEATURES08/901060314

more info on belly fat! there's a difference between internal belly fat and exterior. internal ones are toxic for you. grrrr.

Exercise and diet after the holiday season. gonna reduce more belly fat. health is priority number 1. no more tacos in 2009!

don't judge so fast

okay. I got a good work out today from my PERSONAL trainer. I was straight up like "teach me NEW exercises and destroy me" and he did. I almost vomited. He made me work out stabilization muscles and i pushed myself too far after the session and because I couldn't walk straight or keep my balance, i got dizzy and nauseous. AWESOME.

generic trainer

There was only two options. weight loss or gaining muscle. How about being healthy? My personal trainer, or rather "generic trainer" gave me some info on some generic exercises using the balance ball thing and some generic information on nutrition and food. I wasted fifteen minutes of my hour arguing against vitamin pills and supplements.

It did, however, get me to go to the gym on a day I was tired.

life's answers are on the third mile

the third mile is where all of life's answers lie.

Math

371 calories in a single taco
I ate 12 in a day once (5 for lunch, 7 for dinner)
371 X 12 = 4452 calories

WHAT THE FUCK WAS I THINKING

AND since i sleep very little that's a 47% times more chance of getting cancer
and since i have a 41" belly which is 7"-9" more than I need, that's 17% X 9 =153% more likely I'll die early

If I stayed this course that's 200% times more likely of dying early/getting cancer/shit happening to me.

I lost 5 lbs since I realized this. I've been going to the gym everyday again. I'm back to 199. I'm back on the bus. take me to a new place where i can live longer.

LACK OF SLEEP = CANCER

MOTHER FUCKER
http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTRE4AG7B520081117
"Those who slept less than seven hours nightly had a 47 percent higher risk of cancer than those who got more sleep among the physically active women, the researchers reported at a meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research."


that means I'm at like A 100% HIGHER RISK FOR CANCER.

I never sleep.
FUCK FUCK FUCK.

my device logged my sleeping and I only slept 4 hours and 34 minutes last night. it says my sleep efficiency is 68%! FUCK.

not losing weight

now my goal is to lose belly fat! not about losing weight. but losing belly fat! let's see where this experiment takes me.

Waste Waist Away Your Life

http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/11/14/big.waistlines/

"The study in The New England Journal of Medicine found that an increase in waist circumference of about two inches raised the risk of death by 17 percent in men and 13 percent in women."

Exercise makes you smarter!

Exercise makes you smarter!
http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-05/gs_11excercise


on a separate note. I haven't exercised in a week . I got sick. I'm back up to 200 lbs. which is still a net loss of 35 pounds, but not good enough. At least the "bounce" isn't that severe. Well, this is a section I'd write in the book called "recommit" and figure out how to do that.