I'm making a little progress

I am making a little progress with my health routine.  I spent 3 hours doing yard work today.  I have kinda gotten my diet under control.  I am eating nothing with preservaties.  And I need to confess here.  I am not eating any processed foods because the preservaties make me so ill.  I can eat something like lunch meat and for hours I feel like barfing.  No  sodas but that was easy because I don't like them.  Carbs are my downfall, but I am working on that.  I really have to speed this up and get in shape and lose the weight.  I have popped a skin condition with the beta blocker.  For the first time in around 2 years, my hands are swollen, broken open and bleeding.  So I gotta get serious about this diet and exercise.  I am walking again. 4 miles a day.  So wish me luck.

Credit bureaus

Don't ever trust that little 3 number score you are shown when you pay those credit agencies that collect and sell your entire life.  Those three little scores they show you are not the real deal and if you are trying to make a mortgage or buy a vehicle, those lenders see a totally different score, usually many points lower than what you have been shown.  Your life is controlled by business and they will sell all your data at the drop of a hat and usually drop the hat themselves.  And banks and credit unions, when you inquire about making a loan whether you have any intention of doing so or not, will sell the information you give them to Every. Damn. Fly. By. Nite. Lending company.  Every one of them.  You have no privacy any more.  And do not ever think that you as a customer matter to any business or bank.  You do not.  You are just someone to be taken advantage of.  Best scenario, go cash only.  No credit cards, no checks.  It is not as difficult as you think.  However, you will have no credit then because every thing hinges on the number of credit cards you have.  Have too high a balance, negative. Pay it off every month. Another negative.  Use occasionally.  Another negative.  I really think that those doing those scores just toss a coin and see what comes up.  There is no rhyme or reason to these three little numbers.  Good luck.

I have had some healt problems

I have had some health problems, so the weight loss was on the back burner.  My bad.  I have had a sinus infection rocking along and making me miserable.  I  just thought it was my chronic sinusitis.  Well, it was, but it turned into a raging sinus infection complete with dizziness, nausea, chills and general misery.  I am now into a week of antibiotics.  I hate taking antibiotics, but if I had not stopped taking the Allegra D, I would maybe not be in the mess I am in now.  And I also have the beginnings of a kidney infection.  Not bad yet.  So, time to listen to my body, get it back into tiptop shape and get away from the chemicals. 

I buy organic food.  In fact I am heading down to the farmer's market this morning to get yard eggs and maybe some veggies if there are any available.  We are in between the end of the summer veggies and the fall veggies, so I may not be able to get any veggies for a few weeks.  My freezer is full of okra and squash and I have planted green beans, Trail of Tears beans, mustard greens, kale, turnip greens and beets.  We'll see if I get anything from them.  And I planted sweet potatoes.  I need those in making food for my furry friends.  I make the food for the dogs.  I do not try to make the food for the cats.  You can do a lot of damage because cats have such specific requirements. 

I am today making a lot of dishes and freezing them in serving size containers.  Actually what I do is freeze them in muffin tins, pop them out, and store in freezer bags.  And do not discard those freezer bags.  Wash and reuse them.  More later.

Backslide

Was really getting into this health thing, then a relative took off to Louisiana for two weeks.  She left her little dog for me to take care of.  She envisioned the little dog staying at my house.  Yeah.  Well that did not happen. The little do, a chihuahua mix, very hyper, and does not play well with other dogs.  She immediately attacked my Jock.  She immediately went back to her house.  She stayed there for two weeks with me running between my house, job and her house.  By the time this relative got back, I was exhausted.  No more leaving the dog for me to care for.  She will board the dog next time. 
Anyway, I let the doc put me on Beta blockers because I was having frequent bouts of tachycardia.  My heart rate was spiking to 127.  It only last a few minutes, but it is scary when it does happen.  Also, this week when I went in, he discovered what I have been trying to tell the docs for years.  I sometimes have skipped heart beats.  I called it stuttering.  He seems to think it is ok, so I will only minimally worry about it.  So, I am now back on my plan. 

New Necessary Goal

I had not been posting on this blog because, well, I had nothing to pose.  However, I am now dedicating this blog to my new, necessary goal.  I am 66 years old, kinda out of shape and way overweight.  I am at least 80 pounds overweight.  Add to that I have high blood pressure.  And none of the meds work on my blood pressure.  The only thing they do is make me sick, cause me to have skin problems, and outright allergies to them to the point of causing severe breathing problems.  Oh, and none of them have ever lowered my blood pressure.  In fact, they make it worse.  So my only options is to get in shape and lose the weight.  My goal is to take it all off by the end of the year.  I am working on menus.  I have started walking on the treadmill.  I can do 60 minutes at a relatively slow pace and that is what I am going to start off with.  I can climb 5 flights of stairs and do twice a day at work.  We are on the fifth floor and I take the stairs.  So that is something.  I am not completely out of shape.  I will post a picture soon and you can see how, for want of a better word, disgusting I look.  And I am going to post pictures as I progress.  I have my goal.  I have a size 5 dress hanging in my closet and I am going to get into that.  I either do this or I die. And since I am not ready to cash in my chips, I'm gonna do it.  My blood pressure routinely runs 158-165/75.  So you can see how necessary this is.  And I am going to use this blog to keep my focus.  Wish me luck.

Update

I got sick and was not on the treadmill for two weeks.  Before I even recovered from my illness, my children's relative with MS took a fall and broke two ribs so guess who had to take off work and take her to the ER?  And guess who had to go over there every day to make sure that she was eating, to check on her in general.  I did this for a week until her follow up.  Then I told her she was on her own.  She tried to tell me how much it hurt.  I had been in a similar situation when I had a 5 month old, a 17 month old and a 5 year old and I had a car wreck and broke three ribs, got a concussion and banged up both my knees.  So I already knew how this shook out.  So I laid it out for her.  Get up and walk or those ribs will not heal.  You have to keep your circulatory system moving if you want to heal.  And I told her it was up to her.  Well, I go over ever other day and take out her trash.  She seems to be doing better on her feet.  I haven't asked if she is walking or not.  I am done playing caretaker for people who refuse to help themselves.  Life is too short for self pity and if someone wants to sit and feel sorry for themselves, they will do it without me.  We'll see if she does what she needs to do.  She has never done it before. 
Now I am trying to get back to where I was.  I am still climbing 5 flights of stairs twice a day.  Haven't gotten back to my hour per day on the treadmill, but I have been spending a lot of time on yard work and will be working on my fence this weekend.  So I hope that counts for something. 

Continuing

So now the doctor wants to try a beta blocker.  That was what the first one was.  So I started doing my own research.  I found that these meds can cause diabetes and diabetes can cause high blood pressure. And that the damage done by these meds is not completely reversable. 

So 20 years on, I am in much worse shape than when I started this medicine.  I don't know if I will ever get back close to where I was.  And the really scary part is that they would have just left me on this crap and it would have killed me.  And they would have just never admitted that they had killed me with these meds.  I will not ever trust a doctor again.  I will question everything.  And the only meds I will take is an antibiotic when I absolutely need it.  Only when my body cannot fend off the illness.  Just think of the people that this medicine has already killed. 

I have joined the American Diabetes Associantion.  I have begun a rigorous exercise program.  I am in the process of working out a diet of mostly vegetables and fruits.  We will see how it all shakes out.  But I will do it without any so-called meds. 

And the dermatologist who cost me my job, he isn't a dermatologist.  Scott and White needed a dermatologist and didn't have one so they put a GP in that position.  They also put a newly graduated foreigner in as an MS specialist and she knows nothing about the disease. 

I spent an hour on the treadmill this morning.  I will walk 2 miles in the morning and 2 miles tomorrow afternoon.  I am planning on walking 30 miles a week.  And add exercises to that.