The thing which really pushed me over the edge, though, was the health professional telling me to go to the doctor - now - after a scary blood pressure reading. There are six main risk factors with blood pressure: age, smoking, excess alcohol, being sedentary, genetics and weight. Of these only weight and maybe genetics apply to me and it would be really nice to eliminate weight from the equation. If I can only do that, then I will resign myself to going on meds.
But first I need to get into the "normal" weight range.
Here are the brutal facts:
height: 1m69
weight: (last week: 88.3kg) This week 87.8kg
BP:(last week:) 170/110
Waist (today) 88cm
I don't even know what that makes my BMI but as the health guy pointed out, all of the All Blacks are obese on the BMI scale, so best not to worry about it. I am pretty active: cycling to work almost every day, netball football and sometimes tennis. But you don't get to weigh nearly 90kg by being super active and eating lettuce....
Since last week I have possibly lost half a kilo, but it's difficult to tell as weight can fluctuate a lot across the day. Hence the waist measurement.
I have been pretty good in the past week, I haven't bought a single chocolate bar (yay!) despite there being a guy selling charity chocolate bars two desks away from me. I even carefully weighed out 50g portions of nuts and raisins for snacks and have carrot sticks for lunch.
My big problem which I haven't found a solution to is work food. On average I would say that I have one work lunch a week as part of a meeting or something and I find it really difficult to control myself when presented with free food.
Today, for example, I had carefully prepared my lunch but got called into a meeting literally at the last minute at 9am which went on over lunch - we had sandwiches, asparagus rolls, bacon and egg pie, fruit and slices provided. Luckily for me I don't like bacon so could say no to the pie, but couldn't resist the rest. At least I didn't go back and eat my sandwiches as well.
But then, this evening I had a client function with canapes and drinks. I had been warned to avoid alcohol by the health guy - not cos I'm drinking too much alcohol really but because of the calories in them. So I drank diet coke and ginger beer. But again I can't resist a canape if it comes floating past me... then I went home and had stir fry for tea. So not a very good day, even though I didn't fall down on my usual thing - chocolate.
Anyway. Cross fingers I'm going in the right direction...
Will try to check in once a week.
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