Posts Tagged ‘heart’

Weight Gain Explained

The answer: Congestive Heart Failure (which simply means the heart isn’t pumping as it should).   This is a permanent condition, but doesn’t have to be life threatening – it just means I need to do what is necessary to take care of me and my heart (and my weight needs to be third on the [...]

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How I Used to Feel

Comparing how I feel now to last year when I first started my healthy eating plan: As I was walking yesterday during Angelgirl’s karate class, I got to thinking about how last year when I first started this journey walking was almost impossible. Now I made it around the outdoor mall three times yesterday (45 [...]

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The Silent Killer

As mentioned in my previous post am trying to learn more about inflammation (causes fluid retention), since it may be a contributing factor to my unexplained weight gains and very slow weight loss. Here is what I found so far. Inflammation is the body’s response to a perceived threat– whether it’s a splinter in our [...]

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Low sodium is making a difference

I’m noticing some very nice changes after ONLY 7 days on a low sodium diet plan (loosely based on following the recommendations of The Rice House Diet) – quicker then I have on any other diet plan (and I’ve tried almost all of them). I have been keeping my daily calories the same as I [...]

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Water Weight

Water Weight (inflammation) – the importance of getting the water out. Sometimes when you tell people how much weight you’ve lost in a week or at the beginning of a diet, they say “oh its just water weight you didn’t lose that much fat.” Not exactly an example of a positive reinforcement or encouragement. I have [...]

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