My Plan To Lower My Weight

After Imee's leg amputation, I started to find some answers on how I could improve my health. So it is with a little bit of self-interest that I dove deep into diabetes and dieting. The Internet isn't just for porn or downloading music. I began with looking for what the terms mean - what is and what is that. I feel that things are somehow connected. That one thing happening again and again must be telling me something. The Internet is also full of trash and lies. So if I'm not making sense now, forgive me, but I want to tell my journey before I learn it all. I'm excited and maybe naive but I don't want to be dishonest.

My weight is 200 lbs, that's

90.7 kilograms in metric. I'm 51 years old, male. The only physical exertion I do was my bike - when I ride it to buy stuff 500 meters away. I thought it safe to assume I do this everyday for our purpose here. The earliest symptoms that I am in trouble came in 2015. I experienced dizziness and increased palpitations for a few minutes and it went away. At that time my blood pressure is slightly elevated at 127/80. My father died of heart disease back in 2004.

I got myself a standard blood work and went to my doctor. My doctor got my history and saw my blood work. He gave me a prescription for rosuvastatin, losartan and febuxostat. He advised me to get 1 hour of exercise daily or at least 3 hours a week. I think he knew that the weakest link in his proposal is the exercise. He told me twice. For my prescribed medicines, I had to look it up. Rosuvastatin is for my elevated cholesterol level. Losartan is for my blood pressure. Febuxostat is for my elevated uric acid level. It would be explained to me much later by a Youtube talk from Dr. Paul Mason, that these three things are connected.

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