WOW!

Today I walked around the center of our complex ten times (around 150 steps per cycle).  TEN TIMES!  Six months ago, when I started this current attempt to lose weight,  I was lucky to get around it once . . and I would hurt for days.   I admit, by round 8 I was pretty tired.  But I had a goal.  And I did it!!  Yay me!

This are moving along

Things are going quite nicely.  The weight is starting to come off steadily.  If you want to track my progress, here is my Livestrong profile.  This morning I thought that I should, belatedly it seems, take some measurements.

bust 53 1/2
under bust 48
waist 48
upper arm 19.5
thigh 29
hips 54

I'm pretty sure my waist was more like 52 a while back.  I'll have to look it up and see.

Why late to bed, early to rise is a recipe for a heart attack

It is the stuff of nightmares for those whose hectic work schedule or busy family life means getting up early and staying up late.

Sleeping for less than six hours a night greatly increases the risk of dying from a heart attack or stroke, a study has found.

Scientists claim that the modern tendency to delay going to bed in order to get through more of the items on the ‘to do’ list has serious health consequences.

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Writing Everything Down Sucks!

Actually, the writing down is okay.  It's the totaling.  But today I found a great website with very little advertising.  That was what I disliked about SparkPeople.  Tons of ads.  So now I'm using LiveStrong, sponsored by the Lance Armstrong Foundation.  Easy to use.  No annoying ads, or popups.  So I will be using it instead of my cute food diary.

Here are my totals for today.

Daily Health and Food Log
Bed	Up	Hrs	AM Pain	AM BP	PM Pain	PM BP	Weight
1130p	7a	7.5	6		7		303
	Fat	Cal	Carbs	Protein	Chol	Fiber	S Fat
Total	79	1830	153	92	603g	20
Goal	53g	2000	300	65g	300mg	17g	18g

Depression: Here's a gene that may make some folks more susceptible

Depression strikes a huge number of Americans at one time or another of their lives -- and studies show that genes are involved in susceptibility to this awful “Black Dog,” as Winston Churchill used to term his struggle with the mood disorder.

But what are the genes involved? A study in the journal Archives of General Psychiatry implicates one. It directs the formation of a small peptide in our brains, Neuropeptide Y.

Neuropeptide Y is found all over the place in our brains, and prior studies had shown that the levels in our bloodstreams and spinal fluid seem to correlate with how resilient we are to life’s stresses: the more NPY, the more resilient.

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Totals 2/2/11

Not sure about these totals . . . but I double checked my information.

Daily Health and Food Log
Bed	Up	Hrs	AM Pain	AM BP	PM Pain	PM BP	Weight
1130p	7a	7.5	4		7		303
	Fat	Cal	Carbs	Protein	Chol	Fiber	S Fat
Total	118	1638	341	81	486g	12.8	.5
Goal	53g	2000	300	65g	300mg	17g	18g

Totals 2/1/11

Happy Imbolc.  I'm feeling the Spring.  All antsy and wanting to organize stuff.  Had an egg today, which totally blew my cholesterol out of the water.  But stuff like that is gonna happen, I guess.

Daily Health and Food Log
Bed	Up	Hrs	AM Pain	AM BP	PM Pain	PM BP	Weight
11p	7a	8	4		4		303
	Fat	Cal	Carbs	Protein	Chol	Fiber	S Fat
Total	57	1934	291.8	119.6	453g	67.2	17.8
Goal	53g	2000	300	65g	300mg	17g	18g

Here's my stats from blood letting last weekend:
Total Cholesterol: 170
Pulse: 65
BP: 146/84
Hemoglobin: 13.7