My heart?
A few hours ago I ate some fried shrimp. I could feel my heart flutter inside my shirt. The fluttering persisted for about an hour. I've felt it before but never from what I remember for so long. I called my dad and he put a nurse on the phone who he was with. She helped me take my heart rate and asked me a bunch of questions. The rate was a little high but not enough for her to be concerned. The beating was steady and not inconsistent which she said was important. Yet it was higher than it should be and she said it could have been contributed to from what was in my stomach.
For the past month I hiked about once. The month before that I hiked about 25 times. I have been saying over and over that I have been stressed out. My eating wasn't so great although probably not the worst ever. I knew my health was being sacrificed to handle the stress even though a good exercise and eating regimen can help with stress. The stress certainly wasn't all bad stress. It was stress nonetheless.
Anyway, I am taking the heart beat wake up call seriously. She seemed to not be majorly alarmed that I could feel my heart pumping through my shirt and my rib cage. Maybe she was trying not to stress me out further but she also didn't tell me to run out to the er. I took my heart rate a couple more times after that and it dropped down each time. Once was in the safer range of what they look for when a person is not an athlete. I bet when I was hiking it was in the lower athletic area because normally in the past I've had a good hr.
So, I think I'm going to start exercising again daily. If I really get going steadily I'll let myself take a day or two off because it just gets crazy when you go every single day. But I'm not going to go into it like that. If I go 5 days in a row I'll let myself take a day off and then go 3 days or something then take a day off and so on. I'm also seriously thinking about eating healthier. I'm working on some stuff that should improve the rest of my life when I do it right now so adding a healthier food and exercise program should help my life as well. Anyway, I liked hiking every day. Sometimes it was hard to fit it in but I was glad I was doing it even with paying some extra gas to get to the parks and any other bad stuff that happened when I got there like straining my foot or losing my keys once. It takes up time and so on but so does sitting around thinking about your health and other things so this way I can do those things when I'm in the park instead. It doesn't really bother me that I took a month off of the exercise regimen. I just think I'll get back on it and stay on it for a long time and never take another month off again. As for the eating which can be the harder part, I really don't know how to eat right but I think I'll start with not getting anything from fast food places basically unless it's a salad or something and then trying to go to a grocery store when I'm hungry and get some fruit or something healthy, whatever that is and then start piling that stuff up in my kitchen the way a lot of other people do. I could get back on pbj but for overall health it's supposed to be better to vary your diet and the overall health thing is what is important to me right now, not so much partial fasting. Someday I'll talk about the other good things that are going on about me and focus on other people as well. Peace.
For the past month I hiked about once. The month before that I hiked about 25 times. I have been saying over and over that I have been stressed out. My eating wasn't so great although probably not the worst ever. I knew my health was being sacrificed to handle the stress even though a good exercise and eating regimen can help with stress. The stress certainly wasn't all bad stress. It was stress nonetheless.
Anyway, I am taking the heart beat wake up call seriously. She seemed to not be majorly alarmed that I could feel my heart pumping through my shirt and my rib cage. Maybe she was trying not to stress me out further but she also didn't tell me to run out to the er. I took my heart rate a couple more times after that and it dropped down each time. Once was in the safer range of what they look for when a person is not an athlete. I bet when I was hiking it was in the lower athletic area because normally in the past I've had a good hr.
So, I think I'm going to start exercising again daily. If I really get going steadily I'll let myself take a day or two off because it just gets crazy when you go every single day. But I'm not going to go into it like that. If I go 5 days in a row I'll let myself take a day off and then go 3 days or something then take a day off and so on. I'm also seriously thinking about eating healthier. I'm working on some stuff that should improve the rest of my life when I do it right now so adding a healthier food and exercise program should help my life as well. Anyway, I liked hiking every day. Sometimes it was hard to fit it in but I was glad I was doing it even with paying some extra gas to get to the parks and any other bad stuff that happened when I got there like straining my foot or losing my keys once. It takes up time and so on but so does sitting around thinking about your health and other things so this way I can do those things when I'm in the park instead. It doesn't really bother me that I took a month off of the exercise regimen. I just think I'll get back on it and stay on it for a long time and never take another month off again. As for the eating which can be the harder part, I really don't know how to eat right but I think I'll start with not getting anything from fast food places basically unless it's a salad or something and then trying to go to a grocery store when I'm hungry and get some fruit or something healthy, whatever that is and then start piling that stuff up in my kitchen the way a lot of other people do. I could get back on pbj but for overall health it's supposed to be better to vary your diet and the overall health thing is what is important to me right now, not so much partial fasting. Someday I'll talk about the other good things that are going on about me and focus on other people as well. Peace.