Ignorance is Bliss
Lately I've had an issue with my left foot swelling up a fair bit by the end of every day. Once I realized it wasn't going to go away, I decided to go see the doctor. Turns out that it could be either of two things: poor circulation due to my weight, and water retention. I'm just happy he ruled out renal failure and heart disease, the other likely causes. He put me on a diuretic for the latter, which means having to go to the bathroom a LOT more than normal, but that's only for a month.
The bigger news, though, was that he told me that while I'll probably see 40 with no issues, if I wanted to see 50, I needed to lose at least a hundred pounds. (Yeah, Michigan folks, I've gained a little weight.) So, effective Thurdsay, I've had to start watching what I eat and cut my soda intake completely. I did a little reading, though, and just cutting soda will take 400-600 calories a day out of my diet. I hadn't realized just how much those things had! Taking that into account, I actually don't need to lower the rest of my eating too incredibly much to start unless I want to send my system into shock, but now I get to teach myself to eat better.
Sometimes ignorance is bliss.
On the bright side, since I was drinking Pepsi rather than Mountain Dew, the caffeine withdrawal was minor: a slight headache Friday, a minor headache the first half of Saturday, and then I was done. Much better than the three days of hell I went through when I stopped cold turkey on Mountain Dew back when I was unemployed! Now I'll just keep my fingers crossed that the weight loss will go as smoothly.
The bigger news, though, was that he told me that while I'll probably see 40 with no issues, if I wanted to see 50, I needed to lose at least a hundred pounds. (Yeah, Michigan folks, I've gained a little weight.) So, effective Thurdsay, I've had to start watching what I eat and cut my soda intake completely. I did a little reading, though, and just cutting soda will take 400-600 calories a day out of my diet. I hadn't realized just how much those things had! Taking that into account, I actually don't need to lower the rest of my eating too incredibly much to start unless I want to send my system into shock, but now I get to teach myself to eat better.
Sometimes ignorance is bliss.
On the bright side, since I was drinking Pepsi rather than Mountain Dew, the caffeine withdrawal was minor: a slight headache Friday, a minor headache the first half of Saturday, and then I was done. Much better than the three days of hell I went through when I stopped cold turkey on Mountain Dew back when I was unemployed! Now I'll just keep my fingers crossed that the weight loss will go as smoothly.