Good cholesterol/bad cholesterol. I'm sure your doctor has covered some of this, but...
Oatmeal in the morning is good for lowering the bad on top of being good for general weight loss. I know its fiber that doesn't fit well into a lot of diet plans, but it'll help out on the lowering front. On the good front, flax seed oil pills. You can find them anywhere they sell vitamens. last_bastion, who has heart failure, takes three a day.
There are a number of books out there with herbal medicine in them if you're interested in things like teas to help bring down cholesteral and deal with hardening arteries. I'm working on several ideas for last_bastion, but, as we both understand... cross reference, cross reference, cross reference... and since we're talking about your heart, ask your doctor. A lot of them don't know a whole lot about herbal medicine (stupid pharmacutical companies teaching us that herbs suck and only drugs work), but its a shot anyway
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You can find recumbant bikes on Craig's List. If you can afford it, I personally recommend buying one new from some place like Sears. Try them all out and get what feels comfortable under your tush. I love riding on the recumbant bike, but I do occasionally run into a machine that sits against my lumbar wrong or my ass fall asleep in the seat.
And yes... they do rock. :) Nothing like being comfortably supported enough to read or watch TV while working off calories and making your heart work.
Even better for me... after a few monhts on one of those, I was able to start using a treadmill _and_ jog. I can't tell you how good that felt.
Good for you - I had high cholerstoal several years ago - and was overweight.... I did weight watchers and finally found exercise I like.
I will say the oatmeal is good - but the low-sugar ones don't stick well with me either. Try Smart Ones breakfast (stuffed breakfast sandwichs or egg and cheese english muffins are really good, the low-fat jimmy dean breafast sandwiches are good) - or add a piece of fruit to it. That seems to really make it last longer.
I do have a recumbunt bike - but joining a gym (it's costing me 30 a months for EVERYTHING) makes me go - I feel bad if I pay the money and don't use it. They also have classes that I like to go and group exercise is always helpful. I did get a wii and the fit last week, and then looked it up online and found that it burns only half of the calories that the same exercise would burn in a normal gym. It's a good place to start.
I will look into those Smart Ones for breakfast. Adding cheese to my eggs really helps the proteins, and sticking around longer.
And the gyms around here have no child care, unless I want to travel to the other side of the city (to the high-priced part of town) where one gym has child care. It isn't worth the cost in gas to do that every day, so I have to look at my home options until my daughter is in school part of the day.
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Oatmeal in the morning is good for lowering the bad on top of being good for general weight loss. I know its fiber that doesn't fit well into a lot of diet plans, but it'll help out on the lowering front. On the good front, flax seed oil pills. You can find them anywhere they sell vitamens. last_bastion, who has heart failure, takes three a day.
There are a number of books out there with herbal medicine in them if you're interested in things like teas to help bring down cholesteral and deal with hardening arteries. I'm working on several ideas for last_bastion, but, as we both understand... cross reference, cross reference, cross reference... and since we're talking about your heart, ask your doctor. A lot of them don't know a whole lot about herbal medicine (stupid pharmacutical companies teaching us that herbs suck and only drugs work), but its a shot anyway ( ... )
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And yes... they do rock. :) Nothing like being comfortably supported enough to read or watch TV while working off calories and making your heart work.
Even better for me... after a few monhts on one of those, I was able to start using a treadmill _and_ jog. I can't tell you how good that felt.
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I will say the oatmeal is good - but the low-sugar ones don't stick well with me either. Try Smart Ones breakfast (stuffed breakfast sandwichs or egg and cheese english muffins are really good, the low-fat jimmy dean breafast sandwiches are good) - or add a piece of fruit to it. That seems to really make it last longer.
I do have a recumbunt bike - but joining a gym (it's costing me 30 a months for EVERYTHING) makes me go - I feel bad if I pay the money and don't use it. They also have classes that I like to go and group exercise is always helpful. I did get a wii and the fit last week, and then looked it up online and found that it burns only half of the calories that the same exercise would burn in a normal gym. It's a good place to start.
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I will look into those Smart Ones for breakfast. Adding cheese to my eggs really helps the proteins, and sticking around longer.
And the gyms around here have no child care, unless I want to travel to the other side of the city (to the high-priced part of town) where one gym has child care. It isn't worth the cost in gas to do that every day, so I have to look at my home options until my daughter is in school part of the day.
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