I went for my first heart rehabilitation yesterday. They had me answer a lot of questions about what kind of mood I have been in over the last few months. They allso wanted to know whether it was more important to me to lose weight, feel better about myself, or to overcome my fears of having a heart attack as a reason for me to be there. I just wanted to feel better.
My weight was now at 165 so I had lost 5 pounds since I had entered the hospital to have the four stents put in last week, and my BMI index was over 40%.
They set a goal for me to lose 20 pounds, and to get my BMI to around 30% over the course of the next 12 weeks.
This cost of this course is $105 a day, and I am supposed to be there three days a week. The coordinator told me that my insurance should pay for it at 100% since I now have my duductible paid after my three day hospital stay, but I wonder how I am to pay for it when the new insurance year starts on Jan 1st.
I am also supposed to keep a food diary so here goes:
12/10/09
Breakfast
coffee with powdered milk mixed with a little cocoa and two Splenda sweetners, plain Cheerios and milk
Lunch
16.5 oz Coke Zero, 1 piece whole wheat bread and 1 tablespoon peanut butter
Dinner
Wendys grilled chicken sandwich
Snacks
1 cup milk and 1 slice whole wheat bread
1 apple and 1 tablespoon peanut butter
Friday, December 11, 2009
Sunday, December 6, 2009
December 6th!
I got on my scales today, and after adjusting it back to zero I seemed to weigh somewhere between 160 and 162. I really need a new pair of scales since everytime I get on the crazy things it tells me a different amount. In any case I seem to have lost a few pounds which makes me happy.
I bummed a ride with friends to service because I felt to dizzy to drive, and I really enjoyed being there.
I think that I may have found where the dizziness is coming from. I seem to have bent my glasses while I was in the hospital which threw the bi-focals off since one lens was now closer to my eye then the other. I was fine while sitting, but it made me feel almost drunk when I walked. My daughter Myra was going to Walmart so I bummed another ride to get my glasses straightened out so maybe I will feel better in them tomorrow.
While I was in the hospital Dr Parker told me that I was now a AB diabetic so if it was white then to not bite, and I am trying to stay away from anything that would cause my sugar level to soar. It is hard but I am trying!
I bummed a ride with friends to service because I felt to dizzy to drive, and I really enjoyed being there.
I think that I may have found where the dizziness is coming from. I seem to have bent my glasses while I was in the hospital which threw the bi-focals off since one lens was now closer to my eye then the other. I was fine while sitting, but it made me feel almost drunk when I walked. My daughter Myra was going to Walmart so I bummed another ride to get my glasses straightened out so maybe I will feel better in them tomorrow.
While I was in the hospital Dr Parker told me that I was now a AB diabetic so if it was white then to not bite, and I am trying to stay away from anything that would cause my sugar level to soar. It is hard but I am trying!
Saturday, December 5, 2009
December 5th, 2009
I started having pain in my chest and left arm a couple of weeks ago, and my blood pressure started going pretty high in the evenings even after taking my two medications to control it so I went to see my family doctor on the day before Thanksgiving. The doctor said that it sounded like I was having angina, and ran an EKG which showed that I was not getting enough oxygen to the heart. He gave me a perscription for Nitrogycerin, and wanted me to go see a cardiologist on the following Monday. I left his office feeling kind of shook up and scared.
Over the next few days I barely ate anything because I had heard that a lot of folks eat to much on Thanksgiving and have a heart attack because of it, and I was not going to be one of those folks. I made it through to Monday with having only one episode of the angina which lasted for only a couple of seconds.
My hubby and I showed up for my appointment to see the cardiologist, Dr John Harper, on Monday. He seemed to not know at first how to proceed with me, but after asking me a few questions he decided to run another EKG. He did not like something in the EKG, because after he looked at it he told me to go over to the hospital next door and sign myself in so that he could do a heart catherization later that afternoon.
When I came out of Dr Harpers office it was going on lunchtime, and my poor hubby had not eaten anything that morning. I could not have him sitting there waiting on me for what was going to be a long evening without eating anything so before signing myself in we drove to McDonalds to get him some lunch. I was not supposed to eat anything, but it did not matter since I was so nervous that I could not have eaten anything if I had tried.
Dr Harper did his catherization later that evening, and I had several blocked arteries, but just one had been causing my problems because it was blocked 95%. Dr Parker decided to fix the 95% blocked one with surgery, and wanted to try to fix the others with medication. He gave me three choices on how to fix the one that was blocked at 95%...uncovered stents where he said that I would probably be back in a year to get it fixed again because it would block back up, covered stents where I would be taking Plavix for a year, and heart by-pass surgery. I choose the covered stents and Plavix for a year, and he scheduled my surgery for the next evening.
The surgery went okay I guess. Dr Harper put four stents in to fix the one blocked artery, and I was given so much of the dye that everytime the nurses tried to give me a pill later I just threw it back up. They finally left me in peace so that I could sleep it off.
I got to go home on Wednesday evening, and I am doing okay I guess. It just seems hard to control my blood pressure, and I get swimmy headed at about 10:00 in the morning and it does not go away until in the evening, and my blood pressure seems to raise after the dizziness passes.
I also do not know what I am supposed to eat, but I am to go see a dietitian Thursday so maybe we can work that problem out.
Over the next few days I barely ate anything because I had heard that a lot of folks eat to much on Thanksgiving and have a heart attack because of it, and I was not going to be one of those folks. I made it through to Monday with having only one episode of the angina which lasted for only a couple of seconds.
My hubby and I showed up for my appointment to see the cardiologist, Dr John Harper, on Monday. He seemed to not know at first how to proceed with me, but after asking me a few questions he decided to run another EKG. He did not like something in the EKG, because after he looked at it he told me to go over to the hospital next door and sign myself in so that he could do a heart catherization later that afternoon.
When I came out of Dr Harpers office it was going on lunchtime, and my poor hubby had not eaten anything that morning. I could not have him sitting there waiting on me for what was going to be a long evening without eating anything so before signing myself in we drove to McDonalds to get him some lunch. I was not supposed to eat anything, but it did not matter since I was so nervous that I could not have eaten anything if I had tried.
Dr Harper did his catherization later that evening, and I had several blocked arteries, but just one had been causing my problems because it was blocked 95%. Dr Parker decided to fix the 95% blocked one with surgery, and wanted to try to fix the others with medication. He gave me three choices on how to fix the one that was blocked at 95%...uncovered stents where he said that I would probably be back in a year to get it fixed again because it would block back up, covered stents where I would be taking Plavix for a year, and heart by-pass surgery. I choose the covered stents and Plavix for a year, and he scheduled my surgery for the next evening.
The surgery went okay I guess. Dr Harper put four stents in to fix the one blocked artery, and I was given so much of the dye that everytime the nurses tried to give me a pill later I just threw it back up. They finally left me in peace so that I could sleep it off.
I got to go home on Wednesday evening, and I am doing okay I guess. It just seems hard to control my blood pressure, and I get swimmy headed at about 10:00 in the morning and it does not go away until in the evening, and my blood pressure seems to raise after the dizziness passes.
I also do not know what I am supposed to eat, but I am to go see a dietitian Thursday so maybe we can work that problem out.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Trying Again!
I quit trying to lose weight in January when I went to work at Jackson Hewitt. My job ended there on April 15th and a short time later my hubby was diagnosed with third stage lung cancer. It has been a rough three months since that time. Hubby is still taking treatments, and these past few weeks it has appeared that he is not doing very well. I know that I will not be able to handle the stress if he does not make it so now is the time to try again. I decided last night to not be so ambitious and just try to give up sugars and junk foods as my first step. Today is the day I decided to start again so this morning I had a cup of coffee with non-fat dry milk and two packs of Splenda instead of my usual Coke. My grand-daughter left a can of Pringles sitting in front of the computer when she went to bed sometime this morning so I don't know how the rest of my day will go with this No Junk Food Plan, but I have resisted the Pringles call so far. I think that it is about time to go hide them in the kitchen though.
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
The Birmingham Hospital Diet Plan
The diet is used at the Birmingham Alabama Hospital Cardiac Care Unit for patients who need to loose a lot of weight quickly before having surgery. You can loose up to 40 pounds a month on this diet. This diet works on a chemical breakdown and is proven to work, but you must follow the diet exactly! Drink water between meals. You can have vinegar or lemon on greens, cabbage, and tuna. Salt and pepper can be used, but no other seasoning. The diet is used for three days then you eat what you normally do, but do not overeat.
Day One Breakfast
1/2 grapefruit or juice
1 Tablespoon peanut butter
1 Plain toast
tea or coffee
Day One Lunch
1/2 cup tuna
1 plain toast
tea or coffee
Day One Dinner
2 slices meat (3 oz)
1 cup green beans
1 cup carrots or beets
1 small apple
1 cup vanilla ice cream
Day Two Breakfast
1 egg
1 plain toast
1/2 banana
tea or coffee
Day Two Lunch
1 cup cottage cheese or tuna
5 saltine crackers
tea or coffee
Day Two Dinner
2 hot dog weiners
1 cup broccoli or cabbage
1/2 cup carrots
1/2 banana
1/2 cup vanilla ice cream
Day Three Breakfast
1 slice cheddar cheese
5 saltine crackers
1 small apple
tea or coffee
Day Three Lunch
1 hard boiled egg
1 slice toast
tea or coffee
Day Three dinner
1 cup tuna
1 cup beets or carrots
1 cup cantelope
1 cup cauliflower or greens
1/2 cup vanilla ice cream
So far I have not made it past the first day on trying this diet plan, but i keep trying. I am also beginning to like peanut butter for breakfast since I have never been a breakfast food fan.
Day One Breakfast
1/2 grapefruit or juice
1 Tablespoon peanut butter
1 Plain toast
tea or coffee
Day One Lunch
1/2 cup tuna
1 plain toast
tea or coffee
Day One Dinner
2 slices meat (3 oz)
1 cup green beans
1 cup carrots or beets
1 small apple
1 cup vanilla ice cream
Day Two Breakfast
1 egg
1 plain toast
1/2 banana
tea or coffee
Day Two Lunch
1 cup cottage cheese or tuna
5 saltine crackers
tea or coffee
Day Two Dinner
2 hot dog weiners
1 cup broccoli or cabbage
1/2 cup carrots
1/2 banana
1/2 cup vanilla ice cream
Day Three Breakfast
1 slice cheddar cheese
5 saltine crackers
1 small apple
tea or coffee
Day Three Lunch
1 hard boiled egg
1 slice toast
tea or coffee
Day Three dinner
1 cup tuna
1 cup beets or carrots
1 cup cantelope
1 cup cauliflower or greens
1/2 cup vanilla ice cream
So far I have not made it past the first day on trying this diet plan, but i keep trying. I am also beginning to like peanut butter for breakfast since I have never been a breakfast food fan.
Monday, January 5, 2009
How I did today!
I had one mug of coffee on the run for breakfast. I was still running for lunch so I had one slice of whole wheat bread with peanut butter spread on it, and a 12 oz coke. I had to go to the grocery store before I could make dinner so I decided on a $5 Subway sandwich with all the veggies they could get on it for dinner. I was really hungry, and I would not be able to eat anything tomorrow until after 12:00 since I have a doctor's appointment and have to have a fasting blood test so I ate 3/4 of it.
Sunday, January 4, 2009
Looks like I got to start again!
I did not do very well on my diet this weekend. Hubby sabotaged me when he bought a box of the chocolate Little Debbie cakes with the raspberry cream in the middle knowing that I cannot resist the things. I have been off my diet all weekend. The Little Debbie cakes were all gone this morning. Today I had a cup of coffee and peanut butter on one slice of wholw wheat bread for breakfast. A bowl of Campbell's Tomato Soup, a grilled cheese sandwich, and a 12 oz coke for lunch. Potato soup, corn bread and water for dinner. Tomorrow I will try my diet again.
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