Looking strong ,
dont worry about the numbers… if you are still wantting to get smaller- the numbers will go down…
kmc
[quote]ecogenx wrote:
Its finally happened to me. I have high BP, cholesterol, most likely mild sleep apnea and I’ll be 40 in August. So watching my diet is not just for hawt abz but so I can see 50 some day. Funny but I don’t feel old.[/quote]
Welcome to the club Eco. I guess the good thing is you are only 40 and being diagnosed. I was about 34.then it took me 13 years or so to seriously change my lifestyle.
I’m worried if I get to cut the babes will be chasing me around. I just don’t need that right now. Schedules already to full.
[quote]j_willy3 wrote:
ecogenx wrote:
Its finally happened to me. I have high BP, cholesterol, most likely mild sleep apnea and I’ll be 40 in August. So watching my diet is not just for hawt abz but so I can see 50 some day. Funny but I don’t feel old.
Welcome to the club Eco. I guess the good thing is you are only 40 and being diagnosed. I was about 34.then it took me 13 years or so to seriously change my lifestyle.[/quote]
It happened to me at 45. Your advantage is that you have a base of muscle to work with. I hate to say it but along with cleaning up the diet, cardio is perhaps the best best path for improving the blood pressure and chemistry. I’d suggest start with walking everywhere you can whenever possible.
Have you tried cutting back on carbs? Seems like I read somewhere a diet high in simple carbohydrates is a leading cause of high cholesterol. I know I try to avoid simple carbs and my cholesterol is 173 and that’s with a family history of high cholesterol. Of course I could have misread the study.
[quote]ecogenx wrote:
I’m worried if I get to cut the babes will be chasing me around. I just don’t need that right now. Schedules already to full.[/quote]
Yeah - it’s rough. I just can’t keep 'em off my ripped physique, ya know?
I feel your pain.
Thanks for listening to me whine. I do that once every few months.
Sugar, simple carbs and beers have been gone for a week or so. Apples, cottage cheese and nuts have been my snacks. Trying not to lose weight to fast. Don’t want to lose any strength.
[quote]ecogenx wrote:
Thanks for listening to me whine. I do that once every few months.
Sugar, simple carbs and beers have been gone for a week or so. Apples, cottage cheese and nuts have been my snacks. Trying not to lose weight to fast. Don’t want to lose any strength.[/quote]
I also highly recommend large doses of fish oil, if you aren’t already taking it. I do 6 grams every AM these days and was taking up to 18 daily at one time. My cholesterol went form 260+ with an HDL of 29 to 168 with and HDL of 91. Triglycerides went from 318 to 76.
High cholesterol isn’t bad but it is indicative of systematic inflammation which is bad.
Reducing/eliminating the simple carbs as you are doing is great, continuing the strength training and increasing your cardio activity will do great things for your health over the course of a year.
[quote]ecogenx wrote:
Thanks for listening to me whine. I do that once every few months.
Sugar, simple carbs and beers have been gone for a week or so. Apples, cottage cheese and nuts have been my snacks. Trying not to lose weight to fast. Don’t want to lose any strength.[/quote]
I think you can loose the weight and not loose strength. your on the right track, clean the diet up work in some cardio and your chloesterol will fall, along with the blood pressure.
Thanks Solo and JW. I’ll up the fish oil. I’m only taking 2.4 g/day.
5/5
squat 385x10,495x3,1,1
front squat 225 5x3
goblet squat 80xx10
zercher squat 135x5
My workout was all over the place today. I gave my shoulders the day off. I really want to work on my front squats and zerchers.
that is one hell of a front squat!!!
nice work eco.
ps I am with jw and soldog
your diet is already getting clean
keep training and your numbers- heart numbers will improve…
kmc
Those wake up calls really do wake you up. It’s really not so bad. Once you have cleaned up your diet and stayed the course for a year or so. You don’t what to go back to the old eating habits.
About 95% of what I eat has a direct relationship to the activities that I do. The other 5% are the rewards I give myself for working hard and staying the course.
I don’t eat fats. I do eat oils, fish, extra virgin olive oil and extra virgin coconut oil. The removal of fats can very easily do the job for you. The amount of calories in fats is far greater than the calories in carbs.
Make your changes slowly, shocking the body with drastic changes can make it go into survival mode. If that happen everything you do will be for nothing. It’s more about what you are eating not how much. Any major drops in your food intake will cause the body to slow it’s metabolism.
It will stay in that mode even if you increase your intake. Once it gets use to the increase again it will return to normal. Unfortunatly it will have returned to it’s former condition by that time. So slow and steady is the smartest way to go.
Not yet 40…you’ve got plenty of time to clean up the diet and live a long long life. Great lifting Eco!
Thanks for the positive input. I hope I’m being pro-active early enough. I’m not doing anything radical just dropping junk,bread and booze.
I’m starting a new thread beacuse this one is getting to long.
pussy
[quote]mjnewland wrote:
pussy[/quote]
ouch! eco you gonna take that?
MJ is bigger then me. I’ll have to take it.
[quote]ecogenx wrote:
MJ is bigger then me. I’ll have to take it.[/quote]
whoa - I think that was a backhanded score - point to eco!
game set and match, said the big fat pussy old lardass