You should be really proud of yourself for continuing to push hard while syncing your efforts to your medical team’s recommendations. It’s not easy stay driven under the best of circumstances, but you’re managing it under far from optimal conditions. Good job you.
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Thank you for the recognition.
Eh. I try. They tread lightly when it comes to vocational stuff, and just ask that I be mindful.
Next set of ppe I get is going to be much less black though. I was doing like a 10 minutes grinding/cutting/welding, 10 minutes in the air conditioning cooling off and rehydration pattern all day.
It seems to have worked. I actually feel pretty good today.
On another bright side, my buddy I do the welding & stuff for loaned me one of his vehicles while my car is in the shop!
So thats quite a departure from what I’m used to driving. 
So I’ll be making my cardiac therapy appointments again.
That seems to be my wheelhouse. If I don’t have anything to push against, I don’t push at all.
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Here’s one from the way back machine of my mind. Its like an old NRM in there. 
Regular ole cardiac rehab today. They bumped me up to 2.7 mph. walking! Thats a little more interesting! Actually I close my eyes and intermittently drift away while I do that.
Well, what ever it is, something is working. I’m down 3 lbs. (For now…) and my blood pressure was like 106/60 something. So yay!
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Didn’t get a chance to log last nights stuff but it was triceps kick backs, lateral raises and overhead pressing, all done with high reps, light weight.
Today was an early session of cardiac rehab. All was well. They even had me do an extra 5 min. of hands only on the airdyne, and maybe we’ll throw in the concept2 rower some time soon. So thats all good too.
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Yeah, and…?
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First of all- You’re killing it! keep up the good work
Forget stupid limitations, but if those pesky social expectations get in the way…
You could always switch goals from “living healthy life” to “self destruction” → then you could reach your goal AND continue doing things ppl consider you “too old” for
Thank you anna. Its a bit of humor, and it looks just like an old buddy I used to cut trees with. Like, no joke, I could have taken this picture a thousand times! He even has the giant freakin dolly!
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The rehab went really well today. Some days everything just feels good. Today was one of them. They increased all of my rates on treadmill and airdyne, and threw in arms only for 5 min. Concept² rower will be added in for the next session too. Heart rate/exertion is improving quickly and blood pressure is scary good.
And! I got my car back from the mechanic. He was super reasonable on price and it drives like new. Still an aveo, but how much can one reasonably ask for?
Time to give back the Super SUV. That thing is insane for regular driving though. I always see the incredibly beautiful women driving that same thing in the very very nice neighborhoods and can not imagine actually buying one and fueling it on a regular basis. Especially lately. 
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No welding today.
Today is my 2nd birthday. It was 6/19/19 that I had the big one.
So, Carbapalooza! Yeahhhhh!
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And I’ve been craving a chicken salad with honey mustard dressing for days. So here I am at 1:00 am broiling up chicken breasts.
Usually this is my afternoon meal from subway. Today was different, yet my brain did not forget that today was honey mustard chicken salad day. In fact it was vehemently insistent, even in the face of pizza and bread sticks.
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Haven’t posted much lifting or work stuff, but have just been staying busy, plodding along.
Fueled by these.
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In a ridiculous twist of physiological fate, I start carbing up and I lose weight.
Another session down, and everything still hunky dory.
Things are too good. It’s like, time for a piece of plaque or clot to break loose and lodge in my brain or LAD or something.
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Okay, I want to know the secret to your carb-defying weight-loss. Oh, and send over those gorgeous magic buns, would you, so I don’t have to keep licking the screen.
Glad to hear things are coming along nicely. Let’s not tempt fate by imagining all the things that could or should go wrong; to paraphrase Edna Mode, “Darling, it distracts from the now.”
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So do I. It might just be energy in—>energy out. Historically I’ve done well with buckets of carbs and mid 5 to 7k cals/day, but that was also when I was literally a metabolic dumpster fire with the activity levels of the fast zombies from World War Z or 28 Days Later.
Lately though, looking at the beginning of this log, I started out at 173-175. Now, 1.5 years later, I’m up 15 lbs, and I’m sure that it’s not all “good” muscle/weight. Not sure the heart even knows what it’s pumping blood through or to. Could be fat, could be muscle, organ tissue, what ever. I’m going to look in on that.
I’ve had some difficulty with work out recovery/fatigue management, obviously exacerbated by heart stuff. BUT! I’ve also been trying to bias toward lower cals all around, and higher protein without going full keto or other structured high protein plans.
So I’m going to have to reconsider the general direction, and some specifics. It appears I’ve meandered in the wrong direction, so here I am 18 mos. later 15 lbs. heavier and way out in the weeds.
I’ve been laughing inside a little thinking back on my initial reaction to having to restrict sodium going “oh, shit! I’m not going to be able to eat Anything! 
”.
Well. I can now safely conclude that was not true.
Yeah. Waiting for the other shoe to drop can be a big problem for me. In fact, it’s usually what brings the other one.
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Sorry, Those are in person only. They’re only fresh for so long! I actually gave a bunch to my neighbors. I doubt they’ll mind suffering through the learning curve of my baking.
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You’re probably right there.
This is what I’m doing too. And I’m learning that hard limits on calories and carbs (in my case, 1600 kcal/day & 100 g, respectively until I get to my weight target) aren’t actually necessary, given reasonable activity levels. There is some room for flexibility (within reason).
Phew! It’s good to know that there are ways to enjoy food within the limits of what’s necessary. I’ve always found that an “addiction” to salt can be overcome just like an “addiction” to sugar.
It’s never either constructive or productive to live in fear, or in cynicism. Today is all any of us get, really. Even if the expectation of a tomorrow appears greater for most people, nothing is guaranteed for anyone, of course.
(In case this sounds preachy, I’m saying this to myself as much as to you.) 
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You can do it!
especially since you’ve managed this
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my friend made bagels the other day. Absolutely gorgeous, but went stale within a day
Oh, it was pretty daunting at first.
15 lbs. later, I can safely conclude that it’s actually not too difficult.
Funny though- I had my first fast food burger in a looong time last week.
Ho-lee shit. A plain Wendy’s double, no condiments and I swear I was getting chemical burn in my mouth from the amount of sodium in it.
Honestly It was fucking disgusting and became the impetus to talk to the wife about not feeding this kind of food to our kid.
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