LBrown59
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creekbend
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I'm sincerely glad to hear that your health has improved. Great news.:thumbsup:
brin
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All that is great Don, I am so glad about your labs....but ...you might want to consider a little moderation in the running....anything can be over done....that's all I am gonna say...otherwise all is great...congrats...! Well one more thing...there are studies showing walking is just as good and is not as hard on your knees and hips...now I'm done...
RobertBrown
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You are an inspiration. Sounds like you have put that obstacle behind you. That's no small feat, so you have my respect and admiration.
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Don, you were no stranger to exercise and hard work when your "event" happened. Certainly, your ability to bounce back was influenced by your existing physical shape. The change of diet and getting right back on the "horse that threw you" are two things that have brought you back from the brink. I'm surprised that you are stopping the Plavix when you have a stent. I thought the Plavix was a lifetime thing to eliminate any danger of plaque build-up inside the stent. I'd love to get rid of Plavix. Scratching myself turns into a blood letting.:rolleyes
Running 100 miles per week at your age speaks well for your inherited joint health. For your joints to allow you to do that at your "advanced" age
is probably as surprising as your heart healing so well. BTW, what's your weight? You were always slender, and I'd bet your new diet makes you even more so.
Running 100 miles per week at your age speaks well for your inherited joint health. For your joints to allow you to do that at your "advanced" age
is probably as surprising as your heart healing so well. BTW, what's your weight? You were always slender, and I'd bet your new diet makes you even more so.
Kyle_in_Tex
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This is great news Don! Glad to hear it.
arrow
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That is a good report Don. There is a possible pea in the mattress here that may be food for thought. It was last month I read about these marathon and ultra runners that were actually causing damage to their hearts as a result of inflammation from exercising so strenuously. They found the body of one such person in a stream after he went on a twelve mile jog and never returned. This guy may have been doing a hundred miles a week for all we know. I do not know what is considered the possible troublesome parameters and I'm not sure the people who wrote the article know either but it may be something to check into. As always with this kind of media reporting , the devil is in the details and they always leave the details out.
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txdon
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Thanks guys.
Jim, a bare metal stent is epithelialized into the artery, so the lining of the artery grows over the stent. This can happen in as short a time as 3 months. When the stent is within the lining, the Plavix can be discontinued. Stents that are drug eluding take longer. Mine is a bare metal stent which was the choice of the cardiologist during my heart attack and I believe it was the best choice for me. He is over-protective so that is probably why he opted for 18 months, and I had to request discontinuing it, in fact I had to request discontinuing each of my meds, and only after careful review would he allow it.
Weight 165. Now that cooler temps are here I hope to be outside more and take off another 5.
Arrow, I know how strenuous a marathon can be and the effect on the muscles. I have run 13 in years past. First you use up your carbohydrates then proteins and then muscle which I do not need because the heart is a muscle. Daily 30-60 minute runs (depending on pace) to exercise my heart and plenty recoup time seem to work. If I do a longer run then I skip the day after.
Jim, a bare metal stent is epithelialized into the artery, so the lining of the artery grows over the stent. This can happen in as short a time as 3 months. When the stent is within the lining, the Plavix can be discontinued. Stents that are drug eluding take longer. Mine is a bare metal stent which was the choice of the cardiologist during my heart attack and I believe it was the best choice for me. He is over-protective so that is probably why he opted for 18 months, and I had to request discontinuing it, in fact I had to request discontinuing each of my meds, and only after careful review would he allow it.
Weight 165. Now that cooler temps are here I hope to be outside more and take off another 5.
Arrow, I know how strenuous a marathon can be and the effect on the muscles. I have run 13 in years past. First you use up your carbohydrates then proteins and then muscle which I do not need because the heart is a muscle. Daily 30-60 minute runs (depending on pace) to exercise my heart and plenty recoup time seem to work. If I do a longer run then I skip the day after.
mikim
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Don -- WHERE do you run? Your roads are as bad as mine ....did you cut a track in the pasture?
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txdon
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Mike, I do have a cut track in the field 8 laps = 3 miles. I run in Bastrop once a week
My watch, a Garmin Forerunner 610, keeps track of my laps and distance, pace and heart rate, no way to cheat. The watch downloads all info into the computer and uploads to Garmin and shows a map of where you ran, your heart rate, pace and cadence each second. You can then put this info on various graphs. Too cool.
It also has a virtual running partner, but that's a whole another thread.
FYI "Engine 2 Kitchen Rescue" is now on Netflix it has a lot of good info.
My watch, a Garmin Forerunner 610, keeps track of my laps and distance, pace and heart rate, no way to cheat. The watch downloads all info into the computer and uploads to Garmin and shows a map of where you ran, your heart rate, pace and cadence each second. You can then put this info on various graphs. Too cool.
It also has a virtual running partner, but that's a whole another thread.
FYI "Engine 2 Kitchen Rescue" is now on Netflix it has a lot of good info.
arrow
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Don , as far as the diet goes. my most troublesome part is breakfast. Sometimes it confounds me so much I skip it entirely. Oatmeal makes me starving after an hour and this is of the steel cut variety. I grew up on toast and butter so now I have grain toast and apple butter (which does not satisfy in the least) with coffee. It seems no matter what i eat, its like always coming from a chinese restaurant...starving after an hour. We have ducks and I can eat an omelet a day but the egg,feta and spinach combo every day can't be healthy after awhile. I get less hungry if I don't eat go figure.
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txdon
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Arrow,
I now get hungry but not an hour after, it takes about three and then I usually have an early lunch or a pre lunch veggie snack. Oatmeal is only 6% fat so I would suspect that your body has not been weaned of fat and craves it. When you get hungry eat some veggie snacks.
I found out it was hard to eat "Healthy" or "In Moderation" and loose weight because your body will crave (in the form of feeling hungry) the fat in cheese, animal products, and refined oils. It takes about 60 day to go through the fat withdrawal process when you go on the no added fat/plant-based only diet. If you go on the diet with the intent of it never ending and you can truly not enjoy eating meat, cheese, dairy, or oiled food and not feel deprived let me know. You will be one of the very few.
I'm on the diet because (with heart disease) it is a quality of life decission. The weight loss is incidental, plus it has other benefits.
I now get hungry but not an hour after, it takes about three and then I usually have an early lunch or a pre lunch veggie snack. Oatmeal is only 6% fat so I would suspect that your body has not been weaned of fat and craves it. When you get hungry eat some veggie snacks.
I found out it was hard to eat "Healthy" or "In Moderation" and loose weight because your body will crave (in the form of feeling hungry) the fat in cheese, animal products, and refined oils. It takes about 60 day to go through the fat withdrawal process when you go on the no added fat/plant-based only diet. If you go on the diet with the intent of it never ending and you can truly not enjoy eating meat, cheese, dairy, or oiled food and not feel deprived let me know. You will be one of the very few.
I'm on the diet because (with heart disease) it is a quality of life decission. The weight loss is incidental, plus it has other benefits.
ronjhall
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:thumbsup:
texasjohn
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Great news...congrats!!!