New Health Update From Federal Prison
At the end of one month now lost 18 pounds and my blood pressure has dropped over 20 points.
Every morning after breakfast i'm now up to 3 miles around the track. The prison track is 1/3 mile around, and on each lap I stop and do pull ups or push ups, and then continue on.
Each afternoon after lunch i ride the exercise bicycle for 45 minutes on the fat burn program.
The food is not bad. Most days we have rice and beans, and then a variety of eggs, chicken, ham, and other items. We get a lot of mixed green salad, broccoli and green beans. I’ve been avoiding the desserts and tortillas, which are helping me, reach my goal quicker. Thanks to a great commissary, we can buy fresh peppers, onions, avocados, tomatoes, chicken, brown rice, bananas, apples and limes. A couple other guys and I have a Sunday night spaghetti with fresh tomatoes, pepperoni and sausage. This week our neighbor made us a great dinner with hummus, peppers, chicken, sausage and cheese, with some pita bread.
Most days I’m drinking just water. Every once in a while I treat myself to a sunrise orange drink.
One thing is for sure, its easy to take advantage of getting healthy while in here. i plan on taking some lessons from here when i am back in the real world including getting up from my desk at least every hour to get some movement going, walking after meals whenever possible, and maintaining a good exercise routine.
David Foley
Woow, sounds like you’re doing well. Getting back to a healthy weight and changing your outlook on life style all sound great, over the years I’ve done the same thing. I also eat very similar diet, my grandparents lived into their late 90’s, so I live, work and eat like they did. You’re grandpa too! The modern world life style … kills… I have no doubts. I drink mostly oolong tea, no additives, so it’s basically water and some antioxidants. I find I can drink more water each day that way.
Seems you got the diet and exercise figured out, and some nice people to share a special meal with on Sunday, try read some books on Linux, I’ve changed to Linux Mint, and now changing my friend’s computers too, it’s so much better. Maybe you can repair computers there … a class or workshop.
On your diet, I discovered that one needs fat in the diet to keep the bile from accumulating to avoid gall bladder disease, and contrary to public myths it does not cause you to gain weight … sugar does that, in fact sugar causes you to gain more weight than the sugar weighs and a long list of other health issues. Sugar seems to be the first drug trade, I never touch it!
Keep on writing, you’re on the right path. I will also write soon, it’s harvesting time here so always real busy … made 10 quarts of tomato sauce last yesterday (finished at 1AM), also lactic acid fermenting 10 gallons of cucumbers. Try gardening if you can!
tu amigo, Ta
The reviews of the device say it can also play movies – Maybe you’ll be able to see Ant-Man in a few months, it was really funny.