Saturday, August 1, 2015

Intermittent fasting

Been trying the intermittent fasting for about 3-4 weeks now.  Not eating from 8pm to 9am, giving my system a break for 13hrs, though the goal for women is 14hrs, and 16hrs for men.  One of the health benefits is cardiovascular health and lowering high blood pressure.  Took a reading this morning and it was a surprising 120/82!  I wonder if this is working.  The kids have been working at 630am so I've been going to work that early as well.  Its harder on those days because I'm active but can't eat, I start feeling hungry around 730am.  Because I haven't been eating breakfast at home, I forget to take my meds daily, more like 3-4 times a week.  So I was expecting the BP reading to be high.  So glad to see it was low.  Also been trying to include chia seeds into my diet, either with chia pudding or chia fresca drinks.  Not been too good, but I think I get some in once a week.  Not sure it that is enough to make much of a difference though.  But every little things counts?

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