January 17, 2010
Weight: 209
B/P: 118/73

A setback with my weight this morning but considering that I didn’t take a triazide (water pill) yesterday and ate garbage processed high-sodium foods with our movie last night, I can’t say that I’m surprised. I’ll just pick myself back up and keep on keeping on – beginning with my oatmeal breakfast this morning. When I saw my doctor on December 11th, she recommended I add oatmeal to my diet in an attempt to lower my cholesterol. I go back to have it retested in April and I really want my numbers to come down. I’ve even been getting up earlier on work days to make myself oatmeal. I add a handful of raisins to the water before it even begins to boil and after the oatmeal is ready, I add a heaping tablespoon of ground flax seeds, a heaping tablespoon of oat bran, a generous few shakes of cinnamon, brown sugar and 1% milk. I don’t like the taste of milk otherwise so that’s basically the only time I have milk. I bought some raw cane sugar from Walmart when Darlene and I stopped there on Friday though so I’ll try that in my oatmeal this morning. I think it’s better for a person than brown sugar is but I’ll have to do some research on that to find out whether that’s true or not.

Last night I dreamed that I stopped at a family gathering/party along the road. Several of the family members were selling B.C. fruit and although they began packing up for the day, I was able to buy some. I vividly remember the beautifully ripe and large blueberries, plums, peaches and blackberries. I think there were vegetables on the stands as well but I don’t remember the veggies as vividly as the fruit. I wanted to buy huge amounts but I knew they’d go bad before we got a chance to eat them.

It was 9 days ago that I started weaning myself off the triazide. My plan is to take one today then start skipping two days between taking them. So I’ll skip Monday and Tuesday but I will continue to keep a close eye on my blood pressure.