|
|
|
|
| Author |
|
|
Registered
|
my face to face with my doctor.
it went well. she almost hugged me.
she is absolutely stoked I changed my lifestyle. I am down 37 lbs and holding. my blood pressure is like I was in my teens. A1c is in the green. she wants to run some blood tests to see if she can take me off my gout meds. she suspects my inflammation is down now. we did high five. hahah.. I absolutely love my morning jogs now. I feel odd without my routine. I will be in Asia soon, and I have bought new running clothing I can wash in the sink and air dry. I look forward to running thru a quiet Tokyo downtown area. I told my travel bud he better pack his Hokas. our wives, we can meet later at the continental breakfast.  I think I will ask if we can cut my gout meds in half. I am kinda. not comfy going cold turkey. gout hurts. worse pain I have ever felt. her quote. "exercise is medicine".
__________________
poof! gone |
||
09-19-2025, 07:53 AM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Woodlands TX
Posts: 3,954
|
Nice. Congrats. Truly. Its really hard to make lifestyle changes.
__________________
84 930 07 Exige S |
||
|
09-19-2025, 08:22 AM
|
|
|
Zink Racer
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Spokane WA
Posts: 4,000
|
Excellent, well done!
__________________
Jerry 1964 356, 1983 911 SC/Carrera Franken car, 1974 914 Bumblebee, a couple of other 914's in various states of repair |
||
|
09-19-2025, 08:56 AM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Linn County, Oregon
Posts: 48,554
|
A quiet Hong Kong area??????? Good luck finding that.
__________________
"Now, to put a water-cooled engine in the rear and to have a radiator in the front, that's not very intelligent." -Ferry Porsche (PANO, Oct. '73) (I, Paul D. have loved this quote since 1973. It will remain as long as I post here.) |
||
|
09-19-2025, 09:31 AM
|
|
|
Registered
|
Taipei and Tokyo. I've run in Taipei early early before. it was fun.
Ho Chi Min city too...I got a morning beer there.
__________________
poof! gone |
||
|
09-19-2025, 09:32 AM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Long Beach CA, the sewer by the sea.
Posts: 37,792
|
Cliff, that is great news. Shows that eating right is really the best thing we can do. Never had a bout with gout but I know some who have. They too were able to eat around that.
Alcohol did contribute in my mind, but I don't know that for a fact. Funny, I quit drinking a year and a half ago and I don't feel any better. But I don't miss it in the least and that alone is a better in my book. Eliminating sugar is next. Have to do something because I don't like how I don't feel like working 8 hours a day as I always have. So your energy level must be pretty awesome if you're running every morning. |
||
|
09-19-2025, 10:41 AM
|
|
|
|
Did you get the memo?
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Wichita, KS
Posts: 32,553
|
That’s awesome! Great example of just how important a good healthy diet and exercise is for us. If everybody was willing to make that sacrifice we would have a lot fewer sick people and a lot lower healthcare costs.
__________________
‘07 Mazda RX8-8 Past: 911T, 911SC, Carrera, 951s, 955, 996s, 987s, 986s, 997s, BMW 5x, C36, C63, XJR, S8, Maserati Coupe, GT500, etc |
||
|
09-19-2025, 10:55 AM
|
|
|
?
Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 30,520
|
On mobile, I can't see thread starters, or see if this one has 1 star yet... nor can I hand out 10 stars
 Awesome Cliff! |
||
|
09-19-2025, 11:07 AM
|
|
|
Registered
|
Quote:
Be careful not to overdo it. When. Was in a similar situation- high bp and cholesterol - I went the healthy lifestyle route. I reasoned that if moderate exercise was good, immoderate exercise must be extra more gooder and started running marathons. That was a mistake Im still paying for.
__________________
. |
||
|
09-19-2025, 05:45 PM
|
|
|
Back in the saddle again
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Central TX west of Houston
Posts: 56,185
|
Outstanding! Best news ever!
Congrats on making a change! I was up 15-20# over a year ago. I've lost 5-10#, and plan on keeping it up. Hopefully, I'll be right behind you!
__________________
Steve '08 Boxster RS60 Spyder #0099/1960 - never named a car before, but this is Charlotte. '88 targa  SOLD 2004 - gone but not forgotten
|
||
|
09-19-2025, 05:50 PM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: bottom left corner of the world
Posts: 22,774
|
Maybe it's all all the fish you are eating. Mediterranean diet they call it.
|
||
|
09-19-2025, 11:26 PM
|
|
|
Platinum Member
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Posts: 21,022
|
Quote:
I was on 3 bp meds, down to one at half the dosage. Off the gout med, uric acid down from 9 (above normal) to 6 (normal), lower than when I was on the med. My doc was very curious about how I lost the weight so fast.... she thought I got my hands on one of the weight loss drugs.
__________________
The truth is that while those on the left - particularly the far left - claim to be tolerant and welcoming of diversity, in reality many are quite intolerant of anyone not embracing their radical views. - Charlie Kirk |
||
|
09-20-2025, 04:26 AM
|
|
|
|
Registered
|
Rock on Vash! Simple stuff like healthy diet and exercise, alcohol in moderation, and regular good sleep are transformative. I do these things while knocking on 70 because I want to enjoy my time still on earth and stay away from the medical industrial complex. Stay the course brother!
__________________
2009 Cayman PDK With a few tweaks 2021 Cayman GTS 4.0L 2021 Macan (dog hauler) |
||
|
09-20-2025, 04:37 AM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: May 2013
Location: Space Coast
Posts: 5,300
|
Well done vash! Food is medicine too.
__________________
Paul 82 911SC - 3 yrs of fun (traded-in) 06 MINI Cooper S - 19 yrs of fun (sold) 2011 Cayman (she purrs, loudly) |
||
|
09-20-2025, 05:57 AM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Apr 2015
Posts: 1,417
|
Great news. Congrats, dieting is easier said than done.
|
||
|
09-20-2025, 06:58 AM
|
|
|
Registered
|
Congratulations! I had the same primary care doc for 25+ years before I moved. He basically said, barring something unusual, if you moderate your meals, drinking, and DO NOT smoke, you can eat or dink whatever you want once a week. Keeping 'active' as in physical exercise and mental activities, is also a key. Works for me.
__________________
Horsepower is how fast you hit a wall.Torque is how far you will take the wall with you. |
||
|
09-20-2025, 11:47 AM
|
|
|
?
Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 30,520
|
Quote:
Congrats to all .... I porked out at 212 a few years back ... 165 ... and it ain't comimg back. It's just maf... in < out Boolean Algebra I porked when I was injured and couldn't stay active .... I burn & eat now. Last edited by KFC911; 09-21-2025 at 01:12 AM.. |
||
|
09-21-2025, 01:08 AM
|
|
|
?
Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 30,520
|
Quote:
I can't even tutor Logic 101 anymore
|
||
|
09-21-2025, 01:46 AM
|
|
|
Registered
|
hahaha...
you all crack me up.
__________________
poof! gone |
||
|
09-21-2025, 08:41 AM
|
|
|
Registered
|
yesterday, coming back from the coast, I got sleepy. waking up at 3:00 am is tough.
the drive home, I stop at a local place for an americano. I get a meat hand pie since I am trembling from hunger. I get into my truck, pull back into traffic, take a sip of hot coffee...hmmm.. take a bite of of the hand-pie. WTF? it was an apple hand pie. there was no stopping it. I had crumbs on my shirt, licking my fingers, washed it down with hotasscoffee. quitting sugar is a B. I almost fell off the wagon by a mis-identified hand pie. hahahhah. dang that thing was tastings like magic.
__________________
poof! gone |
||
|
09-21-2025, 08:44 AM
|
|
Lil Red
Cayman
1988 911 Cabrio
