Fish, vitamins and the danger zone
Posted on September 9th, 2009 @ 12:28 am
I’ve had high blood pressure for somewhere around 13 years. Well, about three and a half weeks ago I finally went on a diet. It’s the DASH diet, which for me primarily means low sodium, although there are other qualifications as well.
Leann had me scared to death that I would hate everything she cooked me on this diet. I had to assure her that I would eat anything she made, even if I didn’t like it. Luckily, there’s only been part of one meal that I didn’t really like. The rest has been either amazing or at least acceptable.
I have been eating a lot of blackened fish (cheap and easy to make), popcorn with margarine and blackened seasoning, toasted pita bread cut up into chips, wraps with meat, cheese and spinach, and fruit. In fact, just two weeks ago I did not like oranges and hadn’t tried them in years. Now I have one almost every day.
Leann does also have me popping a handful of vitamins. You can see Jackson pointing out the numerous pills I’m popping, including the blood pressure and stomach medication up top. For some reason I can’t completely fathom, that’s all very fascinating to a two year old.
Just as long as he sticks to his own vitamins and stays away from my blood pressure medication.
Now Tom Cruise is just in the crazy zone
The blood pressure has come down a bit, though I’m still in the danger zone. And that’s not the cool danger zone like in Top Gun, but the one that caused me to get on the diet in the first place.
Oh, one last side effect of this diet has been the loss of about ten pounds. Not the point, but cool nonetheless.
Tags: blood pressure, diet, fish, oranges, popcorn, tom cruise, vitamins
