In Range, Interrelated

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

As part of my annual physical I did a number of labs and I received the results yesterday.  Essentially everything is within the normal range.  HDL is fractionally low, cholesterol marginally high.  Neither is far enough off that I'm concerned about it.  As is the case with everything, losing some weight via diet and exercise would likely fix those.

I received another reminder about how the various issues I have are all interrelated this morning.  I went to bed early last night, made sure I had eight plus hours available.  I slept.  And I was not at all rested this morning.  Poor sleep quality.  While I did not have any particular plans to get up early or do anything, I certainly would not have been able to follow through with any I did have.  Too tired.  At least it appears that I'm not in too much sleep debt as I was able to (eventually) get up out of the recliner without too much resistance and as usual once I got going I feel okay.  But it is certainly annoying to struggle so much in the morning.  It really would be my preference to do the early morning walk but I just can't do it.  Not consistently.  So I guess I'm stuck with evening workouts, which means that I'll have the constant internal battle between "I should be exercising" and "I should be back at work I'm so far behind" which isn't healthy.

Sleep:  FAIL.

Going to stop segregating the report card, I think.  

Breakfast:  3 CF sausage patties, orange juice, coffee

 

Reading up on HDL and hemoglobin and stuff, the literature says that Vitamin C improves absorption of iron from meat.  Citrus juices are specifically mentioned.  I don't know if a couple ounces makes a difference, nor do I know if my messed up metabolism can handle it, but I had a small bottle on hand.

 Lunch:  Italian beef sandwich, fries

 A serious failure of willpower.  Just could not make myself prepare anything and I didn't have a full meal thawed.

Dinner:  Pizza Hut HT pep ham beef, breadsticks

 Ugh.  Ate too much.  Back on the horse tomorrow.

Eating:  FAIL.

Exercise:  FAIL.

Sun:  FAIL.

97.4