Cardiologist visit

I went to the cardiologist yesterday after feeling relatively crap for the passed few weeks. My heartrate went through the roof when I went for a run a few days ago, 200bpm through the roof. I thought that meant that my heartrate monitor was wrong, but yesterday I did a stress ecg on a treadmill and there it was 200bpm.

The doc has changed my meds, I'm now on 4mg coversyl daily, 5mg concor twice daily and 125mg digoxin daily... not to mention the ubiquitous warfarin.

It's such a pity because a month ago I was really feeling very strong, and was losing weight pretty steadily.

June Weight Chart

I thought I'd share my weight loss chart, thanks to the "Hacker's Diet" online tools. I always thought losing weight quickly was a bad idea, but actually, now that I'm busy trying to lose a significant amount of weight, I want to get this over and done with asap. As you can see I'm losing, on average 590g a week, which is significant. There is still a long way to go though.

On the road again

I stopped going to gym when my contract ran out. I didn't do much exercise for a while after that, except for a little walking and running around work. Anyway I'm thinking of training for another 21 with my girlfriend, except this time I'm gonna do it with about 10kg less wait. I've been losing weight for about 6 weeks now and am down by more than 5kg from 79.9 to 74.2, I'm hoping to get to a goal weight of 77.5kg. We are currently doing an 8 week program to running 5km. I'm hoping with new meds and less weight I will actually be able to run for longer at a time. We'll see how I feel, I'm still being very careful, watching my heart rate and listening to my body.