So yesterday afternoon, as soon as I got to my last class for the day, I felt suddenly dizzy. Since it’s impossible for me to be pregnant,I left an activity for the students and decided to go to the school clinic to get my blood pressure checked, and lo and behold, it was 140/100! No wonder I felt like any minute I was going to collapse. And mind you, I already took my maintenance medicine in the morning, so I don’t know why it was still that high.
The nurse told me that when my blood tests came back, I had high cholesterol, and high SGPT, same problem that I has last year, and now I have to go on a low, fat, low salt and low carbs diet. The only question I have is…..
What can I eat? Because I know I can’t eat processed food anymore (goodbye canned tuna and corned beef) I can’t eat a lot of rice (ugh, this is really hard) I can’t eat fried chicken also! Hay I need to talk to a nutritionist to find out for sure.
I ate oatmeal with raisins for breakfast this morning. I’m planning to eat 1 cup of rice once a day (lunch only), then oatmeal and fruits again for dinner. Oh and I need to exercise! I’m doing Zumba again. I started the other day, but couldn’t yesterday because of my hypertension.
So why the sudden drastic change? Well aside from the fact that I don’t want to die young, I want to be healthy because by next year we want to have a baby, and I am not going to attempt to get pregnant when I’m like this. Hopefully this will really motivate me to make a lifestyle change.Fingers crossed!
So again I go back to my question, what can on who needs to be on a low fat, low salt, low carbs diet eat????!!!!
