Feeling Better...

I'm losing weight very slowly.  But I'm walking 5 days a week for 25 minutes each day.  (My dog Dani really enjoys that.)

I had some blood-work done recently (special thanks go to the tech who stabbed me with the needle leaving a very ugly bruise - you sure got your money's worth at that Internet college you went to) and surprisingly, my cholesterol came back much better than expected.  My good cholesterol was actually good and my bad cholesterol was at 166 where 133 is normal and in patients with family histories of heart disease, they like that number to be below 100.  So my doctor decided to put me on Lipitor and he said that I'm doing really well with my diet and exercise and to keep the faith.  The weight will eventually come off.

My BP is still really good.  I have decided, however, NOT to go with the nuclear stress test.  If my EKG and Holter Monitor both came back normal, I'm not going to spend $2,000 on a test I don't need.  Even if the test revealed I had some sort of small blockage in my heart, they would probably prescribe something like Lipitor to help open up those blood vessels and I'm already on it now.  The tightness in the chest isn't as prevalent these days, anyway.