Monday, 28-04-25

Hi, everyone!  Welcome to my blog where I talk about my ongoing Slimming World and associated health journeys.  I'm now in my target range and want to keep this steady while following Mediterranean diet principles and the Slimming World structure in order to live my best life.

Friday's medication review was something of a disappointment - well, quite a big one, in fact.  Contrary to what my NHS app indicated, my cholesterol hasn't improved, despite all the measures I have put in place over the last months.  I've changed the first paragraph to reflect this and I am sorry for any accidental misleading.
So the statins decision still hovers.

However he (can't remember the name) said that while the risk of a stroke or heart attack in the next fifteen years is up a few degrees because of this, it is offset to some degree by my very healthy weight, diet and exercise regime (his works).  I am doing everything 'right' and the only factor out of my control is my age.  Yup, can't do much about that, can I?

So it has been worth it, all this healthy lifestyle stuff and, anyway, it is the only way I want to live.  It's fun and I feel great.

So we carry on and I will think seriously about whether it would be sensible to start medication.  There's no pressure, the cholesterol (LDLs and HDLs) is stable, it is borderline, there's a bit of a risk but . . .

I asked for another blood test in a few months and that is noted on my records.  

What I have eaten today.

Breakfast and I have to say buckwheat flour makes THE very best pancakes and waffles ever!

Half a healthy extra B (unofficially)

Chicken and grape salad with a honey mustard dressing which I made like this:

1 tbsp evoo (6 syns)

half tbsp red wine vinegar

one tsp honey (1 syn)
one tsp wholegrain mustard (half a syn)

bit of garlic

I didn't use any salt or pepper .

So eight syns and I had half so four syns for the dressing and half a healthy extra B for one tbsp mixed seeds.

The other half is for something in the next few days.

Lovely hm lasagne for dinner.  Yum.

Two healthy extra As and I had another half an A in a nibble of cheese.

I also had a bottle of Doom Bar 0% for three and a half syns and some dates - seven and a half syns.

Summary:

two and a half healthy extra As

one healthy extra B

fifteen syns - but all healthy stuff (apart from the 0% beer)

Tomorrow's meal plans:

B:  fruit and yogurt

L:  scrambled eggs and avocado on sourdough toast; fruit

D:  chicken stir fry with a sauce of some kind - haven't decided what yet

Exercise:   Groove and the walk there and back.