Cutting out salt

[DRuM]

just cut out added salt period.

i do use salt, but not much, only for pasta/potatoes, (which i don't eat often) i don't eat chips.

i also stopped using sugar about 10 years ago, don't eat sweets (maybe 1 a month or not at all)

your body will just get used to it

also excersize, drink water alot.

Yep. But don't you think some food can be a bit bland without salt? Sugary foods I definitely need to cut down. I don't add sugar to much if anything these days. I have a bowl of porridge
most mornings which I always have a with a spoonful of honey and a handful of dried apricots. I don't really know how healthy porridge is, but it gives me fuel to start the day. Also, to my advantage, I don't do alcohol.
I'm not against drinking it, but I can't remember the last time I had a beer or a shot. But alcohol would be pretty bad for blood pressure or cholestrol. I do however still smoke rollups.

[SoM]

if you want salty shit just buy some fries from MC once a month, i stopped buying from fast food rests, only a slice of pizza once in 2-3 months if not more.

read this

[DRuM]

if you want salty shit just buy some fries from MC once a month, i stopped buying from fast food rests, only a slice of pizza once in 2-3 months if not more.

read this

Porridge:
"It is also commonly eaten by athletes in training"

Can't be bad then. I've been doing porridge, honey and apricots for years now.

[SoM]

you can eat it, my uncle eats it every day he's almost 70 and healthy.

just stop using salt/eating junk food and u'll get used to it.

[seremtan]

I don't do alcohol....I do however still smoke rollups.

moderate alcohol - reduces risk of heart disease
smoking - increases risk of heart disease

ffs DRuM sort your shit out

[U4EA]

Maybe it's because of how hard your heart has to work to be able to pump blood into your massive nose.

[SoM]

I don't do alcohol....I do however still smoke rollups.

moderate alcohol - reduces risk of heart disease
smoking - increases risk of heart disease

ffs DRuM sort your shit out

and get a nose job

[Underpants?]

had a baseline cholesterol test, yet? Also, there are good and bad cholesterols so make sure you're given a proper debriefing. And not geoff-style, keep the butt doctor out of this.

I don't know how much I buy the prehypertension shit... for years now I've been high 150's and shit, and I still rode a 100 mile mountain bike race in fairly decent time last year, 3 foot races, 5k 10k and planning a half marathon this year, still bench more than Geoff (limp wrists make for bad leverage bro, sorry).

[Don Carlos]

he's welsh, he can't help it

No he ain't
Faux Welsh at best

[scared?]

running marathons is unhealthy...

[Don Carlos]

Also Paleo diet FTW

[DRuM]

So I had a blood test last week and went to my doc just now and she was very happy with my results that have been returned. Glucose levels very good she said, value 4.4. They only start worrying over a value of about 7. No anaemia, kidneys and liver fine, normal white blood cell count and a bunch of other things on the screen all absolutely fine, so that's good. The most surprising thing is when she just did another blood pressure test. 134/88. I'm like wtf? It was 150 last time on the 3rd attempt, and 166 on the first.

I'm guessing a lot of that was stress due to my mum being ill recently.
But also, I've really cut down on salt and garbage food since making this thread, been eating mostly chicken, broccoli, baked spuds. Do you think that's made a difference in just over 2 weeks?

[MKJ]

yes.

[DRuM]

yes.

I'm definitely going to keep this up. I mean I did slightly salt the water for the broccoli to give it some flavour, but having reduced so much other rubbish I've been stuffing myself with recently, I guess I can cut myself some slack on a little bit of salt here and there, but will still try to cut that back further still.

[Tsakali]

steam your vegetables you noob... you're losing alot of the flavor and possibly nutrients by boiling.

[SoM]

steam your vegetables you noob... you're losing alot of the flavor and possibly nutrients by boiling.