Wednesday Weigh-In 20130515

There's actually a lot going on right now, but too little time to write about it.

Waist = 37.0"
Height = 5' 9"

References:

1. Wikipedia BMI page
2. Tanita Scale with Body Fat monitor
3. Javascript must be enabled to view the data.

Wednesday Weigh-In 20130508

The only time I look at the fat and calories content on packages of food is when I want to make sure I get the one with the highest of both.

Waist = 37.25"
Height = 5' 9"

References:

1. Wikipedia BMI page
2. Tanita Scale with Body Fat monitor
3. Javascript must be enabled to view the data.

Wednesday Weigh-In 20130502

My appetite is back. I think I should plan on eating four meals of good food each day. Otherwise I'll reach for the junk food.

Waist = 37.0"
Height = 5' 9"

References:

1. Wikipedia BMI page
2. Tanita Scale with Body Fat monitor
3. Javascript must be enabled to view the data.

Wednesday Weigh-In 20130424

I don't have much appetite after my five-day fever of last week. Nowadays, eating serves to take away hunger, not fill me up.

Waist = 37.0"
Height = 5' 9"

References:

1. Wikipedia BMI page
2. Tanita Scale with Body Fat monitor
3. Javascript must be enabled to view the data.

Low Normal Body Temperature and Hypothyroidism

Chronic low body temperature is related to many syndromes and symptoms, including: allergies, apathy, chronic fatigue, "brain fog", "personal failure", depression, dizziness, hypoglycemia, lethargy, passive/aggressive syndromes, skin and joint conditions, sleep disorders, sexual dysfunction, past sexual abuse, yeast problems, porphyria, and many other poorly-defined chronic low health states.

from http://www.diagnose-me.com/symptoms-of/hypothyroidism.html

I became interested in the topic of low body temperature last week.  I felt feverish, but my temperature was barely 99.1F, which is considered a low grade fever.  However, I felt that my fever was stronger, higher than that.  My normal body temperature is 1.8F lower than the 98.6F that's considered normal.  So I wondered if I should consider my personal fever to be 100.9F, or 1.8F more than the actual reading of 99.1.

It took five days for the fever to break.  I started to feel better (as in "less bad") over the weekend, so I did some research on body temperature.

I've had low normal body temperature all my life, yet no doctor or nurse has ever commented on it.  Body temperature is one of our most basic measures of health, and mine was ignored. If someone had bothered to take an interest in my low readings, I might be in much better shape today.  Instead, my doctor complained about my high cholesterol, putting my on Vytorin.  "I'd rather find out why my cholesterol is high and correct that condition," I'd say.  "It's genetic," was always his reply.

No, that's not entirely true, Doctor.  If you paid attention to my consistently low body temperatures of 96.8F and followed the diagnostic guidelines for Wilson Syndrome, you'd treat me for hypothyroidism, which can explain my high cholesterol and my many other problems!

Wednesday Weigh-In 20130417

This is a "virtual, interpolated" weigh-in. I was actually sick this week, so the values in this post are halfway between last week's and next week's.

Waist = 37.25"
Height = 5' 9"

References:

1. Wikipedia BMI page
2. Tanita Scale with Body Fat monitor
3. Javascript must be enabled to view the data.

Key to the Past

I'm about to open a briefcase that I haven't opened in over twenty years.

It's a briefcase that has stewed in the juices of my childhood.  It served first as my brother's school bag, and later, mine after he got too cool to use one.  If this briefcase could talk, it would reminisce about former teachers, bullying on the school bus, the numerous girls I've had fleeting crushes on.

In a sense this briefcase can talk -- it contains over one hundred memo pads, dating back to when I was thirteen, that I used for my Diary.

Wow.

And when I dig up old stuff like this, feelings of foreboding and dread fill me.  And mostly Sadness.

The motivation for this expedition is to find some old poetry that I wrote but don't fully remember.  I want to publish it, but not here.

The first step was finding this key, which could very well be older than me.