Thank goodness!
I went to the gym last night, 4 days after I started taking diuretics at my doctor’s direction for my high blood pressure Last Friday I weighed 107.3 kg (multiply by 2.2 to get pounds, all you USans!). Yesterday I weighed myself, and I weighed 103.6 kg! I have lost 3.7 kg, or a bit more than 8 lbs. In six days. I think that’s a bit excessive, but I suspect that I was beginning to retain fluid because of my heart attack. I have also been watching what I eat.
I would like to get down to 90 kg (198 lbs) or below. 13.6 kg (around 30 lbs or 2 stone 2 lbs) should be doable, I hope. That might turn my blood pressure back to normal and get my blood sugar much lower.
In other news, my laptop battery has been recalled. A different battery, but the same old fire hazard. I have ordered the new one and have been advised to take the battery out and use AC. If I were as mobile as most people around here, I’d be sunk, as they are always toting their laptops around to meetings. Luckily, I hardly ever do that and have so far been successful in not dropping it on its edge.
Kudos to Lenovo though. I thought their website would be clogged up and useless, but they had a quickly-responding direct webpage from which you could download a program that not only checked your battery to see whether it was one of the ones that were recalled, it then went on to link to a form on which you could enter your details and be assured of a new battery. Only problem: the web page is faster than their service, because the battery will arrive in 4-6 weeks. Oh well; I shall endeavour to ensure that if I drop the laptop on its edge, I won’t put the laptop on my lap to use it, in case it sets my lap on fire.
Our former roommate, Brett, is in town for an oenology course so he’s staying with us this week through very early Monday morning. It’s really nice to see him again and partake of his quirky humour.