Day 69 Nutrition Plan:
Total portions of protein: 6
Total portions of carbohydrates: 6
Total water: 85 oz or 10 1/2 cups
Day 69 Nutrition Actual Accomplishments:
Total portions of protein: 5
Total portions of carbohydrates: 4
Total water: 64 oz
8:00 Breakfast
Coffee
32 oz Water
10:30 Snack
Energizer Protein Shake at Lifetime Cafe
1:00 Lunch at Noodles and Company (with my husband)
8 oz Water
4:00 Snack
16 oz Perrier
6:30 Dinner
Grilled Chicken Tenderloins
Broccoli and Carrots
8 oz Water
10:00 Snack
Bowl of Pretzels
Room For Improvement: I didn’t eat breakfast which is a huge huge no no.
I found out this morning that my dear friend, Marcie, had a heart attack on Thanksgiving. She is at home in Arizona, recovering. When I learned about this I found myself completely disoriented. I wrote a note to her husband but I fumbled with my computer to the point of not being able to send the note. Frustrated, I fumbled my way out the door and went to the health club for my water aerobics class.
Of course I was late. I apologized to the instructor and my classmates. “I’m sorry to be late. This morning I learned that one of my girlfriends had a heart attack. She is at home and doing fine but I'm a little confused. She is just 50 years old.”
I hopped into the pool next to a classmate, whom I’ve come to really like. She said, “Heart attacks are a phenomena of your generation, our generation of women didn’t have as many heart attacks when we were your age. You are dealing with a completely new level of stress.”
Then she said something about work and children and money and societal pressures but we were jogging in the pool with our legs pulled high and wide, as if we were football players running that tire drill, so I didn’t hear everything perfectly. But I think I understood her.
I agree with her assessment that, basically, we are wound a bit tighter than they were 30 years ago, but I was curious if her statement was statistically accurate. Are women having more heart attacks?
It seems that my water aerobics friend is kind of right.
My friend Marcie is healthy and has always been slender. She played a lot of golf and seems fit. She doesn’t smoke. She has an adoring husband and a great relationship with her four grown kids. When she visited us last September she nursed one glass of red wine (which is supposed to be good for the heart) for two hours. She’s not a big boozer.
She sells real estate in Arizona, during our nation's worst real estate market , so that could account for her stress, but Marcie just doesn't seem to be a candidate for heart disease.
I plan to call Marcie tomorrow to wish her well and I am sure that I will learn more about her specific situation.
When I told my husband about Marcie, I also told him about my friend at water aerobics class who thinks that my generation leads a more stressful existence which might contribute to the statistic that since 1984 more women have died from heart disease than men.
He said, “Yeah, for years women have been trying to get what men got and now they got what men get.”
The guy is practically William Shakespeare.
Birthday celebration September 2009 at our house. We all share birthdays within a few weeks of one another. Back row: Marcie and my husband. Front row: me, my stepdaughter Lizzie and our youngest goofy daughter Randi.
Victory: I listened to my body at lunch and I only ate until I was satisfied. I saved the other half for later in the day. When I sat at the computer to record my meals I was shocked to learn that the meal that my husband had ordered for me at Noodles and Company had 1100 calories! Wowza! I'm sad that I ate the whole thing, but thank goodness I didn't eat the whole thing in one sitting!
