{"id":2603,"date":"2010-06-08T08:54:39","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T15:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hundredtenpounds.wordpress.com\/?p=2603"},"modified":"2010-06-08T08:54:39","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T15:54:39","slug":"why-losing-weight-is-healthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=2603","title":{"rendered":"Why Losing Weight is Healthy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seems pretty self-explanatory, right? We lose weight to look and feel better. But there are other reasons to lose weight too.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I’ve mentioned in my page My Fat History<\/a>\u00a0that when I was 250, I had high blood pressure and I was pre-diabetic. I also had high cholestrol.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Blood Pressure (aka Hyper Tension)<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Don’t let the numbers confuse you. There are two numbers, the one on top and the one on the bottom. For example: 120\/90.\u00a0<\/p>\n

*The top number is your systolic pressure, the pressure created when your heart beats. It is considered high if it is consistently over 140.\u00a0<\/p>\n

*The bottom number is your diastolic pressure, the pressure inside blood vessels when the heart is at rest. It is considered high if it is consistently over 90.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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At my heaviest, my blood pressure was about 140\/100<\/strong>. That’s very high. The lower number is the dangerous number. I had my yearly physical yesterday and my blood pressure is now 110\/60<\/strong><\/span>. I no longer have high blood pressure because I lost weight.\u00a0<\/p>\n

My resting pulse yesterday was also 68. A “normal” resting rate is between 60-100. Lance Armstrong’s resting heart rate is rumored\u00a0to be 37. 37!!\u00a0<\/p>\n

High Cholesterol<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

High Cholesterol can lead to stroke, heart attack and death. A high range is 200\u2013239 mg\/dL, which is\u00a0Borderline-High Risk. Less than Less than 200 mg\/dL\u00a0is desired.<\/strong><\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>It was well over 200 when I weighed 250. My current Cholesterol level is 160<\/span>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Have I convinced you yet? Losing weight DOES improve your health, whether you can see it or not.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I also talked to my doctor about my seemingly constant hunger. She said it was probably a combination of high metabolism and also eating refined sugars. She said that eating refined sugars spikes my insulin level and that creates hunger in the body. I know I eat too many refined sugars. That’s something I struggle with every day. But I had no idea it spiked my insulin like that.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She also recommended learning about the low-glycemic diet. My goal is to get a book on it and learn more. When I first read a book about it last year, I dismissed the concept because counting calories was working for me. Why fix what isn’t broken? But now that I’ve lost the weight and I’m training for things, I feel like I need to know these things.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Low Glycemic Index food (less than 55)\u00a0
\nFoods with GI index between 55 and 70 are consider intermediate
\nHigh Glycemic Index food GI (more than 70)<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

An example of some foods by glycemic index:\u00a0<\/p>\n

Waffles: 76 (high)\u00a0<\/p>\n

Carrot Juice: 45 (low)\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cheese Pizza: 60 (medium)\u00a0<\/p>\n

Porridge: 49 (low)\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cornflakes: 83 (high)\u00a0<\/p>\n

Whole Milk: 27 (low)\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cherries: 22 (low)\u00a0<\/p>\n

Apples: 38 (low)\u00a0<\/p>\n

Peanuts: 15 (low)\u00a0<\/p>\n

Asparagus: 15 (low)\u00a0<\/p>\n

QUESTION: Why do you want to lose weight? And do you follow the Low-Glycemic diet?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seems pretty self-explanatory, right? We lose weight to look and feel better. But there are other reasons to lose weight too.\u00a0 I’ve mentioned in my page My Fat History\u00a0that when I was 250, I had high blood pressure and I was pre-diabetic. I also had high cholestrol.\u00a0 \u00a0 Blood Pressure (aka Hyper Tension)\u00a0 Don’t let […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,92,152,154,258,296,297,298,300],"tags":[668,669,8662,755,756,757,900,955],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}