August 9, 2010.
So I renewed my gym membership today at the SERF at UW-Madison. 30 bucks for a locker all year. Not bad. I remember when I got a tour for the same facility exactly a year ago when I moved to Madison. I had to force myself to go in, ask for a tour, get on board. Looking back, I've attempted to interweave my work out schedule into my work/school schedule. Someone in my office said that it's good that I'm trying to work out during the week - he didn't during his first year and "didn't spend enough time on himself". I was proud the day he said it, but on a statistical level, I really have only been working out once a week. Twice a week if I was really lucky.
For some reason, I still lost five pounds in the last few months. I'm trying to figure out what I've been doing differently - I don't have a personal trainer (yet), I'm still only working out 2-3 times a week (even though I guess that's more than once a week!), I continue to go out to eat (but now I may order a salad or cole slaw instead of fries or a veggie burger), and I really haven't changed my stress level (although I know I should).
Lately I've been worried about PKD (polycystic kidney disease) because I have a 50% chance of getting the genetic disease (my father has it). I started researching online, mostly at pkdcure.org, to figure out what to do differently to slow the progression of it. It turns out that all the same "stuff" that they tell us slows down the disease also is what everyone is supposed to be doing anyway: exercise and nutrition. That simple. I figured I would try it out considering I should be doing this anyway.
Things I learned today on the site:
I should only eat 80 grams of protein a day, preferably not animal protein
2400 mg of sodium a day. I have no idea how I'm going to calculate this. Good thing I have a calculator on my iPhone!
Antioxidants - blueberry,avocados
Omega-3's. I didn't know flaxseed has this.
Onward and upward!
