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(Almost) One Year Health Scorecard

6/29/2016

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Almost a year ago, I bought a Fitbit and a Quadric blood pressure cuff to help me improve my health. I won't give lots of links to the various blog posts where I discuss my thyroid and lack of one; nor the posts about the strange heart issue just use the links in the categories over there on the right and you will find them.

I was looking at my history in both the FitBit app and the Quadrio app and I was rather amazed at how well I have done. 

Yes, I will be honest that since November of last year, I have not been activly working at it - the walking, the weight loss, the lowering of the bp, getting more sleep. BUT I do have to say that the effort I put into it has paid off since I have maintained my weight loss and kept my BP down and I have been able to eliminate one of the heart medications I was on.

So let's look at some charts, shall we.
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First up is my resting heart rate, this is a graph from the FitBit. As your heart gets stronger, your heart rate gets lower because it does not have to work as much to get the blood pushed around your body. This is an average and I do know that the FitBit is not as accurate as actual medical monitoring but look at the trend.  And what about those two spikes? Those are from being really sick with that nasty bug that eventually morphed into bronchitis.  I would say I have done well, I give myself an A.
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Next up is my weight which is also from the FitBit. Yeah, the weight has taken a slight uptick recently but overall I am down just under 10 pounds; I was at one point down just over 10 pounds but that was due to the bronchitis and I have always said, if you want to loose weight get pneumonia; you will not only loose weight but you might loose your life too. I do not recommend getting it but the weight loss that happens is only a secondary benefit with the first being recovering and living. Thank goodness for antibiotics.  I would say I have done well but I could have done better so I give myself a B.
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The last chart is from the Quadrio and it is of my average blood pressure reading. I could not get one image for the year as the app does not rotate into landscape thus i have had to merge them together.  The two lines are for the systolic and the diastolic readings. I have moved on the range chart from within Grade 1 hypertension to the lower edge of Normal and bordering on the range of Optimal which is better than Normal. Note: Ranges are Optimal, Normal, Grade 1, Grade 2 and Grade 3.  I would say I have done very well so I give myself an A+.
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What is my overall grade? I would have to say a B+ as I have not been really working at it the past 5 months and IF I had things would be much better. Yet I think I get an A because of how much I have improved. 

I will try to remember to do another report card in SIX months which I hope will keep me on track; and again in another year. 
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