Cholesterol results

The doctor's office called me today with the results on the cholesterol test done last Thursday. Basically my cholesterol has gone up from two months ago when it was checked. It's now 232. Tomorrow's my check-up with the cardiologist, Dr. Cragun and he's going to put me on medication.... I guess the good thing about him putting me on medication is that it'll get it down so I can manage it from there. I'm hoping that Dr. Clark will want to check it again at one of my next monthly appointments and it will have gone down. I guess we'll see what happens.

In the meantime, I've been pretty good, I think, to follow the doctor's orders. I've been on a walk each morning since seeing him, including yesterday, when I did a two-mile leisurely walk along one of my favorite trails. I took some nice pictures. And then today I jog-walked 2 1/2 miles with an average pace of just over 18 min per mile.

Remember when I first started on here, I could do a pace of 23-24 minutes per mile? See, I'm making progress.

Also I've been better about what I'm eating. I'm tracking it on the My Fitness Pal app, and I appreciate the extra calories it allows me for exercising each morning. But, besides that, I've been better about avoiding sweets and other simple carbs, as the doctor called them. I know it's only been a few days, but knowing that I'll be reporting to him in a month helps a lot.

I told Dr. Clark that I want to get some of the diagnoses off of my medical chart, such as high cholesterol, obesity, and maybe even depression and anxiety. Maybe that's a big dream, but I think it's possible. Along with the above results of cholesterol, my chart now shows a new diagnosis: "Recurrent Major Depressive Disorder in Partial Remission." Well, I'm trying. The walking is what I need. I'm less than four miles away from my goal of 40 miles by the day after tomorrow. I'm going to make it. And then on Thursday I'll go for a "run" to celebrate.