A month ago my doctor recommended I take up a primarily #Mediterranean #Diet as it's #heartHealthy and I'm suffering from heart failure. I was really apprehensive about going Mediterranean as there are so many tomatoes.

The hardest part of the #HeartHealthy regiment my cardiologist has put me on hasn't been the change to a primary #Mediterranean #Diet, the reeducation in sodium to less than 2000mg a day, nor the reduction in calories to less than 1700 a day but limiting liquid intake to no more than 64 FL Oz a day.Apparently my heart meds cause me to retain water. I know people have often complained about how hard it is to drink at least 8 glasses of water a day, but I've never found that hard, when I realized that she was also including coffee, beer, etc. in my 64 FL Oz, it felt impossible. I've reduced my self down to only one cup of coffee a day (from a max of like 2 and a half pots 20 years ago). I have changed from drinking water from the giant stadium cup we got from the baseball games to using the small plastic cups my kids have got from restaurants and trying to take my meds with my meal water rather than its own, but I'm still parched. I still find myself putting my head under the sink to get a drink every-time I enter the bathroom. This often includes wandering around the house during my work hours while I'm thinking how to address a given engineering solution.

The hardest part of the #HeartHealthy regiment my cardiologist has put me on hasn't been the change to a primary #Mediterranean #Diet, the reeducation in sodium to less than 2000mg a day, nor the reduction in calories to less than 1700 a day but limiting liquid intake to no more than 64 FL Oz a day.Apparently my heart meds cause me to retain water. I know people have often complained about how hard it is to drink 8 glasses of water a day, but I've never found that hard, when I realized that she was also including coffee, beer, etc. in my 64 FL Oz, it felt impossible. I've reduced my self down to only one cup of coffee a day (from a max of like 2 and a half pots 20 years ago), changing my water from the giant stadium cup we got from the baseball games to using the small plastic cups my kids have got from restaurants and trying to take my meds with my meal water rather than its own, but I'm still parched and I still find myself putting my head under the sink to get a drink every-time I enter the bathroom. This often includes wandering around the house during my work hours while I'm thinking how to address a given engineering solution.

The hardest part of the #HeartHealthy regiment my cardiologist has put me on hasn't been the change to a primary #Mediterranean #Diet, the reeducation in sodium to less than 2000mg a day, nor the reduction in calories to less than 1700 a day but limiting liquid intake to no more than 64 FL Oz a day.Apparently my heart meds cause me to retain water. I know people have often complained about how hard it is to drink 8 glasses of water a day, but I've never found that hard, when I realized that she was also including coffee, beer, etc. in my 64 FL Oz, it felt impossible. I've reduced my self down to only one cup of coffee a day (from a max of like 2 and a half pots 20 years ago), changing my water from the giant stadium cup we got from the baseball games to using the small plastic cups my kids have got from restaurants and trying to take my meds with my meal water rather than its own, but I'm still parched and I still find myself putting my head under the sink to get a drink every-time I enter the bathroom. This often includes wandering around the house during my work hours while I'm thinking how to address a given engineering solution.

So its been just about 3 weeks on this most #Mediterrian #Diet wathcing calories, sodium, and monitoring weight and blood-pressure for help to build a #heartHealthy life while living with heart failure. I've noticed that TUESDAYS seem to be the ones that give me trouble, goving over in either sodium or calories. I wonder why that is. There is nothing particularly different about Tuesdays than any other weekday.

So its been just about 3 weeks on this most #MediterrianDiet wathcing calories, sodium, and monitoring weight and blood-pressure for help to build a #heartHealthy life while living with heart failure. I've noticed that TUESDAYS seem to be the ones that give me trouble, goving over in either sodium or calories. I wonder why that is. There is nothing particularly different about Tuesdays than any other weekday.

Greek yogurt $breakfast bowl 405 calories. #Mediterranean #Diet #heartHealthy

#goodmorning #coffeechain oatmeal raisins milk #breakfast #heartHealthy #fatsecret 147 lbs. to go.