Hmmm. Went to the Taste of Old Bellevue yesterday and tasted, and tasted, and tasted. Rigatoni, lox, asian salad and sausage rolls, donuts filled with nutella, sliders, bratwurst, cupcakes, pizza (two kinds), strawberry lemonade, carnitas, arnold palmers, salted caramels.
Then, I was bloated all the rest of the day and all night and this morning, too. Yesterday afternoon and this afternoon, I felt weak, sorta dizzy and disoriented, sleepy, and like I couldn't catch my breath. All that led naturally to massive crankiness. Any guesses? Anybody?
Yep, I was in atrial fibrillation today and yesterday. A-fib, as it's called by the select few, is a nasty little electrical problem with the heart beat that causes the upper chambers of your heart to quiver instead of beat regularly. It is not life-threatening in as much as gravity assists in pulling the blood down from the atria into the ventricles, which are beating normally and deliver blood to your body, albeit in a slightly decreased capacity. Hence, the crankiness.
Same thing happened almost a year ago when I was still on the Farm. I had a fairly substantial lunch with my girls and I came back upstairs feeling just 'not right." I went down to the handy-dandy blood pressure machine on the second floor and I threw numbers of 95 pulse and something like 90/60 blood pressure. Those are textbook a-fib numbers: high pulse, low blood pressure.
So, a little kink in the undiet plan. Rather, a little change of plans. No eating till I'm stuffed. . . ever. Not to sound like a major drama queen but overeating can equal a stroke for me. That's a huge overexaggeration, to be sure. Overeating can trigger a-fib. A-fib can trigger a stroke due to blood pooling in the atria, coagulating, and then breaking off into the blood stream and lodging into my brain. Hence, overeating can cause me to have a stroke.
I will still be eating what I want, when I want, but no more eating how much I want. Let the "selective" undiet begin!
Next time: Dear veggies, I like you. I just don't *like* you.
Girl, just reading the words "donuts filled with nutella" caused the blood to pool in my atria! Seriously, I'm glad you're OK. When you're ready to cheat on junkfood with some veggies you should call me. I cook healthy vegetable-laden food for a living, and I would be happy to hook you up with some delicious recipes. I made a kick-ass roasted veggie pizza that some die-hard vegetable haters are in love with : ) xo Karen Be well : )
ReplyDeleteHang on to your pizza dough, there sister. What I'm *going* to write about is that, since I turned 40-ish, I hate, nay loathe, raw vegetables. I'll eat them cooked all day long and would looove a roasted veg pizza!
ReplyDeleteDo you even hate them in salad? Have you ever grated a raw beet onto your salad? Throw on some very fresh cucumber, a few cherry tomatoes from the garden or farmer's market (not those imposter whores from Fred Meyer or Safeway), a few crumbs of feta cheese and some homemade honey red wine vinaigrette. It's delicious. I fed that to three teenagers the other night, and they had seconds!!!
ReplyDelete"I would not eat them in a car. I would not eat them in a bar. I would not eat them on a train. I would not eat them on a plane," said Sam-I-Am.
ReplyDeleteIt's been a long time since I've had occasion to read that book, as my once sweet toddler is now grown up and off ingesting other green things. Doesn't Sam end up eating them in the end? I think you will too. Start with a nice local carrot. . .and give Gaelin a call if you need help boosting your appetite : /
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