The Beginning

It's the end of the week and let's see how much have I done towards my aims.

Here are the things that I have done for the passed 7 days:

1. Ate two times McDonald's and one time pizza.
2. 1 badminton session for more than an hour.
3. Slept averagely five hours per night.

The frequency of visiting fast food restaurants have reduced from six times per week to three times per week. Just based on that mission, I would give myself applause. I'm not going to lie that it is not easy, never easy to stay away from fast food, especially you have nothing to eat. The urge of having McDonald's every morning is miserable. And now I started to replace my usual McDonald's breakfast to noodle soup. I promised myself I will only have one McDonald's breakfast next week.

Badminton session started for few weeks already but this week I feel much better, at least I do not suffer muscle pain. I remembered the first badminton session at the beginning of semester, I suffered muscle pain from arms to legs for two days. I am not joking, the pain is bearable but it kills you softly inside. I guess my body started to adapt and the pain is gone. :)

Here are the pictures during badminton session.

As for my irregular sleeping hours, I will have to work harder on it. It is the mid of semester and I have so many things on my plate plus procrastination kick in and that is what I get. 

Hopefully all the efforts and times I put in will help me in reducing my LDH cholesterol level. :) 

It's About Time

I had my very first blood test after living for more than 2 centuries. Of course going for the blood test was not on my own willingness, I went for assignment purposes. But I am glad that I did it, at least now I know what my blood type is. :) 

The blood test result came back after a couple of days and the result was not flying colours. I have few (*) symbols on the result and the one that caught my most attention was LDH - CHOLESTEROL, in a more simple word is low - density lipoprotein cholesterol which is BAD CHOLESTEROL that harm your body.

READ HERE or HERE for a clearer view of what is LDH - CHOLESTEROL and if you prefer visual more than words, CLICK HERE for visual materials.

Based on the report, the optimal level of bad cholesterol is (<2.58) and...and...and...my result was 3.26 which obviously it is way over the optimal level. *no eyes see* Well, I was not surprise because to be honest, I admit I have bad lifestyle such as consuming too much of fast food (McDonald's) and junk food (chipster), lack of exercise, procrastination which causes stress, and excessive sleep. 

For the sake of my own health, I am too "chicken" to die young so here are my new resolutions:

1. Get rid of fast food and junk food

2. Exercise at least once a week, 20 minutes per session. 

3. Cut down procrastination which causes stress

The reason why am I doing this behaviour change plan is because bad cholesterol will only bring harm to me. The only question is I do not know when will it started to interfere my health and life. I always have this thinking that I am still young therefore it won't harm me so soon but I was WRONG. Before it starts to harm me, I decided to take action before it is too late. Prevention is always better than cure. :)

So, what are the risk factors of having high level of bad cholesterol?

Below are the reliable sources showing you how dangerous it is to have high level of bad cholesterol.

Read HERE 1
Read HERE 2
Read HERE 3


I BELIEVE I CAN!!!!!!!!

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Good vs. bad cholesterol. (2011, December). American Heart Association. Retrieved from http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/Conditions/Cholesterol/AboutCholesterol/Good-vs-Bad-Cholesterol_UCM_305561_Article.jsp#.T1YebYcS2Ag

High blood cholesterol: What you need to know. (2005, June). National Institutes of Health. Retrieved from http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/heart/chol/wyntk.htm

Morgan Griffin, R. (n.d.). High cholesterol risks: Top 2 dangers. WebMD. Retrieved from http://www.webmd.com/cholesterol-management/features/high-cholesterol-risks-top-2-dangers

What puts you at risk of high cholesterol? (2008, May). Health Media Ventures. Retrieved from             http://www.health.com/health/condition-article/0,,20188474,00.html  

What your cholesterol levels mean. (2011, December). American Heart Association. Retrieved from http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/Conditions/What-Your-CholestrolLevels-Mean_UCM_305562_Article.jsp#.T1YgNIcS2Ag