Quick update. Went to my doc just now and she was very happy with my results of the blood test that have been returned.
Glucose levels very good she said, value 4.4. They only start worrying over a value of about 7. No anaemia, kidneys and liver fine, normal white blood cell count and a bunch of other things on the screen all absolutely fine, so that's good. The most surprising thing is when she just did another blood pressure test. 134/88. I'm like wtf? It was 150 last time on the 3rd attempt, and 166 on the first. Not bad then for my age, over 50.
I'm guessing a lot of that was stress due to my mum being ill recently.
But also, I've really cut down on salt and garbage food in the last two and half weeks, so I'm wondering if that has made the biggest difference, in which case, I'm just gonna continue to keep salt and crap food to a minimum. I've mostly been eating chicken, fresh brocolli (I did slightly salt the water) and jacket spuds, and hardly any sweet stuff, no cakes, biscuits and sweets, just very occassionally.
