I’ve been tracking my sleep for about 5 years. This is my worse recorded sleep session yet! Why? This was as a result of Indian takeaway last night.
For those of you that know, since my health’ier’ journey started last year I have tried quite hard with nutrition. I love that food is medicine. Food is also poison. This was my first takeaway in a long time & will be my last for a very long time. Today I have had a faster heart rate, higher blood pressure, fatigue, exhaustion and low mood.
For those that don’t think about their diet or track their lifestyle take heed. This 💩 will affect your health!
Happy Sunday peeps 🥰
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~So sorry to read this Pigleywigley - have learnt that those types of takeaways invariably contain hidden ingredients that we "innocent public" don't see
MSG especially + colourings & possibly other additives just send my heart into etopic's (in past) but probably would send into a/fib now.
A hard lesson to learn but this is how we know what to leave alone. Home cooking always safer for me
Try light meals today to give liver chance to detox with plenty of fluid + trusty vitamin C .
That would be my more natural suggestion to get you on track again.
Indian ( Punjabi railway curry or Chinese) are once a month meals here with zero issues other than the somewhat poisonous odours that follow. If anything is going to upset me it is too much meat in a week so we eat veggie four nights at least. Life style is everything.
I risked a Thai takeaway for my daughters birthday about 3 years ago and bang straight in to an AF episode , so haven't had a takeaway since. The sleep app looks interesting, what is it called if you don't mind me asking?
And not cooking it yourself means you don’t know what’s in it and so cannot track. Apart from poor sleep, any other symptoms?
My nemesis this season was a very pretty Christmas cake mydaughter-in-law gave me which she said was bought ‘home made’ and highly recommended. Still feeling the affects after having one slice last Wednesday.
I found that having eaten completely ‘clean’ for 18 months I was even more sensitive.
We have no Indian restaurants in our area . The last Indian meal I ate in a restaurant was the last time I went to Paris nearly 10 years ago. I make Indian food myself the lazy way using Patak's pastes which I discovered when we lived in Handsworth. All the shops on Soho Road (the main shopping street) were full of them and they were obviously used by the Indians living there. But I only use a small amount. I suspect the same pastes are used in many takeaway places but in far larger quantities. I have never had afib after an Indian meal but I have stopped going to Chinese restaurants "just in case". It's homecooking all the time from today as we are no longer allowed in restaurants.
I need to get ‘clean’ again CD 🤣 (we’re like junkies 😤)Starting a cleanse next week after Christmas had a bit too much old cake & choc & feeling the effects.
I had HBP & high HR Sunday. But no AFIb. Felt fatigued & moody (well mood could be put down as normal according to my husband!)
Oily additives would do it for me too - acid reflux. I was eyeing up your sleep tracker enviously but wouldn't want anything connecting me and WiFi all night. That's why I asked
Hi Singwell the Pillow app uses Bluetooth to connect from Apple Watch to phone, not Wi-Fi. I turn my Wi-Fi off at night, too and Bluetooth on my phone for that matter. I just turn Bluetooth back on in the morning and the app downloads the stored overnight data from the watch.
I have had no problem with Indian or Chinese food, but our son and his wife treated us to a night at an expensive hotel for our anniversary and while there we had a beautiful lamb dinner.
It was local lamb, straight off the downs, and local veg, cooked to perfection. Everything was gorgeous and, as far as I could tell, there was nothing in the food to cause a problem.
However, it set off my AF and I spent the night in A&E as I felt quite unwell and my husband was panicking! We didn't get to stay the night and missed out on our breakfast.
This has since happened a number of times at home and so sometimes, I think quantity of food may be the issue rather than the quality of it.
We felt bad that our son had paid so much for the room and we didn't use it. It's not the first time we've had to abort a night in a hotel and probably won't be the last, but it was a first for AF!
Most restaurant foods besides the additives cook with a lot of oil and salt as well. I highly recommend only going to restaurants you know that do not cook this way. I have only two in my area and only go to them on Mother’s Day and on my birthday. I highly recommend reading Dr. Furhmans “The End of Heart Disease” and Dr. Esselstyn’s “Prevent and Reverse Heart disease” All say if you have heart disease to avoid salt, sugar and oil and animal products. Dr. Esselstyn does allow for a small amount of condiments like low salt soy sauce or tamari that has salt in it, but it usually represents a small amount in the recipe. I have other books I can recommend but these two are on the top of the list. Dr. Esselstyn is more strict as he does not allow overt fatty plant foods like nuts, seeds and avocado. Dr. Furhman is okay with these foods in small amounts. Also Dr. McDougall’s book the starch solution will also be a book I highly recommend. These books can help people with heart disease and people wanting to avoid it but it helps address other chronic diseases as well.
Thank you I am very healthy food aware. Hence rare to go. I just wanted to share what happens especially for those who don’t always make the food & health connection! Will look at your books. You read John Day?
And I have moved in quite the opposite direction. I avoid all Ultra Processed foods whenever possible and starches - especially wheat cereals which was shown to be the biggest money making con based on faulty research on Cholesterol.
Diet should be high in veggies certainly - 70-80%. I moved to high salt - I have very low BP so was recommended to by doctor and nutritionist as most of us these days don’t take enough after all of the scare mongering but if you have high BP you need to limit to 6g/daily - I now take much more fat than I ever used to - oil, butter, cheese, eggs, seeds, avacados especially - I lost, not gained weight - increased foods such as seeds/avocado and absolutely ditched as much starch as possible. That is what most of our doctors will recommend. Certainly what my Nutritionist recommended and worked for me.
Starches are sugars and just about the worst thing for chronic conditions, especially diabetes so important to limit their intake.
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