High Sierra Topix

oldranger wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2020 11:22 pm Kind of became addicted to tortillas and wheat thins in the last year, and need to cut that out.

I stopped eating chips and salsa daily and dropped 5 pounds.

John

Mike,

How is the new diet working out for you?

rlown wrote: ↑Mon Mar 23, 2020 10:40 am Mike,

How is the new diet working out for you?

Officially down 10 lbs from mid January!

Glad to hear.

Congratulations Mike!

Mike. Glad you got through this, again. Thanks for posting, too, because it serves as an important lesson for folks like me who are approaching the age of your first "incident". Whereas the health issue itself is sobering, it is good to see you bounce back. Sad to hear about the reduction in beers per week though.

giantbrookie wrote: ↑Sun Mar 29, 2020 8:25 pm Mike. Glad you got through this, again. Thanks for posting, too, because it serves as an important lesson for folks like me who are approaching the age of your first "incident". Whereas the health issue itself is sobering, it is good to see you bounce back. Sad to hear about the reduction in beers per week though.

As soon as I lose 3 more lbs I'll get back to 5 a week but that will leave me with just a 6 week supply before I have to restock!

I second your thoughts, do not ignore your body! Check things out ASAP!
I have had lifelong asthma, many rounds of bronchitis and pneumonia and in 2013, got an allergic lung condition that reacts just like pneumonia. I went religiously for my physicals and visits with the pulmonary doc and kept it all sort of under control.
Then, late 2019 my dog got epilepsy and we had SO MANY VET APPOINTEMNTS, Covid and work , etc. etc. I missed two years of physicals.
In 2021, I tried to get back to normal life and I could not believe it, suddenly 8400’ felt like 10000’!
In short, now I have permanent lung damage and, yes indeed, acclimation is slower and I am out of breath even at sea level.