(11 hours ago)727Sky Wrote: 76 here and fading fast but.....A Magnesium tablet for a few days stops legs cramps for me; a golfer friend said it worked, and it does for me.
I do not have a beer gut; I have bone to bone at one of my vertebrates in my lower back and if my belly gets big it puts to much pressure on my back. If that happens no exercise or golf for me.
I do not go out of my way to drink Alcohol and have probably not had a wine or beer in over two years. Do not like the taste usually .. Michelob Ultra lite when I used to have a beer was my beer of choice but that is not sold around here.
As far as weight I found I eat breakfast and lunch around 14:00 and nothing else afterwards other than water or a milk and crackers if really hungry.
I smoked for over 65 years and having the heart attack or angina May a year ago (2024) I quit. The Doctors gave me a bag of different pills to take which made me sick. Because my blood pressure could get above 180 I messed around and found some B.P. medicine ( Diovan 160 ) that I could take 1/2 of the already small pill every couple of days or when my B.P. got over 140...125 or 135 seems to be the best for me; a full pill can knock me down to 108 or lower. MANY FRIENDS SAY DOCTORS INSIST YOU HAVE TO TAKE B.P. MEDICINE EVERYDAY.. After watching many friends die under Doctors care I read/research and do my own thing. Never ever thinking I would live or even want to live this long it seems to work for me.. Just my 2 cents worth...
I played golf today and shot a 77 not playing up to my standards but as long as I take money off my opponents, " Call it a Happy Ending !"
Cheers for the tips mate. I have magnesium but am not taking it while fasting. I have before and I will if this gets too bad. Hitting 4 days now mit nuttin to eat. Just coffee occasionally. It hit 27C here (about 80F). Very sunny day. Cooler indoors. (No aircon).
I'm now going for 5 days. I have seen results. Some painful but fat wise reasonable. Apart from a small spell of gardening I've spent the day indoors after over heating. Stripped off and spent the day washing and cleaning the cookware of all things. Missus took some jerky to work (I was very jealous watching her taste each of the flavours before packing her dinner.) I also jerkied some butchers bacon strips and she took the lot lol.
I am still smoking 'roll yer own' tobacco and perhaps a bit too much but it takes my mind off the fast.
Haven't a machine to check BP and the doc or pharmacy is 45 klms away so I will wait to true love's day off and go in and have it checked. If it is still high then this experiment has done the BP no good.
As for golf, I'm not a player but I walk around the property where I imagine a 9 hole 'pitch and putt' course. After the bush fires I had the property land scaped around the open paddocks. Dams, gently undulating ground, some T offs and trees of course. We've been mowing a lot of acreage. It looks like a park. Bird life, many roos and other critters. The rest is timbered bush and the creek looks like a picture down the back (steep drop and rocky). This year I'll be panning and sluicing as @"Michigan Swamp Buck"#32 got me interested. Cleared a driveable track and as the water warms I'll be down there fitness permitting.
Thanks again for your reply and interest. I'll be checking in this evening when I hit 100 hours.
Kind regards,
Bally)