My Health Numbers...

08/12/2007

• Total Cholesterol 148
• HDL < 15
• LDL NA
• TriGly 193
• Glucose 81

9/27/2010

• Total Cholesterol 181 mg/dL
• HDL: 21 mg/dL
• TriGly: 222 mg/dL
• Fasting Glucose 87 mg/dL
• BMI 26.92
• Body fat 24%
• Waist 40.4
• Blood Pressure: Diastolic 84. Systalic 119

10/05/2011

• Total Cholesterol 200 mg/dL
• LDL 150 mg/dL
• HDL: 34 mg/dL
• TriGly: 81 mg/dL
• Fasting Glucose 84 mg/dL
• BMI 24.84
• Body fat 19%
• Waist 36
• Blood Pressure: Diastolic 74. Systalic 107

1/19/2012

• Total Cholesterol 178 mg/dL
• LDL 120 mg/dL
• HDL: 36 mg/dL
• TriGly: 111 mg/dL

7/26/2012

Blood Pressure: Diastolic 70. Systalic 1100

 Total Cholesterol 194

 LDL 127

HDL 37

 TriGly 91

 Fasting Glucose 82

 

10/23/2012

• Blood Pressure 113/66
• Total Cholesterol 183
• LDL 130
• HDL 34
• TriGly 95
• Fasting Glucose 90
• Body Fat 18%
• Waist 36
• BMI 25

9/16/2013

• Blood Pressure 104/72
• Total Cholesterol 170
• LDL 137
• HDL 33
• TriGly 87
• Glucose 88
• Body Fat 19.5
• Waist 36
• BMI 25.7

 10/15/2014

• Total Cholesterol 193
• LDL 131
• HDL 37

10/16/2015

• Blood Pressure 119/67
• Total Cholestorol 187
• LDL 126
• HDL 27
• TriGly 171
• Glucose 89
• BMI 27
• Waist 39
• Body fat 23

10/30/2018

• Blood Pressure 127/77
• Total Cholesterol 231
• LDL 167
• HDL 33
• TriGly 126
• Glucose 85

This is the highest my cholesterol has every been. Dr. wants me to loose 15-20 lbs. He is OK with the keto diet. 

10/1/2020

• Total Cholesterol 177
• LDL 121
• HDL 36
• TryGly 109

3/9/2022

• Total Cholesterol 196
• LDL 135
• HDL 38
• TryGly 128
• Glucose 97
• 217.2 lbs

3/9/2023

• Total Cholesterol 201
• LDL 144
• HDL 37.8
• TryGly 95
• 219lbs

             9/27/2010 10/5/2011 1/19/2012

Total Cholesterol 181       200      178

LDL                   150 120

HDL             21 34 36

TriGly         222 81    111

Glucose              87 84

BMI 26.92 24.84

Body Fat 24 19

Waist 40.5 36

Diastolc BP 84 74

Systolic BP 119 107

7/26/2012
BP 110 over 70

Seneca's Letters from a Stoic

Seneca's Letters from a Stoic is a classic book on the stoic life. Like all Greek philosophy, It applies to daily living.

It is regrettable that modern philosophy is of increasingly obscure use.

Some quotes...

"Philosophy calls for plain living, but not for penance"

“We shall be rich with more comfort, if we learn how far poverty is from being a burden”

“When you are travelling, there must be an end; when astray, your wanderings are limitless”

"It is a most miserable state to have lost one's zest for dying, and to have no zest in living"

On the balance of curiosity.... "What pleasure do you get from wasting your time on these problems, which relieve you of none of your emotions, rout none of your desires?" To which the response is... "Must I be ignorant of the heights whence I have descended?"

"The place where one lives can contribute little towards tranquility it is the mind which must make everything agreeable to itself."

“It is more important to keep the resolutions you have made than to go on and make noble ones.”

“Liberty cannot be gained for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.”

The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman

by Timothy Ferriss

A very fine book. It's changed the way I eat and exercise I've lost 25lbs as a result.

You Learn By Living

byEleanor Roosevelt

I read this six months ago. It's pleasant, kind of reminded me of a pre-seven-habits book on being effective. I'll skim again.

Consider Phlebas

by Iain M. Banks

A fun but very trashy sci fi novel, set in an interesting universe, but appears to have no purpose other than to put it's lead character into one deadly situation after another.

The Grand Design

by Leonard Mlodinow, Stephen Hawking

Hawking to endorses multiverses and the strong anthropic principle-- much of the universe exists the way it does because if it wasn't that way, we wouldn't be here to observe it. It does leave open the question what are possible variables of all universes?

Marilyn Monroe

From a story about the auction of Marilyn Monroe's estate http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/doonan/2012/01/was_marilyn_monroe_fat_her_secrets_revealed_.2.html

Marilyn Monroe was a huge movie star, but she owned diddly-squat. She was not materialistic!

Marilyn’s estate was a bunch of poignant schlock. The auction raised more than $13 million, but not because of any intrinsic value in the numbered lots. There were no Renoirs or Picassos. Her knickknacks were pedestrian. Her cookware was greasy. Her spatulas were bent. Even her Golden Globe was broken.

The majority of her clothing showed surprising wear and tear. She had worn it all repeatedly and there just wasn’t that much of it.

Her jewelry? With the exception of her DiMaggio wedding ring it was a bunch of paste danglers and costume crap.

Shoes? Yes, there were several pairs of black suede Ferragamo stilettos with worn heels. But Marilyn—brace yourself for another shocker—was more into books than shoes. Her poignant desire to cultivate her mind and give herself an education resulted in an extensive library of first editions. Take that, Carrie Bradshaw!

This stunning lack of materialism made me love and respect her more. What do you need in life other than a good book, a few capri pants, and a cotton sundress or two?

Yes, there were a few fur coats. But compared to the gimme-gimme-gimme stars of today whose hangar-size closets are bursting with freebies, she was a total bread-and-water-eating, hair-shirt-wearing, self-denying nun