Sunday March 29, 2009

Let me talk a bit today about caffeine. The past month or so I have been getting these weird feelings in my chest, my heart beat was skipping. No pain, no shortness of breath, so nothing too too serious(knock on wood) or at least my dr's tell me. When it first started happening I even went to the hospital to get it checked out, they kept there for observation and the cardiologist told me it was nothing to worry about as well, as these skipped heart beats happen in a lot of people, healthy or not.
The next day, after reading up on the net about it ( reading on the net about health issues is something I try not to do too much, get scary, lol) i read about the effects of caffeine and stress and how it can contribute to making the heart skip beats. So I went without coffee for almost 3 weeks, and the skipped heart beats stopped, or at least I didn't feel them anymore.
I then started drinking decaf coffee, thinking that it would be ok, bad Idea. I found myself for the last few weeks drinking almost 2 or 3 large decaf coffee's per day. Surely, within the week, the feeling in the chest came back and the skipped hearts beats continued, usually during the rest period after some physical activity.
The last 2 days, I went off the decaf, and amazingly, as I am typing this, the feelings in the chest started dissappearing. The past few days without coffee in general I feel that much better. I can't say for fure its the caffeine, but it looks good.

For today, here is a list of foods I ate.

9am
1/2 protein shake - 150 calories
bagel - 240 calories
yogurt - 35 calories
apple - 80 calories
toast with light margerine - 135 calories

1pm.
2 toast - 200 calories
3 eggs - 225 calories
granola bar - 100 calories

430 pm
orange - 80 calories
yogurt - 35 calories
1/2 protein shake - 150 calories

730pm
2 chicken breast baked - 400 calories
calamarie - 150 calories
mixed greens - 10 calories
apple - 80 calories

1030pm
ice cream sandwich - 100 calories
granola bar - 100 calories
crackers - 100 calories worth
yogurt - 35 calories

thats it for today, thanks for reading.