My Blood Chemistry... too bad too bad...

Since almost a month, I am very regular on my daily exercise and 45-min walking. While my body feels better and my stamina has increased, I was afraid I am still gaining weight and that I am a victim of a tummy-growing virus. So, this morning, I decided to undergo medical check up and especially undergo few tests to find out what my blood chemistry is these days...

To confirm my fear, the scale showed 3.5 Kgs increase in my weight since I started daily work out and walking... 

The test results came out very interesting...

My hemoglobin is quite high with 15 G% and now I realize why P finds me RED RED these days...

I was fearing that my blood sugar would have been increased as these days, I have frequent bladder-evacuation calls than I had earlier and I have been eating lots of sweets these days. But to my surprise, I am still hypoglycemic! My fasting blood sugar level seems to be 77 mg% (80  to 120 mg% is normal) and 2hrs after meal, this level rises just to 90mg% (100 to 140 mg% is normal)! No wonder my blood pressure remains at 90/60 most of the time...

The fear became reality about the cholesterol level. While Serum Triglyceride is found within limit (125 mg%), Serum Cholesterol came out 220 mg% which is on the border to turn to Hypercholesterolaemia even if it increases by 1mg%.

Since its a border line, its not a panic yet but my Dr knows my irregular life style and the addiction of sweets, cheese and butter... So, I am prescribed with "Ator Save 10mg" - a medicine to lower the blood cholesterol. Ator Save is actually Atorvastatin, a statin class drug. It has some side effects I should be worried about but I have started it anyway.

Since I am not overweight, my Dr is not worried abou my tummy-growing problem and he has advised me to increase my daily work-out to divert the tummy deposits in other parts of my body...

Any suggestions?

Oh no... One More Barista Post...

It had been a while since I had visited Barista. This evening, I created an excuse to go there as I had one design to work on.

This is how its signboard has changed lately. Notice the girl at the door? She became a bit upset when I pointed out my camera to the sign board...

When I reached Barista, I found P&P already there! So instead of working on my design, most of my time there went in chitchatting with them.. the topics varied from tummy-growing problem to the recession and doing dishes at home...

By the time I could go back to my original corner and get ready to work on design, it was already a closing time for Barista.

And this is a view of Vijay Char Rasta from Barista corner where we have stood for hours gossiping a lot...

Since I could not work on the design, I have an excuse to go Barista again. But it seems the management of Barista has changed. I wanted to take the picture of the new menu board behind the serving counter and the barista there stopped me saying Barista no more allows inside photography. May be he meant the photography of its menu board or display area as when I took pictures of P&P or my laptop, he did not object it. But if this is indeed a policy, may be I should spend my time in Chocolate Room. Lets see how my mood is tomorrow.

Testing the mightiness of Mini...

To check the mightiness of Inspiron Mini in a real time environment, we had to travel few hundreds of kilometers to Bharuch. We started driving at mid afternoon and by the time we were about to off the national highway, we stopped by at Reliance's Refresh.

The sign was very professional and tempted us to have a look inside.

The recession has hit Reliance too that only two tables were occupied...

When wee were about an hour away from Bharuch, the driver wanted a bladder break. Look how colorful even such facilities are in India!

We reached Bharuch Temple in evening. Its a beautiful temple like all our other temples. This temple is located right on the side of the national highway.

We soon started the testing of the mini and by mid night, we were convinced about mini's mightiness.

So, next afternoon, we took a bypass to Kabir Vad before returning back. Kabir Vad is a few centuries old banyan tree wood area located on an island in Narmada river.

Milk Transportation System in this area! Shot from the rear sit of the car...

We boarded a "century  old" diesel engine driven boat to cross the river.

Beautiful Narmada river whose water come all the way till 11KKN and goes far down to remote areas of Saurashtra and Kutchchh.

We walked on this temporary platform to reach the land on other end...

This is a Kabir Temple, built in the memory of the saint Kabir who created the banyan tree forest here.

A sample banyan tree... branches of this tree have came down upto the ground and formed another tree from them.

When we returned to the river, the boat was waiting for us...

In summary, it was a productive trip - both for work and fun!