Dietitian and back to Live Poker

I was able to avail myself through a work plan of a free consultation,followup and program with a dietitian. Its not because I am heavy. I actually only weigh around 150 pounds and I am 5'9" so that's pretty light for my height. Its to reduce my cholesterol. I have mentioned this before that I was shocked to find out my cholesterol was high.

Anyways the consultation was done over the phone for around 35 minutes. She basically asked me everything I ate and how much. Did I eat 3 meals a day? Yes. Did I use margarine or butter?? How many glasses of water a day did I drink? Questions like that. It really made me think all the stuff that I put in my mouth. She actually thought I was doing good with a lot of things since my last blood test. That was my wake up call. I never eat fast food. I now use low fat margarine and mayonnaise. I have cut out all white sugar pretty well. I never eat cookies, cake or any sweets at all anymore. I eat multi grain bread. I use non fat soy milk where before I was using the vanilla flavored stuff. I have oatmeal every morning but she did have a tip for this that I should cook it and not use that instant stuff. I did that this morning. It even tasted better. Aren't I boring now?? No more crap is going in my body. I am really determined to make this work. Hopefully this will be enough to get the numbers down to an acceptable level.

She did say I could drink red wine. Three or four glasses a week are okay. I love red wine so that's a good thing. No more beer or rum and cokes. In fact no more pop of any kind. She is now preparing a package for me which will give me even more tips on what to eat. She then does a followup a couple weeks from now to see how I am doing and then I go for another blood test at the end of August. It's funny never in my life would I have thought I would use the services of a dietitian but she was great and I have already learned a lot from her.

Last night was the first night back at a live poker game after a three week break. I think we had over 50 players there. My night was pretty uneventful. I got chased off a couple hands early but managed to get some of the chips back when I got dealt pocket 7's. I raised 3x BB. Got 1 caller. Flop comes KQ6 rainbow. Not a great flop for me. I decided to check and he also checked which made me think he was on a draw or something. The turn brought the lovely third 7. I was going to check but I just didn't like the board so I pushed instead. He folded.

After that I basically got real card dead and then our table broke down and first hand at the new table where I was the BB. Somebody in early position raised and it got folded around to me. I had A2 off suit. I pushed as folding wasn't an option with my sad stack. I didn't love my cards but then he turned over 4,6 of clubs. What?? Yep. He of course hit both his 4 and 6 on the flop and I was gone. Still wondering what he was thinking raising in EP with those two cards.