The reports are a shocker!

Okay that time of the month when I check my progress!

And the reports said:

Cretanine : 11.3
Urea : 222

🙄😳😒

Well the explanation for this is:

1.  I was already bunking one of the bi-weekly dialysis, so I was expecting Cretanine to hover around ~9. But urea, I expected to come down, because I've been on a no-paneer diet for 4-5 weeks now.
2. Good/Bad, I started walking since last monday, it was a good change in the day-2-day routine and I was enjoying it, but undoubtingly it was super-tiring. And I timed my walks, for 2 days before the tests, I walked a total of 4 KMS 😳. As per my hunch this was the biggest cause of increase in cretanine(remember: exercise-->muscles-->cretanine-->kidney).
3. The urea story finally got revealed! Thankfully, my paneer habits had nothing to do with urea at all. The urea is a waste product of the body when oxygen from blood is taken away by organs, the residual is urea(wow!). This is good update as I can get back to eating more paneer parathas!
4. Also, I looked up heavily on how to get variety in my foods, I have no loss of appetite, I mean, I can have 2 full pizza's without sharing even now, but the ghiya,tori,tinda,shila-mirch are super-bore! SO I have started to explore variety in my eating habits.

The last two points above were cleared to me via a book : here It is still western oriented, but some findings like what foods are least to have sodium/potassium/phosphorous/calcium etc are detailed out. Also the urea story got cleared thanks to this book.

So armed with my new non-walking and recipe-searching weapons, I moved on to experiment more carefully.

Oh, and thoughts of getting back to dialysis twice a week started to come, but then..(read the next post)