Over the last year at least waking up with my heart in so0mething close to a sinus rhythm was just an occasional rarity. However since Monday I have been seeing a stable 50ish bpm and the Smarty watch has had no problem taking a blood pressure reading. There are still the occasional glitches where a beat is missed, but not very often first thing. The watch app is complaining that I need to add4ress my HRV reading as it's 'not good', but I'll wait a couple more days until hopefully the last two 500+ readings drop of the 7 days it works with and we get a clean 40ish across the board. The 'AI' that dreams up the responses simply has no concept of anything other than a good heart rate and while I was consistently in the 500 to 600 band it thought that was 'excellent' when in reality it was a key to my problems?

In addition to getting the heart rate more under control I've dropped through the original 75kg weight target and am currently down at 72.4kg with a BMI of 24.5. I think that is the level to stop at and will up my calorie intake a bit with a few extra treats although I've had 2 Easter eggs ... Cadbury Cream Eggs are not what they used to be ... and still not put them on as weight.

I'm sure what is helping is the morning exercise regime. I've modified it a bit and am including the physio for my knee after the first warm up session. The whole cycle takes about 30 minutes and according to the watch burns off 150 KCal. I've heard back from the hospital physio department and as expected, the surgery physio SHOULD have made the referral. Only problem is the guy I saw three weeks ago is no longer at the surger and they do not have a replacement, so I've had to tell the hospital that to se if they will take me on and review the advice I've been given so far. Apparently I should never have got to the end of the previous 20 week plan if it was not helping, but without a 'professional' actually monitoring how would *I* know? Do it yourself seems to be the only way with the NHS these days?

Next on the list is to work out just what is the right calorie intake to 'maintain' my current weight. While I've a couple of inches to go to meat the waist half of height target, that requires burning off internal fat as there is nothing left on the outside of my waist line.