Life after a heart scare, from someone who's living it.
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My wake-up call
Read the whole intro“In April 2026 I was 52, weighed 96 kilos, and lay on a table in Sudbury while a cardiologist put a stent in a blocked artery. That was my wake-up call.”
Field guides
Tested tips, grocery survival, and real recovery steps.
Recipes
14 low-sodium recipes, weighed in grams
No bland steamed chicken. Real dinners from a home kitchen.
Traps conquered
19 food traps learned the hard way
Plus 3 lessons on logging and eating enough.
Warning: Grab-and-go Asian bowls: assume 2,000+ mg sodium.
Eating out
One safe order per place, sauce on the side
Safe orders at real restaurants, and what to grab when only the drive-through is open.
Pantry & tools
Flavour without salt
Acids, smoked paprika, garlic, and a kitchen scale that makes it easy.
Moving again
What cardiac rehab is actually like
Heart-rate zones, effort scales and how progression works, explained. Your targets come from your rehab team.
Ask your pharmacist
Topics to raise with your pharmacist
Grapefruit, salt substitutes, cold and flu pills, supplements.
Your privacy
Nothing you enter leaves your phone. No logins, no tracking, no health data uploaded anywhere. How that works
Written in Northern Ontario by someone who's living it.