<p>Cut the lawn today.</p>
<p>Back doesn’t hurt. Shoulder doesn’t hurt.</p>
<p>I’ll take it. There may be a gym in the near future, with any luck.</p>
<p>Deborah T – I’m using the Ease into 5K app with the GPS because I love the stats it gives me. I think it’s somewhat different from the standard C25K program. I’m starting week 5, and for the first time, there are 3 different work outs instead of the same all week, and the times are slowly but steadily increasing.</p>
<p>I woke up with most of my spinal column aching today. I have no idea what that’s all about. I had been contemplating running (such as it is) today even though it’s a day off because I have time today and won’t tomorrow, but I’m really not excited about injury. If I need to wait until Thursday, that’s still in my window. I think I’ll go out for a walk with my new audio book. </p>
<p>Last winter was so mild I didn’t resort to the basement treadmill very often. I’m dreading this winter.</p>
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<p>Sugar, including the sugar in lemonaide, ice cream, etc. is half glucose and half fructose. The bread and pasta is basically straight glucose as soon as it hits your stomach. The starches in bread and pasta are long chains of linked glucose molecules. They get broken apart into glucose instantly. </p>
<p>Type 2 diabetes (which is what your doctor is concerned about) is the progressive inability of the body to clear a spike in glucose levels. That’s the main purpose of insulin, but over time a lot of people become insulin resistant so the mechanism for clearing the glucose doesn’t work very well. At least in the early stages, you can probably fix the problem entirely by cutting out the sugar and cutting way back on the carbs – especially grains and starches. This will reduce the spikes in blood glucose. A trick I used was to limit myself to a pasta or bread meal one time a week. </p>
<p>The reason that processed foods are so bad is that the fiber has been removed. Fiber slows the absorption of the carbs, giving the body less of a spike to deal with. Take the fiber out of the food and the carbs hit with wallop. If your metabolism isn’t efficient at clearing the spike, that’s a problem.</p>
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<p>Not necessarily instantly – some carbohydrate containing foods break down into glucose faster than others (see “glycemic index”). Also, eating foods in combination with other foods also affects how fast they break down. Fiber, fat, and protein often slow the breakdown of carbohydrates into glucose (note that beans and lentils are often the slowest; they are relatively high in fiber and protein).</p>
<p>Combating insulin resistance typically involves increasing exercise and losing body fat. Low glycemic or low carbohydrate eating is more of a workaround.</p>
<p>Bread and pasta, however, are not typically high in fiber. Pasta and most storebought breads break down into glucose very quickly. Those highly processed carbs made with refined flours would be the second thing I would cut, after sugar. As Dr. Lustig says, “always eat your carbs with fiber…”.</p>
<p>Even if it is as simple as fat loss for improving insulin sensitivity (and that’s not entirely clear), studies have consistently shown that people who are already insulin resistant will tend to respond better and lose more fat on on lower carb diets than on other kinds of fat loss diets.</p>
<p>New Rules of Lifting workout for me. Punched the clock. Chicken fajitas, hold the tortilla, for dinner.</p>
<p>Making H scrambled eggs with sausage for dinner.
I am going to have to have something else since I spent the day in the emergency room thinking I was having a heart attack & I put the king salmon fillets in the freezer by mistake.
Yesterday we had quinoa pasta with fresh tomatoes, basil & garlic. There are some left overs but non wheat pasta is kinda of nasty the second day.
lots of tomatoes & basil left though.</p>
<p>^ anxiety attack?
Hoping the fact that you are making eggs this evening indicates that you are indeed okay and no cardiac event?</p>
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After that experience, H should be making <em>you</em> dinner.</p>
<p>Yep. Hubby should be in the kitchen… 
Although maybe that doesn’t qualify as a good idea, dependign on his cooking skills…</p>
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<p>I did that once. Midnight on a Saturday night. Excruciating shooting pain down my chest and arm. Spent all night there and I was so relieved when the doc said my ticker was just fine that I walked out without asking, “so, OK, what is causing this pain…?”</p>
<p>That started the most miserable 24 hours of my life where I stood up for the entire time because sitting or lying was too painful. I literally dosed off leaning against the doorway in the hall, fell down, woke up upon impact, and stood back up. I finally walked into my doc’s office first thing Monday morning and the nurse practicioner took one look at my extending one arm overhead (which I had been doing in the emergency room) and said, “compressed nerve root at the 5th or 6th vertebrae…”</p>
<p>He doesn’t really cook ( although I had been married to him for ten years before I found out he bakes! )</p>
<p>I still think it was heart related, as it went on for an extended length of time and I feel little better. But emergency rooms are really better for mechanical things, broken ankles, knife wounds,bee stings. As the cardiologist explained to me, only if there was damage would the tests show anything. Next is a stress test, but those scare me as the husband of a friend had a stroke during a stress test and died shortly after. </p>
<p>Eggs were not really cause I am trying to knock off H, but they are fast & easy, & I don’t feel better if I sit down, so I might as well do something.</p>
<p>I’m wondering if I maybe have nerve issue because I have pain in my shoulders & both arms feel like they are asleep. Not pins & needles, but like they are in cool water, just a little asleep.
But so many weird things have happened to me in the past 6 months, I just want someone to tell me what it is & fix it. ( well not weird, but I’ve gone to the emergency room three times, once in an ambulance, once H took me & today I drove myself), once I didn’t even go to the emergency room after I fainted, I let the paramedics treat me & then I went home.</p>
<p>Cals 1320
Fat 103 g
Carbs 23 g
Fiber 2 g
Protein 67 g
Sugars 9 g</p>
<p>Fat 72%
Protein 21%
Carbs 7%</p>
<p>Gosh, EK! That doesn’t sound good. I hooe it is some minor nerve thing and I’m glad you are home and feeling better.</p>
<p>Tomorrow is the landmark day that I turn 60! My mother, who has some dementia, guessed that I was 50. She wasn’t terribly happy to learn she was off by a decade. My best present was some excellent news from the day job with an offer of a permanent position, a nice big title and, shortly, a move out of the cubicle! No more COBRA!</p>
<p>EK, I’m so sorry to hear you haven’t been feeling well. That sounds scary. I hope tomorrow is a better day.</p>
<p>MOWC, Happy Pre-Birthday and congratulations on the fantastic news!!!</p>
<p>Happy Birthday and Congratulations!</p>
<p>Cals 1815
Fat 117 g
Carbs 66 g
Fiber 20 g
Protein 137 g
Sugars 19 g</p>
<p>57% fat
29% protein
14% carbs</p>
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<p>The best news in this day and age!</p>
<p>Congrats, MOfWC! So happy to hear your big news!!!</p>
<p>As I was running through the airport today to grab my luggage and get the heck out of that busy anthill, I was greeted by a huge poster saying, “Welcome *** marathon participants!” Damn. Rats. I should have known that! I could have trained for it. No way I can run one in 3 days. Oh well, there is always tomorrow.</p>
<p>My exercise today mainly comprised lifting heavy objects. By the time I got to my hotel, I was pretty sick of all the lifting and gladly let the bellboy exercise his muscles. Some swimming, some roasting on the sand, followed by ahi sashimi dinner… Life is good when Mr B is not around :)</p>
<p>MOWC, that’s great news! You’ve wowed them and they couldn’t resist!!</p>
<p>EK, has your internist been aware of all these different episodes? Hopefully there’s one key to them all, and he’ll know it quickly.</p>
<p>NJres,
"I just recorded a fasting glucose of 104, which my doctor said should be under 100. I don’t add sugar to anything, but I do eat bread and pasta. I am going to cut out the simply lemonade. Already stopped drinking coffee during the week. Not sure about the occasional bowl of ice cream. darn! "
-For my body, it is NOT the function of my diet, but my weight. 2 - 3 lbs make huge difference FOR ME. It might not be the case for you though. My family has history of diabetese and genetics that makes fat to accumulate in stomach area. These 2 usually go together. I do not have desease yet and I eat pretty much everything. I also read that coffee is good for you, not bad. But I can have only 3 cups of regular / week. Again, since most people in my family are diabetic, I read that daily exercise is great in regulating sugar in your body. I stick to it religiously. I do not know anything else. And agian, your body might need something different than mine. We all have different genetics and lifestyles.</p>