<p>I think that I’d pull a Rosy Ruiz and take the train.</p>
<p>I know a lot of people who have done the Pikes Peak marathon or half. You can go up or up and down. It sounds horrible to me! The Monkey is bad enough.</p>
<p>Cals 1872
Fat 131 g
Carbs 98 g
Fiber 35 g
Protein 90 g
Sugars 45 g</p>
<p>61% fat
19% protein
20% carbs</p>
<p>I’m back to my fighting weight – the equivalent of idad’s 160 lbs. Hooray!</p>
<p>Went for what was supposed to be a 3 mile loop yesterday afternoon, but their was construction on a reservoir meaning that we couldn’t do the loop after all so the excursion turned into a 5 mile walk instead. Still amazes me that in the middle of our town you can see deer (5) and turkeys (3) and a family of wood ducks.</p>
<p>Went over on calories yesterday, not surprising since it was my birthday and I had cake and half a bottle of wine with dinner along with some dessert wine.</p>
<p>VeryHappy- way to go! Happy Birthday, mathmom! Good week for birthdays!</p>
<p>21.2 mile supported training run done. I ran by myself the whole way and had no music. The last 8 miles there were 2 women in front of me, at least, so I had contact with people. It was tough. I never walked, but probably should have. Managed to fall (asphalt) at mile 16 and am pretty bloody- shoulder and elbow- and bruised my ribs a little. That was lovely. Stayed consistent and didn’t look at my splits very often. Wanted to try to stay comfortable, which simply doesn’t happen in a 21 mile run, but I did OK. 10:27 pace, which is faster than I should go. I don’t expect an easy recovery from this one and I have NEVER been so glad to see my car at the end of a run!</p>
<p>35 mins w/30 sec sprint. Speedy squirrel, squirrel with nut, geese having a chow down.</p>
<p>Happy Birthday, Mathmom ~</p>
<p>Nice work, MOWC, and congrats on that first place finish yesterday ~</p>
<p>L’shanah tovah ~</p>
<p>Congratulations Very Happy. That house packing stuff will melt the pounds away! </p>
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<p>Mathmom. A five mile walk sounds fantastic. I hope your weather is as nice as it is here. I’m heading out for a walk/jog to enjoy the cool sunny blue sky afternoon. High in the upper 60s here today.</p>
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<p>I am definitely not worthy! 21 miles. I can’t even imagine. Sorry about the face plant. I’m still nursing a little scrape on my knee from the tumble I took hiking over a month ago. Stuff just doesn’t heal as quickly as it did when I was 38…</p>
<p>Ya’ know, idad, I hadn’t thought about it, but you’re right. I’ve been packing away and packing away. I guess that’s a new weight loss exercise.</p>
<p>On the whole I’d rather lift heavy things over my head at the gym, however.</p>
<p>I was really discouraged three days ago–after a couple of weeks of working really hard to limit carbs to 100 grams per day (encouraged by the Primal Living stuff), I got on the scale and saw that I hadn’t lost a pound. I was ready to to ditch it all, figuring I was a failure on a program/lifestyle that works for millions of people except me. Didn’t bag the diet or eat lots of ice cream (I sure wanted to do that)–just put myself into a funk and hung in there.</p>
<p>Early this morning, I did a 3 mile trail walk to the beach (with my youngest D who’s staying with us for work)–plus we biked 4 miles there and 4 miles back. Stepped on the scale and saw that I was down 6.5 pounds. OK–I don’t get it. Thought the scale was broken and stepped on one in another bedroom–same result. Maybe I should stick to the are-your-jeans-getting-looser test and forget the scale so I don’t drive myself crazy. I do feel better though.</p>
<p>Bromfield:</p>
<p>YaY! Sounds like it’s time for a 6.5 pound PARTAY!</p>
<p>Definitely stick with the jeans. Unless you’ve got a boatload of blubber to lose (like 50 pounds), the scale is just too variable. Your water weight can vary by 3 or 4 pounds day to day, week to week.</p>
<p>I also think the first few weeks after cutting carbs puts the body into rebellion. If it’s used to being fueled by carbs, it’s getting all kinds of starvation signals, even though you aren’t actually starving. Rachel Cosgrove says that she has had some women drop two sizes (like from a 12 to an 8 in three months and not lose a single pound on the scale!</p>
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<p>5K walk jog for me today. 68 degrees. Deep blue cloudless sky. Nice breeze. Too cool and dry for my heart rate monitor to work at first. Everytime I ran uphill, I kept thinking how nice it was that I didn’t have 4400 more feet of elevation gain in the Mt. Washington Road Race and the little uphill bits didn’t seem so tough. Faster, shorter intervals today, mostly between 6 mph and 6.8 mph. For whatever reason (probably the cooler temps), I didn’t seem to be panting quite as badly at the end of each interval. All I know is that the walking parts seemed really easy without a 20 pound pack on my back! Anyway, that’s my run for the week, which is OK because I think we are supposed to get some rain. I’ll lift some weights and swing some kettlebells and stuff this week then hike two days next weekend. I’m giving serious consideration to trying to bag my first [New</a> Hampshire 4000 footers](<a href=“http://www.amc4000footer.org/wm4.htm]New”>http://www.amc4000footer.org/wm4.htm) on Saturday.</p>
<p>Yay Bromfield! PARTY!!!</p>
<p>Nice jog workout, iDad.</p>
<p>My ribs hurt. Going to be fun keeping the steak going the next few days, but I didnitnwithna worse rib injury in 2009.</p>
<p>Ouch. Sore ribs don’t sound like fun.</p>
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<p>I cooked an awesome dinner. Bar-b-q chicken breast with my homemade rub and homemade middle-Georgia style sauce. And, my variation on Cat Cora’s spicy broccoli slaw. I cut the sugar and the olive oil a little bit in the slaw and it was just as good…</p>
<p>3 thick slices of Bacon and 3 eggs for brunch, so a low carb day for me.</p>
<p>Cals 1748
Fat 102 g
Carbs 57 g
Fiber 16 g
Protein 133 g
Sugars 35 g</p>
<p>55% fat
32% protein
13% carbs</p>
<p>40 minute cardio dance class</p>
<p>Found a new whey protein shake, that I like, no carbs, no sweetener, no flavor. </p>
<p>Cals 1569
Fat 107 g
Carbs 15 g
Fiber 8 g
Protein 139 g
Sugars 4 g</p>
<p>Fat 61%
Protein 35%
Carbs 4%</p>
<p>I’ve never had a protein shake, but from everything I’ve heard, “no flavor” would be a decided improvement!</p>
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<p>Dang, you were seriously low carb today!</p>
<p>She chicked you on the carbs, iDad. ;)</p>
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<p>Throwing everything I got at it. Decided to try the ketogenic route to shake off those stubborn last pounds. If that doesn’t work, not sure what I’ll do.</p>
<p>There’s always the sauna…</p>
<p>(no throwing tomatoes at me, 'kay?)</p>
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<p>I’m slowly coming to believe that sometimes it is what it is! I started logging my food and dropped a couple of quick pounds, but it really looks like 160-161 is my limit right now. If you are eating well and exercising and at a stable reasonable weight, it’s hard to ask for anything more than that.</p>
<p>CJane, I say we get Bromfield’s scale to have a discussion with your scale.</p>