<p>BC, awesome suggestion!</p>
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<p>There are tons of YouTube videos of pictures with music that tell a nice story.</p>
<p>Or he can just verbally tell us the link to his picture site. I still want to see the pictures.</p>
<p>Me too! Those are incredible sites, and pictures serve as nice illustrations of idad’s narrative.</p>
<p>Love your pictures Idad! Such beautiful scenery. Our colors are past peak here so loved seeing fall in NH.</p>
<p>Fall just blows me away every darn time.</p>
<p>Fall wasn’t a big deal in Dallas since it lasted about 3 days, but here in Tennessee it is just wonderful!</p>
<p>^ We once drove thru TN and KY during October and will never forget it. </p>
<p>So I heard on the radio today that the good ol’ DASH diet is back in the news and being found to be the best diet out there in terms of over all health. I remember we adopted it back when it came out because my DH was worried about his BP and over the years we’ve pretty much tried to keep with it. I know there are many who do better on mostly animal protein but I do think many of us do well with DASH.</p>
<p>[DASH</a> Diet Eating Plan](<a href=“You are being redirected...”>http://dashdiet.org/)</p>
<p>I see the fall stuff every day driving to work (it’s dark when I drive home). I’m looking out the window but the view here is more rustic. There’s a nice two-lane parkway that I drive through and it’s brightly colored trees on both sides. Very nice.</p>
<p>It’s a little counter-intuitive because driving through the mountains is great for leaf peeping, but hiking on the mountains is not the best foliage gazing. You climb above the hardwoods pretty quickly into forests that are mostly evergreen and then, ultimately, above forests altogether. The drive over to Monadnock, through Peterborough and Jaffrey was gorgeous!</p>
<p>There are other benefits to fall hiking though. The cooler temperatures are a lot more pleasant. I spent most of the day yesterday in tech t-shirt with a thin tech 1/4 zip long sleeve shirt over it. I took the 1/4 zip off and hiked in short sleeves for most of the climb up (it was probably in the 50s), until I got up out of the trees where it got breezy. And, with no bugs, I don’t have to douse myself in DEET, which is a pleasant change.</p>
<p>I was going to ask you about the bugs. Last week’s dip below freezing seems to have gotten rid of the outdoor bugs this week.</p>
<p>It is certainly a dividend of exercising to be out under the sky and really take notice of the seasons. Somehow the treadmill in the basement or fitness club just doesn’t equal it.</p>
<p>Went to the gym today and pulled a Dad II. Everything was so difficult today at the gym. It was so difficult I cut the gym time off and just went for a couple of walks. My body said it is time for a low intensity day.</p>
<p>I appreciate the calculator links Michael and BC Eagle91 posted. Playing around with the calculators, I think I am eating 2,000 calories a day and burning 3,000 calories a day. If I don’t pig out this weekend, I think a 6 pound loss in 3 weeks is in the bag. I am close to that loss after 2 1/2 weeks. </p>
<p>I am fortunate I don’t have to lose the weight Interesteddad lost. I think
MomofWildChild’s loss is realistic for me. Eventually.</p>
<p>Several years ago, when I worked out I had sewhappy’s problem of always being hungry. It sucks. This time that isn’t happening. Now I look at food and think Should I really eat that? It weighs 8 ounces. And
sometimes, I don’t eat that. It is 2 o’clock and I have eaten 700 calories. Worked off 1100.</p>
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<p>I’m not even giving cursory thought to exercising today. I’m stiff and sore and my bones are creaky. Rest/recovery days are important, too. :)</p>
<p>" Rest/recovery days are important, too"</p>
<p>You are so right. Did I ever mention I could be a little obsessive-compulsive? A little impatient at times too.</p>
<p>A part of me just wants to work out continuously for 270 hours straight. :)</p>
<p>Here’s a guy with a streak that puts MOWC to shame. A [YouTube</a> video](<a href=“Mt Monadnock-meeting Larry Davis - YouTube”>Mt Monadnock-meeting Larry Davis - YouTube) from the top of Mt. Monadnock interviewing the guy who climbed it 2850 days in a row and, at the time of this interview, had climbed it 5900 times. I’m pretty sure I saw him yesterday. </p>
<p>I wonder if he ever says, “Climbing Mt. Monadnock is stupid…” :)</p>
<p>I’m in awe of him getting to the top in 1 hour and a half hour down. It took me 3:10 to climb the 2.7 miles to the summit. And, a testament to how hard the descent was, it took me 2:10 minutes to walk the 2.2 miles down the mountain, including a half mile at the end that was fast going. </p>
<p>Looking at the GPS, it took me 1:52 minutes for the first 1.5 miles on the way down, well under 1 mph. And that’s with no stopping, except here and there to let somebody pass or to look at a steep bit and try to figure out how in the heck to get down. No wonder I was so tired. The downhill isn’t usually that grueling.</p>
<p>Err. Make that 2 hours and 10 minutes to walk 2.2 miles down. That’s just crazy slow.</p>
<p>It sounds like one of those things where victory is just making it up and down!</p>
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When there’s two feet of new snow on the ground and the wind is blowing 50 mph with a -50 wind chill… I bet he does. :D</p>
<p>Streaks are great, but that just seems dangerous.</p>
<p>Rest/recovery is when you build muscle.
Downhill also seems harder to me- it is heck on your knees.</p>