<p>This guy has some great videos of simple ways to exercise. This one is terrific for a quick and easy set of intervals. Just find a short hill and do ten hill sprints.</p>
<p>Run up the hill, walk slowly back down. Rinse and repeat…</p>
<p>I’m going to have to try this one. I’m guessing that, along about number 8 or 9, I’ll be bent over panting like a dog. It’s nice though, because no timer needed, so it would be a great set of intervals on a walk around a park or even in the neighborhood. I suppose the same thing could be done on a big flight of outdoor stairs somewhere.</p>
<p>MiamiDAP–I wasn’t talking about TASTE, I was talking about nutrition. I agree, most things you make yourself taste better. They try to make up for lack of taste by adding too much salt.</p>
<p>idad–the video of single leg squats made me curious, so I tried. Nope, my knees don’t want to do those!</p>
<p>Yes, you can make things much faster then pick them up in the store and shopping is not my favorite activity either. I can ask my H. to get sweet potatp thru sald shooter (with the skin, way to lazy to remove it) and put it on a skillet in olive oil. Sometime I add fried onions, sometime I do not. Have it on for few minutes, cover and turn it off, bam, your lunch is ready for whole week. Of course sweet potatoes are my favorite because, yes, the right guess, they are sweet. Other veggies can be done like this with variations. But if one likes to cook actually, then horizon is a limit. I am not the fan fo this activity either. I am a very lazy person who does practically nothing at home and hope it will continue in a future.</p>
<p>I gained 5 lbs in one day last week from one order of combination lo mein that I had when DH and I went out for lunch. (The rest of my food that day: 3/4 c. nonfat Greek yogurt, 1/2 c. granola, 2 bananas, 3 clementine oranges, small spinach salad w/o dressing. It was the salt. My body has truly adjusted to the low-sodium lifestyle and now reacts poorly in ways that are apparent. When I was eating so much cr*p, it was hard to tell how various things affected me. </p>
<p>Need to get to rehab and work out. Am not feeling very motivated this week, and that does not bode well for my visit to my parents’ house next week, where it will be all salty, sugary, processed food, all the time. I will be sitting in a corner with a salad, because I am not going to turn into the food police with these people.</p>
<p>Re:restaurant meals, I am very sensitive to salt, since I rarely add much to recipes , although I love it,( one of my favorite snacks is rice & a tiny piece of an umeboshi plum) but I think restaurants are much better than they used to be.
Most Chinese restaurants advertise that they don’t use any MSG anymore, and also have low sodium condiments, like tamari available.
A good restaurant can suggest alternatives if your favorite dish is full of sodium.
You can substitute other things, hosin sauce for part of the oyster sauce when cooking.
I usually use a little extra wine ( or even water) for the tamari, in stir fries.I’ve been using brown rice instead of white although it is a little tricker to cook.
( I wonder if I can talk the kids into having vietnamese food for Christmas dinner)
It’s my job. There’s research that shows use of a brace can actually be detrimental because your body adapts to the brace doing the work so it doesn’t have to do as much. Much of this research has been done in ankles and ankle bracing, but I’m sure there’s been some done on knees and knee braces…
<p>I’m in. The food sounds really good. When should we come? </p>
<p>CD, I know what you mean. I take after my father - lifelong battle with weight. My mother and sister are both very thin. Mom’s idea of a healthy vegetable? Sister’s favorite - scalloped corn. Canned creamed corn, cream cheese, added sugar. I volunteered to take a salad and some roasted brussell sprouts. </p>
<p>Something I have really been enjoying lately are fried garbanzo beans - drained, rinsed, cooked in olive oil, sprinkled with spices. I add them to salads, so I’m not eating handfuls of them. Last time D was home, she made kale chips. I also really like these. I suspect the danger with anything is overeating.</p>
<p>EK, thanks for the recipe! I love Mark Bittman.</p>
<p>I’d agree that something like an unloader brace can be overused, but proper taping/bracing can allow you to do exercises that you couldn’t do without risking injury & it can reduce pain & aid in healing. I couldn’t do quad strengthening without the patella strap, it was just too uncomfortable. Its important to do the right exercise that enables you to build up the targeted muscle, and a strap or tape can help as a positioning reminder also.</p>
<p>I havent read the updated version, but this is a great book to get an idea of exactly where the problem lies so that you dont make it worse while you are trying to make better.</p>
<p>I’ve got just the hill to work up an appetite. I think this photo is OK to link, since it’s been linked in Wall Street Journal and NPR features:</p>
<p>Be sure to click the pan and zoom controls at the bottom of the screen. You can find the hundreds and hundreds of basecamp tents along the border of the brown rock and the end of the glacier along the bottom center and bottom left of the photo to give scale. This is just jaw-dropping photography of a little hill. My glutes hurt just looking at it.</p>
<p>Wow. What a picture. None of us would survive so you wouldn’t have to feed us! Remember the whole Beck Weathers saga (he “died” and came back to life in that tragic climb 11 years or so ago on Everest. I knew him in Dallas and heard him speak a few times. I’m not going NEAR that!</p>
<p>Thanks, Deb. It’s gotten even better. They are printing nice long sleeved shirts that we can buy that say Nashville 26 4 26 Newtown. The proceeds will also be a donation.</p>
<p>AND- in even better news, a local company just donated a load (pun intended) of porta-potties for the event!</p>
