<p>DebT , I know I will be slower off the treadmill but I think my current method of mixing up treadmill vs. “pavement” time is a good thing.</p>
<p>Whatever you’re doing, it’s working.</p>
<p>3.5 miles. Knees feel a lot better. Ankle is getting better slowly. Toe is better too.</p>
<p>One thing about running a lot longer than usual - it does some damage.</p>
<p>I am officially in love with sabadog!</p>
<p>Not so very enamored with today’s workout, but it was suggested as a active recovery day by the trainer so I am complying.</p>
<p>30 minutes Pilates DVD. Hard and boring at the same time, especially since girlfriend who was supposed to be demonstrating the modified alternative movements was doing EXACTLY the same thing as the main gal. On the plus side, it was a work out I could do in my pajamas.</p>
<p>30 minutes swim. Slow pace, felt like I could cross the English channel at that rate. As expected rather tedious. Did enjoy the post-swim sauna, though and probably spent close to the same amount of time in there as in the pool.</p>
<p>Idad- you have done great with your program and you have a fantastic knowledge base but what do you think would have happened if you did your base exercise program and a diet with a limit of 1900-2100 calories a day. Some junk but no strict calculation on carbs, fat protein.</p>
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<p>That’s a chicken and egg proposition. It’s almost impossible for a guy to get under 2000 calories a day without significantly cutting carbs. Specifically, sugar and junk carbs have to go to get down to that range. The thing that makes focusing on carbs successful for many people is that cutting carbs automatically cuts calories, plus it may provide some additional benefit to the extent that you are insulin resistant. </p>
<p>Plus, to be sustainable, you’ve got to figure out some scheme that doesn’t leave you craving food at 2000 calories a day. When I was losing weight, I was burning 500 to 1000 calories a day from my stored fat, which may have helped curb my appetite. Hard to burn stored fat when insulin levels are high (following, for example, a pasta dinner).</p>
<p>In my case, it was pretty simple to figure out. I had to stop drinking sugar drinks and pigging out on junk carbs: candy, pretzels, Doritos, Honey Nut Cheerios. When you are eating that stuff and getting fat, it doesn’t take rocket science to figure out where to start!</p>
<p>HOPS CHALLENGE on steroids. I did a round of 10 squats, 10 pushups, and 10 swings non-stop and then started another round every 2 minutes. I lasted six rounds. Pushups were the limiting factor. I was pretty much done after 60 of them.</p>
<p>This is actually a pretty good “metabolic intervals” workout. Definitely kicked my butt in 12 minutes, but was not ridiculous.</p>
<p>48 degrees in the basement. I turned on my little space heater and got it up to 56 degrees for my workout. Left my 1/4 zip pullover on for this one!</p>
<p>NMinn, I found the hard part was just getting started. Now I view it as something I just have to do - the food tracking and the exercise. Today I really did not want to go to the gym, but when I got there and was greeted by name by the same pleasant young woman who is always there when I go, I thought, okay, this is my routine. You can do it! </p>
<p>I am envious of all the folks running, but the way I look at it is my walking with sabadog is probably the equivalent of how fast I could run. As long as he’s around, I’m sure to get some exercise.</p>
<p>My current eating is 150 calories during the day for running and 1,200 to 1,500 in the evening. I run best when there isn’t too much in my stomach and I need the carbs to run. BTW, I can always cut down in the evening if I want to lose faster.</p>
Really only 150 or did you mean 1500?
<p>150 - a cup of oatmeal two to three hours before running.</p>
<p>My office is about as far away as you can get to the kitchen. My previous routine was 2 eggs + 1 Tofurkey in the morning for about 390 calories. Then some carbs at lunch and then dinner.</p>
<p>The current routine works fairly well. There are leftover calories from the previous night that keep me going but I’m not really digesting much, if any, food during working hours so I’m more alert during the work day. Today I was at the office until 7:00 (something came up late and I wanted to get started on it before going home) so late everything. I have an errand to run this evening and it’s about 7 degrees outside.</p>
<p>The disadvantage to driving a very efficient 4-cylinder car is that it can take forever to get warm on very cold days. I had to put it in recycle air and it got warm after about 15 minutes.</p>
<p>Just had a few Chinese steamed buns (beef), two eggs and two slices of toast. Calories so far today are 828. I’ve had lots of practice at eating nothing for a day or just eating a few hundred calories per day so cutting back isn’t a big deal. It just takes a certain amount of mental effort and planning. I can’t do this when I’m under a ton of stress though.</p>
<p>I don’t count calories and could not give you a rough estimate of how many I consume, but I would <em>not</em> feel good if all I ate during the day was a cup of oatmeal. Each of us is built so differently.</p>
<p>Same. No calorie counting specifically. I like to eat and need to eat. I can use god judgement and my best predictors of that are my mirror and my pants and how they fit !!!</p>
<p>I need more food than that. I don’t need as much as I eat, though.</p>
<p>Business dinner tonight so not exercise at all.</p>
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<p>That looks hilarious. If you tried to follow every health tip in the media, you’re head would go flying off from spinning around so fast!</p>
<p>I did 25 minutes on the elliptical this evening for my second workout of the day.</p>
<p>I heard an ad on the radio for some diet food system (you buy the food and if you only eat that, you lose weight). They said “IT WORKS!” “NO EXERCISE!” “NOT A FAD DIET!” “YOU LOSE WEIGHT SIMPLY BY EATING LESS!”</p>
<p><em>rolleyes</em></p>
<p>:rolleyes:</p>
<p>I always do a 30 minutes power walk around lunch time. If the weather is bad, we walk in doors. </p>
<p>My typical evening gym workout starts with about 5 minutes of stretching - mostly concentrated on the heels. After that, it will be either a quick run or a high step walk to get the heart rate up. </p>
<p>First exercise has been the pushup with feet up; then either longpull and/or pulldown; then seated dip; followed by seated biceps curl; chest press; Pec fly; butterfly pull down; all of them three sets each and these takes about 45 minutes. </p>
<p>run 30 ~ 45 minutes;</p>
<p>always finish with 35 lb dumbbell curl.</p>
<p>Based on what others are posting, I think I am doing quite a lot 6 days a week.</p>
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<p>DadII: I started in fairly bad shape, about 2 years ago. Couldn’t jog even a minute. Now I can jog for a little more than a mile straight, but usually I do walk/jog intervals. </p>
<p>I am pondering the half too. It is nice to have a goal. Plus my college-junior daughter is seriously into running now, so it gives me a connection with her. Physically my only issue is my knees - they start to hurt a little at about 2 miles . . . it doesn’t get worse if I keep going, so I am just ignoring it for now and hoping it gets better.</p>