<p>30 minute swim. Really like my swim snorkel. Also like the fact that I wasn’t “working” on anything for a change. No timing, no technique work, just up and down the lanes. I kept moving so it wasn’t quite as relaxing as a Miami work out, but everything felt good.</p>
<p>Speaking of foam rollers, saw a cool one reviewed in the NP today—the r8 at rollrecovery dot com</p>
<p>On the subject of cupcakes, just for the record, I was teasing you, BC (like “step away from the ledge”). Lord knows, I eat a lot of junk, and if I wanted to down a cupcake I would. I don’t generally write much about what I eat here because it’s never been a struggle for me, and I get away with a lot of stuff that isn’t healthy. I forget sometimes how hard it can be. I felt bad that the comment was taken seriously.</p>
<p>Followed through with the stretching and weights today.</p>
<p>For anyone who is new to reading this thread, BC has written more than once about the steady stream of sweets that people bring into the office that are hard to resist. Recently a batch of cupcakes arrived and he posted about them a couple of times.</p>
<p>Special event here tonight, and, well, you don’t want to know what I picked up at the bakery…</p>
<p>See what I mean. :o Ugh! That was supposed to be the embarrassed smiley which I can’t remember correctly off the top of my head!</p>
<p>Okay, think I managed to fix the emoticon.</p>
<p>Clearly I need to go attend to event and not post!</p>
<p>I made huge salads for dinner; had cooked chicken and diced it earlier (some was for sabadog’s rewards at class); so was romaine, spinach, cherry tomatoes, cucumber, measured quantities of cheese and chicken. And hot peppers in mine. Off to class, which was an hour of running around. I am tired, but better yet, sabadog is too. </p>
<p>I am one of those people who will plan for when I really want to eat something. I love Founding Farmers in D.C., so if I know I am going to eat there, I will be extra good so I can order whatever I want without second guessing myself. Shrimp and grits? You bet. Specialty cocktail? No doubt. If I buy ice cream, it’s gelato in dark chocolate or Belgian milk. It has to be special. </p>
<p>That said, today was better than yesterday.
Cals 1446
Fat 66 g
Carbs 96 g
Fiber 11 g
Protein 121 g
Sugars 48 g</p>
<p>Yikes, almost forgot. Popchips. They try and convince you they are healthy. They are the most addicting things and they are so good. As my son would say, they are the devil. I could eat an entire bag. Costco had a huge special on them this past weekend and it was all I could do to just walk away from them. I did have a cup of the samples they were handing out. But I didn’t buy any. If I had, they’d be gone.</p>
<p>CJane- LOL. I caught that! </p>
<p>It’s January 29. I ran in shorts after work. In Tennessee. This after the 12 degree run on Sunday in PA. 65 degrees here but some dangerous storms are coming . 5 miles done. Eating not terrible today except for lemon drops. I love lemon drops and I can buy them at a discount. Good ones. 2 or 3 are negligible calories. 15- well…</p>
<p>Cals 1102
Fat 65 g
Carbs 39 g
Fiber 2 g
Protein 89 g
Sugars 3 g</p>
<p>The r8 looks great, ohio. Too bad so pricey.</p>
<p>MOWC- thought you might ;)</p>
<p>You girls are bad. Funny, but naughty. :D</p>
<p>3.4 miles.</p>
<p>Abs-Roller+, Pushups, Rows, Curls, Military Press, Abs. I haven’t used the Abs-Roller+ in a while and it was harder than the previous time (before they were easy). Felt it in the triceps later on.</p>
<p>973 calories, 39% carbs, 23 grams of sugars</p>
<p>The sugars were mostly from a cup of grapes - not my choice of a snack.</p>
<p>We’re going to have a group lunch, probably at the end of February as one team member is out for a few weeks. It may be hard to control calories in a social setting.</p>
<p>saba-- lots of protein for you today. All in the chicken or did you have something else to boost that protein intake today?</p>
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<p>How do you even function with that low intake? Are you like dropping two lbs a day?</p>
<p>I think Idad said that a male burns about 2000 cals a day w/o doing anything. You ran and do weight - that is at least 1000 cal burned. </p>
<p>Totally incredible.</p>
<p>start my first day of training. The target is 3 miles. Did 3.1 mile in 30 minutes. After that, did another 0.5 miles just to increase the legs time as MOWC suggested.</p>
<p>So a total of 3.6 miles plus some stretch and strength.</p>
<p>How do you all deal with people who talk on their cell phone while slow walking on treadmill? I was at 1.8 miles and this guy got on the treadmill one over to mine. And he talked the whole 10 minutes trying get someone to do business with him. He was so loud that I heard every single words. </p>
<p>had I just started, I would have walked a way to a different machine.</p>
<p>CJane - my trip to Costco resulted in filet. Grilled four of them this weekend; H and I had them for dinner on Saturday; I think he ate one for a snack so I ate the last one for lunch today. Today was pretty protein heavy; hard boiled egg at breakfast, the filet and then chicken. With the salad, though, I feel pretty good. I usually do not eat that much meat in one day. I have also planned to have hot cereal tomorrow - Better Oats Organic Raw multigrain hot cereal with flax. While it has 28 g of carbs per serving, it also has 6 g of protein, 3 g of dietary fiber and 0 sugar. Oats, barley, wheat, flaxseed, quinoa, rye and sea salt. H would call it cardboard, but it sounds good to me.</p>
<p>Two pounds of fat is 7,200 calories or 72 miles of running. Today is an unusually low calorie day - I shoot for about 1500 M, T, W, T and 2000-2300 on F, S, S. It’s not shoot for so much that I’m home for more time and there’s food around the house. It’s a lot easier to be disciplined at the office.</p>
<p>I think that the running is around 340 calories and the strength-stuff - I don’t really know. I don’t think that it’s a lot of calories at the time when you do it but that the changes in your body resulting from the exercise uses up calories over time.</p>
<p>I just need enough protein for the strength training.</p>
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<p>Our fitness center manager sent out a notice with a new set of rules this year and talking on cellphones on the treadmills was one of the items. I asked her who did this and she said salespeople making business calls. I couldn’t believe it.</p>
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<p>My former manager used to use the fitness center very early in the morning. Then some guy started coming in and singing (loudly) while walking on the treadmill. Former manager bought some home equipment.</p>
<p>I used to be in charge of a recreational activity that used equipment and space in the office. You would not believe how hard it is to get a bunch of people, many of them relatively new hires, to adhere to the rules.</p>
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<p>Women get the short end of the stick on that one. Depending on size, they might burn only 1200 to 1500 calories a day lying on the sofa eating bon-bons. It’s highly dependent on the amount of lean muscle. Guys burn more. I figure I probably burn about 1700 calories a day doing nothing. With my typical workout schedule, I seem to be weight stable in the 2000 to 2200 calorie a day range. Above 2400 calories a day and I will probably trend upwards. Below 2000 calories and I’ll lose weight, but only in a narrow window. My wall is somewhere around 160 pounds. To get below that, I’d have to start taking extreme measures and losing muscle.</p>
<p>I don’t think the amount of exercise I do has much impact on my weight. We are only talking a few hundred calories a day (net). I’ve never even looked at what I’m burning with exercise because it doesn’t matter at all if my diet isn’t good. It’s too easy to fall into the trap of thinking, “oh, I can eat a few hundred more calories today because I exercised…” Then you over-estimate how much you really burned and, all the sudden, the exercise just becomes a rationalization for eating more.</p>
<p>Livestrong is recommending around 1450 calories for me if I want to lose weight. What I don’t like is that it then factors in whatever exercise I’ve done and says, oh hey, sabaray, you can eat 890 MORE calories now. Uh, no. Doesn’t work. I just want to keep track of what I’m doing for exercise; I have zero confidence in the estimated calorie counts for exercise. Too many variables unaccounted for.</p>
<p>I think that it’s okay to trade a slice of pizza for a three-mile run but it seems like an awful lot of work for a relatively short treat.</p>