Many family members told me about this too.
<p>Sorry about your friend MOWC. Anyone that donated a sports facility to a college must have had a lot of accomplishments in life.</p>
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<p>My dentist told me that losing a lot of weight would do this and I see people at the office in this mode (wrinkles). I’d rather feel good running up a flight of stairs or have lots of energy to do things than worry about wrinkles.</p>
<p>Congrats Countingdown on the 5 lb loss!! Hooray! :)</p>
<p>Congrats on the losses! This is really a great group.</p>
<p>[Robert</a> “Bob” Haugh Obituary: View Robert Haugh’s Obituary by Dallas Morning News](<a href=“http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dallasmorningnews/obituary.aspx?pid=163320552#fbLoggedOut]Robert”>http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dallasmorningnews/obituary.aspx?pid=163320552#fbLoggedOut)</p>
<p>I am pasting this obituary because the recognition for a lifestyle that truly was devoted to health and fitness, but still one of accomplishments and giving back is what I aspire to myself. I’m no Bob Haugh, but since I got to be with him for many of his accomplishments, it really spoke to me. Overhead Door had corporate teams which were very competitive ( many of which I captained in the post-Haugh years). Bob would recruit runners from his executive team and tell them all they needed to do was get out there and it was fine if they weren’t fast. Then he would stand there and scream at them to PICK IT UP! I called him on this many years later and he said “They knew I didn’t mean it- the part about it not mattering if they were slow, that is!”</p>
<p>I like the story, MOWC. Along these same lines, co-ed softball is fun, at least some of the time.</p>
<p>Yup, pretty cool guy.</p>
<p>I find it interesting that he took up running in his 50s.</p>
<p>Yeah, there is lots of loose skin now. My neck bothers me most. The rest I can cover up… 
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<p>OTOH, I am now at wedding weight!</p>
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<p>That’s my target at the moment.</p>
<p>It’s a nice target to hit.</p>
<p>There’s always plastic surgery.</p>
<p>Speaking of surgery…has anyone heard from chintzy lately? Wonder how she is doing? I miss her.</p>
<p>Since you brought up plastic surgery, my hair stylist (who is in her 40’s) keeps slim and trim by having all the fat sucked or cut out. She’s had lipo, tummy tucks, body lifts, etc. It’s truly unbelievable. She’s single and I can’t understand how she can afford to pay for all of these procedures. She must be making a fortune as a hair stylist.</p>
<p>CountingDown, congrats on reaching your wedding weight. I was married 31 years ago. When I got married, I was athletic but very thin. My BMI was 17 which is considered to be underweight. There is no way I could ever get back to that weight again (and I wouldn’t want to). I’d be happy to lose 10-20 lbs to back within normal range again.</p>
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<p>Aren’t families wonderful? That’s why a group like this, or gyms that foster a community, are so helpful in terms of stick-with-it motivation. I wish I had a dollar for every time I heard, “you don’t need to lose any more weight” when I was celebrating a 5 pound party here. I didn’t dare mention a 5 pound milestone at home. And, it’s not like I look like an anorexic ectomorph. </p>
<p>Or, before I moved the workouts to the basement, I did them in the living room. I used to hear that I was just “showing off”. Which is hardly what you want to hear while panting through something like [Rachel</a> Cosgrove’s Spartacus workout](<a href=“http://www.menshealth.com/mhlists/high-intensity-circuit-routine/printer.php]Rachel”>http://www.menshealth.com/mhlists/high-intensity-circuit-routine/printer.php).</p>
<p>I think it’s jarring for family members to see the change when someone loses a significant amount of weight. And, in most cases, there’s probably a “resentment/jealously/guilt/need to lose a few pounds, too” angle working as well.</p>
<p>The craziest one to me was getting scolded for eating such unhealthy fattening food when I had lost 90 pounds eating that unhealthy fattening food.</p>
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<p>On wedding clothes… I sent mine to Goodwill going through my closet after losing 50 pounds. Couldn’t even begin to zip the zipper or get my arms in the jacket, so I figured that size was not in cards. Now, those are the sizes I wear. Sure would like to have that Goodwill load back.</p>
<p>Actually, I think I could get in the pants. No way on the jacket. I’m broader in the shoulders than I was in my 20s. I was “skinny fat” in my 20s. Didn’t weigh much, but no muscle.</p>
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<p>Good for you! It’s crazy how they pitch these products as “healthy” and then load them up with sugar. Even if you read the labels, you might miss the fact that “organic evaporated cane juice” is a lying weasel deceptive marketing way of saying “sugar”.</p>
<p>Or this one for one of my all time favorite foods where the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th ingredients are all sugar under different names (SUGAR, MOLASSES, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP) so that you don’t instantly see that sugar probably adds up to being the biggest single ingredient after the water…</p>
<p>I still have my wedding clothes. There might be a rip in the pants - not sure. I did rip one pair of pants but I’m not sure that it was the wedding pants as I had two similar suits. If I can get back into them, then I’d look at having them repaired or replaced if possible.</p>
<p>I think that I had decent-sized shoulders back in my 20s as I was doing strength-training back then. They may be a little bigger today though.</p>
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<p>That’s the way my calf was. I could walk no problem. But, every time I tried jogging, I’d feel it again in the same place. If I recall, I cranked up my hiking in the state park and realized that by pushing the pace up the hills walking was still a very effective exercise. I came home with a couple of walks with sore glutes.</p>
<p>Sorry for your loss, MOWC. Your friend was a good man.</p>
<p>Completed a 5 mile walk today. I have lost 6 pounds since Feb 1, and have now shed all the weight I regained in the last year (2012) since losing 40 pounds in 2010-11. I want to lose more, but I don’t want to jinx this and set unrealistic goals. I’m going to just keep plugging along doing what I know works for me: exercising–which I can honestly say that I generally enjoy–and vigilantly tracking the food I eat.</p>
<p>Anyone see this article the other day? Thought it was very good–I like Mark Bittman (have his cookbooks). This piece is from the NYTimes on-line and a little different from his article that someone posted a few days ago.</p>
<p>[It’s</a> the Sugar, Folks - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/27/its-the-sugar-folks/]It’s”>It's the Sugar, Folks - The New York Times)</p>
<p>Ran 4.52 miles today. It’s a beautiful sunny day, around 80 degrees, so I thought it might be nice to try a nearby trail instead of my usual street running. Kind of a mistake I think. It was a gradual downhill on the way out so I suffered the uphill for 2.25 miles on the way back. This was supposed to be my easy/long run for the week, and it was very enjoyable on the way out… </p>
<p>Happy 5lb party CountingDown!</p>
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<p>Yes, unfortunately. Sometimes you have to see it for what it is. If you’re taking care of your health, especially following a traumatic occurrence, and anybody is giving you a ration for that, it speaks to their problem, not yours.</p>
<p>Bromfield:</p>
<p>Congratulations! Six pound party time! I think you are probably smart to shift to fitness and doing what works, without a specific weight goal, as the way to approach things after weight loss. Once you are down into uncharted territitory like that, how do you even know what is a realistic or unrealistic goal? All I can do is a sensible exercise schedule, eat well, and my body is going to dictate what happens with all that. </p>
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<p>From my very limited (and pitiful) running experience, I would say that trail running, even on smooth dirt trails, is harder than street running. It’s less jarring to the legs, but there is definitely an added stabilliy challenge and, from my state park runnng intervals which were half on pavement and half on dirt in the park, dirt is consistently slower.</p>
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<p>I would be in big trouble if I did an upside down mountain hike, starting out downhill and having to climb back to the start.</p>
<p>Bromfield- nice work! Congrats CD on the 5 pound party. Blankmind- hills are good for you! (boy are they tough, though)</p>
<p>Our weather is miserable. Don’t laugh, northeasterners, but we have snow flurries (maybe an inch of accumulation expected) and the whole place is in an uproar. The training run my daughter and I were going to do tomorrow (group) has been cancelled. i don’t really blame them, because the last time they didn’t cancel and it was really quite dangerous driving to and from and the poor volunteers had to be out there forever on the course. </p>
<p>I fell off the no shopping during Lent wagon even before Bunsen and the tabby tights, and today some new Lulu lemon yellow capris arrived at my house. I’m hoping I can get them in off the porch before H sees the package, but I think I’m toast! And, well, there’s a headband, too. And, some track briefs/hot yoga shorts for under the Nuu Muus.</p>
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<p>Whoah. That’s a pretty significant study. Maybe even the new 21st century version of the [.</p>
<p>Country by country diabetes rates correlate strongly with the total availability of sugar in the food supply chain. Even when controlling for increase in calories, obesity rates, aging population, urbanization…</p>
<p>For example, a 150 calorie per person per day in increase in calories in the food supply chain increased diabetes by 0.1%. Each 150 calorie per person per day increase is sugar in the food supply chain increased diabetes rates by 1.1%. Wow. I guess a calorie is not a calorie, at least when it comes to diabetes…</p>
<p>The independent factors most correlated with diabetes were GDP per capita (wealthier countries = more diabetes), higher percentage of population in urban areas, higher percentage of aging population (over 65), and obesity. Sugar availability in the food supply chain was, by far, the biggest correlation of any type of food.</p>
<p>Here’s the whole study:</p>
<p>Article Source: [url=<a href=“http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0057873]The”>The Relationship of Sugar to Population-Level Diabetes Prevalence: An Econometric Analysis of Repeated Cross-Sectional Data]The</a> Relationship of Sugar to Population-Level Diabetes Prevalence: An Econometric Analysis of Repeated Cross-Sectional Data](]Seven Countries Study[/url)
Basu S, Yoffe P, Hills N, Lustig RH (2013) The Relationship of Sugar to Population-Level Diabetes Prevalence: An Econometric Analysis of Repeated Cross-Sectional Data. PLoS ONE 8(2): e57873. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0057873</p>
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