<p>Woohoo KMC! You go girl! Awesome job being a cheerleader for this thread, too. :)</p>
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<p>They are buried in the diet and exercise thread. There’s a wealth of information in there but it’s a challenge to find it because it’s so long. I guess we need an index for that thread.</p>
<p>iDad, I think there’s some interest in the “best of” iDad’s tips for weight loss. Could you get to work on that, please? ;)</p>
<p>You could also try searching by user name and key words like “diet”, “sugar” or “insulin resistance” to get to some of the discussions. It’s worth spending some time there. </p>
<p>Last paragraph of this post gives you an idea of his philosophy: </p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/15961511-post27444.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/15961511-post27444.html</a></p>
<p>And it works. I used to subscribe to the low fat idea of eating. Only by cutting carbs (specifically, bread) have I been able to lose weight.</p>
<p>Shaking some pom poms for KMC! 5 more pounds, woohoo!!</p>
<p>Go KMC!!</p>
<p>For survival in the zombie mosquito apocolypse are there recommended foods that help repel buggies? Anything to avoid eating?</p>
<p>Ohio – Hoping your heel feels better today!</p>
<p>Mosquitoes are attracted to CO2 and heat, and certain blood types are more attractive than others (sorry type O).</p>
<p>Drinking alcohol and being pregnant seem to be more attractive to them as well.</p>
<p>DEET is your friend!</p>
<p>Really type O? That would be me. I’m a mosquito magnet except when youngest son is around and then he gets them all. Last summer we didn’t use our patio at all - it was just too unpleasant. I’m dreaming of screen porches…</p>
<p>Congrats KMC!</p>
<p>I’ve got a bunch of idad’s posts and links bookmarked.</p>
<p>Apparently there are chemical markers that type O people have that are more attractive to the little buggers.</p>
<p>Have you looked into a Mosquito Magnet-type of device? My neighborhood borders wetlands that are part of a National Wildlife area, where no spraying is allowed, and we have a big mosquito problem. My neighbors who use these have told me it makes a noticeable difference.</p>
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<p>No. I asked for her heart rate but the doctor didn’t provide that other than saying fine when she used the stethoscope.</p>
<p>Stretch/strength/core </p>
<p>Working on the reverse lunge stability (no holding onto the counter), and although I don’t do many I do hold the position for a number of counts. Maybe someday I will be able to do a reverse lunge with rotation without falling over!</p>
<p>Since I didn’t take out the Bodylastics, I decided to finally give side planks <em>without</em> modification a shot. Not the stress on ankles I feared they would be and the whole reason I never tried them this way. I sure can’t stay in this pose as long, though, lol. Regular planks I did a variation lifting a leg or arm for a portion of the time.</p>
<p>I don’t need to really officially rest between exercises for the most part because I’m not going at an insanity workout kind of pace. The stability ball toe touches and jackknife do knock the wind out of me though. Deep breath after those ones.</p>
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<p>iDad, how are you doing today? Did the day of rest take care of the soreness in the left lat?</p>
<p>Yay kmcmom. 5 pound party time!</p>
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<p>I haven’t been out hiking in about 10 ten days, but the bugs were definitely out on my Monadnock hike – swarming all around. I was armed with the permethrin treatment on my clothes and 100% DEET on my arms, neck, face, and head. I never got bitten.</p>
<p>I have some of the picaridin spray as well, but I haven’t used it yet. It’s advantage over DEET is that it doesn’t melt tech fabrics and plastics. But, from the reports I’ve read, it’s only as effective as 10% DEET against mosquitos.</p>
<p>I will say that I’ve not been pushing to hike in what is supposed to be the height of the black fly season around here – Mother’s Day to Fathers Day. I have been following the trail reports and most of the snow and ice seems to be gone below 3500 feet.</p>
<p>HOORAY for kmc! Way to go Girlie!!! So very proud of you! What an awesome accomplishment. :)</p>
<p>When I run out of interesting podcasts, I try to catch up with the short 20 minute interviews from the Yale Rudd Center for Obesity. These are hosted at iTunes University:</p>
<p><a href=“https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/the-rudd-report/id341653648[/url]”>https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/the-rudd-report/id341653648</a></p>
<p>The Yale Center is run by Kelly Brownell, who is one of the big poo-bahs in the mainstream nutrition circles – the people who write the guidelines, push for more government regulation, etc. He gets the top people in this circle and the interviews are great, albeit frustrating from my perspective as someone who thinks their fundamental paradigm is not only wrong, but contributing to the problem. I especially reject their notion that “poor people” are too stupid to eat well and need “our help”. Nevertheless, I enjoy the interviews.</p>
<p>I listened to two last night with a guy billed as the top dog in exercise research as it applies to health and obesity – a professor named Steven Blair. Scroll down the list to the two podcasts that start with “Physical Activity”. Blair is a past pres of the American College of Sports Medicine and I believe was involved in writing the gov recommendations of 150 minutes a week of low intensity aerobics or 75 minutes of high intensity running.</p>
<p>I thought his comments on exercise and fitness were pretty good, much in line with his NYTIMES article:</p>
<p><a href=“Well - The New York Times”>Well - The New York Times;
<p>He basically said that the first little bit of exercise (“doing something instead of nothing”) was hugely beneficial.</p>
<p>In the second podcast, he turned to fitness and obesity and here he went off the rails with a spiel about how it’s all calories in versus calories out and that the best approach for losing weight is a diet that cuts fats and emphasizes healthy whole grains, yadda, yadda. Then, he talked about how he has struggled with his weight despite being a lifelong marathon runner, so I thought I’d see if I could find a photo to see how this whole low fat healthy whole grains and high mileage running was working for one of the country’s top exercise/obesity experts:</p>
<p>[Photo</a> of Dr. Blair exercising](<a href=“http://www.metrolic.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/prof_steven_blair_keeps_the_grim_reaper_at_bay_by__18119309902.jpg]Photo”>http://www.metrolic.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/prof_steven_blair_keeps_the_grim_reaper_at_bay_by__18119309902.jpg)</p>
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<p>Thanks, everyone!
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<p>Indeed, I’ve been debating the 1-acre super-duper one that costs a grand, and I like the “direct, specified kill” aspect, but some of the research is a little hinkey on them so far. Eg. - it’s possible to attract MORE to your property, or so say critics, including a few govt reports re: mosquito control I’ve been reading (I live directly across from a recently flooded river and marsh area…there is a nearby never-ending supply so I don’t want to attract more just to kill more…)</p>
<p>The kill rates are as represented, so there IS something to them. What I’d like to do is “try one before I buy one” like I did with my pool robot. I doubt I can interest the company in that though ;)</p>
<p>So after my utterly failed prophylactic last year of buying a zapper, only to learn they’re useless, I’m a little more hesitate on this much-more-expensive conceptual variant.
I’ve also learned that the zappers zap only a low percentage of biting bugs, and actually zap more of their predators…not my goal (I have a zapper and it took the zombie mosquitoes about two days to learn just to avoid it, which they now do…)</p>
<p>A client of ours is a treatment pro who can and is about to treat the “used” areas (eg. not right at the forest transition, more focus in the terraced area around the pool) with permethrin but has explained that at the currently approved dosage it WILL not kill bees (or so he swears, which is my big concern) or anything with similar body mass – just gnats and mosquitoes. </p>
<p>I’ve avoided spraying my whole life, and formerly was “organic only” in all my gardening, but since moving to the country I’m just totally (and appropriately) losing the man vs. nature argument and now singing a slightly different tune :)</p>
<p>I-dad, forgive the sloppy recollection, but I also read real bona fide research on the weekend about DEET vs. Picaridin and my understanding was that they were supposed to be similar in efficacy per percentage but that could have been bogus. Will see if I can dig that up for you.</p>
<p>The Old Farmer’s Almanac on bugs:
[How</a> to Deter Mosquitoes Bugs](<a href=“http://www.almanac.com/content/how-deter-mosquitoes-and-other-bugs]How”>Natural Mosquito Repellents & Mosquito Bite Remedies | The Old Farmer's Almanac)</p>
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<p>Yeah. That’s what I had read, too. Probably true and that’s why I added the Picaridin to my backpack aresenal. However, the catch is that picaridin is only available in a max of (I think) 20% concentration, which would be a pretty mild version of DEET. I understand the difference in DEET is that the higher the percentage, the longer it lasts as you sweat. So, a lower percentage would need to be reapplied more often.</p>
<p>Who knows? I have both. I’ll probably keep using DEET as my primary defense, but I’ll try the picaridin if that’s not working or if I need to spray near clothing or watch straps that might melt!</p>
<p>People were getting eaten alive on Monadnock last week. I had bugs swarming around me when I stopped, but they weren’t landing on me and weren’t biting.</p>
<p>BTW, I hate using DEET. Don’t like the way it feels, smells, or (worse) tastes. But, it’s been one fo the most most used and most studied chemicals for something like 50 years now and, apparently, they haven’t found any great health risk from slathering it on from time to time. I sure am happy to shower it off, though…</p>
<p>Anybody remember this stuff? I used it as a kid when I went camping.</p>
<p>The smell is… distinctive.</p>
<p>[Ole</a> Time Woodsman Insect, Mosquito and Black Fly Repellent](<a href=“http://oletimewoodsman.com/]Ole”>http://oletimewoodsman.com/)</p>
<p>Any thoughts on nooktkatone to fend off ticks? I guess it’s in grapefruit, mostly the peel. I think it’s a catchy word anyway. ;)</p>
<p>Nre – Did I read that right? Predator urine, lol?</p>