<p>Guess what I did tonight after a business dinner? If you said “ran 5 miles”, you won. 
Spent all day in meetings, got home at 10 pm, and Mr B began whining about going to bed. Not so fast! He had to pedal his bike to earn a date with me after my treadmill run. :D</p>
<p>Lo-carb or no-carb? A friend of mine was on Atkins and said he couldn’t eat carrot sticks b/c they contained carbs. Seriously, carrot sticks?? Maybe he misunderstood.</p>
<p>Lol, Bunsen, I might have to try that tact…then again, it might require CPR :)</p>
<p>Except, of course, as my mosquito avoidance routine taught me this week, I may be thinner than I was four months ago, but I’m still no runner! I jogged part of my short treadmill time to intensify the work, but was stupidly wearing slip thongs, so all those ligaments I ripped in my right foot decades ago when I was a teen sprinter protested the act for two days. Yesterday I jogged it barefoot instead, and that seems to have sorted it out, but I actually forgot that this MIS-healed foot formed the first part of why I quit running in high school.
At the time, the doc had said I’d have been better off to have broken the foot (I’d been training then running home with a final burst of speed and hit an unseen puddle of water on the lawn that had me fly through the air and fall on the concrete driveway with my foot twisted under me. It was idiotic, and required crutches for a few months.)</p>
<p>Idad, hope you feel better soon. In your honor, I’m headed into the hot tub with a coffee. Youll feel better any second now
Unseasonably cold this am, but the good news is the mosquitoes are frozen.</p>
<p>Correcting an error I made in my post the other day.</p>
<p>Sunflower seeds, not sesame seeds, lol. The roasted, no salt ones you get at Trader Joe’s. </p>
<p>Brain on backorder again, what can I say. And yes, I am awake today at 4:39 am.</p>
<p>Sabaray- Yay for 5K.</p>
<p>Reached my destination this am at 1:30 and was awakened by Twitter, so here I am. Going to do an easy 3 miles this morning then head up to the Poconos. wildChild is coming up with his bike and wetsuit.</p>
<p>That’s the kind of misconception/partial communication I’m talking about. Carrots are a starchy vegetable high in carbs. You can add them back in Phase III, when you have 10 lbs. or less left to lose.</p>
<p>^cromette–This guy was probably 100 pounds overweight. I don’t think he ever got to the “10 lbs. or less” stage…</p>
<p>Yea, when you’re in the 100 lb. overweight range, there are no starchy vegetables allowed really. You’re supposed to limit your carb intake to about 20 g. Since carrots are about 8 g/cup, if you eat carrots, you don’t have many carbs left over, and you need to eat more vegetables than that in a day…so there’s just not room. So you have to stick to vegetables that are lower in carb content in order to get enough veggies in your daily diet.</p>
<p>MOfWC, good luck! Have a fun race!</p>
<p>cromette, it’s Atkins, not Adkins. Just pointing that out if someone wants to google and get the proper information.</p>
<p>The newest version of Atkins is very pro vegetables, which of course contain carbs, so even in the most strict phase, the diet is definitely not “no carb.” The original Atkins diet book was too low in veggies, and Dr. Atkins himself corrected that as time went on. New Atkins for a New You is all about veggies, particularly the leafy greens. It would be hard for most people to actually eat the amount of veggies you are supposed to have every day. It even has a modification now for vegetarians.</p>
<p>Also, the most strict period of Atkins is temporary. As you move through the various phases, you get to add back certain items, such as berries, nuts, and some of the starchy vegetables. You are eventually supposed to find the amount of carbs your body can tolerate in a given day. I forgot the terminology used by the book for this. Some people can tolerate a higher daily allowance of carbs than others. Adding them back slowly helps to identify this amount for the individual.</p>
<p>I am not practicing Atkins, so if my memory is incorrect on any of this, I welcome corrections. But if memory serves, the only food group the book really recommends dispensing with permanently is refined sugar and “white” items.</p>
<p>For the first time in decades I seem to be dropping weight. I just can not diet (hypoglycemia). I stopped weighing myself years ago. But. Ppl keep coming up to me and telling me a look thinner - so I assume I do. (Don’t care much really but ok I FEEL better.)</p>
<p>All I did?</p>
<p>Eliminate wheat.</p>
<p>That’s it.</p>
<p>Appetite has dropped - not so hungry at all. Maybe a sugar yo yo thing w/ the wheat? All I know is, I’m thinner and feel better.</p>
<p>Can’t eat lots of packaged foods this way, so that is probably part of it - have to cook. Lots of rice and veggies and meat and fish. No whole grain anything. The only bread I eat is the 100% rye from Trader Joe’s. Delicious.</p>
<p>YMMV.</p>
<p>Eliminating wheat has the effect of eliminating cookies, donuts, cakes, etc. that are made with wheat. Once these things are widely available without wheat, the wheat-elimination-for-weight-loss tactic is likely to become less effective.</p>
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<p>If it’s the wheat, specifically. If it’s the carb-reduction that occurs when you cut out wheat, then substituting other grains for wheat in this high-carb products is unlikely to be of much use.</p>
<p>BTW: the latest Atkins book, written by Phinney (UC Davis), Volek (UConn), and Westman (Duke Med School) outlines a range of carb levels, depending on the urgency of your medical/obesity condition and the phases of the nutrition plan from 20 grams a day to about 100 grams a day.</p>
<p>[The</a> New Atkins for a New You: The Ultimate Diet for Shedding Weight and Feeling Great: Dr. Eric C. Westman, Dr. Stephen D. Phinney, Jeff S. Volek: Amazon.com: Kindle Store](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/New-Atkins-You-Ultimate-ebook/dp/B0038NN3B4]The”>http://www.amazon.com/New-Atkins-You-Ultimate-ebook/dp/B0038NN3B4)</p>
<p>The “full monty” is to start at an extremely low carb “induction phase” for a few weeks and then progressively add carbs back into your diet to a level that continues your desired fat loss and then finally add more carbs back to find your permanent weight maintenance level. However, they also outline the option of starting at any phase they feel appropriate.</p>
<p>It seems that many people do quite well at 100 grams of carbs per day. I gradually eliminated carbs from my diet to get down to 100 grams per day over a period of maybe six months. That’s where I have been for several years since. It allows plenty of carrots. I eat massive amounts of fresh carrots, fresh onions, fresh peppers, fresh celery, fresh broccoli, etc.</p>
<p>Phinney is a bit more of an ultra-low carb “ketogenic” purist (ketosis usually means under 40 -50 grams of carbs per day). Volek’s research interest is low carb sports performance. Westman treats obesity with low carb diets at Duke:</p>
<p>[Dr</a> Eric Westman about the new Atkins diet, part 1/2 - YouTube](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpCQJcw3LuI]Dr”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpCQJcw3LuI)
[Dr</a> Eric Westman about the new Atkins Diet, part 2/2 - YouTube](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-6K0qWUaAg]Dr”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-6K0qWUaAg)</p>
<p>Day 600. 3344.4 miles. Stupid streak.</p>
<p>That is amazingly crazy!!! Applause for you!!!</p>
<p>Go MOWC!</p>
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<p>Gym workout</p>
<p>1.5 mi treadmill run</p>
<p>Bicep curls
Military press
Tricep kickbacks
Rows
Pushups (real live regular floor level)
Inverted rows on slant using smith machine
Plank
Side planks
Reverse lunges </p>
<p>3 mi on stationary bike</p>
<p>Followed by stability ball deadbug, hamstring curls, toe touches, and jackknife at home.</p>
<p>Nice workout, Deborah T.</p>
<p>Awesome how many people are doing big boy/big girl pushups here. I bet that’s not common among us “middle age” folk…</p>
<p>I think I’m probably relegated to another round of the dreaded Airdyne intervals today as I try to manage this on-going soreness. That’s my lowest impact option on yet another rainy damp day. Probably change it up and do quarter mile intervals or something. Oh, boy…</p>
<p>That’s a lot of miles.</p>
<p>If it were on my old car, it would be time for an oil and filter change.</p>
<p>Heh, heh… I’m not sure I’ve driven 3344 miles in the last 600 days!</p>
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<p>Aarrgh. Airdyne intervals:</p>
<p>*3 min. warmup</p>
<p>1/4 mile fast
rest til HR falls to 70% </p>
<p>Repeat for a total of six 1/4 miles</p>
<p>2 min cool down*</p>
<p>I was slow on the intervals, but HR recovery must have been pretty good because the whole thing took 18.5 minutes, five minutes faster than the last time I did the 1/4 miles. These are tough. 35 to 40 second intervals.</p>
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<p>Mainstream unhealthy American diets appear to use mainly wheat in terms of grains, so someone who cuts out wheat (which may bring in more calories as a “carrier” of added fat and sugar than the wheat itself in many cases) probably would not replace it with something else of similar calories (the availability of non-wheat donuts, cookies, and cakes is much lower than for ones made with wheat, so someone strictly complying with a “no wheat” rule may find it too inconvenient to eat replacement junk food).</p>
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<p>Is it really that rare to do pushups?</p>