<p>Went out running again today. No words can describe how much I hate running. My mind is yelling at me at each step - stop running. </p>
<p>While I have all the legs and breath easily, I just can’t continue to run after 2 miles. may be it is just because I am so fat now.</p>
<p>I don’t understand how I could I ever finished a 1/2 marathon.</p>
<p>DadII:</p>
<p>I hear ya. I think a big reason that cutting sugar and carbs out of my diet (thinking of them as poison) works for me is my total inability to stop pigging out when I have them in the house. There’s no such thing as “just a little bit” for me with that stuff. So, I just have to say, “I don’t eat that…” </p>
<p>Now, my “binge” eating is having TWO apples. Or, worst case, putting on the feedbag with some roasted almonds. Keeps me out of trouble. I mean, you should have seen me with Halloween candy in the house.</p>
<p>I don’t think anyone fully understands why, but there is something about sugar/grain consumption that is maddenly addictive. More than just “tastes good”. I think it’s wrapped up in physiology and what happens during and after a big insulin spike.</p>
<p>As far as running. I hate it, too. Always have. Played goalie on the soccer team in high school because the slow guys played goalie! So I just don’t do much.</p>
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<p>There’s nothing to be gained by beating yourself up over falling off the diet wagon. This is a process and a big part of it is finding an approach that works over the long haul without having to use a lot of willpower. Just dust yourself off and get back with it…</p>
<p>I’m trying to do as much of my regular workout as I can without upsetting my shoulder and my calf. I don’t feel like I’m getting much of a workout, but it’s enough to make my calf muscles start twitching, which is an interesting thing to watch. I thought about trying swimming, but I think my calf would be bothered by that. </p>
<p>Dad II, why do you make yourself run if you truly hate it? There are so many choices for physical activity, why pick one you absolutely hate?</p>
<p>DadII- Step back from the ledge. You seem to do well when you are in a competition or at least have a goal. That’s not always easy to do with the food stuff, since the weight loss contests aren’t year 'round. 20 pounds would be frustrating, but you lost it before and you can do it again. I would focus on time/distance for now and not speed at all. Try for 45 minutes or so of run/walk. Quit with the midnight ice cream. Even I don’t do that!<br>
Let’s focus on getting some of that weight off before you ramp up your mileage too much. It’s getting warmer out, too, so I know you will feel a lot better if you get back to where you were.</p>
<p>Weight has the biggest impact on my runs and I can feel a few pounds either way. Everyone here knows that food is the biggest lever in weight loss so you know you’re going to have to get a handle on it and most of us here work to keep a lid on it with food tracking. You can’t really starve yourself but you can figure out what you need to eat to lose a pound or two a week and then just maintain the kind of food balance so that it’s enjoyable.</p>
<p>Do not bring ice cream into the house! My problem is when someone else does! Then it’s in the Fridge calling to me. It’s a good thing that others like Klondike Bars. I consider it too much work unwrapping the things and don’t like to get my hands sticky. The problem is when someone opens one and leaves it in a bowl in the freezer with a fork.</p>
<p>So get that account on LiveStrong MyPlate and get tracking!</p>
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<p>I used to make midnight french toast. Two pieces, with plenty of butter and Vermont maple syrup. I never could figure out why I put on weight…</p>
<p>One thing that helped me transition off the late night sweet tooth train was little cups of frozen Italian ice. Very tart, so easy to nibble slowly. 6 ounce cups are about 100 calories. One of the few small portions of sweets that I could do and stop at one. I finally quit those after listening to Lustig’s rants about sugar and switched to apples, but there’s nothing to say that interim steps can’t work.</p>
<p>Actually, ice cream is probably one of the healthier sugar binge treats. A half a Klondike bar (I always cut them in half because I can’t eat a whole one before it melts) is only 12 grams of sugar. That’s less than an apple. The sugar is really the thing bad for you in ice cream.</p>
<p>Now, the trick would be not going back for the second half, later!</p>
<p>The last time I had to resist ice cream was when I was losing my 90 pounds. For reasons that to this day escape me, my wife brought home two half gallons of my favorite Breyers flavor (because she had a two for one coupon) and put them in the freezer. I was so angry that she would do that to me, that I got really stubborn in a personal commitment to not eat one single bite of either box so that – when it was eventually gone – I would know that she had eaten every last bit of both half gallons herself. I never even looked at that ice cream. Eating it was simply not an option.</p>
<p>They put an ice cream vending machine in our office kitchen a couple months ago.</p>
<p>I’ve done a pretty good job avoiding it, except for one sordid afternoon when I hit that thing twice.</p>
<p>I find if I eat at night before going to sleep, I wake up much hungrier than if I don’t. So I try not to snack after dinner. Don’t always make it - last night it was a chocolate extreme blizzard from Dairy Queen.</p>
<p>Before I went gluten-free I couldn’t tolerate ice cream, apparently I am trying to make for 30 years of denial.</p>
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<p>Yikes. Now that’s an impressive “nutrition info” listing:</p>
<p>[Chocolate</a> Extreme Blizzard](<a href=“http://www.dairyqueen.com/us-en/Menu/Treats/Chocolate-Xtreme-Blizzard-Treat/]Chocolate”>http://www.dairyqueen.com/us-en/Menu/Treats/Chocolate-Xtreme-Blizzard-Treat/)</p>
<p>I think I’m going to go have my Fuji apple!</p>
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Because I hate spending money more than running. There is no other activities that burn the same amount of calories than running that costs less than running.</p>
<p>What can I say, I’m only human. 
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<p>At least I only got a small. And it was the only carbs I had all day.</p>
<p>o.k. It is all my fault - I don’t have any will power to control eating. For whatever reason, I have a craving for chocolate these days. Have been eating those bars none stop. DW got a CVS gift card and she has been those bars.</p>
<p>Also, found out a store near office is selling cheese cake by the big slide for $0.99 each. Then realize buying the whole cake is actually cheaper on $/weight base. So I would ate a whole six slides cake a day. Then a bigger cake is even more cost effective. </p>
<p>I am not worthy. I just don’t know where my will power just suddenly gone. </p>
<p>Well, at least I drink diet soda to wash down those cheese cakes.</p>
<p>DadII:</p>
<p>I think you are seeing the pitfalls of the extreme diet/exercise followed by an equally extreme rebound that undermines so many diet efforts. That’s why I am totally convinced that this stuff can’t be done successfully on an extreme rapid-weight loss basis. It has to be a permanent, sustainable lifestyle change (both from the eating and exercising angles) and, by definition, permanent and sustainable probably rule out “extreme”.</p>
<p>I think a more effective approach might be to sit down and decide on one permanent diet change you can make and maybe one easy exercise commitment you can make. For me, the first two were getting soda out of my diet and committing to a core/strength workout three days a week. Get those locked down and then you can add some more changes.</p>
<p>I will also repeat my belief that “burning calories” is the wrong way to look at exercise. You can’t out-exercise a bad diet, so why even think about it that way? I would rather think about exercise as some combination of stuff that will make me more fit. That has to include some stretching/mobility/balance improvement, some core stabilty improvement, some strength improvement, and some conditioning improvement.</p>
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<p>Ain’t it the truth! I think the notion of eating clean 90% of the time is probably about the best we can hope for. Sometimes just having the SMALL instead of the MEDIUM or (gasp) the LARGE is a win! :)</p>
<p>DadII, my D and I went shopping this weekend. These are usually all day “fun trips” for us which include lunch out, somewhere we can’t eat regularly. We went to the Cheesecake Factory. Yep. We shared guacamole (something around 1600 calories) and I ordered a grilled eggplant/roasted pepper/mozzarella sandwich. With fries. I didn’t even begin to make a dent in it but I exceeded my caloric budget by, shall we say, a lot. Yes, I indulged myself. But since then, I’ve been back to what iDad refers to as “clean eating”. Everyone is going to have some indulgences now and then and it sounds as if you are an emotional eater - eating foods that make you feel better. For me, I can’t bring good bread or bakery items into the house because I am eating them all. At the beginning of the year I resolved I would not eat anywhere that had a drive through window. As iDad pointed out, find a change you can stick with. Just one. And then go from there.</p>
<p>Just wanna say, during the prancercise video I already had this image in my head before I read it:
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<p>DadIi - There are truly so many other things you could do for a low initial investment – Nordic walking gives a high rate of burn and you can buy the poles for cheap. A second-hand airdyne for short, intense interval sessions. A couple of kettlebells in the basement and free YouTube videos.</p>
<p>None of these things, when you amortize the cost, will cost a penny more than sustained junk food budget, medication, or trips to the doc 
Recalibrate your cost-benefit view and find something you ENJOY!</p>
<p>We all make our money to live a life we love. Don’t let the money run you!</p>
<p>For those of you who think my 600+ day streak is impressive.
[Longest</a> U.S. Running Streak to End at 45 Years | Runner’s World & Running Times](<a href=“http://www.runnersworld.com/general-interest/longest-us-running-streak-to-end-at-45-years]Longest”>Longest U.S. Running Streak to End at 45 Years | Runner's World)</p>
<p>45 friggin’ YEARS!!!</p>
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I’ve had a kidney stone… I don’t know how anyone could run through that.</p>
<p>You can do it MOWC! We will be here hunched over our computers with our anti-aging cream in our hand cheering you on! :)</p>
<p>LOL. I bet the knee surgeon was just thrilled with the running after the surgery!</p>