<p>We really don’t get frozen yogurt very often, but yesterday we had already done so much damage all weekend that we decided to finish it off with a sweet treat. I’m cured for awhile, for sure. </p>
<p>HRMs- H always takes his sensor off the wet strap and seems to think that helps battery life. I am now doing that, too. I wash my strap about once a week in the shower or sink. </p>
<p>Lulu- Product drop in the US is Monday night/Tues am. Website will have new items every Tuesday. Blogger named Lulumum from Canada has sneak previews and reviews of sizing, quality etc.</p>
<p>Buffets of any type, yogurt or otherwise, are a huge weakness for me.</p>
<p>We had a “moving away” lunch today for someone in the office, at a Chinese restaurant with a buffet. It’s hard for me to not eat all I can eat at an all-you-can-eat buffet, and that is not pretty.</p>
<p>I still ate more than I should have, but I did better than I have in the past. I didn’t come out feeling completely stuffed. A Pyrrhic victory instead of outright defeat I guess.</p>
<p>I have found that when I fall off the gluten-free wagon my weight almost immediately balloons by 3 or 4 pounds. It’s all fluid retention. Once I get back on, the weight vanishes.</p>
<p>We are going to the Jersey shore for vacation… on the boardwalk every other place is a pizza place or Philly cheesesteak or soft pretzels or Kohr Bros frozen custard… so hard to control myself. </p>
<p>I think if a frozen yogurt place pumped out to much yogurt I’d just toss it out before going to the weighing station. I think I’ve only eaten in one - an old boss said she’d take me out to lunch and that was what she gave me. Sigh, I don’t consider that lunch, but I made mine as healthy as I could manage.</p>
<p>deb, yay, you will love that top! Just an FYI for first time Lulu buyers: their stuff runs close to Euro sizing, e.g., instead of XS in Brooks (2?), I have to buy size 6 in Lulu.</p>
<p>Surprisingly, I feel OK after yesterday’s activities, except this morning I discovered a huge blister on my foot. These were the same shoes that I wore for a month without any troubles! My feet tend to swell when it is hot outside and could benefit from shoes with a wider toebox. I’m thinking about getting myself a pair of MEN’S PureCadence shoes to run during the summer, because men’s shoes are generally wider.</p>
<p>idad, I (actually, Mr B) will be waiting for your review of the new Garmin HRM. Thanks for posting the detailed washing instructions!</p>
<p>BC: if Apple is going to rely on their iPhone maps in their iWatch, I bet not many runners will be ready to part with their Garmins. OTOH, there are many Appleheads who’d get anything Apple tosses their way.</p>
<p>I suspect that roasted salted almonds do that to me. Back before the floods arrived, I used to buy them as a hiking snack and invariably put on a quick pound or two. I don’t if it’s the salt or the vegetable oil (that I’m not used to) or the fact that I can plow through a 1-lb bag in few days. I’m guessing that it’s probably the salt/oil combination and water retention/inflammation of some kind.</p>
<p>I’m not complaining, but I’m riding a little stretch of downward action on the scale. I have no idea what is causing it as I haven’t made any eating changes at all. Time will tell if it’s real or just noise on the chart… I’m down nearly 2 pounds on my 7-day average compared to a month ago. That’s a noticeable change considering that I tend to float i a pretty narrow window. </p>
<p>I guess I’ve finally recovered from Halloween! I’ve definitely got to rethink my strategy on that holiday! I think it’s going to have to be Slim Jims for the little kiddos. Or maybe I’ll set up a gas burner on the grill and do an omelet station for them or something…</p>
<p>I think that watches generally only store your position information - there really isn’t enough storage, processing power and power in these devices to have mapping data and the processing of mapping data.</p>
<p>I think my current one (purchased in Feb 2013) is just bad. Weak signal or something. It’s just really slow to be recognized and start sending HR data and then goes through moments where the heart rate data drops out completely. i don’t think it’s from salt buildup or corrosion. It’s only been hot here for a month. It’s not like I’m drenched in sweat snowshoeing. Or, in the 58 degree basement next to my little space heater!</p>
<p>The new version, at least according to DCRAINMAKER (the definitive source for GPS reviews) seems to be reliable except for the initial first few minute spikes. That would get it back to the performance of the old plastic one, which would be good!</p>
<p>However, if you need a replacement HRM strap, it looks like this one is the way to go:</p>
<p>Same module as the Garmins (and all the rest), but a different fabric strap material. DCRAINMAKER says he’s never seen a glitch of any kind with this strap. No initial spikes. No late workout problems after it’s soaked. </p>
<p>It’s totally compatible with all the Garmin ANT+ GPS devices. Links exactly as if it were a Garmin. Garmin owns ANT+ and all of the ANT+ sensors are made in the same factory, regardless of brand.</p>
<p>I can live with the initial spikes, but the bad readings later in the workout kill me. Imagine bent over panting like a dog after a 1/2 mile interval on the Airdyne, face buried in the fan trying to catch a breath, when the Garmin cheerfully announces that my heart rate is back to 70% of my max, my four second rest is over, and it’s time to go again! It had reached the point on my walk/jogs that I couldn’t even do the heart rate based workouts because the readings were too flaky.</p>
<p>BTW: this new third generation Garmin soft strap looks completely different. It has THREE contact points that have to be wetted:</p>
<p>Garmin has a new outdoor hiking watch that displays crude maps – basically just the track you are generating and I think the ability to navigate to a point. But, it’s nothing like their full size GPS units that can display detailed topo maps or road maps or satelitte imagery.</p>
<p>I expect an Apple watch product will compete more in the Nike Fuel/FitBit market. There are products now that take the signal from any of the Garmin-type sensors (heart rate monitor, bike cadence, foot pods, etc.) and display/record on an iPhone instead of a watch. So for gym workouts or treadmill running, that’s all you need. Alas, the GPS smartphones isn’t that great. Very short battery life and spotty performance, at least in the wilderness. Probably OK for a few miles around the neighborhood.</p>
Yes, if you poison them, they won’t come back the next year. Good strategy. :D</p>
<p>Some of my neighbors have essentially opted out of Halloween by not being home for the evening. I don’t know where they go, maybe to the movies, or maybe they just sit at home with the lights off.</p>
<p>Loved the tooth fairy one, the Halloween candy one (since you are all talking Halloween above - I totally am missing the forest for the trees on that one!) and the dad dressed in costume one!!</p>
<p>Thanks for the encouragement. Just posting helped me be accountable today. I need to find a balance of enough food to not feel hungry most of the time with a healthy calorie count.</p>
<p>I’m with you. Coconut – ew! Twizzlers, jellybeans – double ew! I could sit in a room filled with Mounds or Twizzlers or Jelly Bellies and not touch it. Now Reese’s – that’s a different story.</p>
<p>Whew. Hot humid weather makes for tough workouts. I’m not complaining…our friends out west have it worse, but… I look like something the cat dragged in after my workout. The third month of this program is really tough. 78 minutes. I just had to keep grinding…</p>
<p>Today’s finisher was 20 KB swings on the minute every minute for three rounds. That pretty much finished me.</p>
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Just an FYI for first time Lulu buyers: their stuff runs close to Euro sizing, e.g., instead of XS in Brooks (2?), I have to buy size 6 in Lulu.</p>
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