<p>Wow, eddie, 30 pounds of congratulations to you! :)</p>
<p>Today I felt like I was about to fall into deep hybernation! It is the stupid cold weather. Wanted to go for a test run in my super-duper hoodie, but work did not let me. Oh, well. Most of the Lulu’s fluff off stuff is sold out online, so MOFWC, we lucked out!</p>
<p>WOOHOO Eddie! Nice work! You’ve lost pretty fast…I suspect over time and with conditioning, your skin will to some degree adjust. Mine seems to have adjusted somewhat to -40, but then again, i’ve been fooling around all year on that 
Which is not to say if I were aiming to aggressively loose more (which I could certainly stand to do) it would keep up.</p>
<p>So, idad, I have discovered if one avoids the airdyne for an entire season, she will wreak revenge, irrespective of all the other strength/conditioning work Hi ho. I don’t think the treadmill at maximum incline can touch the hill in terms of leg conditioning. The airdyne has never been “easy” but it was mind-blowingly harder without a few solid weeks on the hill first. Or maybe it was the TG weekend cumulative sloth :)</p>
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<p>I don’t have easy access to an AirDyne so I’m going to try out Battle Ropes for some cardio work… 
It’s supposed to arrive this afternoon and maybe I’ll try it out tonight or tomorrow. This weekend for sure!</p>
<p>Just back from several days in NYC. I did 45 mins on the treadmill (running/walking) in the mornings, and then did lots of walking around the city. On Tuesday I walked from the our hotel in the Grand Central area to Union Square, from there up the bottom of Central Park, and then back to the hotel – about 5.5 miles. I guess it’s time to go join the gym here in RI. (I resigned from the gym in Cambridge since we’re spending more of this first year in RI shaking out the new house.) The gym here has very nice facilities and is pretty inexpensive - I’ve done summer memberships in the past.</p>
<p>Congratulations eddieo! Way to go!!!</p>
<p>Today is day 339.
98.1 mi and 26 days remaining</p>
<p>Progress:</p>
<p>1914.9 mi </p>
<p>Pace bunny:</p>
<p>1869.6 mi </p>
<p>You are projected to complete
2061.8 mi at the current rate.</p>
<p>Completed distance / day</p>
<p>5.6 mi</p>
<p>(39.5 mi / week) </p>
<p>Distance / day to reach goal</p>
<p>3.8 mi</p>
<p>(26.4 mi / week)</p>
<p>Planning on a relatively light workout including stretching and stability ball exercises today.</p>
<p>Kudos to all who are sticking with, achieving, and coming up with new fitness goals during these brrr months while balancing busy schedules and additional demands of travel, hosting & visiting activities, and all important shopping! :D</p>
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<p>Somebody should write a Greek myth about the Airdyne – one of those monster gods that wroughts pain and suffering on tragically flawed mortals.</p>
<p>The thing that makes it so diabolical is that there is a pace that will be easy-peasy. Just a little toodle-loo that wouldn’t even raise the pulse. But, go just a little bit faster, just a little bit longer, and all sudden your legs are burning and you are bent over panting like a dog. And, you do it to yourself! You are in 100% control over how fast you pedal. Can’t even blame it on setting too it too fast with the buttons. It really is diabolical. And now that winter is here, I’m going to be riding the damn thing a couple times a week…</p>
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<p>Good luck with that! I bet those things will beat you up in no time flat. There’s something about using the arms that send the heart rate soaring…</p>
<p>Here’s a video of Coach Dos putting Rachel Cosgrove through a conditioning workout on the beach that includes battling ropes:</p>
<p>[Rachel</a> Cosgrove the Maneater! Only from coachdos.com! - YouTube](<a href=“http://youtu.be/_dHw2dz3Utw?t=1m16s]Rachel”>http://youtu.be/_dHw2dz3Utw?t=1m16s)</p>
<p>eddie:</p>
<p>I lost 90 pounds and I would say that the vast majority of the excess skin disappeared with the flab. In the context of my age, I can’t complain. I’m never going to have the “tone” of a 25 year old. Things do start to sag after 50 or 60 years! But, still, a lot of the excess will recede with time.</p>
<p>Eddie, that is amazing. </p>
<p>Trainer, who put me more on the training plan and less on the rehab plan. Is that progress? He also put me on a d-i-e-t. Ugh. Eddie, this is why I admire your progress. I can work out like a beast, but have a terrible time changing my eating habits. My goal now isn’t so much to count calories, as to eat more of the right foods and fewer of the wrong foods. Fruit and not cookies in the afternoon.</p>
<p>Anyway, that and then a 3k swim, all free.</p>
<p>My excess skin disappeared in less than a year after I lost weight, which was a huge surprise to me. I thought things like this don’t happen to folks over 40. Yup, they do!</p>
<p>MOfWC, we are going to have a HUGE party here for you on New Year’s day! Please stay healthy and watch your step as the weather gets colder and the roads get slicker. We want to celebrate your streak! :)</p>
<p>Lulu hoodie time for me!!!</p>
<p>lizardly:</p>
<p>I think the easiest diet change to make is to attack sugar consumption like a beast. I have never heard anyone, of any dietary persuasion offer a case that sugar is beneficial in any way. If you adapt the mindset that it’s poison, it’s easy to stop drinking sugar, period. And pretty easy to cut way back across the board.</p>
<p>Watching a Robert Lustig lecture helps me resist the displays of giant-size movie candy, 3 for $3, that attack me when I walk into the grocery store.</p>
<p>[Fat</a> Chance: Fructose 2.0 - YouTube](<a href=“Fat Chance: Fructose 2.0 - YouTube”>Fat Chance: Fructose 2.0 - YouTube)</p>
<p>Oh, I forgot to mention that my non-buyer’s remorse over the Marmot Variant jacket at TJ Maxx followed me into NYC – so when I happened to walk by a Manhattan location of said store, I stopped in. No Marmot, but I snagged the New Balance version for $29.99.
[Women’s</a> New Balance All Motion Jacket - Deal | Deal Butler](<a href=“http://dealbutler.com/deals/womens-new-balance-all-motion-jacket]Women’s”>http://dealbutler.com/deals/womens-new-balance-all-motion-jacket)
It seems to be virtually identical to the Marmot, and I like the color better!</p>
<p>@interesteddad-</p>
<p>I have to agree with you about sugar, while I love thinks like cake and cookies, I also am seeing what sugar does when ingested regularly. We stopped about 6 weeks ago with sugar, and that included things like stevia in my coffee, and we also have limited grains and starchy carbs and gone more high protein/vegetable kind of diet. The biggest thing I found with what we are doing is I don’t get as hungry, my blood sugar seems to have stablilized. I am able, for example, to deliberately forgo breakfast and do the app 16 hour fast schedule, and not be dying. From what I know, the sugar substitutes all have their drawbacks, while I think Stevia is a lot better than the ‘ugly’ three of aspartame, saccharine and the stuff in splenda, I think they all mess with the body’s hunger response and such. It is the one thing most nutrition sites seem to zero in on, and they also are smart, instead of telling people to go cold turkey, they tell them to cut it down slowly. </p>
<p>I have one friend who works with a personal trainer, and the woman he works with drinks diet coke all the time, and it kind of shocked me, but then with the reading I have done apparently a lot of personal trainers are are clueless about nutrition as most doctors are (friend of mine, same age, who has weight issues and also possibilities of future heart disease, had his GP telling him that a low fat diet was the way to go, that he should concentrate on products that are low fat, recommended the low fat meals they have you can nuke, and i was ready to go find that doctor and give him a size 12 enema, guy didn’t get out of the 1980s…</p>
<p>Anyway, I second Int Dad, if you want to make a big step with healthier eating, make sugar a priority and also in balancing out complex carbs.</p>
<p>CBB, nice snag!!!</p>
<p>Nice jacket CBB… I can see why the pink would be a preferable option…</p>
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<p>musicprnt:</p>
<p>It’s hard to blame docs or personal trainers or dieticians for bad nutrition advice. They are only echoing what has been the accepted wisdom since nutrition went off the rails in the 60s and 70s with the low-fat jihad.</p>
<p>So my new fitness toys just arrived (yes, at 9:30PM). I need to unpack them and hopefully get out tomorrow to try them out!</p>
<p>Thanks, Bunsen. My efforts are being thwarted a little. We are having freezing rain, and my schedule tomorrow is terrible as far as being able to get to a treadmill. I am going to have to run in the cold rain before work- and it won’t be far! Tonight it is 37 degrees, freezing rain and lightening! </p>
<p>Nice jacket, CBB. I really like that.</p>
<p>WildChild’s sports hernia and torn labrum surgery is tomorrow. I hope it goes well. My husband went up there to be with him and do some bicycle building, too.</p>
<p>Walked 2 miles and took a yoga class for the last two days. The class I usually go to is called slow flow. The teacher suggested I try I try the class I took today called hip and hamstring flow. It was difficult for me to do lots of the poses, which stressed me out. I was sweating so much that by the end of the class my hair was wet. After I got home and showered I expected to feel sore, but I felt great. No aches or pains.</p>
<p>Going to close up our vacation place tomorrow. There’s a run/walk in the town that I might do on Saturday. It’s 5 miles (partly along the beach–1.5 miles of it). D and boyfriend are running and H said he’d walk with me.</p>
<p>Dang, CBB, sweet jacket but the deal is sold out I was thinking it might be a good visual aid for the hunters on the hill…I’m anxious to get back up there :)</p>
<p>MomWC, sending you some great finish-the-streak light and fast-healing mojo for wild child!</p>
<p>Here’s hoping MOWC got her feet on some pavement this morning. </p>
<p>And I want to be running alongside a beach this weekend! Even if it’s not balmy weather!!!</p>