Diet/Exercise/Health/Wellness Support Thread

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<p>DH has been very very sick with a terrible cold for almost a week now. Two doctors’ visits and no, he doesn’t have the flu, or pneumonia. Maybe a touch of bronchitis: He can barely inhale without coughing up part of a lung. So I had to shovel the entire driveway after our 8 to 10 inches last Tuesday, and then I shoveled our 1 to 2 inches again this morning. I skipped the gym last Tuesday because, I mean – really. That was a LOT of shoveling. But I made it Thursday and again today, and my back hurts. I’d better take it easy or we’ll both be invalids. </p>

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<p>VeryHappy- I hope you stay healthy and your DH feels better soon!
DeborahT- Congratulations on your run!
Abasket-Thank you for the encouragement!</p>

<p>6.4 miles today and over 15,000 steps. I earned a 50 mile badge from my fitbit–email and everything! I must admit I was giddy with excitement and surprised. I didn’t realize this was part of the program- my husband set it up for me. </p>

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<p>Arrgh. A sick spouse and solo snow shovelling is no fun at all. He must be really feeling awful to drag himself to the doctor, twice. And, I would think that shovelling 10 inches of snow equals at least couple trips to the gym. That is such hard work. I don’t think the human body is mean to work that way.</p>

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<p>The forum redesign has some interesting features, but the emails are killing me.</p>

<p>It seems like I am getting an email for every post, rather than one until I revisit the thread. And since the poster’s name is now in the title, gmail can’t group them, so I currently have something like 18 emails from this thread clogging my inbox. :frowning: </p>

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<p>Shoveling is HARD. And IMO, not really great for your back! However it must be done. </p>

<p>So then how did you embed the YouTube videos Idad???</p>

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<p>Dreaded Airdyne intervals for me. 3 x 1 mile again. I didn’t have it in me to push for a new record, so I took it nice and easy. Fast intervals were much slower than the other day, but the flip side of that is that the recovery to 70% of my max heart rate is much faster when it doesn’t have to fall from 100%, so the whole workout took me 3.5 minutes less time than the other day. Just over 19 minutes start to finish. Not too bad. </p>

<p>Only saw a max heart rate of 89%, which was fine. I was trying to get through these intervals at a pace that didn’t completely gobsmack me.</p>

<p>Got a really kickin’ Raconteurs song to get me thru the last interval. The final part of this song has real Who’s Next vibe:</p>

<p><a href=“The Raconteurs - These Stones Will Shout - YouTube”>The Raconteurs - These Stones Will Shout - YouTube;

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<p>Youtube test:</p>

<p><a href=“Women's Chest Exercise: How to do Push-ups Correctly - YouTube”>Women's Chest Exercise: How to do Push-ups Correctly - YouTube;

<p>Looks like you just past the link in your post, and the form embeds it automagically.</p>

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<p>Test…</p>

<p><a href=“http://runninfromthelaw.files.■■■■■■■■■■■■■/2012/07/life-is-good-running.jpg”>http://runninfromthelaw.files.■■■■■■■■■■■■■/2012/07/life-is-good-running.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Well that didn’t work!!! No me wants to share how to post a hosted picture??? :(( </p>

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<p>Trying a YouTube…</p>

<p>(Just ignore me and my testing…)</p>

<p>Best concert ever!!!</p>

<p><a href=“Coldplay Mix Live - Chicago United Center, August 7, 2012 - YouTube”>Coldplay Mix Live - Chicago United Center, August 7, 2012 - YouTube;

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<p>I give up…</p>

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<p>Image test:</p>

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<a href=“http://runninfromthelaw.files.■■■■■■■■■■■■■/2012/07/life-is-good-running.jpg[/img]”>http://runninfromthelaw.files.■■■■■■■■■■■■■/2012/07/life-is-good-running.jpg

</a></p>

<p>Do it like this:
{img}<a href=“http://runninfromthelaw.files.■■■■■■■■■■■■■/2012/07/life-is-good-running.jpg[/img]”>http://runninfromthelaw.files.■■■■■■■■■■■■■/2012/07/life-is-good-running.jpg[/img]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>but use on the first part.
Images used to be disallowed and I don’t think the IMG tag used to work. Maybe that has changed…</p>

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<p>Abasket, to embed a photo, post the link like you did, but put {IMG} in front of the link and {/IMG} at the end, only replace the curly brackets with regular brackets [. </p>

<p>notrichenough, regarding your YouTube… ^:)^ </p>

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<p>Did you copy the link directly from the web page or save it to something else (like photobucket) first??? </p>

<p>What is that symbol you posted above??? (Symbol before “on the first part”)</p>

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I should have spaced it out, it is just the square brackets: </p>

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I just typed “how to do a pushup” in youtube and that was at the top, honest… her pushup form is actually not that good - elbows are too wide… Although it was a little hard to focus on her pushup form… </p>

<p>The noparse tag no longer seems to work, that makes it more difficult to post on how to do stuff. :(</p>

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<p>abasket, on your youtube attempt, I suspect mobile YouTube links are messing you up. I just past a standard youtube link (<a href=“http://www.youtube”>www.youtube</a> etc) and the video embeds.</p>

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<p>I’m on the iPad - that could be messing the links up…I usually catch into tech stuff pretty quick!!!</p>

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<p>4.2 miles on the nice Precor treadmill in PA. 36.9 mile week. Ate everything in sight. Re-set tomorrow now that I’m back home supposed to be bitter cold again here in TN this week.</p>

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<p>Had a splurge dessert – an apple. [-X </p>

<p>*Calories 1798</p>

<p>Fat 92g
Protein 121g
Carbohydrate 122g</p>

<p>Dietary Fiber 27g
Net carbs 95g
Sugars 49g</p>

<p>46% fat
27% protein
27% carbs* </p>

<p>All in all, a good solid week of food tracking. About as well as I can do in laying off the snacks. Even though I eat healthy snacks (fruit, nuts, cheese), I needed to recalibrate portions. Not having two apples, not grabbing big handfuls of nuts, etc.</p>

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<p>10.2 miles. Yay! Felt really, really strong. It is amazing what a difference fully functioning lungs make. </p>