<p>Thanks, busyparent. He’s a doll.</p>
<p>Well, well well.</p>
<p>Do a Google News search right now and see dozens of stories about Professor Longo’s “study” proving that eating animal protein is a worse health risk than smoking…</p>
<p>So, do any of these news stories ask whether our Professor Longo has any conflicts or commercial interests? Oh wait, he is the founder of a weight loss meal replacement drink company:</p>
<p>[L-Nutra:</a> Nutrition for Longevity](<a href=“http://www.l-nutra.com/]L-Nutra:”>http://www.l-nutra.com/)</p>
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<p>Oh, and as Gomer Pyle would say: [Surprise</a>, Surprise Surprise!](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5VZjT0JE70]Surprise”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5VZjT0JE70). His company’s products are entirely plant-based…</p>
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<p>Funny, how nobody in the media, including the magazine publishing the study, seems to think it’s worth mentioning that the good professor who did the study “proving” that animal protein kills you has a company that pimps vegetarian longevity shakes…</p>
<p>“If you want to see bad science, you should look at nutrition studies…”</p>
<p>That is atrocious.</p>
<p>Some of the long time posters may remember that I have this aversion to eating oatmeal. Once again I tried to eat oatmeal. I used a recipe that had steel cut oatmeal mixed with cinnamon, apples, vanilla and skim milk cooked overnight in a crockpot. Blech!!! I still can’t get over the texture. I will never try to eat cooked oatmeal again unless it is in a cookie! 
Who needs variety when I like my egg white and veggie sausage breakfast sandwich so much that I eat every single day. :)</p>
<p>North, you breakfast sandwich sounds good - no need to mess with good!</p>
<p>I do enjoy oatmeal but must say I prefer it NOT in a crockpot and freshly made in the morning - fast cooking steel cut oats - so that they are not overdone and still have a consistency that is not just MUSH! And then I prefer to put my add in’s - dried fruit, fresh fruit, chopped nuts and a little sweetner - often a splash of maple syrup plus a tad of butter and a healthy splash of milk in right at the end. Filling and satisfying taste wise for me.</p>
<p>But again, your breakfast sandwich sounds great! I have never tried the veggie sausage and I’d want the yolk of the eye too. :)</p>
<p>Idad or others- How do you recommend I allocate my calories between meals? Do you believe that eating three meals a day is vital to success? Thanks!</p>
<p>Many people I know are more successful by eating about 5 smaller meals a day. iDad limits his snacking really well. Many of the rest of us- not so well. It’s important to have some healthy snacks- that you will really want to eat- on hand. If you limit yourself to carrot sticks, you will be heading for the candy machine…</p>
<p>Peacefulmom, your alloted calories are yours to decide to do with. It would be recommended to make most of the calories fairly healthfu. It would also be recommended not to eat 2/3 of your total calories in the evening. Otherwise, spread it out for how it works for you! If not having a snack is more likely to make you binge on a meal, then by all means build in a snack - or two. </p>
<p>But I’m with MOWC - if I’m going to have a snack it’s probably not going to be just carrot sticks. That’s not exciting or satisfying for me. Carrot sticks with hummus? Yes. Carrot sticks with an ounce of cheese? Yes. </p>
<p>I do better if I have a mid-afternoon snack. I like to make a chocolate whey protein powder drink. I shake it up with ice and skim milk/water in a martini shaker and it is delicious and satisfying.</p>
<p>4 miles on the dreadmill at the gym this morning. Getting ready to head out with the dog for another walk. It is currently 26 degrees and so many runners are out and about even though the sidewalks and roads have ice and slush. We may hit 32 degrees today which would be wonderful. Hoping the ice is off the lakes by the end of April.</p>
<p>Another vote for eating often so as not to get crazy hungry and then overeat. I have a hungry period at four o clock. If I plan to just eat something then, and eat that planned sandwich or whatever, I can hold on until dinner. If I don’t, well, any cookies in the house are vulnerable.
Trainer and swim. I will be sore. </p>
<p>New “smell the bacon” app !</p>
<p><a href=“Move aside Nike Fuelband, Oscar Mayer made an bacon-smell app - Digiday”>Move aside Nike Fuelband, Oscar Mayer made an bacon-smell app - Digiday;
<p>MOWC–pretty kitty!
Trainer today–we did TRX rows, flys, squats , and lunges. Between moves I did stair climbing (2 flights x3). After TRX we moved to kettlebells: swings some with one-hand others two-handed, halos, and push press. I have trouble with box jumps–they are really difficult to do with my lack of ankle mobility so my trainer had me just step up and down without jumping. Thought it would be easy but it wasn’t. Did 3 miles on the treadmill when I finished with the trainer.</p>
<p>In terms of how many meals a day to eat, it all depends on what works for you as a person. Some people do better with a lot of smaller meals, others do better with three, some do better with only two. There is a program called deliberate fasting where the person eats between roughly noon and 8pm (as a window), and fasts the other 16 hours, and it works for them. Some people do that only when travelling for business, to offset crappy eating habits, and it can work, and when I tried it I didn’t find myself eating particularly heavier when I ate my lunch then I did if I had eaten breakfast. People who say “you have to eat 5 meals”, you have to eat low carb, you have to eat high carb, you have to eat paleo are making a big mistake, it is assuming that people are all the same, it is all about finding what works for you:). I just read something on a fitness site that questioned a big thing trainers and nutritionists have warbled about for several years, about timed eating, how you should leave eating sugar/starchy carbs like fruit and starches for after working out, eating vegetables and protein more when not working out, etc…studies are now saying that that as a broad statement aren’t true, that 5 meals a day might work for bodybuilders but maybe not for Mary Smith. </p>
<p>As far as meat protein being poisonous, please, schmuck doctors are still telling you “meat has cholesterol, meat is bad, no no no” and that is just as stupid. First of all, diets like paleo diets and balanced carb diets want you to eat meat,but it is lean protein, and in controlled amounts, they don’t mean eat a 16oz ribeye with a potato loaded with butter and sour cream, they mean have a palmful size portion of the meat, have vegetables and lettuce in abundance, and maybe a small potato. Not to mention the problem isn’t meat, it is more like meat that has been raised on growth hormones and antibiotics and stuffed with cheap corn to make it fat as fast as possible…</p>
<p>And yeah, many of these ‘experts’ turn out to have feet of lead. There is a woman at NYU I absolutely detest, who is one of those people trying to claim that high fructose corn syrup is simply sugar, and makes asinine statements like an apple has as much sugar as a can of coke, which is enough to make me want to strangle her (what she says is true, what she leaves out is that a)what is in the coke can is high fructose corn syrup, not fructose and b)an apple is loaded with fiber, which among other things, makes the fruit almost calorie negative…something coke is not). Turns out she has gotten a lot of funding from <em>ta da</em>, Cargill and ADM and the like, something she somehow forgot to mention…</p>
<p>with any kind of diet plan, with any kind of claim, always look at it skeptically, I am just as skeptical as those who proclaim a strict ‘paleo’ diet as the golden mean of eating, or those who say an ultra low carb diet is healthiest, both are extreme and provably not true, either entirely or for the reasons they claim (for example, human beings like our primate ancestors, are omnivores, and we can digest grains and such). And when it comes to food, all one has to do is look at the FDA to see why you have to be skeptical, FDA dietary guidelines that put grains as the base of our diet is about politics, not necessarily good health, and the FDA in recent decades is more about promoting the food industry then in helping people eat better, they have dropped the ball on GMO’s, they have dropped the ball on effective labeling and when it comes to even organic food, their standards are more than a bit of joke. </p>
<p>Eating five small meals a day is what helped me gain weight. I tend to have Greek 0% yogurt with lowfat whole grain granola ans raisins for breakfast, a regular sized healthy lunch and salad/fruit for dinner. On 1400 calories a day, that’s about all I can squeeze out of it, and the metabolism won’t let me eat after 6-7 pm.</p>
<p>Really nice blue sky day hiking in the White Mountains. Did one of my “regular” winter hikes up Mt. Pemigewasset. 3,7 miles up and back. Elevation gain of about 1350 feet. So a short, but steady climb with a good sweeping view from the top. Weatherman predicted a high of 20 degrees, but it was warmer than that (mid 20s) with sun and zero wind. Very pleasant. </p>
<p>Deep snow, all around, but the trail was tramped down to a hard, smooth sidewalk. Very easy hiking. Fresh air. Good exercise.</p>
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<p>Ruh-roh. A 16 ounce rib eye is the smallest rib eye my local specialty butcher sells. That’s what I eat when I have steak.</p>
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<p>I eat two large meals a day. A big lunch (400 to 600 calories) and a big dinner (800 to 1000 calories). I usually have a late night snack. Very rarely a late afternoon snack. I guess coffee with half n’ half sort of counts as snacking…</p>
<p>Spiked up for tonight’s up and down ladder on the track tonight. 150/300/400/800/400/300/150. Tried to run fast but relaxed. Used to call it striding back in the day. Easy mile warmup-warmdown. Strength/core/stretch. Competition will be fierce next weekend. I guess it’s why we race!</p>
<p>Ideally, I go for three meals a day with a snack; although, lately I just try to get meals when I can. </p>
<p>My work over these past few months has payed off! 
Tomorrow is the start of spring break. I will be heading off and enjoying three heavy calorie-filled days before I go back home to CrossFit train. During the summer I will be hiking internationally so to prepare for the hike + altitude, I’ll be focusing on strength and cardio mainly. Yoga has been pushed off to the side for now, but I’m sure it will be easier to pick up with a good strength foundation. </p>
<p>MOfWC, your Mr Willie Nelson is one handsome kitty! :)</p>
<p>My version of steak is a 6 oz filet mignon. 
I usually eat about 600 calories for breakfast, and then have a 500 calorie lunch and a 500-600 calorie dinner. And an apple or some other fruit as a snack. </p>
<p>Good morning!
A friend in my writers group swears by that partial fasting diet to which musicprint refers. My relationship with food doesn’t really permit such experimentation if my body thinks for a moment it might have to go without, it seems to hoard its calories! It will only give them away when its reasonably certain there are more in the pipeline ;)</p>
<p>For me, this has meant going for satiety…eg I switched from a light breakfast to a 2-egg omlette with cheese, mushrooms and tomatoes in the a.m., and seriously don’t feel hungry for quite a while, whereas previously I was desperate for mid morning snacks. But I’m a lazy tracker so reducing or eliminating snacks helps me stay somewhere in the neighborhood of a path :)</p>
<p>On the protein idiocy article-wise…idad, you should write a column to the times on this. The last thing our brain-addled, anti-depressive-addicted society needs is to be scared to consume the one thing it needs to make its brain chemistry work right And unlike this garbage study, there’s real, bonafide science behind the biochemistry of our freakin bodies! I no longer care what will kill me if my time here is spent feeling good :)</p>
<p>MomWC, your beautiful kitty reminds me of my silver tabby, “sushi”, who I had before marrying a man allergic to cats I also had a beautiful Siamese who thought he was a dog and would walk on a leash. Some days I really miss the cats But now that we’ve moved the studio, I’m negotiating for a hypo-allergenic dog to tramp the woods with me…I am hopeful that a dependent creature that needs its exercise might help inspire me to stay on track :)</p>