<p>MOWC, here’s hoping you see some quick relief from the worst of the pain - invest in mild to moderate exercising now to make sure you take more steps forward than back!!! </p>
<p>Sending healing mojo to MomWC!</p>
<p>MoWC, sorry to hear about your injury. Dry needling sounds painful!</p>
<p>I took my mio link back to sports chalet and they exchanged it for me, so i don’t have to send it back & wait for another. </p>
<p>If I hiked, I would probably go alone too. I do some trail running, and I never thought twice about going alone, but my chiro has warned me about certain areas that I should be careful about running alone. I guess he’s heard a few stories. </p>
<p>MOWC–hope you recover quickly. Just typing “dry needles” made me wince.</p>
<p>Today’s workout: 2 mile walk with H early AM. Went to gym after a quick breakfast and did weights with my trainer–worked on balance stuff. Mixed weights up with TRX and kettle bells and stair climbing. Finished up with 45 minutes on the elliptical.</p>
<p>Thanks, all. Yeah- talk about a pain in the 4$$!! I think the dry needling made it hurt a lot worse but I know it will help. I ran a slow 1.6 miles this am on the treadmill, so the streak lives on! He has me doing just a couple fairly simple stretching/re-aligning exercises, but I have to hold the position for a couple of minutes. Ahh, how easily I get bored! I’m amazingly calm about this injury. Usually I go into full freak-out, b!tch mode. I think I needed a little break anyway. I just wish it didn’t involve needles! I may try some swimming this weekend.</p>
<p>MOfWC, I think this is where a device like Google Glass could come in handy - reading news or watching youtube while holding boring positions for a few minutes (since some of said positions could prevent the person from seeing a regular TV screen or book page). ;)</p>
<p>I bought a box of Kind bars, and I kind of liked some varieties (not wild about the cranberry ones - couldn’t they use real berries instead of Crazins?!). However, when I saw a bold claim on the wrapper that eating 2 bars a day PREVENTS weight gain… I had to look up what the blip that really meant. Turns out, the study compared 2 groups of overweight folks, one of which would eat 2 bars and have no restriction on whatever else they ate, and the other ate what they ate normally. There was no difference in weight of the 2 groups at the end of the study. Weight gain prevention is not the conclusion I would make!! </p>
<p>"The study, conducted at Griffin Hospital in Connecticut, randomly assigned 94 overweight but otherwise healthy adults into two groups. They asked one group of adults to follow their usual diets for eight weeks. They gave the other group a supply of fruit and nut bars and instructions to eat two bars per day along with their usual diets for eight weeks, but without any particular guidance to adjust for the 340 extra daily calories provided by the bars.</p>
<p>At the end of the eight-week period, the study participants who ate the fruit and nut snack bars successfully maintained their weight, body mass index, and waist size, as did those who followed their usual diets. Despite eating two fruit and nut bars per day, however, members of the intervention group did not show any improvements in blood pressure or blood lipids (total cholesterol, HDL, total cholesterol/HDL ratio, LDL, and triglycerides) used to measure their risk for cardiovascular disease."</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.griffinhealth.org/About-Us/News-Releases/Post/7498/New-Study-Suggests-Prudent-Snacking-Can-Help-Control-Weight”>http://www.griffinhealth.org/About-Us/News-Releases/Post/7498/New-Study-Suggests-Prudent-Snacking-Can-Help-Control-Weight</a></p>
<p>Hah. The people in the study probably just substituted the two Kind bars for the two Snickers bars they were normally eating!</p>
<p>The thing that is most troubling about the current state of nutrition is the Through the Looking Glass way that people’s views of healthy eating are turned completely upside down by food marketing and public policy recommendations.</p>
<p>I think we would collectively be better off if there had NEVER been any nutrition advice. The advice is a license for deceptive marketing.</p>
<p>Actually, Kind Bars are not that bad when it comes to pre-packaged food, especially the ones without “fruit”, because they are mostly nuts glued together with a tiny amount of honey. The product is good - if only the company that makes them could lay off the crazy misleading claims! But, as a food company, it has no choice but to engage in this to compete with the rest since everyone and their parent company is doing it!! ;)</p>
<p>Looking forward to the rain on the weekend. This week has bed too hot for running! </p>
<p>Yeah. the non-fruit ones look OK… The fruit ones don’t really live up to the “healthy” patina of Kind’s marketing. The one I looked at was 35% sugar by weight. That’s better than the 51% sugar in a Snickers bar, but not by much.</p>
<p>I’m not a huge fan of dried fruit - in small amounts (raisins in my oatmeal, dried blueberries and cranberries in polenta) it’s okay - so I haven’t indulged in any of the KIND fruit/nut bars. I lean towards the chocolate/nut/sea salt varieties. They taste good without being too sweet and I am definitely not eating two a day! </p>
<p>MOWC, hope you get some relief soon. </p>
<p>Love my Kind bars. My fav fruit flavor is the apricot one - but Costco has had non fruit ones so have been sticking with those - I might eat 2 a week but not 2 a day!!</p>
<p>Milestone!!! Just ran my first under 10 min miles!!! Just under 3 miles at 9:46 average! Might not ever happen again so gotta savor that!! It’s the small things in life.:)</p>
<p>10 minute mile party for abasket!</p>
<p>Yay, abasket! </p>
<p>Wow, abasket! Must be the cumulative effect of the chocolate from the Kind bars. 
Just kidding. Congrats!</p>
<p>Thanks - as I said in my Instagram, gotta celebrate it cause it may not happen again!! #worththesweat</p>
<p>Well, I’ve been a slacker. I took two rest days after hiking. I was all set to workout last night and fell asleep for a nap instead. My bad. Two days in a row is rare for me. I must have needed it, because tonight’s workout in the basement was awesome. Good energy and solid on every lift. I guess rest days do work!</p>
<p>Now, it’s a humongous dinner salad with a dozen sauteed shrimp and a Bobby Flay inspired lime scallion blender vinaigrette tossed in the salad and drizzled on the shrimp. I omit the honey/sugar from Flay’s recipe and add some white balsamic vinegar for a little sweetness (the label pretends there is no sugar by using a small serving size). Instead of juicing the limes, I just slice the rind off and let the blender pulverize the whole limes, pulp and all. </p>
<p>Idad, I think sometimes our bodies tell the brains to give them a rest… :)</p>
<p>I got my first CSA delivery at work. It is a HUGE box of greens- many of which I have no idea what they are. (sorry about that grammar) We made a wonderful, big salad for dinner- iDad would be proud except for the bottled dressing! 
I mean- these are some SERIOUS greens! A few radishes and green beans, too. I could barely carry the box to my car.</p>
<p>Thanks - as I said in my Instagram, gotta celebrate it cause it may not happen again!! #worththesweat</p>
<p>That’s cool MOWC- a cool thing to be part of. You need some of idads jumbo shrimp on those greens!!!</p>