<p>Haha at hot airdyne. Hot yoga’s one thing, but hot airdyne seems like…exercising outside in Florida summer–not fun. It feels so much better to work out in an air conditioned 70-something degrees, imo Idad, It’s horrifying to think of sweetened cereals being over 30 percent sugar (by weight). I’ll stick with the plain old unsweetened variety!</p>
<p>Today for me: One two mile walk (hot walk?) outside early this evening at 90 degrees. A much better (cooler) workout from Drop Two Sizes at the gym.</p>
<p>I seem to recall there were cereals when we were kids that were around 60% sugar, and you can still get cereals that are over 50% sugar. So 30% seems almost healthy! B-) </p>
<p>Lol. When I was a kid I certainly ate enough Cap’n Crunch. I also remember eating puffed rice with sugar on top. Same with cornflakes. We also drank Shasta sodas and kool-aid, ate twinkies and DQ galore, and white bread, white rice, etc. How were we slim kids? </p>
<p>The highest sugar content is Honey Smacks (56% sugar). Cap’n Crunch Original makes the top 5 worst at 44% sugar. Fruit Loops comes in at #10 (41% sugar).</p>
<p>This has a table at the end that lists all of them:</p>
<p>BTW, I just stumbled on an awesome veggie option. Zucchini squash, sliced in half lengthwise, drizzled with a bit of coconut oil, salt, pepper, and slap them on the grill. Wow. Nice flavor combo.</p>
<p>I think it would work equally well to cut them into chunks and toss them in a hot sautee pan with a little coconut oil. Yum. Nice change of pace from the usual olive oil.</p>
<p>That’s really discouraging. I like cereal. I don’t eat it for breakfast, but sometimes if we have eaten a late lunch on the weekend I’ll have a bowl of cereal for dinner. I really enjoy it, I’ve been guilty of Frosted Flakes and frosted mini wheats,</p>
<p>Honey Nut Cheerios or Corn Flakes with a ton of sugar was my go-to midnight snack. I thought it was “healthy”. I mean, it says so right on the box, right? The American Heart Association seal of approval ought to be worth something.</p>
<p>Plain Cheerios don’t have much sugar. Only 3.6% sugar by weight. But, who eats them without dumping on the sugar? Not me. I had to switch to Honey Nut Cheerios, because my arm got tired from shovelling sugar on the plain version!</p>
<p>You guys are cracking me up about the Honey Nut Cheerios. :)</p>
<p>My husband eats them and swears they are fine for him. He varies by alternating with “multigrain” Cheerios. Woo! I’m tried to tell him otherwise…</p>
<p>I knew it was the right amount of sugar when there was undissolved sugar at the bottom of the cereal bowl when I finished!</p>
<p>I actually think sweetened cereals are the worst possible food. Not because they are inherently worse than candy bars or donuts, but because it’s such a fraud product. The marketing actually has most of us convinced that’s semi-healthy or, at least, “not that bad”. It’s horrible. The only redeeming nutritional value is the extra stuff they put it in it: the ground up vitamin pills, the psyllium husk fiber, and now the soy protein (which is debatable).</p>
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<p>The problem is that it’s so hard to walk away from any one of these yummy sugar foods until you come to the big picture realization that it’s all garbage and that we are being sold a bill of goods. People get all up in Lustig’s grill about calling sugar “toxic”, but that’s the mindset you have to have to walk away from this junk. Walk up and down the ailses of the grocery store. It’s all sugar. The food companies know they are selling us a fraud. Why else would they list sugar as nine different names on one box of “healthy” cereal?</p>
<p>I don’t blame them. It sells. But, it takes a major rethink to walk away from from it.</p>
<p>Exactly! I confess that I have not looked at many nutritional info labels lately because I mostly avoid the middle isles of the grocery stores. Only when I need something from there, like a jar of mayo or tea packets, I dive in, grab what I need and run back to the familiar territory: meat, produce and dairy isles. :)</p>
<p>Exercise today: brisk 25 min walk through the city to get to the commuter bus stop. Dinner: grilled halibut and eggplant “stew”, paired with a glass of cold St Pellegrino. :)</p>
<p>I confess that I was also a Captain Crunch junkie. When the budget was tight my mom would buy a bag of puffed rice and we tried to disguise it as something better by dumping sugar on it. Fortunately, I was a runner and generally active kid (marching band, gymnastics in winter, hiking in summer) and we really did only have 3-channels and one TV. </p>
<p>My kids are 20 and 22, and fortunately not overweight. I didn’t start to really learn about nutrition until they went to college, but fortunately, between my husband’s good insight and some super healthy Vermont friends that led by example, they had good nutrition for their base meals. However, I used to think it was a treat to get them yogurts, sugar cereal, chips, chocolate milk and ice cream regularly. Thank goodness they lived in Vermont so that their friends looked down on that stuff, otherwise they would have wanted a lot more.</p>
<p>I am off my running schedule this week because of work stuff. Hopefully will get back in the bandwagon by Thursday, but I like this guilty feeling … It gives me hope that I might have formed a good habit.</p>
<p>Bunsen, we’ll have to start a campaign for AIr Dog drone-free trails and roads Or perhaps invent an Air Dog drone cloaking device that scrambles the signal on approach…I know I certainly don’t need anyone to immortalize my exercise forrays on YouTube ;)</p>
<p>(The iPad wrote that “YouTub”…very Freudian ;))</p>
<p>I doubt it was much healthier, but as a kid, I was allowed only those big Shredded Wheat bars that have nothing in them but wheat…but then was given brown sugar to put on it liberally This was during my mom’s “healthy” phase under the influence of a friend way ahead of her time on food and other things. Alas, when my mom remarried a wonder bread-lovin guy, all that, including the black bean soup, went out the window. </p>
<p>My son suffered a similar fate – he’d never “met” a honey nut Cheerio until McH came along. I have tried to convince the pair those little bees are evil but no dice. My sisters are just as bad, even the ones who know better. One is a doula who advocates breast feeding and homemade baby food incessantly…then gives her own kid Honey Nut Cheerios Oh, the irony!</p>
<p>It’s all about the marketing. Like MOWC, I used to eat the same kinds of cereals as a meal replacement - hey, mini wheats are healthy, right? It’s wheat? Wrong. Salt, Sugar, Fat is a very interesting read on the history of why we eat the way we do - and how corporations have driven that - a bit more dense than Couric’s film. </p>
<p>Still trying to be dairy free and it’s making me grumpy and having no appreciable influence on my digestive problems. Bought coconut milk yogurt and almond milk yogurt to do a taste test - I can tell you they are both icky.</p>
<p>Still chugging along with the running; I have a session with a trainer this afternoon to go through some strength training, probably the only way I’m ever going to do it. Went to a session on proper hydration during training last night - nothing real new. I have been using Nuun, mainly because I like it, but of course they were big on promoting Gatorade, etc. On the plus side, they gave us a recipe to make our own. Much cheaper! </p>
<p>Some of us weren’t slim when we were kids. I actually lost weight in college. For me it was the freshman -10. </p>
<p>Honey Nut Cheerios and ice cream were the first thing I cut out when I wanted to lose weight, about when this thread started. I used to sit in bed noshing on Honey Nut Cheerios for breakfast, and would eat 1/2 pint of Ben & Jerry’s for dessert. Oh, and handfuls of M&Ms for snacks during the day. I was fine until the metabolism changed. My husband wasn’t too thrilled when I stopped buying ice cream cold turkey, but he’s OK with it now. </p>
<p>i-Dad, my husband will only eat plain Cheerios, with blueberries (no sugar). </p>
<p>That puffed rice - omg, what a pathetic excuse for cereal! No flavor so of course you sugared it up!!!</p>
<p>I’d tell someone if you really need your fix of sugared cereal, make it your dessert and measure out your bowl. No worse than a bowl of ice cream, piece of pie, slice of cake. But I think the measuring is also important. Look at the serving size on the cereal box and measure that out - I’ll bet most people normally take at least double what the box considers a serving. </p>
<p>2,5 mile morning run. 70 degrees and beautiful! Always tough to get out of bed and squeeze it in in the morning, but so worth it when the evening becomes free for other stuff. </p>
<p>Took my first yoga class today. I liked it but I am not flexible or balanced lol! My neighbor is working on her yoga instructor certificate and is giving free classes, win! She said she does the same class for her hot yoga so I might try that since I can’t make these free classes for the next 3 weeks. Going to play golf this afternoon so a fun day :). </p>
<p>I’m not much of a cereal eater, the only cereal I will eat is grape nuts or maybe a little granola in my yoghurt. </p>
<p>Sabaray, can you give your homemade recipe for Gatorade. I honestly can’t stand Gatorade but my H drinks buckets of G2 when he bikes. The only drink like that I can tolerate is Vitamin Water Zero. I did order some nunn from amazon, I want to see how we like it. </p>
Idad, It’s horrifying to think of sweetened cereals being over 30 percent sugar (by weight). I’ll stick with the plain old unsweetened variety!</p>
So yeah, 30% is approaching healthy. Lol. </p>
Or perhaps invent an Air Dog drone cloaking device that scrambles the signal on approach…I know I certainly don’t need anyone to immortalize my exercise forrays on YouTube ;)</p>