<p>You go, MOWC :-).</p>
<p>Woot!!! Yeah, 5 pound party!!! (stay away from the Twinkie thread to keep those 5 away!!!) :)</p>
<p>In the never ending saga of my office mates and their bad habits…</p>
<p>Our campus offers a farmer’s market every other Wednesday. Fresh produce, home baked bread and food demos on how to use the fresh products to make healthy food. All the office (except me, I have a meeting and needed to take an early lunch) went over. What did they come back with? BBque sandwiches and humongous fries from a food truck they found and an armful of baked goods from a bake sale near the cafeteria. No veggies. No fruit. No herbs for cooking. Complaints that the prices for the veggies were ridiculous but they just dropped $15 bucks on a garbage lunch and a pile of sugar! </p>
<p>Seriously!!! </p>
<p>Happy Five Pound Party for MOWC! Awesome.</p>
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<p>KMCMOM, I hope your shoulder improves. At least you are able to get out and walk the hill!</p>
<p>Interesting stuff on the food labels. I suspect that the actual food is equally bad and the differences reflect more the process of designing to the label requirements in each country. I suspect the difference between sugar from GMO beets and non-GMO beets is the LEAST of the worries with a McDonald’s shake or a Starbucks shake, er… I mean a Starbucks Pumpkin Spice latte, </p>
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<p>abasket:</p>
<p>The bbq sandwich from the food truck is probably OK (as the American diet goes), but it’s the loading on of a second huge carb load (fries) on top of the carbs in the bread that is really the recipe for obesity. Just cutting back to one huge carb serving at every meal instead of two huge carb servings would be a big difference. It does take a commitment to hop off the french fry train.</p>
<p>And don’t forget the large foil pan of baked goods that came back with them! - a few carbs in there for sure!!! ;)</p>
<p>Congrats on the 5 pounds, MOWC! That has to feel good. </p>
<p>I’ve definitely cut back on the carbs since my days of eating a dozen donuts singlehandedly, but in all honesty, have been eating more grains, pasta, rice, sweet potatoes and beans recently. So far, it has had no appreciable impact on my weight other than my weight being down even further, I suspect because of the intense exercise. That’s something I’ll have to monitor/restrict once this fresh h*ll has concluded. </p>
<p>Happy 5 pound celebration, MoWC! </p>
<p>Why do french fries have to taste so good? I know, salt, fat, potato carb all hot and crunchy/soft. Sigh, I have given them up for the most part, maybe having them a few times a year. This thread does keep me on my toes with respect to carbs ( I thank you all for that 
although I continue to eat whole grains, beans, fruits, veggies, and sweet potatoes. </p>
<p>Today was 4 miles running on the machine, some upper body weights, and a 2 mile walk with H. </p>
<p>MOWC … With all that running and exercise you do even while recovering from injury, do you really have to lose 5 lbs? What is your BMI or body fat? </p>
<p>Don’t get me wrong, I love and have occasional fries! A favorite easy dinner is loaded fries- not an over abundance of fries, but lots of toppings! Tomatoes, onions, jalapeño , feta, pesto, garlic, mushrooms - plus the kitchen sink!!</p>
<p>How did I miss the 5 pound party?! Yay!!</p>
<p><:-P </p>
<p>Snowflake- As noted here on this thread, running burns roughly 100 calories a mile. Even at 30 miles a week, that’s only 3000 calories. I am around a lot of food and alcohol in my social and work life. I eat a lot. I sit a lot. I like to keep my weight around 112-116. I’m 5’4". 112 is very hard to reach these days without really restricting calories. I don’t like the way I look and feel at 120 and it’s more weight to carry while running. </p>
<p>Knock on wood, I don’t believe I’ve eaten a french fry since 2010. The few times I’ve been confronted with a irresistible fry scenario, I’ve substituted onion rings. It’s still carbs, but at least some of it is healthy veggie.</p>
<p>Actually, other than a few pieces in Progresso soups, I don’t think I’ve eaten a potato period for at least two or three years.</p>
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<p>To the basement for me today. Felt good.</p>
<p>Walker here – I find that adding an incline to my treadmill miles really increases the calorie burn (esp. once I get to a a 5-6% grade). Am learning from my Vivofit that my metabolism really does stink.</p>
<p>Incline does work wonders. I’ve been eating a lot of crap and not running as much as I wanted to lately, but my weight is not creeping up. I suspect my brisk walking up that steep hill a few times a week helps to keep the weight off. </p>
<p>“Treadmill exercises simulate walking and running and burn about the same number of calories. A 150-pound person walking on a flat treadmill surface burns 170 calories per hour walking 2 mph and 272 calories per hour walking 4 mph, according to the “Discovery Health” newsletter. A 200-pound person will burn 226 calories per hour walking 2 mph and 362 calories per hour walking 4 mph. Walking uphill requires more effort and burns more calories. The 200-pound person walking 4 mph for one hour will burn 608 calories when the treadmill is set to a 5 percent incline, 862 calories when it’s at a 10 percent incline and 1,106 calories when it’s at a 15 percent incline.”</p>
<p><a href=“The Speed and the Incline of the Treadmill and the Effect on Burning Calories | Woman - The Nest”>http://healthyliving.azcentral.com/speed-incline-treadmill-effect-burning-calories-9523.html</a></p>
<p>This short article describes how to get the most out of walking on an inclined treadmill: </p>
<p><a href=“https://www.lifefitness.com/blog/posts/treadmill-inclines-maximize-a-workout.html”>https://www.lifefitness.com/blog/posts/treadmill-inclines-maximize-a-workout.html</a></p>
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<p>Gotta love the people who come up with these numbers. I would like to know if any of them actually tried to walk at 4 mph on 15% incline for an hour. 
That’s like saying that doing 40 yard dash repeats for an hour burns “x” calories. Or burpees for an hour burns “z” calories.</p>
<p>Anyone with a treadmill, just crank it up to the highest setting (probably 10%) and see how long you can last trying to walk at 4 mph. </p>
^^^ Any volunteers?!
<p>MOWC, congrats on the 5 lb party, by the way. You are going for minimum optimal weight which is healthy but on the edge for optimal injury avoidance with the number of miles you put in each week. I worry about that for a normal person, but you seem to be on top of this stuff and operate at a higher performance level than most of us.</p>
<p>Your “overweight” is my “too skinny” and I am 5’3" in height. For weight, 120 pounds is the leanest I want to be in order to be strong enough for XC ski season.</p>
<p>Challenge accepted. I’ll volunteer, abasket. I may not be able to do it for a couple weeks, though – I leave town on Saturday for a two-week trip to southern Utah, to hike (not camp) all the national parks. </p>
<p>Reading those links. Going 10-12 mph on a bike is considered “light-effort,” huh? I’m huffing and puffing at that speed. Biking is just not my thing. Yesterday, when it was pouring here, I ran on the treadmill and alternated the incline from 1-4 percent. I know I couldn’t run at an incline of 5% for an hour at my usual speed. But I always set the treadmill at an incline when I’m walking, usually between 3-5 percent at a speed of 4.5 mph. So my challenge will be an hour at 10% at 4 mph?</p>
<p>Snowflake- I actually think 30 miles a week (which I am only now building back up to) is not all that high of mileage. I also think being lower in weight is better for injury prevention. I am not saying 120 is “overweight”. I’m saying it is more than I want to weigh for how I want to look and how I want to run. I am small boned, too. I assure you that I do not look too thin or at all emaciated.</p>
<p>ANY incline on a treadmill is killer. I know when I did that max stress test a few months ago the incline killed me. iDad is right about those stupid statements about doing 5% or more grade for an hour…good luck with that!</p>