<p>I have an 80 calorie high fiber muffin from TJS in the morning with a dab of peanut butter. Only 3 grams of sugar too! Not all muffins are bad. </p>
<p>hmom…wow, your numbers are terrific. I’m almost 3 inches taller than you but i weigh a LOT more right now. 20 lbs less would do it for me though…I don’t need to go back to my HS weight. But those 20lbs are tough!</p>
<p>Yeah, Newsweek did a story a while back on how high intensity exercise makes you hungrier. This stuff is never easy. </p>
<p>Anyway, may we all keep our interest in wellness for the entire year…not just January (my yoga class is packed right now!) We’ll see how long this thread lasts :)</p>
<p>My gym was packed the other day as well. Someone told me it takes three weeks until the New Year’s Resolution-makers get it out of their system and put it away until next year.</p>
<p>Wii yoga is part of the wii fit pack. It comes with a little platform that you step on and it measures your balance. There are several different poses and it also tells you how you should be breathing during each one. You also use the platform for most of the other wii fit activities</p>
<p>Nrdsb4, for me, XC skiing and swimming make me hungrier, while running and weights do not. I wonder if it has something to do with the body trying to compensate for losing heat…</p>
A lot of people take this mental approach but the approach they need to to take is ‘I went for a long walk and don’t want to derail all that time and effort by eating a muffin’.</p>
<p>vulture:
Weights, especially dumbbells, are so easy to do since you can do them while watching TV or during almost any break. You just pick them up and start doing a routine. Getting started is the hardest part. Determine a goal, for example 15 reps of arm curls plus 15 reps of shoulder presses or some other exercises. If that’s too hard then just decrease the reps so you can complete the routine successfully. Get yourself into a routine and then after a few days start to increase the reps and start doing additional weight exercises. Set yourself up for success by making sure you do a routine that’s reasonably achievable. You can always pump it up after a week of success and then more after another week, etc.</p>
<p>Google ‘dumbbell exercises’ and the first link will probably be the site with animated exercise examples that are easy to follow.</p>
<p>With all the great exercise though remember that it’s so easy to undermine the hour of hard work at the gym with just a candy bar, a single sandwich, a muffin, a Starbucks drink, etc. which is why if one wants to lose weight they should concentrate more on the food intake than exercise (although both are good). An anecdote - a friend of mine was very obese and wheelchair bound as a result of the obesity combined with a nerve damage issue. I saw him lose a huge amount of weight (hundreds of pounds) while confined to his wheelchair by taking the simple approach of reducing his caloric intake. He eventually was able to get out of the wheelchair and walk with the help of a cane (for the nerve damage). </p>
<p>teriwtt:
Good going - you’re well into a routine now!</p>
<p>Yes, establishing the routine is the tough part. We’ve got the assortment of dumbbells, no problem there. I pulled out my physical therapy worksheets, grabbed the 2 pounders and made myself do it after today’s walk. It’s irksome and against my nature but a very slow and lightweight approach is the best I can do when it comes to the upper body anymore.</p>
<p>hmom - wow, the same “stats”, give or take a month and a couple of pounds, right down to the low blood pressure. I shoot for 128 to 133 when actively working on the heart rate, so nice to have some cross reference.</p>
<p>Toneranger, DD is your height and 5 pounds lighter than me. She easily gains 5 lbs. when we get her home and feed her for a week. At that height you generally look great even with extra pounds! I actually weighed about 10 pounds less before working with weights, but look and feel much better with the toning and extra 10 pounds.</p>
<p>Vulture, my weight work also started with PT after a ski accident. I used mostly 5 lb. weights when I started, and now I use 12 or 15 pounds for most of my upper body work out. It took about 6 weeks of training 3 times/wk to get there and I really love the results. I use a Pilates reformer for lower body work out–phenomenal for toning/defining legs.</p>
<p>DD took one look at what the reformer had done for my old legs and asked for one for Christmas.</p>
<p>Bunsen, spinning makes me starved, and running and weights make me less hungry. So interesting.</p>
<p>I also am ravenous after swimming. And I really can’t make myself swim long enough to make a difference.</p>
<p>I usually exercise very regularly, but for the last couple of weeks I have just been on a basic maintenance schedule - enough to stay somewhat fit, but now in peak condition. I really need an event to get myself motivated. I think that will be my project in the next couple of days, to find a race in February or March that will make me want to train. </p>
<p>This is a great thread for staying focused!!!</p>
<p>Yes, but as I’m sure you know, complex carbs like fruit will serve you much better and longer for a work out than donuts.</p>
<p>My pre work out meal: smoothie made with frozen fruit, non fat milk, protein powder and flax seed. Yum, sticks with you, fills you, doesn’t cause quick sugar peak and fall.</p>
I guess there must be some advantage to the fact that there are NO Dunkin Donuts places in California (but I did indulge a bit while in the Northeast on vacation last summer).</p>
<p>^my D is still talking about the Dunkin Donuts she had in NYC. Are we really that health conscious here in SoCal that we can’t have an occasional d donut? ;)</p>
<p>gawd, I do miss em dunkin donuts + coffee. Can’t understand why DD didn’t want to do business west of the big M. </p>
<p>HM. You’re dealing with a guy who does prunes daily; Your diet gives me. gas. Not that the prunes don’t but the NFM, protein whey/soy gives me more gas. Nothing is more distracting is tooting from the rear when you’re biking. I like to have my airhorn up front facing front, rather than rearward. {I do have an airhorn on my bike}</p>
<p>OK… gotta say, I did buy some yesterday at Dominick’s after saying in an earlier post that I don’t like yogurt. Also bought some granola with no sugar in it, and some frozen berries (no sugar added) and added those to the Fage. It definitely has a very different texture than other brand-name yogurts. I actually enjoyed it… had a hard-boiled egg with it and felt relatively full. </p>
<p>OK… this is my big confession, and before you laugh, please know that I’m dead serious here - I have never been a breakfast eater, and I don’t drink milk. About five years ago I was visiting my aunt, and she had very little to offer for breakfast, other than some cereal. So I had a bowl of Frosted Mini Wheats with some milk, and became addicted. It has become the one thing I look forward to in the morning and I do get really, really cranky if I can’t have it (if I’m traveling). However, I do believe it’s what contributes to my hypoglycemic attacks. For a couple of years I have suspected this, but have been unable to give up my Frosted Mini Wheats. I did manage to change bowl sizes so that I’m not eating so much each morning, but I still have to have it (I justified it by saying eating the cereal provided milk I wouldn’t otherwise drink). So now I’ve been trying to talk myself into not buying anymore Frosted Mini Wheats when I run out of my current box, which will probably be sometime next week (I’ve always been a Costco-buy two boxes at a time, with two packets in each box Frosted Mini Wheats purchaser). </p>
<p>This will be the most difficult challenge I will face regarding my eating choices, and like I said, it may seem silly, but it will be my Achilles’ heel if I fail to stick with my new plan. So if I seem cranky, ornery, b*tchy, etc., next week, you’ll all know why.</p>
<p>Longprime, so take the protein powder out, you really need the carbs and the milk and flax seed will give you plenty of protein.</p>
<p>Teriwtt, have you tried the glucose tablets or drinks? From what I’ve seen they really help the hypoglycemic attacks without having to eat a meal. But you’re right, a sugary, unbalanced meal is a sure way to bring it on.</p>
<p>teriwtt: Take the frosted miniwheats and mix them with yougurt. Every week, increase the amount of yogurt and decrease the amount of miniwheats. Eventually you’ll be having yogurt for breakfast with some miniwheats. That is a perfectly fine breakfast.</p>