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<p>Confused. How is your running schedule dependent on her course schedule??</p>
<p>She’s a commuter student and I driver her there and back. She’s learning how to drive this summer but probably won’t get her license until October. The driving school lost several of their instructors. The classroom portion ends next week but the on-the-road instruction will probably go on for a few months before the class has finished their complete driving course. And I need to get another car.</p>
<p>Any one else read the story about Drew Carey’s dramatic weight loss? Wow! 80 lbs since January. Cut out most carbs and exercised for 45 minutes a day. Cured his Type II Diabetes. Hmmm…I exercise more than 45 minutes a day and limit starchy carbs but my weight loss is not nearly as quick. Must be that male thing again. ;)</p>
<p>He lost 3 pounds per week on a no-carb diet. We’ll see if he keeps it off. The track record for no-carb diets long-term is not good.</p>
<p>^^^Don’t I know it! I am a carb addict! I never touch sweets of any kind, never have. But I LOVE breads and pastas! I can stop for a little bit but I get cravings that are unbelieveable for artisanal breads and pasta dishes in the winter!</p>
<p>That’s a great story.</p>
<p>I lost 40 pounds about 12 years ago and one of the keys was aerobic exercise for at least 45 minutes a day for five days a week. I had a weightlifting regimen three to four times a week too. Curing T2D is amazing - I thought that there was no cure. He must have reversed a process that was put in place.</p>
<p>Did he have any help with this? If so, perhaps he has some good advice available about maintaining his weight.</p>
<p>Type 2 diabetes is simply elevated blood sugar levels. Diet and exercise can lower those levels. </p>
<p>My guess is that the number of Type 2 diabetes diagnoses have gone thru the roof, not because more people have it, but because making a formal diagnosis is a license to bill, bill, bill for “preventative care”. In the old days, they just would have said the dude was fat and that he wouldn’t be so fat if he’d eat less and exercise. DOH.</p>
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<p>I’ve made some real progress in breaking the whole carb binge thing. I haven’t tried to cut out carbs, just limit bread to a few times a week, limit pasta to no more than once a week, and portions that fit within my general calorie goals. We had too much pasta last night (two packages of fresh ravioli for three people instead of one package for two). I actually didn’t want the whole portion, unheard of for me, especially because I made a fantastic mushroom tomato sauce for the Trader Joe’s portobello mushroom pasta. Anyway, my wife and I have small portions of that every few weeks, which is – I think – a more sustainable approach than trying to completely eliminate carbs.</p>
<p>There are some fitness/diet researchers who claim that the body goes into anti-starvation mode if you completely stop eating carbs and it becomes almost impossible to lose weight. Those in that camp say that you have to carb up once a week or so to keep losing weight. I don’t know. The whole thing is so complicated to me that I just try to stick to the basics: eat less and move more.</p>
<p>Another story I saw on GMA the other day. It was interesting to hear about this rating system to make it easier to pick out “good” foods at the store. Any one read about this?
[Homepage</a> | Nuval](<a href=“http://www.nuval.com/]Homepage”>http://www.nuval.com/)</p>
<p>teriwtt, my trainer just had me start incline bench presses after 4 months. Nice to know why! I’m only up to 45 pounds. My son is trying to talk me into a “Pump and Run”–a 5K where you get to deduct time based on weight bench pressed and your age.</p>
<p>NM–one of our local markets has the NuVal ratings, and I have to admit they’ve influenced my shopping on occasion. I like that manufacturers can’t influence the ratings.</p>
<p>My wife buys frozen ravioli bags from Market Basket, breads them and then saute’s them. They just melt in your mouth. Hard to say no to those. I also think that pizza is one of the great dishes out there. I really haven’t changed my attitude to carbs as being asian, we eat rice and noodles and I love whole wheat bread. I have tried to curb sweets, sweet drink (diet and regular), and fats.</p>
<p>I had to stop at Shaws to get some laundry products this evening. For the past year, I’ve been buying the particular brand of pistachio nuts in the produce section. They are the freshest tasting pistachio nuts that I’ve had. They also have some health benefits that sometimes help me out. They appear to be quite popular as sometimes they run out and it takes a while to get more. Meanwhile the other brand that they have just sits there.</p>
<p>Today I walked over the nuts and they had a new shipment there. I just walked to the laundry products after reading the fat content of the nuts. Two-thirds of the calories are from fat. One other problem that I have is in not eating the whole bag at one sitting. Yes, having to remove the shells does slow me down. A little. Anyways, the nuts are off the diet. At least for a while.</p>
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<p>low carb vs low fat. Seems it doesn’t make a difference. No big surprise here…
[Study</a> disputes low-carb diet concerns | Philadelphia Inquirer | 08/03/2010](<a href=“http://www.philly.com/philly/health_and_science/99818894.html]Study”>http://www.philly.com/philly/health_and_science/99818894.html)</p>
<p>As soon as it’s widespread, the manufacturers will “game” the NuVal ratings. They will add some high-scoring vitamin to sour gummy worms or whatever.</p>
<p>It’s only confusing because the “food crusaders” have everyone worred about eight gazillon things: no fat, not this kind of oil, watch the cholesterol, carbs are bad, yadda, yadda, yadda. If they would just stick to calories per serving, the nutrional labels would be much simpler and much more effective.</p>
<p>All I need to know is that a tube of Pringles is 900 calories. Who cares what kind of oil is in them?</p>
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<p>One of the bad side-effects of a low carb diet from a few years back was a habit of believing that chowing down on a bag of peanuts or pistachios was “OK” because it was lo carb, without regard to the calories. I put on a lot of weight plowing through bags of nuts. I can flat go through a bag of Barzini’s pistachios or roasted peanuts. Shelling them doesn’t slow me down. That’s the “putting on the feedbag” that was packing the pounds on.</p>
<p>Day off from exercise for me. I had my hardest week ever last week (minutes x heart rate) and a hard iPod workout yesterday. My body was saying “no mas”. Not sore, just run down, stiff, needing a recovery day. Back to the iPod circuits tomorrow.</p>
<p>Okay, I bookmarked their site. I’m going to order those someday. I don’t believe that I’ve ever had Turkish Pistachios. Looks like the smallest size is a pound. That’s a pretty dangerous size.</p>
<p>I guess it’s Bazzini Nuts:</p>
<p>[Bazzini</a> Nuts](<a href=“http://www.bazzininuts.com/]Bazzini”>http://www.bazzininuts.com/)</p>
<p>Back in the day, they sold Iranian pistachios. I used to get a bag for the holidays every year from an Iranian business associate. My wife finds their pistachios locally from time to time, maybe at TJ MAXX of all places, I don’t know. They are awesome. Oh, yeah… I could plow through a pound in a couple sittings.</p>
<p>Actually, pistachios wouldn’t be a horrible treat for me now. I think I could put a reasonable serving in a bowl. Looks like 1/8 pound of pistachios in the shell is 180 calories. That’s an acceptable treat if you can just have a small bowl of them and not eat half the bag.</p>
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<p>Sorry, idad, but that is a gross over-simplification. It is not simply elevated BG levels. There is the question of WHY the BG is elevated, and WHEN. T2s typically have what is known as “insulin resistance.” Their bodies produce insulin–unlike T1s–but don’t use it properly. Even T2s who have lost weight and exercise tend to spike higher BGs than a normal person after eating, and it takes longer for it to come down. People who are significantly heavier who are NOT T2s do not have this effect. To some extent, it’s probably a genetic lottery whether excess weight results in triggering T2.</p>
<p>Also, Drew Carrey could not have “cured” his T2 diabetes: there is no cure. He could well have “controlled” it, like I have controlled mine. And losing weight while gaining lean muscle mass does decrease insulin resistance and make it easier to control. That’s why doing so it normally the first recommendation for T2s. </p>
<p>Lastly, while everyone is different, T2s in general do not process carbs like normal people. “Eat less move more” is fine for normal people. T2s need to pay more attention to amount of carb, the kind of carb, and what the carb is consumed WITH. All of those things affect whether a T2 experiences a BG spike. You will find that the vast majority of T2s who actively work to manage their own diabetes–rather than simply accepting the advice of well-meaning medical people and “nutritionists” who think that EVERYONE ought to eat according to the food pyramid and that there is an inevitable slide into complications because NO ONE will actually do the work to control their disease-- will say that low carb diets are pretty much essential.</p>
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<p>No. Unfunny. My father’s parents both died in their 50s (in the 1940s)from strokes. Dollars to doughnuts, they were undiagnosed T2s. (To my knowledge, neither of them was particularly heavy.) Like the friend of mine who had a stroke in his 50s whose diabetes was discovered only after that. For normal people, losing weight and getting more exercise may well be enough to stave off premature death from cardiovascular causes. For us, it is not enough.</p>
<p>Frankly, you don’t know much about it, and I think you should educate yourself before you shrug off a disease that threatens people with serious complications such as blindness, amputations, kidney failure, neuropathy, and death from cardiovascular causes.</p>
<p>One reason why it is good that more people ARE being diagnosed with T2 now is that it gives them a chance to control the disease before they have burned out too many of their beta cells and are insulin dependent.</p>
<p>Edit: I just looked at one of the incredibly stupid and misleading articles on Drew Carey. He did not go on a “no-carb” diet. Among other things he says he eats greek yogurt and lots of fruit. Guess what, people fruit is loaded with carbs and most T2s limit it accordingly. Plain yogurt has carbs. My breakfast of 1 cup of greek yogurt and 1/2 cup blueberries had about 25 grams of carb: at least 30% of the carb I will allow myself today! Also, going off medication means just that: you can control your diabetes without medication. It doesn’t mean that your diabetes is GONE.</p>
<p>I’ve decided I want to lose a few pounds. (I’m not overweight, but I’d just like to be a few pounds thinner.) So I increased my cardio yesterday from my normal 30 minutes to 45 minutes.</p>
<p>Tired this morning!</p>
<p>That’s great Very Happy. I’m doing the same. I am a bit overweight but want to approach it by improving my overall lifestyle rather than a strict diet. I have also increased my cardio and strength training. I’m feeling better already.</p>
<p>Funny story from the gym this morning. For the past couple of weeks I’ve noticed these 2 women who are “workout buddies.” They spend some time on cardio machines and then move to various weight machines. A few times I have gotten on a weight machine after them, and have been AMAZED at the weight setting – many, many pounds more than my setting. I’m a bad judge of age, but they appear to be somewhere around my age (50’s), but honestly? they don’t seem to be really fit. It was bothering me no end that they were managing to throw around these huge weights. Today, mystery solved! I saw one of them set the weight for a much higher setting before leaving the machine! LOL!!! I felt much better. :)</p>
<p>I signed up for a 5k race for the end of Sept. If all goes well, I will be done with my c25k program by then, so theoretically I will actually be able to run the whole thing. It all sounds so reasonable, but for some reason it’s making me feel a tiny bit panicky.</p>