<p>My husband gets in total food ruts. Breakfast M-F oatmeal and blueberries, S-S waffles. T, Th bacon. Lunch, he has frozen vegetables, mixed with either chicken or vegetable protein (tofu/seitan) and some sort of flavoring sauce. He makes it all Monday morning and eats it all week.I’d be bored to tears. He gets more variety at dinner because I make it. We have at least 3 different things in a week. </p>
<p>I eat scrambled eggs with fruit (not just blueberries) several days a week (with bacon on the days dh makes bacon), yogurt with fruit and granola one day, oatmeal with fruit one day, and pancakes (from the waffle batter) on Sat. Lunch is usually leftovers or a chef’s salad. </p>
<p>I wish I liked pickles. But the only ones I really like are the itsy bitsy cornichons.</p>
<p>I don’t do much stretching before a workout. About five minutes of loosening up, with a bit of lunging kinds of stretches, twisting at the waist and rotating arms. That sort of thing. I rarely actually stretch at the end either, because the sort of stretching I enjoy I’d rather do on my own mat, and I don’t bring one to the gym. </p>
<p>MOWC, laughing at the description of the race. Should have known you’d never be able to walk it.</p>
<p>I am a boring routine eater most of the time. Love egg whites scrambled over roasted veggies for breakfast or an egg white and Morningstar veggie breakfast pattie on a Thomas’ Light multigrain muffin. Usually comes in around 300 calories with the oil/fat. Lunch is what usually stymies me. Dinner is always fish or chicken, veggies and salad. Lunch can be leftovers, a salad, fruit, whatever. </p>
<p>MOWC…knew you couldn’t walk the whole thing! Hope you are feeling better!</p>
<p>I was at Sears yesterday and they had 20 pound dumbbells for under $17. They also had five pound standard 1 inch weight plates for a bit over $5. It was interesting that Olympic plates were about half that price. I guess that non-Olympic plates are much more popular. The Olympic plates had all sorts of different sized holes for the bar - I’m not sure as to how they work.</p>
<p>MOfWC, I’m smiling after reading your description of the Vegas half-marathon! “…beat everyone in sight dressed like Elvis” Wasn’t that like 50% of the runners? I hope your body is doing OK after the run.</p>
<p>Eating the same old thing… Our breakfasts seem to be most routine meals of the day: scrambled eggs, yogurt (or a cup of keffir), fruit and berries mix, some sort of a toast or naan, cheese, cofee. On weekends, I add foods that take a little more prep time: pancakes and a strip or two of bacon or steel-cut oatmeal (I love it, but it takes forever for it to cook!). Lunch is usually dinner leftovers. Dinner is where I go creative! For example, last night, we had chef salad, the night before it was grilled steak with chanterelle mushroom gravy, sweet potatoes and roasted asparagus…</p>
Agree! I started eating steel cut oats last summer ('09), and continued all last winter, spring, etc. Then this summer ('10) D discovered Oat Bran Hot Cereal. The brand we have here is Hodgson Mill - don’t know if others make it. It only takes 5 minutes, but the nutrition is almost the same:
Serving size: 1/4 cup dry
Calories: Bran = 120; Steel = 150
Total fat: Bran = 3g; Steel = 2.5g
Both = 0 cholesterol & 0 sodium
Carbs: Bran = 23g; Steel = 27 g
Fiber: Bran = 6g; Steel = 4g
Sugars: Bran = 0; Steel = 1g
Protein: Bran = 6g; Steel = 5g</p>
<p>I add Stevia & fruit. So, I have that every morning except Sunday. Lunch is almost always a salad, often using leftover chicken/salmon/whatever from dinner the night before. Dinners vary, but I’m ALWAYS looking at the calorie count. :)</p>
<p>The new fad around here is a power yoga in sweltering heat…the newly opened Prana Power Yoga studio is doing well with the young female weight-loss crowd. My D wants to give it a try. Is this healthy?</p>
<p>I find I do my best weight losing if I stick to the same food diet. For me that is plain oatmeal cooked in the microwave. No fruit and no sweetener. Works for me. Bland and boring but I find it fills my need for something starchy without the side effects of a piece of sourdough toast.
Had my first physical therapy appointment today. I liked the therapist and I feel like he has a good picture of my condition. He felt my walking regiment is causing the problem to flair up but understands why I don’t want to stop. I am willing to take a few weeks off and see if it makes a difference. My only concern is that I don’t want the conclusion to be that to be painfree I need to give up the physical exercise I have been doing.
Trying to get through the next month at a maintained weight. I know I won’t lose any with the holiday time but don’t want to gain either. Last night had a great glass of wine. I think it was my first full glass in 8 months. Wild Horse - It was wonderful.</p>
<p>I don’t know about ya’ll, but, as the ol’ (formerly) fat guy, I don’t usually experience breakthrough insight or feelings of being cleansed and calm during my workouts. I mostly just sweat like a pig and pant like a dog. I must not be doing it right or I would surely be finding more bliss in my burpees!</p>
<p>Unfortunately, running (and to a somewhat lesser extent, walking) is one of the most high impact exercises us oldsters can do. Think about it. Every walk involves thousands of repetitive loads on your joints, each one with an impact of your full body weight. I think my hill walking has been a huge factor in improving my fitness, but I’m not blind to the fact that there is a wear and tear cost to it relative to other workouts that provide more intensity with fewer repetitive loads on the feet, ankles, knees, and hips.</p>
<p>My husband cooks up a week’s worth of steel cut oatmeal Sunday night and and then puts it in little one serving size containers. He freezes some, refrigerates the rest and zaps them in the microwave. (He makes enough so I can have some too. ) I think it tastes fine and it sure is easier than cooking it fresh each morning.</p>
<p>There WERE a lot of Elvises (what is the plural of Elvis- Elvii??). I am SO sore- marathon sore after only a half marathon. Injury doesn’t seem to have taken a hit- it’s my quads. A lot of that is from the pancake flat (well, we dropped and climbed about 200 feet) course which is complete repetitive motion on your legs. Some roll to a course creates a lot less soreness. Slowest half marathon I’ve ever done, but I’m happy to have finished. This is two half marathons this season where I’ve paced “first timers” to a good finish.</p>
<p>I would not be a fan of a power yoga class in heat. The regular hot yoga series is hard enough and really gets your heart rate up- and lots of people get dizzy. My Dallas studio had an advanced class that had some of the more challenging sequences, and it was REALLY hard.</p>
<p>Hiya all. I’ve been away from CC most this semester, but hopefully some of you still remember me? Completely new to this thread, which I hope will help me with motivation. I’m currently at a “healthy” weight for my height (according to whomever decides these things), but I definitely don’t exercise enough and college cafeteria food has worsened my eating habits. I can drop 5-10 lbs. while remaining in the “target” zone, so that is my goal–also just to establish long-term healthy habits.</p>
<p>My family, especially my mother, has always hated exercise. I started yoga this semester for PE credit and really love it–no lie: while I always sweat like a pig during the workout itself, by the end after cooling down in corpse pose, my whole body is so limber and relaxed that my step is lighter. Hot yoga seems a little iffy to me, though. I would really love to increase flexibility and endurance, and blood flow–I discovered through yoga that I have bad blood circulation (and probably having veins too small to donate blood doesn’t help).</p>
<p>But I probably can’t take a yoga class regularly next semester due to scheduling, and my track record in self-motivated exercise is notoriously bad. Diet-wise, I have access to a wide array of limited foods–“free” buffet-style resources, but I’m a picky eater and used to eating my mother’s traditional Chinese cooking, not fried food or creamy/cheesy/rich stuff or (the bane of my existence) the innumerable American dishes that involve a tomato base.</p>
<p>Aaaaand it looks like I haven’t lost my ability to write unnecessarily long posts on CC. ;)</p>
<p>Welcome Keil! I found when I was in college the best way to exercise was to take a class, but I didn’t always do it. I took super beginning figure skating one term which was a ton of fun. It was a good time to try out things I’d never done before.</p>
<p>I believe that the absolute best think a college girl or guy can do is get in the routine of weight training. I’m not talking power lifter bodybuilding stuff, but learning how to lift some weight and do similar bodyweight circuits. Nothing burns more calories, raises your metabolism as much, or gives you a very fit physique. I wish I had done it decades ago. </p>
<p>You’ve got a free fitness center, which I’m sure has the dumbells weight benches you need. Probably some lacross players who would be glad to show you how to bench press and squat. 30 minutes, three times a week.</p>
<p>interesteddad (and others): can you have any links or something with basic weight training info? I work on the machines in my fitness center, but I am at a complete loss for how to properly use free weights.</p>
<p>I’m experiencing a winter holidays miracle! Other than feeling badly bruised (which it is not), my knee is doing great! I wanted to hit the pool today but my driver (mr pmk) insisted on one more day of elevation and ice. He pointed out that I have a history of trying to get back to normal too soon and making things worse. Darn it’s tough to get anything past someone you’ve known for over 20 years!</p>
<p>So, tomorrow back to the pool. Yay! </p>
<p>The races sound fun. Not in my future but I wish they could be.</p>
<p>ID - Actually, my BF (former football player) works out regularly for PE credit and is always bothering me to go with him. Maybe I should give in to the peer pressure. But I too would like some pointers on basic weight training that works on flexibility as well as strength; e.g. my BF has great shoulders for football–like an immovable rock–not so much for yoga reverse prayer position.</p>
<p>Guys tend to work on their shoulders and look in the mirror too much! The idea is to mix it up: some pushing, some pulling, some upper thighs, some lower thighs, some core. Learing the proper squat and lunge move – weight on the heels, pushing the hips back, back not rounded – is huge for flexiibility. Women are better at it than men, I think.</p>
<p>For every pushing exercise, you should do a pulling exercise. That way, you develop in a balanced way.</p>
I hope your body is doing OK after the run.</p>
) I think it tastes fine and it sure is easier than cooking it fresh each morning.</p>