<p>My right hip stared bothering me after my 12-mile run. As I was running, I noticed that my right foot was a bit wobbly. Since so many problems with joints and leg muscles actually originate at the foot, I decided that I would try to fix that area first. So last night I rode the bus to the nearst REI and got myself all sorts of shoe insoles: superfeet, Ed Viestrus, etc. I tested the bright pink Superfeet in my treadmill Brooks list night - oh, wow. Knocking on wood, there was no pain! My feet felt great, too. I will test the Viestrus inserts on Wed.</p>
<p>Way to go, idad! You are an inspiration of the first order!</p>
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While I sincerely hope the shoe inserts solve the problem, I just have to say that there’s a whole lot more than a hip that would start bothering me on at that distance! I can’t even dream of running that far. :)</p>
<p>The bright pink ones must be the “Berry”. That’s the women’s version of the Orange ones I use. Good arch support and a layer of firm foam padding under the ball of the foot.</p>
<p>Those work for me in any shoe where you can remove the factory insole – which, these days, is all athletic shoes, hiking boots, Timberland casual shoes, even a lot of dress shoes (or the ugly stuff that passes as men’s dress shoes these days).</p>
I consider this an eating disorder. An active person who eats real food can be very thin.</p>
<p>Congrats on the 5 pounds, idad! Awesome.</p>
<p>My weight is very low right now. I think not eating meat (only fish) really impacts calorie consumption. I eat a LOT. I don’t think I’m getting enough protein, though, and am working on that.</p>
<p>5 miles last night on the dreadmill (howling rain/wind outside). My legs are still tired from the race. 2 easy miles this morning and will go to hot yoga after work. Have a business trip to New Orleans for the next few days so I’m sure there won’t be much chance of healthy eating. I will run there, but it isn’t the greatest…</p>
<p>I had three eggs and a cup of coffee this morning. The Livestrong percentages are interesting. I felt like throwing up on the way in from work. I realized that you could eat a dozen eggs for 840 calories. I’m sure that you wouldn’t feel like eating for the rest of the day. I think that I’d be done with eating for the day after four or five eggs. Talk about stifling hunger.</p>
<p>I brought in some fish and broccoli for lunch today although I might wait until dinner to eat it.</p>
<p>I can eat 4-5 eggs for breakfast easily and still want to eat later, so I limit myself to 2 eggs a day and supplement my breakfast eggs with yogurt, fruit and a slice of bread.</p>
<p>I can chow down on a 3-egg omelet, no problem. I don’t know that I’ve ever eaten four or five eggs at a sitting, although I bet I could pack away four or five of my grandma’s deviled eggs!</p>
<p>I might have to start eating a few more eggs. Only eating two meals a day, I’m not always getting enough protein, despite eating massive portions of meat and seafood when I have it.</p>
<p>The book I’m reading recommends the following daily protein amounts for each pound of lean body mass:</p>
<p>.5 g of protein per pound: couch potato
.7 g of protein per pound: moderately active
.9 g of protein per pound: athlete training hard</p>
<p>I figure I’m about 140 pounds of lean body mass, so my target should be somewhere in the range of 100 g of protein a day. This is why people turn to protein shakes, but I’d rather do it with diet. Couple of cheese omelets a week would probably help! Maybe my fav thick sliced bacon on the side! Yeah. That’s the ticket…</p>
<p>Omelets are easier to eat. I just fried three up, slightly runny. It’s after lunch and I’m still not hungry. Looks like I might be playing tennis tonight which would knock me off my mileage goal for the week. I’m waiting for a confirmation email on the tennis. I might run a few miles this afternoon in the office and then play tennis tonight.</p>
<p>70% of the people on my facebook are <40, & I bet a good chunk are <30.
It is not an ego boost to see all the people training for a marathon ( & some who are on CC don’t help either )</p>
<p>I have slowed down ( way down) because of an injury & now I am trying to get back up to speed again- heck- I would be glad if I just did enough aerobic to get my heart rate up. I have been walking, but not speed walking cause I get too distracted- guess I am going to have to join a gym again, even though we are finally getting some nice weather.</p>
<p>I will test the Viestrus inserts on Wed.
I want to hear about these.
Went to REI in B-ham yesterday- bought some Born flats on sale- & bought some superfeet black inserts cause they didn’t have quite enough arch support.
I still like my vibrams- I walked all over Ballard for about three hours on Sat without any pain at all but it has been too wet to wear them most of the time.</p>
<p>I was in touch with a sister and she told me about a degenerative problem that she has and an injury that her husband suffered. He is considerably overweight and his father died at an early age of a heart attack. They don’t work out though my sister isn’t overweight.</p>
<p>One of my other sisters works out regularly and is quite thin but I don’t think that she does weights. I don’t know if her husband works out. The other sister doesn’t exercise much but isn’t overweight either. Her husband could stand to lose a few pounds. Everyone in our family works out - to one degree or another. It feels a bit odd when we our relatives don’t. I’m wondering if I should take my sister or her husband to a gym just to see what people do there. I take a membership at a gym for granted.</p>
<p>Congrats on the 5 pound wt. loss–Idad. Followed the advice here on socks and bought myself several pairs of the women’s PhD Micro socks. I love them. Also, bit the bullet and bought shoes for kettle bells. According to the kettle bell CD gurus, it’s best to do kettle bells barefoot or with light shoes (running shoes are the worst thing to wear). I couldn’t imagine having one of those bells fall on my toes, so I opted for the shoes. Bought a pair of Pumas (what my instructor suggested). They seem really skimpy to me. Part of it might be that 90% of the time I wear either running shoes or Sanita clogs; ever since I broke my ankle skiing and got stuck with a plate and pins, I’ve found that most fashionable shoes don’t really work for me.</p>
<p>While getting enough protein from real food is not that difficult, be careful that some foods can have surprisingly low protein as a percentage of calories. Bacon and most cheese may have less protein than you think.</p>
<p>The Livestrong site is pretty good - you can pull up foods and look at the protein/carb/fat numbers. It’s nice to be able to browse food before you buy it.</p>
<p>I do find it hard to hit 100 gms of protein a day; actually it’s hard to come anywhere close to that number and I have a bigger calorie budget.</p>
<p>Three sets of singles: 3-6, 6-1, 6-1. This is against a guy that I haven’t played against in probably a year and I usually beat him 6-0, 6-0 but he would make me work pretty hard for it. He has an uncanny nack for putting the ball in inconvenient places compared to where you are. I still have problems with my racquets - they all need to be restrung but I haven’t had the time to take care of that. The effect is that they are too loose and the ball flies on me. I felt good playing though. No hunger, I stayed hydrated and I didn’t get injured - some stressed joints but no injuries.</p>
<p>Had a Greek Salad for dinner and will probably add a burger. I won’t get my protein level anywhere near 100g - I’ll have to find foods which have a higher concentration.</p>
<p>BTW, Trader Joes sells uncured turkey bacon. It’s 30 calories per strip and 6 grams of protein. So ten slices per day would be 300 calories for 60 grams. That’s one way to get to 100 in a budget but I’d be pretty sick of bacon for quite a while.</p>
<p>What do you do if you still have a big calorie budget and you don’t feel hungry?</p>
<p>I’m going to get some pistachio nuts and go for 200 calories. That still leaves quite a deficit for the day. My tennis workout was a little less than my overall intake today.</p>
<p>I just checked. Three pieces of pan-fried thick slice bacon have 180 calories – or about the same as a lightly buttered English muffin. A monster meal of a three-egg omelet with an ounce of Cabot sharp cheddar cheese and three slices of thick-cut bacon is 500 calories, but a whopping 37 g of protein and just 3 g of carbs. Actually, with the bacon, I’d probably scramble the eggs and leave off the cheese to keep the cals under 400.</p>
<p>It’s a perfect example of how our thinking has been clouded by three decades of low-fat jihad. I mean, all of us would just assume that the english muffin isn’t nearly has “fattening” as three pieces of thick-slice pan-fried bacon, right?</p>
<p>To the ladies reading this thread: do you know that there are Superfeet inserts for high heel pumps? I just got a pair at Nordstrom!!! With the help of these puppies, I’m definitely going to win the infamous Moscow high heel race. </p>
<p>Rest day for me today with only weights on the exercise menu.</p>
<p>I just did hang clean tonight. Set of 5 reps @145#, set of 5 reps @155#, set of 4 reps @165#, set of 4 reps @175#, set of 3 reps @175#, set of 3 reps @175#, set of 2 reps @185#, and set of 2 @185#. I tried for 195# for 1 rep, but couldn’t get it.</p>
<p>If you get off the anti-carb crusade for a moment, you’d realize that eggs get 25% of their calories from protein, as does cheddar cheese, but bacon gets only 9% of its calories from protein (unless it is Canadian bacon / back bacon, which gets over 50% of its calories from protein). For reference, your 100g of protein goal under your apparent 2000 calorie limit means that you need to get 20% of your calories from protein.</p>
<p>So if you are having trouble getting enough protein within your calorie budget, you may want to replace the bacon with Canadian bacon / back bacon.</p>
<p>I was not suggesting that you eat buttered English muffins. As a food high in both fat and carbohydrates, it definitely is not something anyone restricting calories should be eating much of.</p>
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