<p>I’ve never tried those skull crushers, but they look like they would be hard and make you sore!</p>
<p>I hear ya on the brownie mix. The last time we had brownies in the house, I was able to cut one into thirds and nurse it through an evening, but the odds of me routinely stopping at one are slim and none. We have had some Alden Merrill double chocolate cake and I just have accept having a piece of that as an unavoidable break from caloric defiict! The key is to make sure that those transgressions are occasional exceptions and not routine. That’s why I just can’t have the stuff in the house.</p>
<p>I am doing pretty well with a jar of Planters Dry Roasted Peanuts. It’s been on the shelf since April 4th and I still haven’t eaten half of it. That’s a new experience for me.</p>
<p>arabrab- Do you mean Asics KAYANO? I have not heard of a Kitano. Kayano is a real bruiser of a shoe and is a stability shoe. Is that what you need? I think Asics ruined the Kayano about 4 models ago, but it is a popular shoe for bigger runners and a popular shoe for the shoe sales guys to pitch because it costs a lot.</p>
<p>Roasted a sweet potato with onions and portabella mushrooms, touch of olive oil and a garlic/herb mix for dinner. Delicious!!! Also tried a Justin’s Honey Almond Butter for the first time today for lunch…it was different but ok. I am not a big peanut butter fan but I wanted to try this. It was a little to go packet and it had 190 calories, 17 g of fat, 7 g carbs, 2 g fiber,7 g protein and 1 g of sugar. I was out running errands so I knew I had to have something fast and portable. This would be good on a hike or when biking I think. I am trying to find some new and different things for me.</p>
<p>H said he would try to buckle down and change his eating habits. I asked what he had for lunch…turkey on a croissant!!! I told him no white bread…he said it wasn’t bread. sheesh…</p>
<p>My son told me that he’s doing the 2,000 calorie diet thing now after watching me. I found my wife doing Pilates in the apartment this morning. I haven’t seen her working out in a while but I guess that she’s doing some new stuff.</p>
<p>MOWC – yes, it is the Kayano. Not sure why I was thinking Kitano. I severely pronate, even with orthotics, so I need a lot of motion control, but the primary reason I’ve stayed with the shoe is that it has a wide and high toebox, and too many of the other brands end up with my toes getting blistered someplace because there’s not enough room. </p>
<p>NM – I like the Justins, and keep a couple in my purse. They’ve saved my bacon a few times when I really got hungry and wasn’t near anything appropriate. They’re in the good category of “things I like okay but that I won’t go wild and eat just because they’re there.” The almond/walnut/macadamia + protein KIND bar is another that fell into that category (190 calories, 12g. fat, 15 g. carb (3g fiber), 10 g. protein.)</p>
<p>Your shoe looks about the same as the Brooks Addiction that I wear. I was determined to be able to wiggle my toes in a running (walking) shoe, especially because I was experiencing Morton’s Neuroma – pain/numbness at the base of the toes caused by tight shoes squeezing the toes together.</p>
<p>I am making notes of the almond butter and protein bars, mostly for my college-freshman daughter who has a habit of skipping breakfast. I would love for her to find some healthful options she could keep in her dorm room.</p>
<p>My snack of choice these days is almonds. Rather than try to keep track of how many I’ve eaten out of the jar, I bought some snack-size plastic containers and measured out a bunch of single servings.</p>
Me too! I’m sort of so-so about almonds (really dislike a lot of other nuts), which means I generally won’t go overboard eating them. Having peanuts around all the time would be a huge temptation.</p>
<p>My favorite is pistachio nuts - and the shell slows you down too.</p>
<p>I like cashews and macadamias but not quite so much. I have a very mild reaction to macadamias (but the taste of them is worth a little annoyance). Walnuts are supposed to be very good for you too. The one nut I hate is Brazil Nuts. I love hazelnuts too.</p>
<p>You’ve never seen me power through a bag of pistachios. I shell those babies like a squirrel with winter approaching. Nuirsing this jar of dry roasted peanuts has been a good learning experience for me. I can’t go the rest of my life without being tempted by snack food, so knowing that I can have a little bite and walk away is a good thing.</p>
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<p>Big carb day for me yesterday, thanks mostly to a big bowl of split pea with ham soup for lunch. If carb-loading with green peas the worst of it, I’m probably doing OK.</p>
<p>1761 calories</p>
<p>29% carbs
21% protein
50% fat</p>
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<p>And, from the milestone department, I did bounce around a couple pounds from the latest 5 pound loss. That’s the way it goes these days with the overall trend a slow drift downwards. This morning I jumped on the scale and I weigh in the 160s for the first time since I honestly can’t remember. It had to be sometime before I turned thirty. Kinda blows my mind, really. I had to stop and stare at the number. The BMI charts still say I’m fat, though! Me and Barack Obama.</p>
<p>Wow, I’dad. That’s awesome! And I’d just ignore the BMI chart, which undoubtedly is not accounting for your muscle mass appropriately. (Though you might also get your height checked – you might be straighter, and thus taller than you were a couple years ago.)</p>
<p>On the sugar front: had a tablespoon of Jif Natural peanut butter last night – been on a pretty low carb diet for the past month and this is the first I’ve had some since then. Even though it is lower sugar, it still tasted way too sweet to me – I guess my taste buds really are re-oreinting, and that’s probably a good thing. I may have to pass that jar on to my brother’s house, where his kids will probably not find it sweet enough!</p>
<p>Like Idad with trying to learn how to approach peanuts in moderation, I’m trying to do the same with fruit. I could much more easily be a fruititarian than any other kind of “arian”, but the problem is that I can eat – literally – pounds of fruit. Well, that’s not flying on a low carb diet, and I’m now trying to savor just a handful of strawberries or a half cup of rasberries. Tough for me, but I see that I’m getting pickier now – if they aren’t excellent, I’m not bothering with them. Costco had some truly amazing fresh rasberries last week (I am clearly spelling that wrong, but don’t see it. Aargh.) I’m not up to trying to dole out nuts in small amounts, so any nuts I buy I’m getting in tiny quantities in the bulk department. This retraining the psyche is hard work. The good news is that it is really spring here – finally – and while the weather isn’t fabulous today, there’s still something about seeing trees leaf out and hearing the woodpeckers and other birds setting up nests. That’s a gift.</p>
<p>Yeah. I’m as far away from 160 and I can be and still be “in the 160s”. I don’t see 160 as being a likely scenario. 165 could happen, but I think that would be pretty much the end of the road, especially if I keep doing strength training workouts. My weight is just slowly drifting down. I’ve lost ten pounds over the last 3.5 months and there just isn’t a whole lot left to lose.</p>
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<p>I just got one! The scary thing is that all of my LARGE t-shirts and tech Ts are starting to hang pretty loose. I probably could wear a MED now, especially if I wanted to show off (not a good look for a geezer, IMO).</p>
<p>I think I have a few golf shirts and sweaters from the way up and that’s about it. There’s a bag of LARGE t-shirts in the basement, some Harley shirts and stuff, that I’ll go through when the weather gets a little warmer. And, one sport coat that is back in the picture from the way up. That’s it. Everything else is gone because I sent all the 34 pants to Goodwill last summer and because everything else that fits now had been in the my closet since the 1980s.</p>
Me and Barack Obama.</p>