<p>Potato chips? Potato chips? It has a familiar ring, but I just can’t place it? What are potato chips?</p>
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<p>Speaking of potato chips, does anyone else scream in the grocery store when you walk past an end cap display with giant size Doritios and twin-packs of Pringles or family size Red Twizzlers: </p>
<p>2 for 4 cents!</p>
<p>Or whatever ridiculously too good pass up price? I do. I just want to stand there and scream, right in the middle of the store! They don’t make it easy. It’s like heroin dealers getting kids hooked on the playground.</p>
<p>Ran my 4 miles, e-filed our taxes and then took a nice hot bath. Ahhh…</p>
<p>Mansfield, that is a great story! Thanks for sharing. I think one D is quietly trying to qualify for Boston. The other will be happy to cheer her sister on, but has no desire to run anything longer than a 5K.</p>
<p>My D1 who is getting married has started running. She was a college athlete but not really a long distance runner. She ran two 5Ks last week! She is finally trying to lose some weight…so far 7 lbs! I congratulated her but didn’t make a huge deal as she is very sensitive about it with me. I am hoping she continues with what she is doing!</p>
<p>Back from the gym. Walked on the dreadmill for 90 minutes! Needed a less intense day so kept pace around 3.8 and varied my incline but never higher than 4. My knee was a little uncomfortable towards the end and I broke open my healing heel again but it felt ok. Will see what I feel like tonight! No weights today. Having a nice berry salad and egg whites for breakfast and then heading to the MOA for some shopping. I have been delaying looking for a dress for my D1’s wedding and I can’t put it off any longer. Gosh…I hope I won’t be disappointed after working so hard this past year. Wish me luck!</p>
<p>Good luck, NorthMinnesota! And have fun. Dress shopping has GOT to be whole lot more fun than bathing suit shopping!</p>
<p>Feeling yuck this morning – ate a bunch of stuff I shouldn’t have yesterday, just because it was spread out. And it didn’t even taste great, so there wasn’t even great enjoyment in it. I just hate that I still fall back in that mode. Relatively easy to control what’s in the house, or even what I order in a restaurant, but damn I do not do well when somebody’s laid on a spread. I wish I could remember how I feel right now – bloated and slow – before I get put in this situation again. Which will be on Sunday, for Easter.</p>
<p>I picked up some Thai takeout yesterday and went to my replacement cals over my diet cals. The family loved it though or at least they were so hungry that it’s now gone. I didn’t workout either as I wanted to finish my taxes (which I did) and because I had had very little sleep for the past two days. I caught up on sleep last night and am doing weights in the basement while listening in on a conference call on my PC speakers.</p>
<p>Rachel Cosgrove says that you only have to eat “right” 90% of the time and that you should just enjoy the other 10% and not feel guilty about it. In the grand scheme of things, whatever you ate from the buffet spread yesterday is pretty insignficant in the context of a full week or full month of eating on plan.</p>
<p>I do know what you are saying about the effect of a binge meal. The last few times I’ve done a major carb load, I really felt like the Michelin man afterwards. I think it may have to do with water retention. Who knows?</p>
<p>If you carb-load, you can store perhaps 1-2 pounds of glycogen in your muscle or liver. This requires holding about 4 pounds of water per pound of glycogen, so that could result in weighing 5-10 pounds more than after doing a low-carb diet or doing an endurance event where you use up your stored glycogen, if your fat and muscle remain the same.</p>
<p>I shop mostly at Costco these days for the produce and the meat, and perhaps surprisingly I am not really tempted by the huge bags of junk. I just am not going to have that much in the house. My problem is that I need to anticipate the need for snacks, especially in the week before finals, or I will find myself standing in front of the vending machine with no good options.</p>
<p>I cooked up turkey burgers for dinner (family loves it when I cook them), some pecans and walnuts (wife keeps raw nuts in the freezer), and broccoli. My calorie count is down today, probably don’t need to eat as much after yesterday.</p>
<p>I worked out in my home gym doing weights. I’m trying to decide on going to the YMCA to do more weights.</p>
<p>NMinn: You don’t hate shopping; you just haven’t yet found the right clothes. You’ve lost weight, changed sizes, changed proportions. You no longer know what you should be wearing. Don’t give up! The right thing is out there for you!!</p>
<p>You’ve watched What Not to Wear, right? They’re all about trying things that you’d never consider trying. Get out of your mind what it is you usually wear and try on things that you don’t think you can wear. I suspect you will be pleasantly surprised!</p>
<p>The range of stuff that I buy at the grocery store is pretty limited:</p>
<p>Pistachio nuts, turkey burgers, round steak, apples, bananas, protein bars, eggs, bread, tuna fish, kippered snacks. My wife does the big shopping. My kids buy snacks but my daughter looks like a skinny model and my son, a bit overweight, is taking off excess pounds with diet and exercise.</p>
<p>I wonder if there’s a website where you take a few pictures of your body, upload it and it figures out what would be comfortable and also look good. For me, I just get a pair of jeans that fit well (mine are actually almost two inches too big) and I only need two measurements and match it with a loose dress shirt, a t-shirt or a tech shirt.</p>
<p>You ladies have it tough on the shopping front. At least for us ol’ geezer guys, the options are pretty cut and dried. It’s just a matter of decipering the sizes and “fits”. The only thing that really leaves us shaking our heads are the jeans rack and the shorts rack. That is all intended for somebody other than us.</p>
<p>I can only imagine that at least half the stuff in women’s department is stuff that you wouldn’t be caught dead wearing. And, the sizing is just insane. Keep looking, nminn. You’ll find just the thing.</p>
<p>That can be easier said than done. Have you seen the number of “fits” that Levi’s and others offer now? And not a single one of them is called “regular fit”.</p>
<p>Hi all
Ditto on the jeans thing
And thanks for the sitting link - I sat and read the whole thing - sigh</p>
<p>Popping in to ask this question of an erudite crowd </p>
<p>I was at an event recently where I saw several people I knew that all looked FABULOUS and thin. I asked what they had done to lose weight. One gal had lost 50 lbs, her husband 45, both in a matter of months. And they answered that they did the HcG diet. Hormone drops supposedly (but I even wonder if they were getting the actual hormone since it was not from a Dr)
So I looked it up. Yikes. If it could scare the pounds off me I’d say it is a good diet, but it just plain scares me. Do any of you know anything about it? Is it safer than it sounds?</p>