<p>My H made the same observation. I guess the weight of the body and constant pounding stresses the knee joints more than they would like to be stressed.</p>
<p>Interesting thing about hydration while running. I asked one of my distance runner friends about her strategies, and she replied that she rarely used anything because “we are not in a desert -your body cannot get dehydrated in 2 hours” :eek: I guess some countries trained their elite athletes to survive in extreme conditions, or else…</p>
Amen to that! Yesterday H & I had a fire going in the Family Room while we were reading the Sunday papers. At least we haven’t turned the heat back on – yet.</p>
<p>Finally got my car back – this whole having 1 car while living in suburbia was a pain in the neck! But, by taking it to a garage back in our old stomping ground, we saved about $1,000.00 over the dealer. Bring on the next 160,000 miles!</p>
<p>OMG. I dusted off Spartacus 1.0 for the first time since New Year’s. Threw in a couple of substitutions. Instead of bent-over dumbbell rows, I did TRX inverted rows. Instead of lateral lunges (I’ve done 48 sets of those things this year), I did one-legged hamstring curls on the stability ball, which I haven’t done in five months.</p>
<p>It was interesting to go back and do a workout with a different body. I was much stronger on most of the excercises. For example, I could match Zuzanna’s eight T-pushups, easy. Push up position rows were much easier. Split lunge jumps were much easier. Mountain climbers were much easier. But…</p>
<p>This is one fast paced workout – 10 exercises per set, new exercise starting every 75 seconds – and doing everything a little harder means more energy. The second set kicked my butt. I did the full two sets without pausing the iPod, but my tongue was hanging out by the push presses at the end. I was halfway thinking about a third set, but not by the time I finished set #2.</p>
<p>Average heart rate 77%. Max heart rate 94%.</p>
<p>This is one of the nights when I’m really glad that we have a treadmill… 5 miles, the hip was OK. I took some advil and was doing push away from the wall stretches, and it seemed to help.</p>
<p>I was a little rusty. One of the challenges with 10 exercises in a 12.5 minute set is that you have to have everything set up and ready to go. You have to know what weights you are going to use in advance and so on in order to move from one exercise to the next (after a few seconds of panting a swig of water).</p>
<p>I guessed wrong on a couple of the weights. Tried to do the push presses with two 30 pound DBs, which were a bit too heavy to get the kind of explosiveness I was looking for for 10 or 12 reps.</p>
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<p>Something got my legs really sore. I’m guessing it was those one-leg stability ball roll-ins. Those things are brutal. Could have been the split squat jumps – split squat, jump and do a scissor kick into the opposite split squat and back and forth. I used to fudge those, now I do them to full depth with a knee almost touchning the ground. That could get the legs crying uncle.</p>
<p>Well, I’ve been enjoying that approach too on and off though I don’t hit 600 calories and it’s Trader Joes Turkey Bacon. Three eggs = 210 calories. One strip of turkey bacon = 30 calories.</p>
<p>I’ve been in very high-stress mode lately and have been just doing relatively light weight-lifting. The knees are recovering and I’m thinking of doing a run today if the day goes well. It’s pouring this morning at 4:00 AM and I couldn’t sleep so I’m going to work for a while - I’ll do a bit of lifting in-between work tasks.</p>
<p>I don’t post here very often. I’ve lost all the weight I wanted and more. I am really too thin for my age, but I’m pretty sure it is still Synthoid related and my drs appointment is a few weeks off. Anyway, I’m amazed at the number of people who tell me I’m too thin and who tell my husband that I’m too thin. Not relatives, just acquaintances. As far as social niceties go, you’d never go up to an acquaintance and tell her she is too fat. </p>
<p>What is the purpose? If they think I have an eating disorder, do they think I would fess up to them? Or change? Or if I had some illness, that their remark would force me to reveal my illness? People are generally satisfied with “yeah, I think I’m on too much synthroid” but why do they put me in a position that I have to discuss my weight with them at all?</p>
<p>My knee is still swollen but feels so much better after biking again today. My upper body,OTOH, is sore! Major weights yesterday and more pushups. </p>
<p>missypie…I bet people are concerned that you are ill and just want to make sure you are ok.</p>
<p>Woke up early to work and also did my home weights routine and half of a stretching video. I have my running gear in the office and plan to run a few miles later today.</p>
<p>I watched Noel Djokevich against Rafael Nadal at Indian Wells (the highlights). Djokevich is currently the hottest player on the tour right now playing better than Federer and Nadal. He’s younger than Fed and Nadal and he’s a slugger like Nadal with excellent reach, mobility and endurance.</p>
<p>He was playing with a knee band at Indian Wells. So even the best player in the world has chondromalacia issues. I did a little reading up on his racquet and it appears that his setup is for maximum arm protection. He apparently uses a racquet that is ultra-flexible (one poster said that the flex is around 51 - I don’t even know if you can purchase something that flexible retail, while someone else said that it was more like 59 - there aren’t very many racquets with that high a flex sold today). It’s said that he uses an old mold painted to look like a modern racquet (a lot of players do this today - it sells racquets). I have toyed with the idea of buying a pro-stock frame to fool around with. These are frames that a pro or sponsored player uses that they then sell on the gray market. They are typically painted to look like something that you can get at retail but they are customized for a particular player. The might be longer, bigger, heavier, lighter, have custom grips, etc. They usually run $250 to $350 (remember, these are used frames) where retail frames usually run $150 to $200.</p>
<p>I guess…but my coloring is great, I have energy, not acting ill at all. I find it interesting to ponder what it is socially acceptable to talk about (too thin) and not (too fat). If I was on steroids and got really puffy in the face, would mere acquaintances comment on it? There is a mom at school who comments every time my hair is a slightly different shade. I applaud her powers of observation, but I think it’s rude to comment. (It’s not “boy your hair looks great” but “oh, your hair is a different color.”)</p>
<p>I’m taking Advil for the knees. They don’t hurt that much but it’s annoying being reminded that something is loose down there. I had planned to wear my knee sleeves today but forgot to put them on this morning.</p>
<p>I think it’s partly because the concept of actually losing a significant amount of weight is a bit foreign to many people. The assumption is that it can’t be done and, therefore, anyone who does lose weight must be sick.</p>
<p>Also, there’s a peceptual distortion that makes someone you are used to seeing heavier looks skinnier than they are because of the heavier frame of reference. I’ve noticed that just looking in the mirror. I looked skinny to me (relative to what I was used to seeing), even though, by any objective measure, I wasn’t skinny.</p>
<p>Dang, ya’ll are making me want a another cheese omelet. I had one on Sunday then went for the tuna on rye sandwich yesterday (with my once a month loaf of bread). I used up my week’s ration of bacon in my monster batch of chili.</p>
<p>It is true. It’s kind of surprising that a tradtional breakfast is not that high calorie. A three-egg omelet with an ounce of cheese, cooked in a tsp of butter is only 370 calories.</p>
<p>idad–about the omelet–right, and it will stay with you until lunchtime, unlike a 220 calorie bowl of cereal that will make you want pastries at 10:00.</p>
<p>We had an employee that used to bring in a box of Dunkin Donuts to meetings. If they didn’t get eaten, he would go from office to office trying to convince people to eat them. He left a while ago. Whew!</p>
<p>This is what I typically eat for breakfast:</p>
<p>2 egg omelet with some chopped canadian bacon, cheese and red peppers (sometimes other veggies);
bowl of berries or cut up fruit with plain Greek yogurt
slice of toast;
large cup of coffee with 1 teaspoon of Maui sugar and a splash of half and half.</p>
<p>I guesstimate that it is roughly 500-600 calories.</p>
<p>BCEagle- Send the Dunkin Donuts guy my way! (actually, one of the things I miss about Dallas are all the REALLY great Asian donut shops. Dunkin is a horrible subsitute. Probably why I am keeping weight off, too…) </p>
<p>Missypie- I think you just have to develop a thick skin. I sometimes get the “too thin” comments, although I’m appropriately muscular for my frame, and once people observe me eat, nobody says much except “Wow. It’s good you run all the time.” </p>
<p>As for the hair color- don’t you just love those comments? Like it would kill them to say “I love your hair color” instead of these observations that never really feel like compliments! My long deceased mother-in-law used to pull that on my daughter when she (D) was very young. “Oh, you got a haircut” instead of “Your hair looks so cute!” Slap, slap.</p>
<p>Missypie–Often the people who make the “you’re too thin” comments are people who are overweight and have been that way for a long time. Some are probably jealous that you have lost weight and others just figure that if you’ve lost weight it means you’re sick. My suggestion–just smile and say, “I’m doing well–healthy as ever.” End of subject.</p>
<p>I’m not thin, but have lost a good amount of weight in the last year and I get lots of people saying–“don’t get too thin–it will make you look old.” I usually respond, “thanks for noticing” and move the conversation on to another topic.</p>